Characters / Miraculous Ladybug: Villains

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Heroes (Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Adrien Agreste, Team Miraculous, Félix Fathom, United HeroeZ) | Kwamis | School Characters | Villains (Hawk Moth, Akumatized Villains – Season 1, Akumatized Villains – Season 2, Akumatized Villains – Season 3, Akumatized Villains – Season 4, Akumatized Villains - Season 5, Amokized Sentimonsters) | Assorted Civilians

The antagonists of Miraculous Ladybug.

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Main Villains

General

• Ambiguous Situation: "Timetagger" reveals that someone will take Gabriel's place as the Butterfly Miraculous holder but the status of the Peacock Miraculous isn't touched upon. Whether it is recovered, remains with Nathalie or is passed on like the Butterfly is, is unknown.
  • In "Strikeback", Félix exchanges all the Miraculous from the Miracle Box except the Ladybug and Black Cat ones for the Peacock Miraculous, making him the current holder of the Peacock Miraculous. He retrieved it because he is a Sentimonster and wanted to secure his own freedom.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: Like the heroes, they have trigger phrases for their transformations.
  • For Hawk Moth/Monarch: "Nooroo, dark wings rise!"
  • For Mayura: "Duusu, spread my feathers!"
• Dark Is Evil: Hawk Moth and Mayura's color schemes are a deep purple and navy respectively.
• Foil:
  • Between Gabriel and Lila: Gabriel is a grown man and Well-Intentioned Extremist, while Lila is a teenage Sociopath. Both are Villains with Good Publicity who manipulate others into doing their dirty work, even exploiting each other. Gabriel was a former holder of the Butterfly Miraculous while Lila is its current holder.
  • Between Gabriel and Nathalie:
    • Powers - Akumatization works by corrupting an individual, effectively rewriting their personality via their negative emotions whereas amokization realizes a person's negative emotions in the form of a sentimonster. Essentially, the former is internal and the latter, external. Both work by charging an object with energy then sending it out.
    • Motivation - Gabriel is creating the Akumatized villains to save the woman he loves and Nathalie is creating the sentimonsters to help the man she loves.
  • Between Nathalie, Tomoe and Lila:
    • Age - Nathalie and Tomoe are adult women, while Lila is a teenager.
    • Personality - Nathalie is a stern and seemingly stoic woman who deeply cares about Adrien and Gabriel despite the latter breaking her heart, whereas Lila is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who is at most Loving a Shadow where Adrien is concerned and held a grudge against Gabriel. Both plot against Gabriel after he wronged them, but he never recognized Lila as a hindrance to his plans. Tomoe is stoic like Nathalie, but also as unforgiving as Lila.
    • Akumatized forms: Nathalie/Catalyst has an Orange/Blue Contrast with Lila/Volpina and is the Blue Oni to Tomoe/Ikari Gozen's Red Oni.
  • Between teenagers Chloé and Lila:
    • Personality: Chloé is a Spoiled Brat whose Brutal Honesty and Alpha Bitch personality makes her reviled by her peers. Lila is a Compulsive Liar and unrepentant Jerkass who manipulates everyone by pretending to be a kind, charitable saint.
    • As Miraculous Holders: Both have assisted the Miraculous team only to be booted out once the truth of their actions came to light. Chloé was the genuine Bee Miraculous holder who betrayed the group out of entitlement, Lila pretended be the Fox Miraculous holder when she was akumatized to get revenge for Ladybug humiliating her.
    • Relation to Ladybug: Chloé was a huge Ladybug fangirl, but came to resent her for refusing her the Bee Miraculous out of safety. Lila disliked Ladybug off the bat for being Adrien's crush, which only got worse when the heroine exposed Lila as a liar to Adrien.
    • Relation to Hawk Moth: Lila is willingly helping Hawk Moth any chance she gets and has a formal partnership with Gabriel Agreste. Gabriel doesn't think highly Chloé, and usually tricks the latter into getting akumatized. But on Chloé's end, she often goes along with it willingly.
  • Between Gabriel and Chloé: Unlike Chloé, Gabriel is not from a wealthy family. While Gabriel wanted to take down Ladybug and Cat Noir to save his wife, Chloé is a selfish brat who only throws her lot in with Hawk Moth/Gabriel to spite the people she has a grudge against.
• Good Powers, Bad People: Nooroo and Duusu's powers are meant to be used for good, and in the hands of heroes should create champions. However, their current holders are the Big Bad and The Dragon.
• Lack of Empathy: Gabriel, Nathalie, Chloé and Lila all show a disturbing willingness to let innocent lives be endangered.
• Legacy Character: Gabriel and Nathalie were the current holders of the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculous respectively by the show's third season, but the former relieved Nathalie of it and repaired it prior to reluctantly giving it to Félix. Gabriel himself is succeeded by Lila.
• Not Brainwashed: Unlike most of the Akumatized victims below, the main villains are perfectly willing to be transformed.
• Orange/Blue Contrast: Hawk Moth's two most staunch Co-Dragons are Nathalie and Lila. Lila, when Akumatized as Volpina, wears a primarily orange costume in contrast with Nathalie, whose skin is blue while Akumatized as Catalyst or using the Peacock Miraculous to become Mayura.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Averted. Unlike Ladybug and Cat Noir, Hawk Moth's mask covers the entirety of his face, whereas Mayura's skin tone, eye shape and color, and hair style change completely.
• Super-Reflexes: Miraculous wielders get superhuman reflexes and agility from their supervillain transformations. During any fight, they keep moving all the time and are extremely hard to hit.
• Support Party Member: Unfortunately for the heroes, the way Nooroo and Duusu's powers work allows both Hawk Moth and Mayura to operate in the shadows, far from the battlefield. That said, Mayura appears to take an enforcer-like role in her partnership with Hawk Moth, fighting the heroes directly.
• Telepathy: Via Akumas and Amoks, Hawk Moth and Mayura are able to form telepathic connections with their targets.

Holders of the Butterfly Miraculous

Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch

See this page for tropes regarding Hawk Moth.

Lila Rossi aka Cerise/Future Hawk Moth

Lila Rossi / Cerise Bianca / Iris Verdi, aka Future Hawk Moth

Akumatized forms: Volpina, Chameleon, Hoaxer

^{Click here to see her as Cerise Bianca}

Voiced by: Clara Soares (FR), Lisa Kay Jennings (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Aurora González (SP), Cristina Hernández and Erika Langarica (MEX, season 1 and 2, respectively), Andrea Laudon (HUN), Aleksandra Radwan (P), Luisa Cezar and Natali Pazete (BP, season 1 and season 2 onwards, respectively), Valentina Favazza (ITA), Larisa Brokhman (RUS), Tiril Heide-Steen (NOR)

A New Transfer Student who easily wins everyone over with her (completely untrue) anecdotes of her very exciting life. After Ladybug calls out her lies, she develops a severe grudge against the heroine and becomes a willing ally of Hawk Moth in and out of costume. Later on in the series however it's revealed that she's a con artist with multiple identities and families.

As of "Re-creation" she succeeds Gabriel Agreste as the future Hawk Moth and the next main villain of the show after acquiring the Butterfly Miraculous from him and takes on the alias Iris Verdi.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Lila is very clearly infatuated with Adrien, but even when Adrien's willing to befriend her, he's put off by her pathological lying. After "Oni-Chan", Adrien has seen how low Lila will sink to get revenge on Ladybug, and tells her point-blank that he can't help her as long as she hurts others (using the comparatively lame excuse that she got Nathalie and the Gorilla in trouble).
• Alpha Bitch: One of the most popular girls in her class and also one of the meanest, constantly manipulating her classmates. Like the typical alpha girl (and fellow Rich Bitch Chloé), she also has a shallow interest in the Big Man on Campus and hates the main heroine, who has a crush on him too. She eventually takes over Chloé's old position, though unlike Chloé, Lila hides her unpleasant nature behind a kind facade, making her come off as more of a Class Princess to her schoolmates in-universe.
• All Take and No Give: She manipulates people by telling lies about fake injuries or connections to celebrities, but gives absolutely nothing back even if she were in a position to do so.
• Ambiguous Situation: In season 5 it's revealed that she has multiple families which she manipulates at the same time and there's no indication so far on how she managed to do that or why is she doing it exactly.
• Ambiguously Human: She somehow manages to convince three different women that she's their daughter, living different lives under different names, appearances and social-circles that she manages to keep consistent enough to get away with it. Either she's a super-genius capable of talking people into anything, or there's something more going on.
• Animal Motifs:
  • Foxes. In her debut episode, she pretends to be the descendant and present-day wielder of the Fox Miraculous, complete with a fake necklace meant to look like it, and has been akumatized into an Evil Knockoff of the Fox Hero more than once. Depending on the region, Foxes in folklore can either be good, evil or morally alien, and while Alya (the true wielder of the Fox Miraculous) represents better qualities associated with foxes (cleverness, resourcefulness, cheeky, etc.), Lila represents the bad qualities; greedy, predatory, deceitful, cunning, prone to thievery and mischief, seductive, and invasive in a way that disrupts the order of things and manipulates people so that everyone distrusts Marinette.
  • Butterflies starting from season 5 since "Confrontation". Butterflies are considered a symbol of transformation, rebirth, and beauty. This plays in Lila's aliases being a means of reinventing herself as a social butterfly, as seen with Lila Rossi and later Cerise Bianca.
• Arch-Enemy: Alongside Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth, she is this to both Marinette and Ladybug. Holding a very personal grudge against both girls, not realizing they are the same person, and wishing to take the both of them down at all costs. The feeling is mutual on Marinette's side, with Lila being the only character other than Hawk Moth or Chloé capable of making Marinette angry (to the point where Hawk Moth nearly akumatized Marinette herself).
• Ascended Extra: The first two seasons, she only had three appearances. She becomes a major recurring character in Season 3. And then the new Big Bad after acquiring the Butterfly Miraculous.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: For someone who falsely claimed to be related to a vixen superheroine, Lila still greatly resembles a past Fox Pendant wielder shown in the Miraculous tome. Doubly so for having green eyes and red hair, as Japanese folk tales often ascribe this appearance to foxes disguised as humans. It's later revealed that Lila (or rather Cerise) has been wearing a wig and colored contact lenses, so it may have been an Invoked Trope on her part.
• Attention Whore: Lila wows her peers with tales of travels and friendships with celebrities, including Ladybug, the last of which is clearly false. She later expands on that lie to impress Adrien, going so far as to steal his book, buy a replica 'Miraculous', and claim to be a descendant of a superheroine.
• Bad Acting: As Hoaxer, when Marinette confronts her as part of a trap, she instead gives a stereotypical speech about how Marinette’s words have touched her heart before rejecting the Akuma herself. The problem is that the speech is delivered so calmly and utterly unlike any other Akuma fighting Monarch’s control that it sounds completely fake.
• Batman Gambit: She manipulates Chloé into helping Gabriel and Tomoe stage a coup in Paris, just to be a position to acquire the latter's laptop.
• The Barnum: How she cheerfully justifies her actions to Marinette - as she puts it, people want to hear her Blatant Lies.
• Berserk Button: Being called a liar, and anything to do with Ladybug.
  • In "Volpina" when Lila confronts Ladybug as the titular villain her Motive Rant was simply, "You called me a liar but when I'm done no one will!"
  • In "Heroes Day Part 1: Catalyst", watching Gabriel Agreste calling Volpina a "False Hero" while talking up Ladybug as a true hero was enough to anger Volpina into being evilized again.
  • In "Chameleon", when Adrien gently tells her to stop lying, but since he mentions "that time with Ladybug", she flips her lid and storms off, becomes evilized, and her first act is to steal Adrien's appearance.
• Big Bad: As of "Re-creation", she becomes the new main villain of the show after seizing the Butterfly Miraculous from Gabriel's basement.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: With Gabriel, deliberately helping him in his agenda to see her own goal to make Marinette (and Ladybug) suffer. But then Gabriel fires Lila and she plots against him, escalating the conflict between the heroes and Gabriel in the process through her manipulation. Then he dies and she acquires the Butterfly Miraculous.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Sure, she looks nice at first, but deep down, she's a lying Jerkass who doesn't care whom her lies hurt.
• Black-and-White Insanity: To Lila you're either a doting sycophant who swoons over her every lie, or (if you call her out on her lies, no matter how nicely or gently) you're an enemy she needs to take down at any cost.
• Blatant Lies: In an interview with Alya, she says that Ladybug saved her and the two of them became good friends afterwards. Given this, her other amazing stories—traveling a lot, having Jagged Stone write a song about her, going on a plane with Prince Ali—should be taken with a grain of salt.
• Bullying a Dragon: In "Oni-Chan", she makes the terrible decision to lie her way into Adrien's home and, when caught by his father, tries to bullshit her way out of trouble. Hawk Moth responds by sending Oni-Chan, one of the deadliest akumas up to that point, after her, and the only reason she survives is because Oni-Chan gets distracted while trying to kill Ladybug. After that point, she makes a point of not antagonizing Gabriel directly, and also makes a point of befriending Oni-Chan's alter-ego, Kagami, on the off-chance that Kagami gets akumatized again.
• Bullying the Disabled: In "Confrontation", she uses Juleka's speech impediment as a reason for why she should repeat the school year.
• The Bus Came Back: Lila returns to the series in "Catalyst", almost an entire season after her last appearance.
• Boyish Short Hair: Lila's real hair is cut quite short, even shorter than Rose's, presumably so it won't poke out of her wigs.
• Celebrity Lie: Most of her lies involve being friends with various celebrities such as Jagged Stone, Prince Ali, and even Ladybug.
• Class Representative: She becomes this with Chloé as her deputy in "Revelation" after calling for new class elections to replace Marinette. In "Confrontation", it's revealed that she was already a class rep at the other school she was attending under the name of Cerise.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Not only does she have No Sense of Personal Space for Adrien, but she can't seem to stand other girls that get close to him. A lot of her nastier acts are towards girls who are close to Adrien, such as Marinette, Kagami, and Chloé. In "Miraculer" she even mentions that Nino's not a good enough friend for him, suggesting that her ire is towards anyone who's close to Adrien, being romantically or platonically.
• Co-Dragons: Lila is this with Nathalie Sancoeur to Hawk Moth during season 3, as she seems to be his most recurring field agent. In season 5 she shares the role with Tomoe Tsurugi and Chloé Bourgeois.
• Cool Big Sis: Plays this part while babysitting Alya's younger siblings, with Chris even finding her cool due to the lies about herself she tells him.
• Consummate Liar: Tikki admits she has never seen someone lie so well. However in "Oni-Chan", Lila's habitual lying is so ingrained in her that she'll still try to lie to those who already know that she's lying. Fittingly, all of Lila's akumatized forms have to do with lying and manipulation: illusions, shapeshifting and hypnosis.
• Cunning Linguist: She's surprisingly fluent in French and sign language.
• Didn't Think This Through: For all of Lila’s cunning intelligence and charisma, Lila's fixation on short-term gratification blinds her to the long-term problems her tall tales create. All of her lies tend to have blatant/serious faults that could easily lead to her being exposed if people paid more attention, or they backfire on her in personal ways, which proves her pride can make her quite tactless and ignorant to how serious the consequences are. Second, she constantly ignores and harasses those who try to genuinely help, like Marinette and Adrien, leaving them disgusted with her egomania and just barely tolerating her existence.
• Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: At the end of "Ladybug", she claims that she has a rare disease that causes her to lie in order to get Marinette out of trouble after Adrien threatens her. There actually is a mental disorder that causes excessive lying, but even if she has it (and probably isn't aware she does), the glee she takes in hurting Marinette and Ladybug with her lies eliminates any sympathy it might bring her.
• Disappeared Dad: While throughout the show she's shown referring to 3 different women as her "mom", she's never shown referring to any man as her "dad".
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • Swears eternal revenge on Ladybug (and willingly teams up with Hawk Moth to take her down and tries to manipulate Oni-Chan into offing her) for calling her out on her lies and humiliating her in front of Adrien.
  • She threatens to completely destroy Marinette's life for trying to get in her way in "Chameleon", and follows through with her threats in "Ladybug", "Adoration" and "Revelation".
  • She works with Chloé to get Ms. Bustier fired, simply because the duo were exposed for framing Marinette and their teacher punished them accordingly.
• The Dragon: Lila is very quickly becoming this to Hawk Moth. Whilst every other Akuma villain is manipulated into accepting their power and every one is regretful of their actions whilst akumatized, Lila on the other hand gladly accepts the power offered to her the second time with Hawk Moth, even saying she's gonna await his Akuma's return before he deakumatizes her. More telling than any of this is that Lila seems complicit in helping Hawk Moth even when she isn't akumatized. "Chameleon" cements this, as she not only grabs the Akuma herself, but starts Hawk Moth's villain monologue for him. As of "Oni-Chan", she's working with Gabriel in his civilian identity as well. "Miraculer" and "Ladybug" indicate that Gabriel's using her to cause strife and provide him targets for Akumatization. As of season 5 however, she's the one willing to use Gabriel/Monarch to akumatize other people for her evil schemes, as seen in "Protection" and "Adoration".
• Dragon Ascendant: In "Re-creation", Lila manages to steal the Butterfly Miraculous from Gabriel after entering his base right before he sacrifices his life to save Emilie and Nathalie. Considering how akumatized villains like Timetagger still exist in the future, it's implied Lila keeps it for years and becomes the new Big Bad.
• Dragon with an Agenda: In "Revelation", after getting fired by Gabriel as his brand's model, she pretends to still be Monarch's willing ally who wants to help him in his pursuit of stealing Ladybug's and Cat Noir's Miraculous and getting rid of Marinette. But she only wants to steal more info from him in order to use it for her long term plan to steal his Miraculous down the line.
• Engineered Public Confession: Lila was tricked by Marinette and Sabrina into confessing her plot to everyone while they listen in secret. After this, she makes an Oh, Crap! face when everyone finally sees who she really is.
• Entitled to Have You: Exploited Type B trope. Lila firmly believes dating Adrien, or her idealized version of him, is a means to rising up the social ladder. While willing to fight anyone else for him, it is only for her personal interest.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted in regards to Adrien. Lila may have a crush on Adrien, even believing these feelings to be genuine, but her crush is based on an idealized version of Adrien in her mind (namely as the perfect boyfriend who dotes on her and is adored as his "perfect" girlfriend by everyone). Lila doesn't have as much genuine affection for Adrien as she believes, and doesn't think twice about how her actions would affect him and his loved ones. In "Oni-Chan", it's revealed her belief in loving him is genuine, but so is her willingness to give up that love for him by eliminating Ladybug despite knowing how much Adrien likes her. But by "Confrontation", she has lost all affection she may have had for him as she plans to ruin his future in an even worse way than she originally planned after reading Adrien's love confession towards Marinette from his school form.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Lila apparently has a policy of never throwing the first punch. She always refrains from harming or causing strife to anyone unless they provoke her first or are otherwise apparent threats, and actually initially tries to avoid conflict with Marinette, with their feud only starting because she wouldn't back down or give in to Lila's sweet-talking.
• Evil All Along: While "Volpina" made it out to be that Lila, while still a Jerkass, was just a New Transfer Student lying for attention who only truly become villainous after Ladybug humiliated her, "Confrontation" reveals that Lila Rossi was all along just a secondary fake identity she used in order to manipulate a second school (and mother), which proves that Lila (or rather Cerise) was a truly vile person even before she crossed paths with Ladybug and started working for Hawk Moth.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When Adrien gently tries asking her to stop lying to people, she gets mad and believes that Adrien is just being self-righteous.
• Evil Counterpart: To Marinette, Adrien, Alya, Kagami, and Rose.
  • To Marinette — Are good at lying to other people and even used the same lie of being friends with Ladybug. But Lila willfully lies to present herself to others as an important person while Marinette reclutantly lies in order to protect others from her life as a superhero. Furthermore, while Lila claimed to be friends with Prince Ali and Jagged Stone, Marinette actually befriended them as Ladybug with the former and as herself with Jagged.
  • To Adrien — Both are popular students who lied about their relationship with Ladybug, but only Lila is called out on it. But Adrien is a Nice Guy who is secretly Ladybug's ally, is in love with Marinette, and has a desire to live a normal life and be loved. Lila is a Manipulative Bastard who hates Ladybug and Marinette, and wants to appear more special than she is while getting superficial praise and admiration from people.
  • To Alya — Both are temperamental New Transfer Students who become illusionists with a fox-themed costume. But while Lila lied about her background and being friends with Ladybug with her Akumatized form an imitation of a Fox Miraculous holder, Alya is an actual Ambiguously Brown Foreign Exchange Student who is Ladybug's trusted friend and is a genuine Fox Miraculous holder. Also, Alya becomes a superhero while Lila becomes a supervillain.
  • To Kagami — Both girls are transfer students with a crush on Adrien, but come from different backgrounds: Lila's being a mystery who is mostly self-sufficient while Kagami is from Japan and under her mother's supervision. Lila is a remorseless Consummate Liar who manipulates other while hiding under a saintly facade, while Kagami is stoic and has trouble making friends, but is ultimately good natured and honest. Their affections for Adrien are completely opposite. Lila only likes Adrien superficially and drops her affections for him at anytime while not using that love as an excuse to get akumatized over him due to thinking that he's not worth it. Kagami genuinely loves Adrien because of seeing his kindness firsthand after their introduction and got herself akumatized over being jealous. They also have contrasting views of Marinette/Ladybug; Kagami initially hostile to Marinette before they became good friends once getting to understand each other while Lila despises both Marinette/Ladybug from day one and refused to reconcile. Finally, both girls acquired a Miraculous: Kagami becoming the Dragon Miraculous hero Ryuko while Lila, intially an akumatized villain posing as a Fox Miraculous holder, obtains the Butterfly Miraculous and takes Gabriel's place as a villain.
  • To Rose — Both girls are well liked by the class for their charity work and given sympathy for their medical issues. However, Lila’s charity work and medical issues are faked and paraded about to garner adoration and special treatment from others. Rose on the other hand is much more humble about her genuine charity work and is offended when the class tries to offer her special treatment when it is revealed she suffers from a long-term illness. Additionally, both girls have mentioned having connections with Prince Ali, but while Rose has actually met him in person, Lila has not.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • Ultimately, Lila hates Ladybug for giving her an extremely harsh and humiliating "Reason You Suck" Speech over lying of them being friends in front of Adrien, whose heart she tried to weasel into after she secretly stole the Grimoire from him. Even though Ladybug later apologized, this act was enough to cement Lila's hatred, to the point where she'd willingly throw in her lot to a dangerous terrorist just for a shot at payback. In "Oni-Chan", Lila, without being akumatized, manipulates the titular villain into attacking Ladybug, and then feigns an injury as a ploy to get Cat Noir away from the fight, leaving Ladybug on her own. Upon realizing the deception, Cat is appalled by just how low Lila will sink to get revenge on Ladybug.
  • When Marinette tries confronting her alone in "Chameleon", Lila drops the act and threatens to make Marinette's life miserable if she refuses to accept her friendship by the end of the day. When Marinette remain resolute, Lila vows to make the girl friendless and nearly fulfilled her promise on "Marinette".
  • In "Revelation", she tricks her classmates into forcing Marinette out of her position so she and Chloé could be the new class representatives out of spite when there were only a few weeks left in school.
  • In "Confrontation", she and Chloé gleefully plot to destroy their classmates academic careers and entire futures just to take one last shot at Marinette being expelled. Then after reading Adrien's love declaration to Marinette in his school form, and bearing a grudge on his father for unceremoniously firing her, Lila attempts to ruin his future in an even worse way than she originally planned.
• Eviler than Thou:
  • The impression she left on Marinette, who saw her as more terrible than Chloé (who tormented Marinette for years). Then she left Chloé, whom she helped placed in a position of political power, to the mercy of an angry mob.
  • She eventually proves herself as a bigger evil than Gabriel as well after taking the mantle of the Big Bad of the show from him after seizing the Butterfly Miraculous in the season 5 finale.
• Face–Heel Turn: While she was never a saint to begin with, she becomes far more evil as the series progresses after her Start of Darkness, going from Consummate Liar to The Dragon of the resident Big Bad. Subverted by the revelations from late season 5 about her already being a con artist with multiple fake identities and families by the time "Volpina" rolled around.
• False Friend: She's this to her other classmates, but especially to Kagami in season 5, who she's constantly setting up to get akumatized. Unfortunately, Kagami's still giving her the benefit of doubt. Also to Chloé, using her as a means to an end before abandoning her to an angry mob once getting what she wanted from their "friendship".
• Foil: To Chloé, each being an Alpha Bitch who refuses to take responsibility for their actions, attracted to Adrien while bent on making Marinette suffer, and got Akumatized multiple times prior to aligning with Hawk Moth/Monarch. But while Chloé is the daughter of a political figure with her Jerkass Hate Sink status out in the open, Lila lied about having diplomats for parents and concealed her true self from their classmates. Furthermore, while Lila hated Ladybug from the start and only got worse, Chloé idolized Ladybug and tried to be a nicer person while holding the Bee Miraculous before she relapsed and got worse under Lila's guidance.
• Floral Theme Naming: Her identities are named after flower names in French: Lila and Cerise.
• Foreign Exchange Student: She claims that she's from Italy.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Unlike all the other Villain of the Week akumatized victims, Ladybug is not able to win her over and she remains hostile, paving the way for Lila's Start of Darkness.
  • In "Timetagger", she's foreshadowed to become Hawk Moth's successor in the future, which is hinted at once again in "Revelation", where she vows to steal Gabriel's Miraculous after obtaining all his secrets. In "Confrontation", after adopting her "Cerise" identity, she started to wear a purple jumpsuit. And in "Re-creation", she acquired the Butterfly Miraculous from Gabriel's basement.
  • In "Revelation", Lila pretends to be the daughter of two other women. The following episode reveals that "Lila Rossi" was a false identity she assumed and falls back on another established alias when her credibility in Dupont is ruined.
  • In "Oni-Chan", she seemed surprisingly detached over the fact her "mother" would be away at the embassy for a while, and casually lied to Nino about wanting to spend time with her. While this seemed like a case of being used to her mother's long absences, it's revealed that this woman is one of three ladies Lila is conning into thinking she's her daughter, and does not care at all about her being gone.
  • In "Volpina", Lila tells Adrien that a girl doesn't need to wear a costume to be amazing. Ironically enough, she herself turns out to be wearing a "costume" in the form of a wig, makeup, and eye contacts in "Confrontation".
• Frame-Up: She frames Marinette in multiple episodes of different misdemeanors and even crimes such as cheating on a test, physical assault, theft and faking school forms. The last of which backfired and exposed Lila to the school.
• Gaslighting: One example of this is in "Revelation" when she convinces the class that Marinette has called her an idiot in order to gain their sympathy and portray Marinette in the wrong. Even Alya falls for it.
• Gone Horribly Right: While Lila somehow manages to get away with it most of the time, and keep up her "nice girl" act, her lies sometimes backfire on her.
  • In "Chameleon", Lila claims that Ladybug cured her tinnitus and no longer needs a front-row seat to avoid sitting next to Marinette and sitting in the back next to Adrien. But the other students choosing to return to their original seats. Leaving Lila sitting in the back of the class next to Nathaniel.
  • In "Miraculous New York", Lila knows that Gabriel does not allow Adrien to join his classmates on their trip to New York. Because she wants to spend that time with Adrien she claims that she is too busy with her charity work. When unforseen factors cause Gabriel to change his mind and allow Adrien to go after all, it is too late for Lila to backpedal. Now she is the only student who misses the trip.
  • In "Risk", Lila pretends she has "ballophobia" to get out of playing dodgeball. Unfortunately for her, Marinette was running late so D'argencourt puts Marinette on Adrien's team which Lila was supposed to be in, and she isn't allowed to join the game due to her "phobia". Subverted when Lila still finds a way to stop Marinette.
  • In "Deflagration", Lila incites Chloé to bully Marinette in an attempt to make her back off from Adrien, which leads to Chloé getting akumatized and Lila herself getting transformed into a high-heeled shoe singing praises to Chloé as a result.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She's this towards any girl who tries to win Adrien's affections from her, with Gabriel even using this feeling to have her provoke Chloé for an opportunity to akumatize the latter in "Miraculer". She's also an expert in waking up the jealousy of the other girls interested in Adrien, such as Marinette, Kagami and Chloé.
• Green Rooming: Lila is introduced at the end of Season 1 as a new classmate, with Hawk Moth insinuating that unlike other akumatized victims, she hasn't gotten over her anger towards Ladybug for humiliating her and may still want revenge, setting her up as a potential antagonist. Although that is eventually addressed in the show, she inexplicably disappears for nearly the entirety of Season 2 with no explanation or acknowledgement of what happened to her after her introductory episode, and it's not until she returns in the Season 2 two-parter finale that it's finally clarified that she's been absent due to skipping school under the guise of being out of the country doing charity work.
• Hate Sink: Lila is a selfish, dishonest, manipulative, inculpable, and spiteful person. The fact that she willingly lets herself be akumatized and remains in control of herself certainly doesn't help. You know she's awful when Marinette says she's worse than Chloé. Word of God even outright confirms that she's intended to be this trope.invoked
• Heroic Lineage: Invoked and subverted. Knowing that Adrien is a fan of Ladybug, she not only tells everyone that she's friends with the titular heroine but that she's actually descended from a fox-themed heroine she sees in Adrien's Miraculous book, which is obviously false.
• Heroic Willpower: Faked. In "Revelation", as a Not Brainwashed akumatized villain, she pretends that the reason she rejected Monarch's Megakuma was Marinette's speech getting through her, but in reality, she only did it cause she already fulfilled her hidden agenda of gaining access to all Gabriel's secrets with her Akuma powers, whcih she plans to use in order to not have to rely on his powers anymore by stealing them herself. Unfortunately, everyone besides Marinette and Adrien falls for it, Alya even using it as an argument for why she's definitely a nice girl.
• Hikikomori: Became one after her fateful first encounter with Ladybug. She falsely claimed that school was suspended cause of the rampant Akumatizations, and spent the rest of the year making her classmates believe she was abroad. She was actually sitting alone in her bedroom, seething over her past defeat and nurturing her hatred.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Lila is occasionally babysitting Nino and Alya's younger siblings, with the kids clearly enjoying themselves under her watch.
  • She is a student in Sabine's Chinese painting class and clearly enjoys what she is doing.
  • It's shown that she knows sign language, which she uses to speak with her third mother.
• Hime Cut: She embodies the Rich Bitch type of Ojou. Everyone is captivated by her tales and connections, but she's a skilled liar and thief, and unlike other akumatized victims (including Chloé to some extent), she doesn't learn from her mistakes and rejects Ladybug's apology. This turns out to be a wig.
• Hypocrite:
  • In "Volpina", she tells Adrien that a girl doesn't need to wear a costume to be amazing ... then she proceeds to lie to him about being the descendant of a vixen superheroine from whom she inherited a Miraculous. Once her lies get exposed by Ladybug, she gets akumatized into a vixen "superheroine" with a costume. As a villain, one of her goals is to show Adrien that her claims about being a better superheroine than Ladybug were "true".
  • In "Chameleon", she tells Marinette that they don't need to fight over a boy... just to declare war against her over a boy (among the reasons) later in that same episode.
  • In "Multiplication", she tells Chloé and the rest of the class that they need to have the will to forgive Ladybug for her mistakes ... even though she's the one who would need to learn that lesson the most.
• Hopeless Suitor: Even without Ladybug stepping in, Lila's attempts to get Adrien to like her by lying would've proven futile given his single love towards Ladybug. She had a better chance before Adrien realized how big of a liar she is in "Oni-Chan".
• I Have Many Names: Season 5 reveals that "Lila Rossi" was an alias, and is known as "Cerise Bianca" at another school. Three women are convinced she's their daughter, but what name the third, deaf one knows her by is unknown. The Season 5 finale has her enrolling in Marinette's lycée with "Iris Verdi" as a new alias. Her real name is also unknown.
• Inconsistent Coloring: She's occasionally shown with tanned skin, which reflects her Italian heritage. A Freeze-Frame Bonus in "Oni-Chan" shows that Lila has a lot of makeup, mostly consisting of skin tones, indicating that her coloring may be inconsistent In-Universe (due to her makeup wearing off or sloppy application on her part). This is supported when "Cerise" appears with lighter skin.
• Invincible Villain: So far, nothing has stopped her whenever she has made a lie, and all that the heroes can do is stand there and see how she screws them over, and "Timetagger" heavily implies that once everything is said and done she will be the last "villain" still standing, taking the Butterfly Miraculous, becoming the new Hawk Moth, and continuing to terrorize Paris a long time into the future. When she does get exposed in "Confrontation", she just ditches her Lila Rossi identity and goes back to another school under the identity of Cerise Bianca, where people still believe her lies. And in "Re-creation", she acquires the Butterfly Miraculous after Gabriel's defeat, as foreshadowed in "Timetagger".
• It's All About Me: Lila lies to be the center of attention and enjoys the praise and adoration that comes from people that she manipulates. She's even willing to endanger Paris and the citizens by assisting a terrorist just to get back at Ladybug for a slight that was partly her own fault. Not to mention her love for Adrien is more invested on her belief he'll be her perfect boyfriend who'll shower her with affection, not caring at all that he might have his own wants and needs.
• Jerkass: A sneaky and lying girl who refuses to take responsibility for her actions. There is also the fact that she's one of the even fewer people who were akumatized as a result of someone doing the right thing. While Marinette turning into Ladybug to call her out on her lies was excessive and done at least partially for selfish reasons, she was still ultimately in the right, as she showed Adrien that Lila was lying through her teeth to get close to him.
• Jerkass at Your Discretion: She only shows her true colors when she's alone with those who know how she really is, such as Marinette.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Lila got away with the nastiness she aims at Marinette for the first four seasons since almost everyone believes her lies before the events of "Confrontation", when Marinette and Sabrina secretly team up to expose her. Downplayed and Deconstructed in that Lila has other aliases to fallback on and simply leaves Dupont to escape the karmic backlash.
• Last Episode, New Character: She transfers into the class in the first season finale and differs from the non-classmate Akuma victims by not getting an Early-Bird Cameo in the opening. It's also sort-of done in the second season, where she doesn't make her return until the two-part finale.
• Liar Revealed: The reason she gets akumatized in "Volpina" is because Ladybug humiliates her in front of Adrien by calling her out on her Blatant Lies. She's eventually revealed to the entire class in "Confrontation".
• Living a Double Life: It is eventually revealed that even what seems to be true of Lila (that she's the daughter of a frequently-absent diplomat) may not in fact be true, as she has a second "mother" who believes she's doing humanitarian work in Africa and a third one who is deaf. In "Confrontation", it's revealed that her identity as Lila Rossi has been a fake one all this time, as she created it by wearing a wig and contact lenses of different color. Once she's exposed as a liar at Collège Françoise Dupont, she abandons her "Lila Rossi" identity and switches to another look and identity, Cerise Bianca, who has been enrolled at a second school even before Lila got enrolled at Françoise Dupont, as evidenced by the fact that Cerise was already a class rep at the class she was attending. Given the lengths she's known to have gone to, it's not even clear whether Cerise is her "real" identity or just one more mask (though, for what it's worth, she isn't wearing a disguise for it).
• Loved by All: Almost every student at Collège Françoise Dupont looks up to Lila and can't get enough of her stories. And even though she loses this status at Françoise Dupont after being exposed as a malicious liar to everyone in her class in "Confrontation", it's revealed that her second identity, Cerise, is also looked up by all of her classmates at the other school she's enrolled in, as she was chosen to be their class rep as well.
• Loving a Shadow: As much as she's infatuated with Adrien and believes her love for him is genuine, there are hints that this is what Lila's crush on Adrien amounts to— shallow and superficial. Adrien's good-looking, rich, and popular— in other words, he's the perfect boyfriend to Lila's eyes. However, when Adrien attempts to befriend her despite knowing about her lying tendencies in "Chameleon" and she mistakes Plagg's secret stash of Camembert as Adrien's in "Oni-Chan", she reacts in anger and disgust respectively. In fact, her first act after being akumatized in "Chameleon" is to take on Adrien's appearance and proceed to commit petty acts in retaliation for him knowing that she's a liar and "Oni-Chan" more or less confirms that Lila's hatred towards Ladybug and desire to see her vanquished takes first priority over her crush on Adrien. She also badmouths Adrien's friends to his father in "Miraculer" and attempts to convince him to let her be his partner by isolating him from all of his friends in "Protection". Compared to the other girls (Marinette and Kagami), Lila's interested in Adrien as an ideal rather than as a person, whereas they fell in love with Adrien mainly because of his honesty and kindness. Her infatuation with Adrian ends in "Confrontation" upon seeing he loves Marinette and resolves to make him suffer for it.
• The Man Behind the Man: She becomes this to Chloé in "Collusion" and "Revolution", especially after the latter becomes the new Mayor of Paris after her own dad resigns, Cerise puppeteering her every move from behind the shadows through an earpiece.
• Manipulative Bastard: She can effortlessly manipulate almost anyone to her advantage. She twists her classmates' trust and generosity to turn them against Marinette in "Chameleon", and in "Oni-Chan" even fools Nathalie with some clever wordplay to get into the Agreste Mansion. She then follows this up by managing to convince the titular villain — who was akumatized specifically to kill her and driven by that sole motivation — to stop going after her and go after Ladybug instead. In "Protection" she's able to turn one of Marinette's friends against her by projecting her owm real persona onto the latter in order to intentionally cause an Akumatization and have the resulting villain attack Marinette on her behalf. This extends to her akumatized forms, which are based around deception, manipulation and lies: Volpina could create illusions, Chameleon was a shapeshifter and Hoaxer could create illusions and brainwash people to turn against the people she wanted. Taken to egregious levels in season 5 when it's revealed that Lila is a con artist who has multiple fake identities with which she's been manipulating 3 women into believing that she's their daughter and 2 schools all at the same time.
• Master Actor: She is an incredibly charismatic, intelligent, adaptive, and convincing actress who manages to win over almost everybody and keep up her lies over a very long time. She also acts under false aliases.
• Meaningful Name: As Lila Rossi, given name means "beauty" in Arabic and Rossi is a common Italian last name meaning "red". She's a (brownish) red-headed beauty. In the English dub, her first name is pronounced "Lie-la" instead of "Lee-la." Given her nonstop lying and gaslighting, Lila may have chosen that name on purpose.
• The Münchausen: According to Lila she has been pretty much everywhere in the world and is friends with countless celebrities, politicians and important people. Since she is very good with words and also does her research about the stories she tells, everybody believes her.
• Multiple Identity IDs: She has documentation on at least one of her aliases, Iris Verdi, as that name is not spoken aloud in the Season 5 finale scene where we first learn it.
• Mysterious Past: She talks a lot about her past, but her tendency to lie casts everything in doubt. Initially all we knew about her was that she had a diplomat as her mother and that for some reason she recognized a past holder of the Fox Miraculous... That for some reason looks like an adult Lila. The mystery around her only deepens in season 5 when it's revealed that she has multiple families and identities and that Lila Rossi isn't even her real name.
• Never My Fault:
  • Blames Ladybug for humiliating her, even though it wouldn’t have happened had she not lied about knowing her.
  • She cannot fathom being blamed or called out for her lies, ignoring when she hurts people and doesn’t understand why Adrien would be so mad at her for hurting his loved ones and getting his friend expelled. She expects people who do know about her lying to continue to praise her and leave her faultless, and will destroy them if they don’t.
• New Transfer Student: She is the newest student at Marinette and Adrien's school.
• Nice to the Waiter: Gabriel's staff is very fond of her for this reason.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: Upon finding Marinette lying in trash in "Oni-Chan", she mentions that she could take a picture but that it would be just too easy.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: If she's coming after you, she will destroy you in the swiftest, meanest, and most complete way she can.
• Not Brainwashed:
  • After she's reakumatized in "Catalyst", once the Akuma leaves her, she displays signs that, not only did she remember what she did when she was akumatized, she actually enjoyed using her powers to hurt Ladybug's reputation. Before getting deakumatized, she even promises to wait for Hawk Moth to akumatize her again, implying that her third Akumatization in "Mayura" was also voluntarily from her part.
  • In "Chameleon", she intentionally grabs the Akuma when she sees it, and even starts Hawk Moth's monologue for him.
  • In "Revelation", she summons Monarch to akumatize her in order to put in motion a secret scheme to find out all his secrets and use them in order to steal his Miraculous.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Unlike Gina, Lila speaks fluent French/English.
  • Justified due to not actually being Italian.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Ladybug says that she won't have to deal with her anymore after exposing her lies in front of Adrien in "Volpina". She ends up regretting her words in later seasons.
• Obfuscating Disability: Her lies sink to a new low in "Chameleon", where she pretends to suffer from tinnitus, arthritis, and a sprained wrist just to elicit sympathy from her classmates and take advantage of their kindness.
• Out of Focus: Only makes background appearances in season 4 until the end of "Penalteam" where she forms an alliance with Chloé.
• Personality Powers:
  • Her Akumatized forms Volpina/Hoaxer (Master of Illusion) and Chameleon (Shapeshifter) have abilities based around deception and manipulation. Best suited for a Consummate Liar who assumes others' identities and win others over with her lies.
  • In "Re-creation", she manages to seize the Butterfly Miraculous from Gabriel's basement. As its previous holder exploited a person's negative emotion to corrupt them into a loyal evil minion, it's an ideal power for a Manipulative Bastard such as Lila.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In "Timetagger", Lila is willing to babysit Chris, Ella and Etta so that Alya and Nino can go to the movies.
  • In "Félix", Lila takes part in Marinette's project to send Adrien some encouraging video messages, despite her hatred of Marinette. After Félix (posing as Adrien) sends them an insulting message right back, Lila relays the video to Gabriel, with the implication that she realized that it wasn't really Adrien.
  • In "Evolution", she helps look after the sick Nathalie, despite getting nothing obvious in return.
• Phenotype Stereotype: Lila is Italian, and has inconsistently tanned skin and reddish-brown hair. Subverted in that she is not actually Italian and was using makeup and a wig.
• Psychological Projection: In "Protection", Lila tells Kagami that Marinette is a liar, manipulator, and a toxic person who should be avoided, all of which describes Lila to a T.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • Lila doesn't actively go after a person unless they cross her, like when Ladybug exposes her lie about them being friends in front of Adrien. When Marinette tries to expose her lies, even giving her a "peace offer" of becoming her friend in ruling over the class, and only carries out her threat when Gabriel all but pays her for it. But when Gabriel fires her for not holding her end of their bargain, she kills two birds with one stone by Akumatizing herself in a scheme to take Marinette's position as class rep while arming herself with blackmail on Gabriel.
  • For how low her opinion on her classmates' intelligence is, she doesn't cause any strife between them.
  • When she has the choice between getting her revenge on Marinette or maintaining her friendship with Adrien for the benefits that came with it, she chooses the latter.
• Propping Up Their Patsy: Lila steals the answers for a test, hides them in Marinette's bag and uses an anonymous note to inform the teacher. When the answers are found with Marinette, Lila quickly tries to "defend" her. Marinette immediately realizes what Lila did and accuses her defender which only makes her look even worse.
• Put on a Bus: After taking the spotlight in "Volpina", Lila disappears for almost the entirety of Season 2. In her second appearance, it's implied her absence is the result of her becoming a shut-in after telling everybody at school she was leaving on a trip all around the world. Season 5 implies however that her prolonged absences from seasons 2 and 4 were due to her attending a second school under a different identity called Cerise Bianca.
• Red Herring: She's set up to be the new Fox Miraculous holder and hero long before her episode was released. In the actual episode, she's only an Akuma victim based on the Fox Miraculous holder. At the time, Master Fu still had the Fox Miraculous, and while Marinette does choose someone to wield it, it's not Lila.
• The Reveal: While foreshadowed in the previous episode, "Confrontation" reveals that "Lila Rossi" is only one of her many identities, as she casually abandons it upon her duplicitous nature being revealed by Marinette and Sabrina. She is known as "Cerise Bianca" by another group of students from a different school. "Re-creation" reveals she is enrolling at Marinette's lycée with "Iris Verdi" as a new alias.
• Sadist: She not only enjoys the mental pain she inflicts onto other people (as seen in "Ladybug" where she smiles after seeing all the people she caused to get akumatized), but also the physical pain of others (as seen in "Strikeback" where she smirks upon seeing Nathalie almost collapsing to the floor because of her violent coughing fit).
• School Idol: Lila is extremely popular among her teachers and fellow students... until “Confrontation”, when Marinette and Sabrina finally expose her for the selfish, vindictive liar she is.
• Seamless Spontaneous Lie: Lila is incredibly talented at creating them and they work everytime (much to Marinette's frustration who always fails to expose her).
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Though hinted in previous episodes, "Emotion" reveals she knows Gabriel is behind the villian attacks and manages to keep him in the dark about her knowing his secret.
• Shipper on Deck: She pretends to be this to Kagami about her relationship with Adrien in "Protection", but it's all just a ruse to turn her against Marinette.
• Shout-Out: Her Animal Motif, deceptive personality, and subtle influence over Chloé are evocative of Daji, a nine-tailed fox that assumed a false identity and said to have brought out the worst in a king who becomes utterly hated as a result.
• Silver Spoon Troublemaker: Downplayed. One of her "moms" is an Italian ambassador and is an excellent liar who has become an agent of Hawk Moth and loves getting Marinette/Ladybug in trouble. Though all of the advantages that she claims as being a diplomat's daughter (like visiting other countries for vacation) have been revealed to be nothing but lies, especially when it's revealed that "Lila Rossi" was just one of her many invented identities.
• Smug Smiler: Lila's most common expression is a sly, devious, and confident smirk.
• Smug Snake: As mentioned above, Lila usually has a smug smile on her face, and she loves to gloat and mock her enemies when she’s caused trouble for them.
• Social Climber: Lila’s main goal, besides getting revenge on her enemies, is to become as popular as possible. First, she becomes the most popular girl in school through telling lies and pretending to be kind, then she schemes her way into getting a job as one of Gabriel Agreste’s models. She also wants to become Adrien’s girlfriend, just because he’s rich and famous.
• The Sociopath: Heavily implied. Lila ticks most of the qualities off from the list. She appears as a kind and friendly classmate to her peers while she hides her disdain for them, has no issue lying to get what she wants, manipulates any situation to her benefit, never feels remorse for what she does and to top it all off, she truly thinks she's better than everyone. Whenever someone calls her out on her lies, she's incapable on acknowledging her own personal responsibility, blaming others instead and will threaten those who stand in her way. That she willingly lets Hawk Moth akumatize her, multiple times, does not help. Even her crush on Adrien is shallow— she's more invested in how his appearance and status makes him the ideal, doting boyfriend she desires than the real Adrien and in "Oni-Chan" she's willing to give up her love for Adrien if it means it will get rid of Ladybug for her. Season 5 just adds even more fuel to this trope as her actions were revealed to have taken an even more sociopathic turn than before (such as her using multiple fake identities in order to manipulate multiple families and schools concomitently).
• Stalker without a Crush: In "Perfection" it's revealed that she's this to Marinette, as she's shown cutting her head off from pictures she has of her at her home with her family or casually walking down the streets with her friends, pictures she couldn't possibly have if she wasn't either stalking her herself or paying someone else to do it.
• The Starscream: Openly works with Gabriel and his various Miraculous forms, but has deduced his secret identity. She deliberately works up an emotional rage against Marinette to throw Gabriel off the trail in "Revelation", and uses the chaos she sows as an akumatized villain to steal more of Gabriel's secrets, using Gabriel's own social network no less. And then in the end of season 5, she claims the Butterfly Miraculous for herself. While she didn't directly kill Gabriel to become the new Big Bad, she was certainly planning his demise anyway.
• Start of Darkness: Lila starts out the series as a Consummate Liar but whose lies are primarily to elevate people's perception of her and to seem interesting and popular. After being humiliated by Ladybug and akumatized for the first time she develops an intense hatred of superheroes, particularly Ladybug. She then, seemingly willingly, plays a key role in Hawk Moth's mass re-Akumatization during the "Heroes' Day" special. In her fourth Akumatization, Lila takes the Akuma herself, clearly willingly aiding Hawk Moth. She then forms an alliance with Gabriel to "protect" Adrien. While she doesn't know (initially) that he is Hawk Moth, she has willingly teamed up with Hawk Moth already and is simply aiding him in his civilian form. With The Reveal that someone will eventually succeed Gabriel and take up the mantle of Hawk Moth, it's very possible Lila is only going to get worse as time goes by.
  • It pays off in "Re-creation" as, when nobody's looking, she steals the Butterfly Miraculous after Marinette gets it away from Gabriel, and swears to keep coming after Marinette, setting up the future setting of "Timetagger" where it's implied she will akumatize Chris to steal the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses in the past when Marinette and Adrien are weaker and less experienced.
  • With "Revelation" showing that she has been conning three different women into thinking she’s their daughter it’s implied that Lila was awful long before she transferred to Marinette and Adrien’s school.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Tells Marinette just this: everyone in their class is stupid, with the two of them being the only exceptions. Aside from Marinette, it seems that all the characters Took a Level in Dumbass whenever Lila is around.
• Teens Are Monsters: A selfish, dishonest, manipulative, and vindictive teenage girl who is willing to side with a terrorist for the sake of petty revenge before turning on him as well. She even manipulated Chloé, a similar vindictive teen, in order to use her as a sacrifical pawn.
• This Means War!: All it takes is calling her out on her lies for her to swear eternal vengeance. Just ask Ladybug and Marinette. (Yes, they're the same person, but Lila doesn't know that.)
• Token Evil Teammate: The only member of Marinette's class that was never part of team Miraculous, and in fact has never (since her debut episode) even supported Ladybug. Downplayed a little in that Chloé (who used to be a Ladybug supporter and member of her team, but later grew to hate Ladybug too) isn't exactly a force of good either.
• Took a Level in Jerkass:
  • She first takes one in "Catalyst" by being pleased with the chaos and fear she caused throughout Paris as Volpina even after being deakumatized, her lack of confusion after the fact implying that she was Not Brainwashed. Her promise to wait for Hawk Moth to give her powers back implies that she also voluntarily akumatized herself in the next episode, "Mayura".
  • In "Chameleon", she threatens to ruin Marinette's life if she keeps opposing her, leaving her on the verge of Akumatization. Later she storms off after Adrien tries reasoning with her about her lying habits and when she spots the Akuma that was initially directed towards Marinette, she grabs it to akumatize herself and directly asks Hawk Moth for supervillain powers in order to destroy Ladybug. As Chameleon, she steals Adrien's form and leaves his unconscious body in a locker, almost gets a mother and her baby hit by a bus to get Ladybug off her tracks and, after stealing Cat Noir's form, even attempts to use a Cataclysm on Ladybug in order to kill her. At the end of the episode, she threatens Marinette again and promises to make her life a living hell.
  • In "Oni-Chan", despite not being the Akuma villain herself, she manages to convince Oni-Chan to get rid of Ladybug instead of her and fakes an injury in order for Cat Noir to carry her to safety and leave Ladybug on her own against the villain. This leaves even Hawk Moth himself impressed and makes him realize that Lila can be a willing ally of his without even needing to be akumatized, which makes him contact her as Gabriel to form an alliance with her in order to use her manipulation skills for his own agenda.
  • In "Miraculer", she badmouths Adrien's friends to his father in an attempt to convince him to isolate his son from them, so she could make Adrien dependent solely on her for "friendship". After Gabriel triggers her jealousy over Chloé's childhood friendship with Adrien, she tries to manipulate Chloé into hating Ladybug, potentially in an attempt to purposefully cause her to get akumatized and thus create another villain bent on getting rid of Ladybug.
  • In "Ladybug", she frames Marinette for cheating on a test, stealing her necklace and pushing her down the stairs, leading to Marinette being expelled from school and causing her and multiple other people to get briefly akumatized. Adrien needs to outright threaten her in order to make her backtrack her statements and get Marinette unexpelled, but Gabriel still rewards her for her actions by making her a model for his brand alongside his son.
  • While she was a rotten person before, she reaches a new low in "Strikeback" when she sadistically smirks at Nathalie while she's suffering from a violent coughing fit.
  • In "Perfection" it's revealed that her grudge on Marinette has developed into a full blown obsession, as she's seen cutting Marinette's head off the pictures of her together with her friends and family which she probably obtained by stalking her. She also starts her campaign of trying to isolate Marinette from her friends by manipulating Kagami into thinking that Marinette doesn't genuinely consider her as one of her friends, which ends up making Kagami want to isolate from everyone and vulnerable to Akumatization (and potentially even contemplating suicide before the Megakuma infected her).
  • In "Protection", she once again manipulates Kagami to turn her against Marinette in order to purposefully get her akumatized and have her attack Marinette and attempt to ruin her relationship with Adrien on her (and Gabriel's) behalf, even subtly implying to him that he should akumatize her again for this purpose (whom she knows by now that he's Monarch).
  • In "Adoration", she purposefully causes another Akumatization by making Chloé unfriend Sabrina for not wanting to take part in their schemes to ruin Marinette's life, which leaves the latter vulnerable to Akumatization. Afterwards she convinces Chloé and Vanisher to work together in order to frame Marinette, which almost gets her expelled from school once again.
  • In "Revelation" it's shown that she leads two other secret lives, having 3 women considering her as their own daughter and manipulating each one of them to never find out about the other ones. She even goes as far as to take advantage of a deaf woman by convincing her that she's her long lost daughter with whom she just recently reunited. After Gabriel replaces her as the female face of the Agreste's brand with Kagami, she plans a scheme to not only gain her classmates' sympathy in order to replace Marinette as class representative, but also to lure Monarch to akumatize her again in order to use the powers received from him to find out all his secrets and use them to steal his Miraculous later on, with her plan ending up being a big success on both fronts.
  • In "Confrontation", she uses her new position as class rep to fake school forms in order to ruin all of her classmates' futures and afterwards pin the blame on Marinette in order to turn all of her friends against her. However, Sabrina finally grows a backbone and with help from Marinette, manages to expose both her and Chloé's evil scheme to all of their other classmates and teachers. This leads to her abandoning this identity, the end of the episode revealing that Lila Rossi has only been a disguise for her created with a wig and contact lenses of different colors and that her second identity, Cerise, has been enrolled at another school all this time, with her essentially taking two different classes at the same time, as Cerise was also chosen for class rep by her class.
  • In "Collusion", it's revealed that she has a secret lair in the catacombs of Paris, from which she gives Chloé new orders through an earpiece in order to have her get Marinette expelled from school once again and Miss Bustier fired from her job. Afterwards, she manipulates certain situations in her favor in order to have Gabriel indirectly prompt Chloé's father, André, to resign as the Mayor of Paris and recruit his daughter, Chloé, as a pawn for his plans once again, this time giving her access to an army of robots made by the Tsurugi industry in order to seize the City Hall after her father's resignation and proclaim herself as the new Mayor of Paris. By manipulating both Chloé and Gabriel, Lila/Cerise gains control over the entire city.
  • In "Revolution", Cerise orders Chloé to accept Monarch's offer and willingly get akumatized again in order to carry out her own plan, which ends up with her stealing Tomoe's laptop, which she dropped in the confusion created by the mob of people revolting against the akumatized mayor.
  • In "Re-creation", she uses the Tusrugi laptop she has stolen previously in order to break into the Agreste's mansion and steal the Butterfly Miraculous from Gabriel's basement, which paves the way to her succeeding him as the next Big Bad of the show. She also uses another identity in order to enroll at the high school where Marinette and Adrien will be going.
• Toxic Friend Influence: She's this to Chloé starting in season 4, goading Chloé into meaner, more complex schemes that have the benefit of keeping Lila's hands clean.
• Transhuman Treachery: Unlike other akumatized villains, by the time of "Catalyst" she is Not Brainwashed and helping Hawk Moth of her own will, while "Chameleon" has her not only willing but snatching the Akuma herself and demanding Hawk Moth akumatize her in exchange for her services. She summons Monarch to akumatize her again in "Revelation", but this time not to help him defeat the heroes, but to betray him and find out all his secrets in order to use them for her own gain.
• Troll:
  • Lila teases Marinette on several occasions (much to her dismay).
  • Lila enjoys to manipulate Chloé and to get under her skin. She also tricks her into performing an utterly ridiculous dance to summon Ladybug. When a furious and humiliated Chloé confronts her, she easily convinces her that she was telling the truth and the ritual worked.
• Uncanny Valley Girl: Pretty and friendly, alas it's just a front.
• Underestimating Badassery:
  • For all of Lila's disdain of her classmates, she is as ignorant as they are of Marinette's other self. And even if she did know, she couldn't understand why Marinette would keep something that she isn't ashamed of a secret.
  • She clearly didn't expect Adrien of all people to threaten her and force her to clean up her mess after she got Marinette expelled from school.
  • She also underestimated Sabrina and didn't expect her to be able to turn against Chloé and by extension her, and even in the eventuality Sabrina did turn against them, she definitely didn't expect her to be able to expose her lies in front of all of their other classmates and teachers, this arrogance being exactly what Sabrina and Marinette counted on in "Confrontation" when they came up with their plan to expose her for the liar and cheat she is to everyone else.
• Unknown Rival: She's plotting against Gabriel as of "Revelation", but he's unware of her actions.
  • While Marinette knows her as "Lila Rossi," she doesn't know that was just an alias, or that "Cerise Bianca" and her new classmate "Iris Verdi" are also aliases for the same person, let alone that she's the new Hawk Moth.
• Unwitting Pawn: Although she's working with both Gabriel and Hawk Moth, she doesn't seem to know that they're the same person, or that Gabriel's manipulating her into serving Hawk Moth's agenda. Subverted in "Emotion" however when it's revealed that Lila knows (for quite some time already) that Gabriel is Monarch.
• Vague Age: Some of the feats she's pulled off are definitely more than what a 13-15 year old girl (no matter how talented they are at deception) could pull off. While it's hard to tell exactly, there's a very good chance she's older than her classmates. At the very least, she's very likely older than Marinette.
• Viler New Villain: Marinette quickly declares her worse than Chloé, because Chloé is just a Dumb Blond who always cries to her daddy to get her out of trouble, everyone knows this and no one likes her. Lila is much more clever and devious with no restraint whatsoever, easily able to earn the trust and respect of everyone and use social manipulation to turn them against those who see through her lies. She also accomplishes much more than Chloé throughout the series, figuring out Gabriel Agreste is Hawk Moth, forming an allience with him, finding out his whole backstory and eventually stealing his Miraculous.
  • She's also set up to be this to Gabriel Agreste after stealing the Moth Miraculous. Gabriel was a horrible father to Adrien, his mistreatment of him being responsible for many of the more dramatic moments of the show. He was incredibly controlling, elitist and narcissistic, treating the people closest to him as pawns, showing distain for anyone in a different class to himself and generally being cold and uncaring of everyone around him. In spite of all that it was shown deep down that he did still care for his son and for every Yank the Dog's Chain there was a genuine Pet the Dog moment in their relationship. He also cared deeply for Nathalie and although he became abusive towards her near the end, he ended up sacrificing himself to save her life. Similarly although he gave up a chance to save her through Time Travel in pursuit of power, he did love his wife enough to mourn her for over a year, become a recluse after her coma and refuse to date anyone else because he still loved her. Even if Gabriel's Pet the Dog moments were few and far apart, Lila gets none to speak off, she doesn't love her family because the only family she has are people she manipulated into thinking they were her family, she doesn't care for her friends because she see's them as disposable and she doesn't really care for Adrien besides superficial psyhical attraction. Comes full-circle in "Re-creation" when she successfully steals the Moth Miraculous and starts paying off the Foreshadowing that the future Hawk Moth from "Timetagger" is her.
• Villain Respect: She genuinely respects Marinette as an intellectual peer, and would actually prefer her as a friend over having her as an enemy. Too bad Marinette hates liars and what Lila would have to do to become Marinette's friend is practically anathema to her.
• Villain Team-Up:
  • With Gabriel Agreste since "Oni-Chan", convincing him to let her work for him as a model while protecting Adrien from bad influences, which Lila naturally uses as an excuse to bully Adrien's other friends like Marinette. But she's unaware of Gabriel's real reason for recruiting her, through she did became aware of Gabriel's supervillain identity long before the events of "Emotion". But the team-up dissolves in "Revelation" when Gabriel fires her from his brand for not preventing Adrien from falling in love with Marinette, which leads to her vowing revenge on him.
  • ZigZagged with Chloé, offering her a partnership in the end of "Penalteam" as they have a common enemy in Marinette and her alter ego. But then "Revolution" happened and she abandoned Chloé once the girl served her purpose.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Unlike Chloé, who the other students hate, Lila is so good at lying that everyone in her school thinks she is as impressive and selfless as she says she is. It certainly helps that she is very charismatic and always treats everybody perfectly nicely (at least in public). The only people who can see right past her are Marinette, who tries and fails to expose her at every turn, and Adrien who, while acknowledging that she is a Consummate Liar, believes that she deserves a chance and will wait for when she becomes honest with everyone. Adrien finally wises up in "Oni-Chan" when he realizes as Cat Noir that Lila deliberately faked an injury so he'd leave Ladybug alone with the akumatized villain and finally notes just how dangerous and harmful her lies can be. Afterwards he tells her he refuses to associate with her as long as she's willing to hurt the people he cares about.
• Villainous Crush: Lila clearly has a thing for Adrien, and at the very least, believes that her feelings for him are genuine. In "Oni-Chan", while Lila's Pinocchio Nose curse doesn't react when she admits her love for Adrien, it also doesn't react when she tells the titular Akuma villain that the only way she'll give up on Adrien is if Oni-Chan manages to get rid of Ladybug.
• Villainous Underdog: Despite not having a Miraculous (untill the season 5 finale), she still manages to give Marinette/Ladybug a very hard time by being extremely cunning and charismatic.
• Wig, Dress, Accent: "Confrontation" reveals that her identity as Lila Rossi has been a disguise the entire time, created by wearing a long wig, a skin tan, and contact lenses of different colors. By the end of the aforementioned episode, she abandons this disguise and comes back to her original look under the name of Cerise. Her lair has a number of wigs and contacts she uses whenever she needs a disguise.
• Willing Channeler: Ambiguously in "Catalyst" and "Mayura" and most definitely in "Chameleon" and "Revelation". She willingly allows Hawk Moth to akumatize her.
• Withholding Their Name: In "Miraculous Secrets", it's revealed that her name "Lila" is in fact a lie. This is confirmed in "Confrontation" where she heads to another school where she's known as "Cerise".
• With Us or Against Us: You either support every little thing she says and does (even if you know she's lying), or you're an enemy she needs to destroy.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: One of her methods is to either fake an injury or to pretend to be helpless and innocent in order to invoke sympathy from others, manipulating others to do what she wants. She plays this card in "Chameleon", effortlessly turning the entire class against Marinette, and "Ladybug", where she pretends to have been pushed down the stairs by Marinette to get her expelled, which also almost gets Marinette akumatized.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: As Cerise, she has amber colored eyes and is still a Manipulative Bastard.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Lila/Cerise's intent with Chloé. Once she served her purpose to enable her to get Tomoe's laptop, she abandons her after Ladybug and Cat Noir removed her as mayor.

Supporting Villains

Nathalie Sancoeur/Mayura

Akumatized forms: Catalyst, Safari

"I understand, sir."

^{Click to see her as Mayura}
"Fly away, beautiful amok."

Voiced by: Nathalie Homs (FR), Sabrina Weisz (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Gabriela Guzmán (MEX), Tami Barak/תמי ברק (HEB), Krisztina Czifra (HUN), Terezie Taberyová (CZE), Ana Mandić (SER), Suzanne Paalgard (NOR), Anna Sztejner (POL)

"Yes sir. Understood sir. I'm sure he'll understand, sir."

Gabriel Agreste's assistant. Completely stoic, with only an occasional display of emotion, she follows his instructions completely, and is typically in charge of Adrien's schedule. She's fully aware of his double-life as Hawk Moth, and helps him out however she can.

During the "Heroes' Day", Nathalie takes up the damaged Peacock Miraculous to protect Gabriel, but it has adverse effects that will have her end up like its previous holder Emilie.

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• Adventurer Archaeologist: Appears to have been her earlier career.
• All There in the Script: Her last name is never mentioned in the show until "Miraculous Paris".
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Unlike the other Miraculous wielders, who retain their normal skin tones, the bearer of the Peacock Miraculous gains blue skin when transformed.
• Ambiguously Bi: In "Passion", its implied that she fell in love with both Gabriel and Emilie, her being Gabriel's accomplice as a supervillain being just as much for Emilie's sake as it is loyalty to him.
• Antagonist Abilities: She can create minions for the akumatized villains. The first one she's seen creating manages to blow away all of the heroes by flapping its wings. Furthermore, like Hawk Moth, Mayura is able to operate from a great distance away, meaning that the heroes can't trace her civilian identity. Also like Hawk Moth, she can hold her transformation after using her power. Unlike Hawk Moth she doesn't appear to need her targets' consent to make her monsters; just the emotion is enough whether they want to lash out or not (and in Hawk Moth's own case even if they're completely against it), the only drawback being that the one holding the object commands the sentimonster, not her. She can also make her own sentimonsters, unlike Hawk Moth being restricted to giving others powers, which might make her powers in some respects even more useful than Hawk Moth's.
• Anti-Villain: She executes her duty to the Agreste family in all things, whether that means attacking innocent people for Hawk Moth or staying up late to help a young child study. As of Season 5, she lost respect for Gabriel but resolved to continue supporting him for Adrien and Emilie's sake.
• Back from the Dead: She seemingly succumbs to her illness in "Conformation", but is later revived by Gabriel’s wish.
• Badass Normal: She could hold her own against three Akumatized villains simultaneously as a regular human in "Félix".
• Being Personal Isn't Professional: Often, she treats the Agrestes as her masters while she's their servant and nothing more. But she does show some hidden affection for them, such as suggesting Gabriel to spend Christmas with Adrien and hugging Gabriel when he feels hopeless about his cause along with the implication that she's loyal to him out of unrequited love.
• Beleaguered Assistant: As one might expect from the assistant to one of Paris's busiest fashion designers; she's not only tasked with his appointments but also with handling his son.
• Bilingual Bonus: Her codename means "Peacock" in Sanskrit. Curiously, "mayura" is the term for male peacocks, while "mayuri" is the term for females.
• Blue Is Heroic: Inverted. It would be played straight, but like with Hawk Moth, the Peacock Miraculous is in the hands of a villain.
• Brains and Brawn: Gabriel outright calls her the Brains to his Brawn. As Shadow Moth, he has the unified power of two Miraculouses, but since Nathalie fell ill after "Miracle Queen", he's been having limited success against Ladybug without her planning and attention to detail.
• Breaking Speech: In "Miraculer", she bombards Chloé with a barrage of Armor-Piercing Questions.
• Cast from Hit Points:
  • Because the Peacock Miraculous is damaged in some fashion, using it takes a toll on the user's health. Nathalie is coughing and can't even stand up after just one use of it. The effect is so bad that even episodes later, she still has horrible coughing fits that bring her to her knees.
  • As seen in "Ladybug", creating a sentimonster from her own emotions, rather than external emotions, apparently has this effect. After creating the titular sentimonster by herself, Mayura was practically incapacitated for the rest of the episode, unable to fight and relying entirely on her creation to defend her.
• Childhood Friend: According to official sources, Gabriel met her when they and Emilie were teenagers.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: Nathalie takes up the Peacock Miraculous to save Gabriel, despite knowing the risk the damaged item would do to her body even after Gabriel warned her. By the fourth season, Nathalie ends up bedridden from using the Peacock Miraculous multiple times.
• Combat Hand Fan: Her Miraculous tool takes the form of this.
• Combat Stilettos: Wear high heels in both her civilian form and as Mayura. Wile she is really powerful as Mayura, she's just as skilled as combat in her civilian form like when she fights solo against the Gang of Secrets with great ease.
• Conflicting Loyalties: Downplayed. Her loyalty to Gabriel takes priority over everything else...usually. Her loyalty to Emilie is even deeper.
• Dark Action Girl: Like Hawk Moth, she's no slouch when it comes to getting her own hands dirty. In "Miraculer", she fights evenly with a weakened Cat Noir and is later able to hold her own against Queen Bee long enough to escape. She also manages to hold her own against Princess Fragrance, Reflekta and Lady Wifi without transforming in "Félix".
• Dark Is Evil: Nathalie wears a black business suit as a civilian and a dark blue outfit as a supervillain. In either identity, she's Hawk Moth's main partner in crime.
• De-power: While Mayura already took a backseat once Gabriel started using the Peacock himself, with the Peacock now in Félix's possession, it's unlikely she'll ever get a chance to be Mayura again.
• Determinator: Despite the dangers of using the Peacock Miraculous, Nathalie used it multiple times before her body could no longer keep up with the strain.
• The Dragon: She knows Gabriel is Hawk Moth, and outright allows him to Akumatize her as the third step in his master plan in "Catalyst". As of "Chameleon", she seems to be sharing this role with Lila Rossi.
• Dragon with an Agenda: In "Evolution", when Gabriel ignores an opportunity to save Emilie in favor of going after the Miraculous, Nathalie comes to the conclusion that Gabriel has gone off the deep end and stops trying to help him achieve his goals. But instead of pulling a full Heel–Face Turn and leaving Gabriel altogether, she stays around for Adrien's sake, and in "Passion" she changes her goal to using her position to get the Miraculous before Gabriel can. She does try to convince Gabriel to cease his activities as Monarch for Adrien's sake while using Emilie's ring to give the youth some freedom.
• Dramatic Irony: Gabriel believes ^note as stated in the French webisode "Nathalie through Gabriel's eyes" that without her help, he and Emilie would never have found the Peacock Miraculous. Unfortunately, it would have been better for everyone had it stayed hidden.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: Nathalie's Internal Monologue in "Stormy Weather 2" states her admiration for Gabriel is because of his dedication to his family. This is ignoring, willfully or otherwise, the fact that Gabriel's "dedication" is extremely damaging to everyone involved.
• Empowered Badass Normal: As seen in "Félix", Nathalie can briefly hold her own against three akumatized villains without transforming.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Nathalie became The Dragon to Gabriel partially due to her one-sided love for him, and she genuinely seems to care about Adrien.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Nathalie has supported Gabriel through numerous crimes and even put her own life at risk to help him, all with the goal of helping to save Emilie. But she washes her hands of Gabriel in "Evolution" when his obsession with Ladybug caused him to squander the perfect opportunity to save Emilie, and by extension herself. Also, starting in "Protection" and "Emotion", Nathalie disapproved of Gabriel using his ring to force Adrien to obey him, also apologizing to Amelie in the latter episode when Gabriel orders her to escort his sister-in-law out of his dance.
• Evil Virtues:
  • Love. It is implied that she possesses lingering feelings towards Gabriel with both of them caring for Emilie, sticking by Gabriel's side for the first four seasons and spending the fifth season acting on Emilie's behalf.
  • Loyalty. Nathalie is considered almost like an honorary member of the Agreste Family, having a soft-spot for Adrien, mourning Emilie's condition alongside him and Gabriel. She was also Gabriel's confident and was perfectly willing to aid in his excursions as Hawk Moth if it meant saving Emilie, both as herself and as Mayura. But starting in "Evolution", Nathalie refuses to aid Gabriel further in his plans and tries convincing him to be a better father to his son.
• Feathered Fiend: The end of Mayura's dress fans out into a train reminiscent of a peacock's tail.
• Foreshadowing:
  • We've seen the Peacock Miraculous in Gabriel's vault prior to Mayura's debut.
  • In "Queen Wasp", Nathalie leans back on the double doors to Gabriel's office. The design of the doors are a set of rays, like the feathers on the back of a peacock.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Zigzagged. She's aloof and cold, but she has her nice moments. Then it turns out she knows Gabriel is Hawk Moth, and is outright helping him.
• The Glasses Come Off: First thing she does while turning into Mayura is tossing her glasses aside. No other bespectacled Miraculous holder does it and the glasses return when she detransforms.
• Grew a Spine: After seeing how insane Gabriel became in "Evolution", she still works for him but she's no longer his loyal Number Two and calls him out if he ever acts like a Jerkass around Adrien as well as encouraging Adrien to stand up to his dad more. She also only keeps helping him with his villainous schemes for a potential chance to steal the Miraculous from him once he gets them in order to use the Wish herself.
• Godzilla Threshold: Gabriel claims that the peacock miraculous is "damaged", which is why he forbade Nathalie from ever using it because it was too dangerous. Considering that just one use left Nathalie coughing and weakened to the point that she had to be carried, he has a point.
• Heel–Face Turn: In "Evolution", she realizes that Gabriel cares more about vengeance than saving Emilie, and therefore in "Passion" she tries to prevent him from getting the main Miraculouses by stealing them herself.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: She is good at everything the plot requires her to be, including tutoring, standing in for her boss while he's busy supervillain-ing, and combat. If not for her impulsivity and Victorian Novel Disease, and her tendency to not think things through, she would've succeeded in what Hawk Moth has not.
• Ironic Name: "Sans cœur" means heartless or "without a heart" in French, yet she's almost entirely motivated by her one-sided crush on Gabriel.
• Irony:
  • The peacock is associated with regality and purity. Nathalie is a servant to the Agrestes, and her love for Gabriel and Emilie compelled her to aid the former in his schemes, making her love unhealthy or impure.
  • The peacock is also associated with the Greek goddess Hera, queen of the gods. Because of her husband Zeus's constant unfaithfulness, Hera has very little patience for it. Nathalie is loyal to Gabriel because she is in love with him, in spite of his love and marriage to Emilie. Nathalie's love goes as far as joining Gabriel as a main villain by taking the Peacock Miraculous.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Despite having feelings for Gabriel, she assisted him in his attempts to revive Emilie.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Her being The Dragon to Hawk Moth is the big twist at the end of "The Collector", and most of her appearances afterwards hinge on knowing this fact.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Sans cœur" means heartless or "without a heart" in French, in reference to her aloof and distant personality and the fact that she's knowingly working for Hawk Moth.
  • Interestingly, her first name comes from the Latin name, Natalia, which meant "Christmas Day" from Latin natale domini. On Christmas Day, she shows her caring side towards Adrien. "Natal" also has to do with babies, which also fits as Nathalie is the closest thing that Adrien has to a mother for the moment.
• Mission Control: Takes up this role on occasion in season 4:
  • In “Optigami”, she uses the titular Sentimonster to track down the known Miraculous holders for Style Queen to eliminate and had been using it since “Miracle Queen” to spy on Ladybug.
  • In “Hack-San”, she uses the titular Sentimonster to send a virus to Markov that eliminates his positive emotions, which leaves him susceptible to Akumatization while also keeping him from turning on Shadow Moth.
• Mook Maker: By infusing the feathers from her hand fan with energy, transforming them into Amoks, she can create Sentimonsters, allies for the Akuma villains.
• Morality Pet: Nathalie cares about the Agreste family and attempts to reason with Gabriel in the fifth season to consider spending his final days as a good father to Adrien.
• Must Have Caffeine: A "whole different person" before her morning coffee.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: However she feels about caging a child, she does it anyway.
• Mysterious Past: We know nothing about her except how she relates to the Agrestes, and we don't know how she got so mixed up in their shenanigans either. However, in "Passion", it was revealed she was a treasure hunter in her youth.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Given that her surname translates to "without a heart", you'd be forgiven for not exactly trusting her. Sure enough, she's not only willingly working for Hawk Moth, but also takes up the Peacock Miraculous and becomes the villainess Mayura (though ironically it's in large part due to having a heart for her employer).
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If she hadn't persuaded Gabriel to let his son attend school, Adrien would not have been in a position to receive the Cat Miraculous.
• No-Sell: She's the only one shown onscreen to be completely unfazed by Audrey's behavior in "Style Queen".
• Nonchalant Dodge: Uses this against the Punisher Trio.
• Non-Standard Character Design: She's the first Miraculous user to not wear a Domino Mask or any other type of headgear that would obscure her facial features. This may be because of another aspect of this trope- Mayura's blue skin and her unusual eyes (which are the same as Duusu's) make a mask so pointless that the heroes can see her up close and still not know who she is without a mask.
• Not So Above It All: Can be seen singing "Merry Christmas To All" with everyone at the end of "Ladybug In Christmas".
• Old Retainer: In spirit, if not age. She oversees the Agreste family as well as its business, protecting the former's secrets with imperturbable yet unquestionable devotion. In some ways, she has more authority than the family's actual heir.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Style Queen", in a rather affectionate move for her, she hugs Gabriel after he expresses uncertainty and hopelessness when the latest Akuma villain attack fails. Afterwards, she appears conflicted about what she just did, implying Unrequited Love.
• Parental Marriage Veto: She delivers Gabriel's to Marinette.
• Parental Substitute: A rather cold and distant one, granted, but as mentioned above she's currently the closest Adrien has to a mother; it's telling that when he's trapped in his room during "Sandboy", he yells for Nathalie first and then his father. Plus, just look at all the photos Adrien has of her on his insta! She doesn't show it, but she definitely cares a lot for him. Also in "Passion", Emilie left a prerecorded video message where she entrusted Nathalie to take care of her son in her absence, stating she knows Nathalie will take care of him as a mother would. Also in the same episode, he confides in her that he's in love with Marinette and asks her for advise instead of his father.
• Peacock Girl: A given in that she wields the Peacock Miraculous.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Inverted; her bun disappears when she transforms into Mayura, leaving her with short hair.
• Power Trio: She accompanied Gabriel and Emile on their quest through Tibet.
• Pretty in Mink: Mayura's coat is lined with blue fur.
• Prim and Proper Bun: She wears her hair in a neat bun, fitting her organized and no-nonsense personality.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Technically, they're dark pink irises with blue sclera, but they remain eerie and sinister enough to fit this trope.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Downplayed. She abandons Gabriel in "Evolution" after learning he gave up his chance to tell his past self how to fix the Peacock Miraculous in favor of getting another shot to beat Ladybug, but begrudgingly remains for Adrien's sake and after learning her employer is slowly dying from Cataclysm wound.
• Secret-Keeper: She knows what's behind Gabriel's secret wall and knows Hawk Moth's true identity.
• Secretary of Evil: Sort of. She is Gabriel's assistant, she covers for him so he can be Hawk Moth, and as Mayura, she is Hawk Moth's sidekick. However, there is no secretarial work to do for Hawk Moth himself, unless Gabriel is manipulating someone to be akumatized.
• Shipper on Deck: Since Adrien told her about his feelings for Marinette, Nathalie supports and encourages his relationship with her and becomes mad when Gabriel tries to interfere and force his son to get back with Kagami.
• Stealth Pun: Now that she has the Peacock Miraculous, she is a secretary bird.
• Strawman Emotional: Regardless of the image Nathalie projects to the outside world, every decision she makes is impulsive, irrational, and emotion-based. Even her minions are "beautiful" embodiments of pure feeling. Not for nothing is her hair dyed red.
• Subordinate Excuse: "Style Queen" implies and "Stormy Weather 2" confirms that she has feelings for Gabriel, even though she knows he wants to bring his wife back. In fact, his devotion to his wife and his commitment to bringing her back by any means necessary is the whole reason she fell for him in the first place. But he broke her heart in "Evolution" when he placed beating Ladybug ahead of an chance to repair the Peacock Miraclous in the past before Emilie used it, saving both women as consequence.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's aloof and cold, but there are moments when it's obvious she feels bad about Adrien constantly having to deal with a busy schedule and not having his father around. The aforementioned Origins Episode is an example, and the Christmas Special has her try to reason with Gabriel to spend some time with his son.
• Super-Reflexes: Miraculous wielders get superhuman reflexes and agility from their superhero transformations. During any fight, they keep moving all the time and are extremely hard to hit.
• Super-Strength: Miraculous wielders get a notorious strength and stamina's boost when transformed. They aren't slowed down when they carry people while running and jumping, and often lift and throw extremely heavy stuff with relative ease.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • A villainous example. In "Mayura", Nathalie takes up the Peacock Miraculous and becomes the supervillain Mayura.
  • She takes another one in "Félix." She single-handedly fends off Reflekta, Princess Frangance and Lady Wi-Fi, and the three had to gang up on her to finally bring Nathalie down.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Initially, she was just Gabriel's stoic assistant, only concerned with doing her job and occasionally throwing Adrien a bone. In "Catalyst" she openly and eagerly works with Hawk Moth to throw Paris into panic by enhancing his powers, smiling nastily before she gets akumatized.
  • Throughout season 3 she becomes Mayura multiple times times order to help Hawk Moth with his schemes.
  • In "Ladybug" she essentially becomes a murderer after dispelling the Ladybug Sentimonster, who has proved herself and has been accepted by the heroes as a sapient being.
• Unrequited Love: "Stormy Weather 2" confirms that she has a one-sided crush on Gabriel. In "Passion", its implied that she also has feelings for Emilie.
• Weak Boss, Strong Underlings: The Peacock Miraculous fulfills a supporting role (creating minions to aid in battle), but this trope is accentuated by the fact it is damaged, which aggrieves its user with a debilitating, gradual illness. Again, The Dragon Mayura being an adult is the only reason she's not entirely helpless. Fortunately for her, her control over her sentimonsters is more complete than Hawk Moth's over his akumas because she amokizes objects, not people.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: In the alternate future that "Cat Blanc" depicts, Mayura is not involved in the final battle between Hawk Moth and the heroes.
• Willing Channeler: She voluntarily allows Hawk Moth to akumatize her to help him with his evil schemes in "Catalyst", "Ladybug" and "Passion".
• Workaholic: Adrien mentions on his Instagram that he stays home when he's sick because it's the only way to convince Nathalie to do the same.
• Would Hurt a Child: Gets into melee combat with Cat Noir, who she suspects may be a teenager, and Queen Bee, who is unquestionably a teenager.
• You Have Failed Me: Downplayed. Having trusted Nathalie with Emilie's ring, he eventually takes it back in "Represention" as she is no longer acting in his interests since "Protection".
• Your Days Are Numbered: A consequence of using the Peacock Miraculous multiple times throughout the third season, where as Emilie and Colt only used it once and got to live for a few more years. Her overuse of it resulted in her being bedridden in the fifth season with her health deteriorating further. She is given a second chance at life through Gabriel's sacrifice.

Chloé Bourgeois/Queen Bee

Chloé Bourgeois (Queen Bee)

Akumatized forms: Antibug (Chloé), Queen Wasp (Queen Bee), Miracle Queen (Queen Bee), Queen Banana (Chloé), Penalty (Chloé), Sole Destroyer (Chloé), Queen Mayor (Chloé)

^{Click here to see her as Queen Bee.}

Voiced by: Marie Chevalot (FR), Selah Victor (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Jun Hae-Ri/전 해리 (KOR), Einas Sabri (ARA), Ana Esther Alborg (ES), Annie Rojas (MEX), Talya Barkai/טליה ברקאי (HEB), Hermann Lilla (HUN), Milena Suszyńska-Dziuba (P), Maria Camões (EP), Bruna Laynes (BP), Siri Bergsten (SW), Claudia Scarpa (ITA), Johana Krtičková (CZE), Tatjana Etimova/Татяна Етимова (BUL), Gabrielle Pietermann (GER), Arisa Sakuraba (J), Sanja Popović and Ivana Tenjović (SER, usual and one line in "Antibug", respectively), Monika Mihajlović (CRO), Agnes Fasting (NOR)

"Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!"

The daughter of the Mayor of Paris, she goes to school with Marinette and Adrien. Chloé has a huge, shameless crush on Adrien. As a result, he is possibly the only person in the entire school (make that the entire city) that she treats nicely. Everyone else (especially Marinette and Sabrina, Chloé's "best friend", as well as her half sister, Zoé) has suffered from her selfish, vain, domineering, entitled, and petty attitude. However, she idolizes Ladybug, and being one of the only friends Adrien had growing up, it has made it difficult for Adrien to so much as confront her about her nasty attitude.

At the end of "Style Queen", she accidentally gets her hands on the Bee Miraculous and temporarily becomes a bee-themed "superhero" named Queen Bee. She becomes a recurring ally for Team Miraculous, but is eventually suspended for publicly admitting her "secret" identity. Hawk Moth takes advantage of her resentment and entitlement to convince her to defect to his side at the end of "Heart Hunter", and she is stripped of the Queen Bee position permanently. From this point on, she becomes an enemy of Team Miraculous, willingly getting herself and others akumatized on Hawk Moth's behalf to sow chaos throughout Paris, which ultimately culminates in her getting exiled from the city as the most hated person there in "Revolution" after a final defeat.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: To Adrien, who chafes under her affection and fangirling. Immensely ironic, as she isn't much impressed with Cat Noir (his superhero identity).
• Abusive Offspring: Due to her father being a pushover, Chloé treats him like a slave, constantly berating and insulting him.
• Aesop Amnesia:
  • Chloé is the type of person who never truly learns her lesson. Just when she starts to feel bad for causing misery and she makes an effort to improve herself, in her next appearance, she goes back to being a bitch. In the season 3 finale, Ladybug realizes that Chloé will never stop being a horrible person and kicks her off the team.
  • This also works against her as an antagonist. She repeatedly teams up with villains who are far more clever than her and have betrayed her on a number of occasions. Because she is so hyper-fixated on getting what she wants, she ignores these betrayals until it happens again, where they get everything they need out of the deal and leave her to face the consequences alone.
• All for Nothing: By "Revolution", Chloé's karma finally comes crashing down on her after years of bullying other characters and getting away with it: after being permanently replaced as the Bee Miraculous holder by her own half-sister and doubling down on her nastiness, Chloé's akumatization into Queen Mayor turns her into the most hated person in Paris, her father, whom she's been treating like a doormat most of her life, finally grows a spine and disciplines her by sending her away to live with her mother outside of Paris, and Adrien and Sabrina, the two actual friends she had in her life, decide that enough is enough and cut ties with her permanently beforehand. Chloé's basically left all alone with no friends, no power, no influence, and not even a parental figure with her life, as Audrey makes it clear she's not going to make Chloé's stay with her a pleasant experience.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Invoked. In "Derision" she tells Adrien that they belong together because of their money and social status, and that she wishes he was more like her, someone willing to use their money and social status to bully and make fun of "nobodies".
• All Take and No Give: Her friendship with Sabrina in a nutshell, with Chloé as the "take" part of the equation. However, she occasionally subverts this.
• Alpha Bitch: She's catty, petty, mean, and prone to throwing her father's name around to ensure she gets her way. Her outfit is even reminiscent of a bee. It's playing with in that unlike most examples of this trope, she's definitely not popular and pretty much everyone at school hates her for being such a bitch. The only reason she has power over her classmates is because her father is the mayor. When Marinette tries to bluff her way into the hotel where Chloé lives by claiming to be one of her friends, the doorman refuses to admit her on the grounds that Chloé doesn't have any friends.
• Ambiguously Bi: Although she has a crush on Adrien, she's shown to be very close to Sabrina despite their toxic friendship, and her comment to one of Adrien's Instagram posts might raise some questions as well◊.
• Animal Motifs: Bees — She wears a black-striped shirt with a yellow jacket, her bedroom wallpaper has honeycomb-like designs, and she can be considered a queen bee. Fitting given her (temporary) status as the Bee Miraculous holder.
• Annoying Laugh: She has a very annoying, fake-sounding laugh.
• Anti-Hero: While Chloé Bourgeois is a big fan of Ladybug, her rather toxic personality makes her a very poor hero. This is demonstrated in "Queen Wasp", where she tries becoming a superhero with the Bee Miraculous just so she can impress her aloof, emotionally abusive mother by staging a runaway train catastrophe, putting dozens of people in danger in the process. After a heart-to-heart from Ladybug she gets significantly better and proves she can be a team player as Queen Bee, but she's still the most impulsive and arrogant of the group. She loses the Hero part entirely at the end of season 3.
• Anti-Role Model: She is a textbook example of how not to behave in the earlier seasons, and again after her Face–Heel Turn in the season 3 finale.
• Ascended Fangirl: Chloé receives the Bee Miraculous at the end of "Style Queen", albeit by accident. In a later episode, Ladybug chooses Chloé as the one who gets to use the Bee Miraculous of her own volition, though she soon revokes it because Chloé's identity being public knowledge makes her a liability. It doesn't end well.
• Battle Tops: She uses a trompo to fight as Queen Bee.
• Bat Signal: She installed a Bee Signal on top of her house to let Ladybug know she is available to be a hero.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Implied. In a flashback to her early childhood, Chloé's mother unexpectedly left her. This event greatly saddened her, but at some point, she befriended Adrien who complimented her teddy bear, a gift from her mother. This hints that Adrien is Chloé's main Morality Pet because of the fresh kindness he showed to her after her mother's abandonment.
• Betty and Veronica: She's the Veronica to Marinette's Betty for Adrien's Archie. She ends up losing in a grandoise fashion.
• Beyond Redemption: After betraying the heroes to Hawk Moth at the end of Season 3, Marinette loses all hope in trying to redeem her. Throughout Season 4, she loses any heroic traits she displayed earlier and begins doubling down on her toxic behavior, even cutting the closest thing she has to a remaining Morality Pet (Adrien) out of her life. Things get even worse in Season 5 after she forms her alliance with Lila and works with her to ruin Marinette and Ladybug; she throws away any chance of patching things up with Adrien, loses the last friend (Sabrina) she has due to mistreatment and going too far with her schemes, and under Lila's urging and influence, goes on a scorched earth rampage of abusing her power and privilege against her enemies, even pulling a coup d'etat with help from Lila, Gabriel and Tomoe to become Mayor following her father's resignation. This, however, ultimately ends with her being deposed, stripped of all her power, abandoned by her allies, utterly hated by all of Paris, and exiled by her father to a miserable new life with her more tyrannical and controlling mother.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Zig Zagged. Chloé made Marinette's life miserable every chance she gets and ends up being attacked by an Akumatized villian, usually one with a grudge against her, or she becomes one herself with Hawk Moth manipulating her. While she does become the central antagonist in "Revolution", she was ultimately a pawn of the series Big Bads and gets abandoned by them in the end.
• Big Sister Bully: Chloé's cruel behavior extends to her younger half-sister Zoé after the latter decided to drop the Jerkass Façade and befriend Marinette. She refuses to share her luxury with her and constantly tries to send her back to New York.
• Black-and-White Insanity: As seen in "Sole Crusher" and "Derision", Chloé sees the world as two categories of people: the rich people like her who should get everything they're entitled to and the "poor" people like Marinette who only exist to suffer at the expense of the rich people's amusement. The idea of Adrien falling in love with a "baker girl" is something Chloé struggles to comprehend and she ultimately deems him a "traitor".
• Blatant Lies: She enjoys getting her classmates into trouble, and will often accuse them of things she knows they didn't do. She also sometimes lies about being very good friends with Ladybug and Cat Noir.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Chloé is a spoiled, rude teenage girl who believes she is entitled to whatever she wants.
• Break the Haughty:
  • She does not take it well when her idol Ladybug refuses to take her advice during a battle and then calls her a liar, which results in her getting akumatized. When Adrien threatens to end their friendship, however, this time, she's outright shocked and sulking.
  • Her life falls into a downward spiral from the moment she betrays the team to Hawk Moth to obtain the Bee Miraculous. When that plan falls through, she's expelled from the Queen Bee position permanently, and the rest of the class now despise her for her actions. This only drives her to double down on her nastiness, willingly getting herself akumatized to get revenge on Ladybug and allying herself with Lila to make Marinette's life more miserable.
  • The fifth season starts hammering the nail in when Chloé ultimately loses Adrien's friendship after he gave her every chance to redeem herself and realizing she's proud of causing pain to others. Her Only Friend Sabrina soon followed, having tolerated being mistreated for years and Lila being the new bestie but saw Chloé helping Lila sabotage their classmates' futures to hurt Marinette as the last straw as she works with Marinette to expose the scheme. Sabrina's "betrayal" of Chloé effectively and finally destroys their friendship, thus leaving the latter completely friendless, and Ms. Bustier, who had done her best to see the good in Chloé, decides to keep a closer eye on her from then on.
    • In "Collusion" and "Revolution", still in contact with Lila, Chloé goes full-on scorched earth on everyone she feels has wronged her, going as far as to abuse her father's status further to get Ms. Bustier fired simply for trying to reason with her. But her father is shown to have grown tired of appeasing her and others by giving them what they want, and eventually resigns as Mayor. Lila talks Chloé into accepting an offer from Gabriel (who unbeknownst to her, played a big part in her father's resignation) to become interim mayor and outlaws all heroes and villains, but allows herself to be akumatized into "Queen Mayor" in an act of total hypocrisy and uses Gabriel's security robots to capture everyone who has ever got on her bad side while turning her admiration into a regime. She also tricked Ladybug and Cat Noir into using their special abilities to publicly expose their identities and end their hero careers once they de-transform, only for the plan to fall apart when the heroes learned to maintain in their hero forms indefinitely and rally the citizens to fight back. In the end, Chloé is deposed, left universally despised by all of Paris, abandoned by Gabriel and Tomoe (who flee to keep their plans hidden), as well as Lila (who got what she wanted from their arrangement), and loses her mother's respect while being exiled from Paris with her. Looking at her contacts in her Alliance Ring on her way out, rather than call Sabrina to mend things between them, Chloé instead calls Marinette to taunt her about Adrien leaving. But she instead ends up at the receiving end of Marinette's scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech, which finally breaks Chloé's pride and ego.
• Bright Is Not Good: Downplayed. Chloé's main color palette is made of white and yellow, but she is a Spoiled Brat and a remorseless bully instead of being an evil antagonist, at least until the end of Season 3.
• Brutal Honesty: While she is not at all adverse to lying, Chloé is more likely to tell the most blunt and hurtful version of the truth — and that includes what she only believes is the truth.
• Bullying a Dragon: When a supervillain shows up, Chloé will usually insult them. Needless to say, it never ends well for her.
• Bullying the Disabled: In a flashback from "Derision", she's seen making fun of Juleka's stuttering.
• The Bully:
  • "Origins Part 1" shows us that Chloé has been bullying Marinette for at least 4 years^note it's mentioned that they've been in the same class for four years in "Origins", and given that Chloé's awful treatment of Sabrina goes back even further, it's not unreasonable that she's been antagonizing Marinette for the same time span; and this was before Adrien showed up.
  • A staggering proportion of Akumas can be traced directly back to her, and the whole class knows it. Hell, even Hawk Moth knows it, and once sent out an Akuma to simply hang around in Chloé's general vicinity because he knew she was sure to provide him with a suitable victim eventually. Consequently, when a person gets akumatized, their first goal is usually to seek revenge upon Chloé. Laser-Guided Karma? Maybe, but Ladybug always saves her regardless. This is likely at least partially because she doesn't ever do something a sane person would consider worth killing over, but akumatized people are all at least a little crazy.
• Cain and Abel: She's the Cain to her half-sister Zoé's Abel. Despite the latter's best attempts to get along with her, Chloé grows to despise her and tries to get her shipped back to New York. When her father refuses and makes it clear that he won't let Chloé hurt her sister, Chloé furiously declares her hatred of Zoé.
• Card-Carrying Villain: By the time of "Gabriel Agreste", she proudly sees herself as evil. In “Adoration”, she also shamelessly admits to being a bully, calling Marinette an “anti-bullying party pooper”.
• Cassandra Truth: When she tries to tell Ladybug where Vanisher's akuma is, Ladybug doesn't listen to her because she wasn't completely honest with her earlier in the episode.
• Catchphrase Insult:
  • Her main catchphrase is "Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!", which is directed at someone or something. It's implied in "Style Queen" to have been borrowed from her mother.
  • She constantly calls people losers.
• Character Development:
  • In "Despair Bear", Chloé puts a little more effort into treating her classmates decently (albeit with ulterior motives). She also shows more courage than she's shown against other akumas.
  • In "Zombizou" Chloé owns up to her mistake of forgetting Miss Bustier's birthday and not getting her a present. Also, Chloé sacrifices herself to an akuma to allow Ladybug to defeat the Villain of the Week.
  • In "Malediktator", after a disastrous attempt at being a superhero, Chloé creates a video of herself pretending to be Queen Bee and Ladybug. She is laughed out of the class because of it and decides to leave Paris. Later, as a result of the humiliation, she opens up to Ladybug, admitting she knows no one likes her and that she feel useless. Seeing this, Ladybug offers her the Bee Miraculous and a chance to redeem herself... and she shines. Afterwards, Chloé has seemingly Took a Level in Kindness.
  • In "Miraculer", she outright negates the Akuma and shrugs off the Demonic Possession from Hawk Moth's Akuma. You can say whatever you want about her, but in that moment, she was a full-fledged Determinator. She also does something very rare for her when she openly refers to Sabrina as her friend while trying to de-akumatize her.
  • In "Ladybug", when Marinette is framed (by Lila) for stealing answers for a test and also Lila's charm, while Chloé doesn't stand up for Marinette, she also doesn't accuse her nor does she take Lila's side, as opposed to when she instantly accused Marinette of stealing from her in "Rogercop" and tried having her expelled. And when a big number of akumas invade the locker room where everyone's at and possess several people, Chloé instantly shields Sabrina from the Akumas, further showcasing her genuinely caring for Sabrina.
  • In "Heart Hunter" and "Miracle Queen", she proves that character development isn't always for the better. After being suspended from the team due to her identity being public, Hawk Moth convinces her to betray the heroes, and she outs the other temporary Miraculous wielders and cuts ties with Ladybug for good.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: She steals one of Marinette's designs and tries to pass it as her own, not noticing that Marinette had hidden her signature in the design.
• Childhood Friend: Of Adrien. She was one of the few friends he had growing up.
• Childish Older Sibling: Chloé is Zoé's older half-sister and is still a spoiled Kiddie Kid.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: "Collusion" ends with Chloé becoming the Mayor of Paris after her own father resigns, even though she's a 14 year old girl. Fortunately, it doesn't last.
• Class Representative: Downplayed. She becomes Lila's deputy in "Revelation" after they manage to beat Marinette in the new elections for class representative.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Don't even think of pulling the moves on Adrien, as she's not above sabotaging the competition if she needs to. She even goes as far as to willingly akumatize herself after her (prompted by Lila) attempt to make Marinette back off from Adrien by bullying her ends up with herself getting humiliated instead.
• Closet Geek: Chloé adores Ladybug, enough to dress up like her when she is alone in her room. In "Antibug" we find out she runs around her hotel dressed as Ladybug with Sabrina as Cat Noir, pretending to catch one of the butlers they're having pretend to be a villain.
• Co-Dragons: As of "The Battle of Miraculous" she is this to Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch alongside Nathalie Sancoeur, Lila Rossi and Tomoe Tsurugi.
• Color Motifs: Yellow, as she is always seen in her trademark yellow sweater and the color can represent anger, which fits Chloé's antagonistic personality. Also, all of her supervillain identities have yellow skin and a black-and-yellow costume, except Antibug and Sole Destroyer.
• Crocodile Tears: She's big on fake crying - the Bad "Bad Acting" type.
• Daddy's Girl: Chloé is doted on by her father and she genuinely loves him.
• Deal with the Devil: In the season three finale, motivated by her resentment towards Ladybug ignoring her, Chloé makes a deal with Hawk Moth to be akumatized in her parents' place. Then in "Revolution", Chloé cuts a deal with Monarch to use Miraculous powers through her robots, but is unaware of his identity as Gabriel, along with the fact that he and Tomoe are planning to betray her the moment Ladybug and Cat Noir are captured.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Chloé deconstructs a lot of stock mean girl and bully tropes:
  • Chloé Bourgeois is a deconstruction of the Alpha Bitch and Spoiled Brat. Chloé Bourgeois is the rich, beautiful daughter of the Mayor of Paris and exploits her father's authority to get away with almost anything. The only reason she has any power at all in school is because of her father, whom she and her mother pressure into abusing his political power. Unlike most examples of the Alpha Bitch, Chloé's definitely not popular and is pretty much hated by everyone at school. She alienates herself from her classmates with her bossy attitude, bullying nature, and how she gets away with it. Unlike the regular Alpha Bitch, who has her own Girl Posse or group of cool friends, she only has two friends, one of whom she treats as a personal slave. The other is only friends with her because of a mix of pity and the fact she was one of his few childhood friends growing up—but has his limit and one point he threatens to end their friendship unless she shapes up. But she refuses to listen and both friends eventually break ties with her as a result. Another reason why Chloé is unpopular is her immaturity; being used to getting everything she wants when she wants it, and having her father clean up her messes with no consequences, Chloé has no impulse control at all. Even when it's in her best interest to be a little nice, like to get her classmates to like her or to stop people from being akumatized, she can't stop being cruel for not getting her way. "Revolution" takes Chloé's self-destructive choices to their logical conclusion.
  • Chloé also serves as one for the Lovable Alpha Bitch. Season 2 reveals that Chloé has a neglectful mother who she wants to impress. However, even when at her most sympathetic, Chloé remains a Spoiled Brat who causes a lot of akumatizations, and it's increasingly shown that she only wants to be Queen Bee for the fame. When Marinette kicks Chloé off the team for being a liability, she immediately joins forces with Hawk Moth. Just because someone has the potential to become a better person, it doesn't mean that they will, especially if they've spent years being a bully.
  • She also serves as one for The Unchosen One. Season 2 has her become the superhero Queen Bee after gaining the Bee Miraculous. However, she only gained the Bee Miraculous by essentially stealing it, as Marientte never intended to give it to Chloé. Chloé's first outing is a complete and utter disaster, and she ends up exposing her identity. Marientte initially sympathizes with her Freudian Excuse and lets Chloé remain Queen Bee. Regardless of sympathy, Chloé is still a poor superhero, often being The Load in team battles, not thinking how being a publicly known hero could hurt her in long run, and it's made clear that she only likes being Queen Bee for the fame. Marientte realizes that Chloé is a liability and removes her from the team. Though Marientte's heart was in the right place, allowing Chloé to remain Queen Bee was ultimately a Horrible Judge of Character.
  • She also deconstructs characters who repeatedly suffer from Aesop Amnesia and often is a Karma Houdini. Because Chloé often gets away from all the misery and strife she puts upon others, she subsequently never truly learns the lesson that her actions have consequences. This ultimately causes her to receive negative character development and gradually become worse and worse, eventually becoming an outright villain.
• Designated Victim: Not surprising considering the very large amount of Akumas that were created as a result of her Alpha Bitch tendencies.
• Enemy Mine: In "Animaestro", she teams up with her archrival Marinette to sabotage what she thinks is a romantic moment between Adrien and Kagami.
• Entitled Bitch:
  • While she genuinely adored Ladybug (and Cat Noir by extension), she still acts very rude, entitled, and demanding whenever the duo have to protect or rescue her; rudely demands they hurry up whenever she's been targeted by an akumatized victim (that she usually created), complains about rescues she doesn't like, and almost never thanks them afterwards. She also never shows remorse for creating the akumatized victim to begin with (which is often), even when Ladybug calls her out on it, yet feels no shame in demanding Ladybug save her anyway.
  • Her Face–Heel Turn is even caused by this trait, as she feels entitled to the Bee Miraculous and resorts to villainy in order to reclaim it. When she discovers that Ladybug has chosen a new wielder for it, Vesperia, she's furious about being replaced and calls the latter a weak knockoff, believing that she is the only one worthy of the Bee Miraculous.
• Entitled to Have You: Fitting with her Entitled Bitch attitude, Chloé often refers to Adrien as her "boyfriend" despite Adrien clearly saying he thinks of her as a friend, often invades his personal space despite his obvious discomfort, and threatens any would-be romantic interests to stay away from him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Her relationship with her parents is toxic, but Chloé genuinely wants her mother's approval and cares for their safety. One of the conditions of Face–Heel Turn in season 3 finale is having Hawk Moth un-akumatize her parents to take their place as a Miraculous-powered villain.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In "Derision", Chloé is clueless why Adrien, coming from high-class family like herself, is upset over her terrorizing Marinette for years and doesn’t understand why he doesn’t enjoy bullying people beneath their status like she does.
• Evil Is Petty: Not that she wasn't always petty, but after taking a level in jerkass post-Season 3, she truly goes off the rails and becomes dedicated to being as spitefully malicious as possible. This includes going out of her way to ruin Marinette and her classmates' lives just for the Hell of it, becoming more abusive to Sabrina, and willingly getting akumatized repeatedly for trivial reasons (including just because she didn't want to play soccer). After becoming mayor of Paris, she uses her authority and powers granted by Monarch to bully the entire city and toss multiple people (including her father) into "Detention" for the most minor offenses. Even after being stripped of her powers and booted out of Paris, she calls Marinette to torment her about Adrien's unwilling departure as a final act of spite.
• Face–Heel Turn: While it's pretty up in the air whether Chloé ever really was a "good" person, she was undoubtedly making progress up until she willingly allows Hawk Moth to akumatize her and turns against the heroes.
• Fallen Heroine: Chloé was never a saint by any stretch of the imagination, but she falls very far from grace when she betrays the heroes and exposes them to Hawk Moth. Doesn’t help that she is remorseless and continues to act like an Entitled Bitch.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Selfishness. It's what causes a number of Akumatizations and why many people don't like her. Even in her debut as Queen Bee, despite wanting to impress her mother, she chose to risk the safety of train passengers so she could rescue them. This and her refusal to return the Bee Miraculous makes Ladybug furiously chase her down to get it back and makes her a laughingstock on the news.
  • Entitlement. Her stubborn belief that the Bee Miraculous is hers and hers alone ultimately leads her to betray Ladybug out of frustration, willingly allow herself to be akumatized, reveal the other Miraculous holders' identities, and try to kill Ladybug and Cat, all to keep her Miraculous. This costs her the privilege of being Queen Bee permanently and be replaced by Vesperia.
  • Impulsiveness. Chloé repeatedly makes poor impulsive decisions that negatively effects others. And as a result of her other flaws, aside from not learning the consequences of her actions, she continues to act impulsively and foolishly.
• Fearless Fool: Unless danger is right in front of her nose, Chloé is blind to her own mortality. Combined with her obsession with Ladybug, Chloé will usually leap into the centre of danger to get close to her idol when the smart thing to do would be running.
• Foil:
  • To Marinette — Marinette is clumsy and shy when it comes to her crush on Adrien, but she is a good friend and a humble, nice girl; Chloé is vain, rude, and treats her friend Sabrina like a servant, but she is also very straightforward in love. As Queen Bee, she has more than a few similarities to Ladybug. She is a black and Primary-Color Champion with a bug-based Animal-Themed Superbeing whose weapon is a string-drawn toy that allows her to travel via propulsion (her spinning top) and her miraculous can be considered a predominantly feminine accessory (a comb) with a feminine kwami (Pollen). While it is shown that she has improved as a hero in "Malediktator", her moral compass is still much more questionable than Marinette's.
  • To Adrien — Both of them are Marinette's wealthy, blond classmates with a Missing Mom who have some kind of relationship with Marinette. Adrien is a Nice Guy who has had a restrictive life because of his smothering father, he is (unknowingly) in love with Marinette as Ladybug, but even in her civilian ego, he considers her a friend; Chloé is a Spoiled Brat jerkass who has more freedom than is healthy for her due to having an overly doting father; and she absolutely loathes Marinette, with the Origins episodes revealing she bullied Marinette four years prior to the story.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Unlike the other miraculous holders, Chloé was never intended to be given the Bee Miraculous. Her first outing as Queen Bee is an unmitigated disaster where she attempts to create a situation where she could play hero and publicly outs her secret identity. This foreshadows how Chloé is unfit to be a superhero. It also hints to the reason behind her eventual Face–Heel Turn, as Chloé only really wants to be Queen Bee for the fame.
  • Marinette only allows Chloé to remain Queen Bee due to sympathizing with her Freudian Excuse. How many fans felt this explanation was insufficient to allow her remaining a superhero considering her actions during the first outing and her being an unrepentant bully for years. She was often seen as Unintentionally Unsympathetic. Indeed, after Chloé's Face–Heel Turn, Word of God would state that this was an Intentional Audience Reaction, and that Marinette allowing Chloé to remain Queen Bee was a Horrible Judge of Character.
  • In "Stormy Weather 2", she declares "Once a villain, always a villain!" She's not talking about Aurore, she ends up referencing herself in the long run.
• Frame-Up: She frames Marinette in multiple episodes of different misdemeanors and even crimes such as starting a fire alarm, theft, faking school forms and physical assault.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Early in Season 2, it's implied that Chloé needs to be the center of attention because her mother left when she was little, and she hasn't had emotional growth since. A seeming throwaway line in "Zombizou" supports this even further: Chloé gets surprisingly defensive when Sabrina mentions her mom. Season 3 onwards displays that Chloé is a mean regardless of her mommy issues. Even Mylène states in "Derision" that Chloé being abandoned by her mom when she was little doesn't justify her constant bullying of Marinette.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Not one of her classmates genuinely likes Chloé due to her bullying nature and how she gets away with it. The only exceptions are Adrien and Sabrina, but even they have their limits with her bratty behavior — Adrien (with more and more Character Development) expresses his dislike over Chloé's personality while Sabrina has moments where she bites back at Chloé. By the end of "Confrontation", both of them have ended their friendships with Chloé and by the end of "Revolution" the entirety of Paris has come to despise her after her brief term as interim mayor.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: In Chloé's penthouse, a teddy bear and a giant ladybug can be found on her bed. Her absolute favorite childhood toy is a yellow teddy bear named Mr. Cuddly.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She is mostly a spoiled rich girl who is very clingy around her crush Adrien. However, in early seasons, she wants to be a superhero like her idol Ladybug, secretly imitating Ladybug's moves when she's alone, and in the episode "Frightningale", she is shown to be a very skilled gymnast who's able to do acrobatics.
• Glory Hound: As Queen Bee, she's willing to endanger an entire subway train full of civilians so she can get glory as a superhero and impress her mother. Word of God states that Chloé's heroic actions are only for the fame; "She doesn't do good things to be altruistic, but to receive recognition."
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Has a one-sided one with her maternal half-sister Zoé. Chloé is the prissy, stuck-up, fashionable one while Zoé is more artistic and down-to-earth. Zoé wants to get along with her sister, but Chloé refuses unless Zoé does exactly as she tells her. When Zoé ultimately decides to be her own person rather than bend to her sister's whims, Chloé angrily declares that they'll never get along.
• Godzilla Threshold: Becomes this later in Season 3. Because her identity has been blown, Hawk Moth has Mayura ready to steal the Bee Miraculous in case Ladybug asks for her help. Because Ladybug knows this, she only resorts to asking her help when her group is really outmatched.
• Goggles Do Nothing: She always wears sunglasses on top of her head, but she's hardly ever seen actually using them. Averted, however, in "Malidictator" and "Reverser", where she is seen wearing them.
• Gold Digger: She states in "Dark Cupid" that she likes the fact Adrien is rich. And in "Princess Fragrance", she also hit on Prince Ali, who's wealthy as well. It's a bit odd considering that Chloé herself is already a billionaire.
• Good Feels Good: She confesses to Ladybug that she loved serving a purpose greater than her own whims. It doesn't last.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She especially becomes one once Adrien's relationship with Marinette takes off, as seen in "Cat Blanc" and "Deflagration".
• Hard Truth Aesop:
  • Chloé's character arc has the moral of "Sometimes, giving someone the benefit of the doubt is the wrong choice and second chances only work if the person is willing to become a better person". Marinette allowing Chloé to remain Queen Bee because of her Freudian Excuse would, in many other shows, be the start of Chloé's redemption arc. But since Chloé has been an unrepentant bully for years and almost never learns her lesson, it plays a key factor in her Face–Heel Turn. Chloé becomes entitled to being Queen Bee for the fame instead of actually helping people, and when the privilege is revoked for entirely understandable reasons, she immediately sides with Hawk Moth.
  • Redemptions don't always work out. Sometimes, even if someone has the potential to be a better person, they can still slip back into their bad habits.
  • Sometimes spoiling a child is the worst thing a parent can do. While the show acknowledges that Audrey's mistreatment of Chloé is a large part of why she's the way that she is, it's shown that André only reinforces that bad behavior rather than making an effort to correct it. Chloé is so spoiled that she lacks empathy, and most of her Pet the Dog moments usually revolve around her in some way (i.e, her attempting to be nicer in "Despair Bear" is due to Adrien threatening to end their friendship, and her wanting to be Queen Bee is more for the fame as opposed to helping others).
• Hates My Secret Identity: She absolutely loathes Marinette but is a huge fan of Ladybug, at least until she betrays her in the season 3 finale.
• Hated by All: Since she bullies almost everyone she meets, Chloé is despised by all of her classmates except Adrien and Sabrina, and by the end of Derision, Adrien ends his friendship with Chloé for refusing to give up her bullying ways and he now hates her, too. In "Malediktator", Mr. Damocles, Mr. Haprèle, and Chloé’s classmates (except Adrien) even throw a party to celebrate after she tells them she’s moving to New York. In "Revolution", she earned the ire of every Parisan before being exiled.
• Hate Sink: Oh, boy. Chloé is truly a nasty piece of work. Her actions include stealing someone else's design in a contest, breaking other people's possessions (while blaming everyone else), and using her father's status to get others into trouble. She is also very clingy towards Adrien, who clearly doesn't return her affections. Worst so far is how she treated Kim. After he confessed to her on Valentine's Day, she sent out a picture of him being rejected to everyone in their class for no reason other than to humiliate him. Add this to her nasty treatment of Marinette on a regular basis (revealed in "Origins Part 1" to have been going on for at least four years), and it's easy to see why she's so hated. Even Word of God confirmed that she's supposed to be this trope together with Lila Rossi. This appeared to start changing in the second season onwards when she gets a Freudian Excuse, demonstrates she has some standards, steps up as a more heroic character and Lila quickly demonstrates she is a much greater evil. But she ultimately goes back to being this in the Season 3 finale, when she betrays the heroes and joins Hawk Moth, with official statements confirming that the redemption tease was always a fake-out as Chloé refuses to change her ways. Season 4 just reinforces her as this, as she's shown as a sadistic person willing to murder people in order to save herself ("Sole Crusher", "Optigami") or even over some minor inconveniences ("Penalteam"). Even the other Hate Sink, Lila, notices this and exploits her under the guise of an evil alliance in Season 5 that ends with Chloé becoming utterly hated by everyone in Paris.
• Heel–Face Turn: Subverted. In seasons 2 and 3 she shows signs of character development toward being a better person as a holder of the Bee Miraculous and makes valuable contributions on occasion as a hero. But she's only ever in it for her own ego, and the minute she realizes Ladybug isn't going to give her the Miraculous again she turns heel again hard.
• Hero's Evil Predecessor: She's this to Zoé, being the previous holder of the Bee Miraculous before betraying the group and joining Hawk Moth, leading to Ladybug expelling her from the team and permanently removing her miraculous. She's extremely bitter upon learning someone else (unknowingly her half-sister) has taken her position as holder of the Bee Miraculous.
• Her Own Worst Enemy: Chloé's selfishness, warped sense of entitlement, impulsiveness, and inability to learn her lesson are ultimately the biggest reasons she can never be liked by anyone or trusted to be a hero. It was only a matter of time before she fell from grace, earning her status as the most hated person in all of Paris. By the time she is exiled from Paris near the end of the fifth season, Chloé has pretty much lost everything as a result of her self-destructive attitude and actions.
• Heroic Bystander: Gradually evolves into one. In "Startrain", although she doesn't have a Miraculous, she manages to help out by getting everyone's attention and calmly warning them of the Akuma in their midst.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In "Zombizou", in one of the very rare moments of genuine goodness from Chloé, she lets herself be infected by a brainwashed Cat Noir coming Ladybug's way in order to save her, as even she knows that Ladybug's the only person capable to save everyone.
• Heroic Willpower: In "Miraculer", she becomes the first person to ever reject an Akuma, regardless of it happening before or after being fully transformed.
• Hero with an F in Good: Chloé's arrogance, mixed with her general lack of experience and the fact that she's mostly interested in using her heroic status to win her mother's affection and become famous, makes for a pretty terrible superhero. She largely gets over this in "Malediktator" where she becomes much more competent after swallowing her pride, though she's still far from perfect. She loses the "Hero" part completely by the season 3 finale.
• Hidden Depths:
  • She finally gets some in "Despair Bear". When her childhood stuffed bear is given to her by her butler, she remembers her childhood as a little girl, where we see her playing with Adrien, being given the teddy bear by her father, watching her mother leave, and crying her eyes out while clutching the teddy close to her. Adrien himself has stated that she can be nice at times, though she probably has trouble showing it.
  • "Frightningale" shows that Chloé is a very skilled dancer and gymnast, which she attributes to her father being able to hire very good teachers for her. Had she refrained from her usual clinginess around Adrien (and therefore avoided enraging Marinette), she could have gotten the part, as she was on a level above the other auditionees (not that that's saying much).
  • "Malediktator" reveals that she's fully aware that people don't like her and is one of the reasons she wanted to leave Paris with her mother.
  • Despite her clingy treatment of him, a few episodes make it clear that Chloé really does care about Adrien and values her friendship with him.
• Hopeless Suitor: She has a crush on Adrien, but he doesn't see her as anything more than a friend. He takes her constant physical affection in stride, but sometimes he is just embarrassed.
• Hotel Hellion: Chloé lives in the luxury hotel her father owns, and often has the staff on his payroll participate in her Ladybug LARPing.
• Hypocrite:
  • In "Oblivio" she laughs at Alya and Nino for playing Super Penguino, even though Sabrina reveals later in the same episode that they also play the same video game together.
  • In "Stormy Weather 2", while picking on Aurore, she says "Once a villain, always a villain" due to her being akumatized before. She conveniently forgets that not only has she herself been akumatized three times by this point, everyone in the conversation other than Marinette has been akumatized at least once.
  • Throughout season 5 she keeps blaming Ladybug for "selling Paris over to the villains", something she claims Queen Bee would've never allowed to happen, even though that's exactly what she did as Queen Bee in "Miracle Queen" and did again as Queen Mayor in "Revolution".
    • In "Revolution", she called out Adrien for cluelessly following his dad without question. But she also happens to be a pawn to both Adrien's dad (as Monarch) and Lila.
• Icy Blue Eyes: She has blue eyes and is a spoiled, bullying jerkass.
• I Just Want to Be Special: As shown in "The Queen's Fight," thanks to her abusive mother, Chloé believes deep down that she's an unexceptional person, and all her ploys for attention are desperate attempts to prove she's special. Her desperately wanting to be the hero eventually leads her to join Hawk Moth in order to remain Queen Bee. It ultimately costs her being Queen Bee instead.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Chloé is selfish and narcissistic, but as shown in "Malediktator", her lack of friends aside from Adrien and Sabrina and how everyone on the school hates her makes her feel useless. Chloé also did initially want to be a hero alongside Ladybug and felt the need because she was insecure, but her flaws were stronger. Her selfishness, narcissism, and inability to acknowledge her faults or handle rejection poison her insecurities and warp them into entitlement; she should be the only Miraculous Holder.
• Irony:
  • She adores Ladybug (or at least used to), someone she unknowingly makes miserable on a daily basis at school.
  • Her claim of "Once a villain, always a villain" to Aurore also applies to herself come the season 3 finale and the seasons that followed.
  • Chloé had twice wanted to previously move to New York with her mother to get away from her troubles, but was unable to do so either time due to unforeseen circumstances. But the opportunity to leave with Audrey opens up again in "Revolution", just not as the happy occurrence she had hoped for due to her mother being upset over her tarnishing the Bourgeois family name during her short-lived regime. It's also worth noting that for all of her attempts to exile her sister Zoé back to New York, Chloé ends up being the one exiled in the end.
  • Chloé had tried for years to leave Marinette friendless, break her spirit, and ruin her life with her bullying. By the end of "Revolution", as Marinette scathingly points out, her own actions have left her as the one with no friends, her spirit broken, and her life ruined.
  • During her time as a hero, Chloé was frustrated about rarely being given the Bee Miraculous due to her identity being publicly known, and grew too impatient and resentful of this. Ironically, her actions and betrayal at the end of season 3 sets off a chain of events that results in Marinette eventually giving all the Miraculous to their holders permanently, with Chloé not being one of them.
• It's All About Me: She's affronted when other people don't take notice of her and her opinions. It's what ultimately has her join forces with Hawk Moth, when Ladybug won't give her back the Bee Miraculous for a while.
• Jerkass: She's a spoiled, spiteful, egotistical bully and she gets even worse after season 3.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Downplayed. Chloé has brought good points on certain subjects from time to time, but it is dependent on the situation and the circumstances surrounding it.
  • While having Alya suspended in "Lady Wifi" was clearly overkill, Alya did take a photo of her locker without her permission.
  • During the battle against Vanisher, she turns out to be correct when she tells Ladybug the location of Vanisher's akuma, but Ladybug ignores her. The issue was when she was questioned, she lied by omission that she was responsible for Vanisher's akumatization, and recklessly tried to involve herself in the fight when she had no combat capabilities.
  • She called Ladybug out for continuously picking other heroes over her throughout Season 3. While it's understandable for her to be upset, she put herself in that situation by publicly outing her identity, which made her liability for heroics that Hawk Moth and Mayura exploited.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: While she was always a mean, selfish Alpha Bitch, she seems to slowly get better in Season 2. Then she betrays the other heroes by revealing the identities of the temporary Miraculous Holders and joining Hawk Moth at the end of Season 3.
• Karma Houdini: While she's often the butt of jokes caused by the Akumatized villain, she's seemingly never been punished by the school for her often downright malicious actions. This is somewhat justified by the fact that she's the mayor's daughter and throws his position around in order to get her way. One particularly egregious example includes her getting caught stealing Marinette's hat design red-handed, by one of the few people who have enough influence to not be intimidated by the mayor, Adrien's father. She also never gets punished for falsely accusing Marinette for stealing her bracelet and attempting to have her arrested, despite a police officer who nearly got fired because of her antics discovering the bracelet in her purse later on. The most egregious instance is in "Queen Wasp", where she gets away with paralyzing a subway driver, endangering dozens of innocent lives, just so she can play hero. "Despair Bear" kinda subverts this, however, when Chloé goes too far and makes a prank call to the fire department because Marinette and her dad were the center of attention, resulting in Adrien threatening to end their friendship. Seasons 4 and 5 deconstruct this by showing that being completely insulated from consequences has only emboldened her and caused her to escalate her malicious behavior, starting with her Face–Heel Turn.
• Karma Houdini Warranty:
  • After her Face–Heel Turn in the season 3 finale, Chloé loses the Queen Bee position permanently and finds that since her parents have reconciled, she's stuck in Paris, where most of the people she knows have come to despise her. In "Queen Banana", Adrien loses his patience with her antics and tells her to apologize to their class, where she angrily renounces their friendship and leaves her with just a single "friend" in Sabrina.
  • After spending years thriving on her family's power and connections to make people miserable, and keep herself out of trouble for it, Chloé is finally hit with all the bad karma she's put out in the fifth season. "Derision" and "Confrontation" have Adrien and Sabrina both renounce their friendships with Chloé for the lengths she's gone to break Marinette. Then in "Collusion" and "Revolution", after abusing her privilege to get her teacher fired and then abusing her position as mayor, Chloé becomes universally hated by the entirety of Paris, is abandoned by her allies, and personally exiled by her former pushover father to live with her self-absorbed mother (who blames her for their family name being ruined and vows to take control of her life) after losing said position and all other power. The final nail is Chloé's once-favorite punching bag Marinette, whom she tried to break for years, giving her a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech that breaks her spirit.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: In most of the episodes Chloé appears in, she gets menaced by a supervillain or suffers some other misfortune, but she deserves every bit of it since she constantly bullies people. In fact, many akumatized villains attack her because she bullied them when they were a civilian, which led to them getting akumatized in the first place.
• Kick the Dog: She is responsible for the Akumatization of at least 20 people due to bullying them until they reach their breaking point. On a more consistent basis, she treats her closest friend Sabrina like dirt.
• Kick the Morality Pet: In "Despair Bear", Adrien makes Chloé promise to be nicer otherwise they can't be friends, which works for a while. However, in "Queen Banana", she gets furious when Adrien asks her to apologize and ends their friendship.
• Kiddie Kid: With her spoiled attitude, bad temper, and lack of any work ethic, Chloé acts more like a kindergartener than a middle schooler. This is especially prominent in the episode "Despair Bear," where she cuddles with her childhood teddy bear and sucks her thumb when Adrien threatens to stop being her friend.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Chloé regularly misuses her wealth and connections to torment those less-privileged than her, outright stating in "Derision" that she believes having power is worthless if you can't use to abuse those below you. Come "Revolution", not only has Chloé lost all her power and privileges precisely because of her wanton abuse of it, but she's now under the control of her equally cruel mother, who makes it clear she's not going to be lenient with her.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Very downplayed, but "Despair Bear" and "Zombizou" show that she does have a heart very deep down, sowing the seeds for this trope, as does her later heroic stint as Queen Bee. Subverted hard by the end of Season 3, where she's revealed to be a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk.
• Manipulative Bitch: In "Derision", Chloé is revealed to have talked Kim into pulling a trauma-inducing prank on Marinette.
• Mean Boss: Her nastiness is only compounded by how poorly she treats the help; "Despair Bear" reveals that she doesn't even care to learn her butler's name even if he's been around since her childhood. She also acts like a mean boss to her sidekick, Sabrina, who she usually treats more like a slave than a friend.
• Meaningful Name: "Bourgeois" is a French word used to designate a well-off person. Nowadays, it's often used with a pejorative connotation, implying that the person is arrogant and scorns others because of his/her wealth. Fitting for a wealthy Alpha Bitch.
• Misaimed Fandom: In-Universe, it's implied that she admires Ladybug and Cat Noir more because they're powerful and popular than because they're heroes. Her attempts at "heroism" end up giving her cover to indulge her attention-seeking tendencies and ego, while being hailed as a hero for opposing Hawk Moth. Ultimately, Chloé's inability to grasp the real reasons why the heroes are so admired end up torpedoing her career as Queen Bee even before she joins Hawk Moth's side.
• Moral Myopia: Chloé does appear to understand the difference between right and wrong...when it applies to other people. Applied to herself, Chloé's ethics diminish into "Bad and Good for Me." Justified because it is implied Chloé has been raised to believe that the wealthy and powerful are Above Good and Evil.
• Motor Mouth: She's written to be the most annoying bully one can perceive and hope to never meet in real life because whenever she's on-screen, she pretty much never stops talking, and what comes out of her mouth is nothing but her narcissism.
• Narcissist: She's obsessed with looking good, but this unfortunately doesn't extend to caring that she's hurting other people in the process. Hell, her idea of an art masterpiece is a selfie collage about herself. Further confirmed in "Heart Hunter" when the titular villain refutes her claim of not loving anyone with "You love yourself".
• Nerves of Steel: Surprisingly. She's the target of a lot of villains' ire, but more often than not she'll talk back to them and maintain her haughty air, sometimes treating her grim predicament as a minor annoyance.
• Never My Fault:
  • She tends to be the cause of so many of her classmates getting akumatized. These include mocking Nathaniel for having a crush on Marinette, cruelly rejecting Kim's love confession and then taking a picture of his humiliation, and dropping Alix's family heirloom. Granted, that last one was an accident, but she refuses to apologize for any of those scenarios, since from her point of view, she did nothing wrong.
  • Finally averted at the end of "Zombizou", where she admits to forgetting Miss Bustier's birthday and sabotaging Marinette's gift out of jealousy.
  • While it takes some prodding from Ladybug, she also averts it in "Malediktator", admitting that she was to blame for her father's Akumatization.
  • Taken to egregious levels when she grows impatient about receiving the Bee Miraculous, willingly sides with Hawk Moth to get it, and initially ruins all the other temporary heroes chances of returning in the process. She refuses to acknowledge that she willingly outed herself to the public (even if to impress her mother), which allowed her to be exploited and left her loved ones endangered. She views it as Ladybug “betraying” her, when in reality Ladybug is trying to protect her and it's entirely Chloé’s own fault she’s never going to be Queen Bee again.
  • She's furious that Ladybug would dare choose a new Bee Miraculous holder over her, completely ignoring the above and she still claims it Ladybug and Vesperia's fault that she can't use her Miraculous anymore.
• Nobody Touches the Hair: Chloé is extremely protective of her blonde locks, to the point that her idea of a worst case scenario is a bad hair day. Just to put it into perspective, she lives in a world where magical supervillains are real. And a large majority of them have a personal grudge against her specifically.
• No Sense of Personal Space: She can get very clingy, especially with Adrien.
• No Social Skills: It's easy to miss because she is a villainous example, but having "throw your weight around" as her hammer and an inability to recognize social cues all display that Chloé has no idea how to interact with real people.
• Not Brainwashed : As of the season 3 finale she doesn't shy away from embracing the Akuma's powers of her own free will.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: For the first few seasons, she's an obnoxious, hateful asshole but still ultimately just a school bully, doing things like ruining school photo days and getting people unfair detentions. Even when she's the villain of the week, she's more of a pawn for more intelligent foes. However, for all she's petty and not that bright, she's still very capable of doing real damage, nearly taking over the city with an army of mind-controlled miraculous holders and actually taking over the city with an army of robots.
• Only Friend:
  • Was this to Adrien before he started attending public school. This is the main reason—if not the only reason—why he still maintains a friendship with her, despite often being disgusted by her behavior. Him threatening to end it after she makes a prank call to the fire department actually leaves her speechless, and causes her to try being nice to people in an effort to fix it. While this threat seems to work for a short time, it ultimately comes crashing down in season 4, when in "Queen Banana", Adrien asks Chloé to apologize for her behavior towards the other students, reminding her of the promise she made to him. She angrily refuses, declaring their friendship to be over. Adrien later renounces any chance at reconciliation in "Derision" when she refuses to make amends with Marinette for her bullying.
  • She states that she's this to Sabrina, saying that if it weren't for her, Sabrina would have no friends at all, which is probably why the latter allows herself to be treated as a servant. In reality, the deeply toxic nature of their relationship is why Sabrina is socially isolated. Averted starting in "Confrontation" after Sabrina finally goes against her and exposes her and Lila's scheme, resulting in the end of their friendship.
  • She becomes Lila's only "friend" to be aware of her wicked nature (which is exactly the reason why she's friends with her in the first place). However, this friendship is clearly only for the benefit of the girls' own shared wicked goals as neither expresses any affection or feeling for the other. In "Revolution", when the tide turns against them, Lila abandons Chloé; to protect herself and focus on her own goals, leaving her to be de-akumatized, deposed, and exiled from Paris.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Played straight in "The Collector", as Chloé cries for the first time when Gabriel threatens to take Adrien away from school.
  • Downplayed, but the fact she actually goes out of her way to try and be nice to others so as to repair the relationship between her and Adrien tells you how much she values it.
  • She shields Sabrina from the Akuma in "Ladybug". It's both an indicator of how dire she realizes the situation is, it's one of the rare times she does a genuinely heroic thing with no expectation of attention.
  • Recieving a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Marinette while being sent away from Paris for her actions in "Revolution" causes her to cry, having an apparent Heel Realization with the knowledge that her actions have ensured that things will never go back to the way they were.
• Out of Focus: In the first half of Season 2; she does get some much-needed Character Development in "Despair Bear," but that's followed by a long stretch of episodes in which she's barely present.
• Pet the Dog: She shields Sabrina from the akuma in ''LadyBug'', it's one of the rare times she does a genuinely selfless deed.
• The Paralyzer: As Queen Bee, her special power is Venom, which allows her to temporary paralyze a person. As Queen Wasp, this power is enhanced by having her control a swarm of wasps instead of just using her weapon and she can use it multiple times instead of just once. This power is once again enhanced as Miracle Queen, where she can not only paralyze people with her swarm of wasps, but also mind control them.
• Picky Eater: Refuses to touch any food considered "common", such as pizza.
• Plastic Bitch: Implied. She's a Rich Bitch and people accusing her looks of being plastic surgery is apparently a Berserk Button for her.
• The Poorly Chosen One: While she's a competent enough fighter, her massive ego and desire for attention lead her to blow her identity, making it too dangerous to both her and the Bee Miraculous to continue letting her be Queen Bee. She outright turns coat in order to keep the Bee Miraculous for herself.
• Privileged Rival: To Marinette, being the rich daughter of the mayor in contrast to Marinette being a baker's daughter. She makes it no secret that she looks down on Marinette for her lower societal status. This also applies to their rivalry over Adrien's affections, as Chloé views a mere "baker girl" as beneath Adrien's standards and herself as a more deserving candidate.
• Privilege Makes You Evil: Her lavish and spoiled upbringing has left her with massive feelings of entitlement and the view that those less fortunate exist only to be taken advantage of or to suffer for her amusement.
• Prophetic Names: Chloé's name comes from an Ancient Greek word meaning "sprout." The ultimate fate of a sprout is to bloom and grow into a plant, foreshadowing her Character Development from a puerile bully to a hero. But ultimately Averted.
• Properly Paranoid: Chloé initially rejects Monarch's offer of an alliance, since he left her high and dry while she was Sole Destroyer. But is talked into it by Lila.
• Punny Name: Chloé - a stuck up, arrogant jerkass who frequently uses the privilege of her social status to get out of trouble - has the surname "Bourgeois."
• Put on a Bus: She leaves Paris in shame together with her mother by the end of "Revolution".
• Rage Quit: She attempts to do this at the end of season 3 after being clearly outed as a turncoat to Hawk Moth's side, claiming she will go join her mother in New York to get away from Ladybug... Only to find her mother isn't going back to New York as she's rekindled her relationship with her husband, the Mayor. Chloé is pissed at this, to say the least.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She ends up on the receiving end of one from Marinette during her final attempt to bully her over Adrien's departure in "Revolution": Marinette completely shuts her down and tells 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.
  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.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: During her stint as Queen Bee, she's a superheroine, but she's still a jerkass Alpha Bitch and an entitled brat. Ultimately, Hawk Moth preys upon her not-quite overcomed flaws to convince her to turn on Ladybug.
• Refused by the Call: Chloé was never meant to receive the Bee Miraculous, but discovered it when Ladybug dropped it in "Style Queen". In the follow-up episode "Queen Wasp", she reveals her identity as a Miraculous-wielder by transforming in public. While Ladybug lends it back for temporary use in "Malediktator" and "Heroes Day", "Miraculer" reveals that the heroes have agreed that Chloé's lack of a Secret Identity has made her and her loved ones a target for the villains, and they basically bar her from the team. Chloé doesn't take this well upon being told, leading her to make a Face–Heel Turn in order to remain Queen Bee.
• Reluctant Retiree: She resents her unwanted retirement so much that she even joins Hawk Moth when he offers her "her" Bee Miraculous. As a consequence, she loses it for good.
• The Resenter:
  • Ladybug continues to ignore Chloé's offers to help, since using her as hero could risk Chloé being exploited by the villains (which is indeed Hawk Moth's plan). Overtime, Chloé grows more and more frustrated. When Ladybug finally makes it clear that it would be too dangerous for her to become Queen Bee again, she alienates her so much that she even rips her photo with Ladybug apart and declares that she doesn't want to play as Ladybug anymore. In the end her anger becomes so great that she betrays Ladybug and joins Hawk Moth.
  • Despite Zoé's numerous attempts to get along with her estranged sister, Chloé repeatedly refuses any efforts to get along with her unless she follows her orders. As Zoé continues to grow closer to her new classmates and receives recognition for her acting talents, Chloé becomes furious that her "loser half-sister" is getting more attention than her. These feelings of jealousy ultimately lead to her being akumatized again in "Queen Banana", compounded even further when she learns that her former role as the Bee Miraculous holder has been taken up by Vesperia (who unbeknownst to her, is her sister).
  • Taken to even greater lengths in season 5 when Chloé keeps telling everyone, including Ladybug herself, that she's the one responsible for losing all the other Miraculous from the Miracle Box for not allowing Queen Bee to remain a hero.
• Rich Bitch: Her father is the mayor of Paris as well as a prominent hotelier, and she treats all her peers as if they are beneath her.
• Royal Brat: While she's not actual royalty, her father is the mayor of Paris, so she is often referred to as a princess. And she's as bratty as they come.
• Sadist: "Sole Crusher" makes it clear she takes genuine joy out of making other people miserable, believes Marinette only exists to entertain her with her suffering, and actively plots ways to hurt Marinette.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Chloé is the mayor's daughter, and gleefully exploits this fact to its fullest potential.
• Secret Identity:
  • Defied Trope. She proudly proclaims to the world that she is Queen Bee the second she gets a chance. Nadja even lampshades it by noting her "not-so-secret identity".
  • This actually gets her in trouble in "Miraculer". With her identity being public knowledge, Hawk Moth and Mayura are able to plan around her insecurities by sending Lila in to make her vulnerable to being akumatized. It is noted at the end of the episode that letting her continue to be Queen Bee is probably too much of a gamble.
• Security Blanket: Mr. Cuddly, her favorite teddy bear. As a child, she used to hug it whenever she felt upset or sad. Even now, the plushie still means a lot to her, though she's understandably embarrassed when her classmates find out.
• Selective Obliviousness: Despite her callous Alpha Bitch attitude, it is implied that Chloé keeps insisting that "everyone just loves her" in "Evillustrator" (and again in "Antibug") because she genuinely believes it. Eventually subverted in "Malediktator" where she admits that she's aware that nobody likes her and wants to leave Paris because of it.
• Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: She'll tell anyone that's listening that Adrien is her boyfriend, even when Adrien himself doesn't agree.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Her half-sister Zoé is much nicer than her.
• Smug Super: As Queen Bee and Queen Wasp, her Alpha Bitch personality remains intact, to the point where she considers herself better than Ladybug and Cat Noir, despite the latter two having a better superheroing track record. In "Miraculer", her pride as a superhero is so great it causes her to resist Hawk Moth's attempt to akumatize her.
• Skewed Priorities: When about to be boiled alive in "Kung Food," she complains about her hair and clothes becoming greasy. Lampshaded when Kung Food tells her it's the least of her worries.
• Smug Snake: Chloé is a bully and acts very smug when mocking people.
• Spoiled Brat: She's very used to getting her way because of her father's influence, and is prone to throwing tantrums or doing petty things if she doesn't. Hawk Moth takes advantage of this in the season 3 finale to turn her over to his side.
• Stupid Evil: Downplayed by the evil part (before her Face–Heel Turn), and played completely straight by the stupid part. She's a jerkass whose constant acts of petty spite and cruelty have gotten more people akumatized than any one person, yet she never changes her ways even out of self-preservation.
• Teens Are Monsters: An Alpha Bitch and Spoiled Brat whose entitlement issues led her to willingly aid a magical terrorist and try to get people killed over petty reasons.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: After Ladybug takes back the Bee Miraculous from Chloé and tells her she’s never going to give it to her again, Chloé decides that if Ladybug won’t let her be a superhero, she’ll stop making any effort to be good and go back to bullying people and doing whatever she wants, acting even worse than before and becoming a Card-Carrying Villain.
• Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed at first. While she's not evil, Chloé is the only jerkass student (if not with Sabrina) in the class (at least until Lila comes). She's also this with the heroes, being the "Token Jerkass Teammate" to their Ideal Heroes. It's both played straight and dropped after the season 3 finale, in which she becomes a full on villain but is also ousted from the team.
• Too Dumb to Live: Whenever Chloé encounters a supervillain, she’ll usually treat them with the same disrespect that she treats everyone with, no matter how many times it backfires on her.
• Took a Level in Badass: In "Despair Bear", she actually helps Ladybug take down the akuma instead of running in fear. Ladybug even refers to her as her and Cat's sidekick. She even saves Ladybug from being hit by a Cataclysm from a mind-controlled Cat Noir, by grabbing Cat's belt and pulling him back at exactly the right moment. She eventually becomes even more so upon getting her hands on the Bee Miraculous.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: It all starts in the season 3 finale, where she reaches her breaking point and willingly joins Hawk Moth to get revenge on Ladybug for not letting her be a superhero. In seasons 4 and 5, she becomes even worse than she was in season 1:
  • In "Sole Crusher", she locks Sabrina in a locker, forces her to run after her limo while carrying her bag and uses the entire Dupain-Cheng family as human shields against her akumatized half sister (which she later does to Zoé as well against their akumatized mother in "Optigami"). She even attempts to manipulate the titular villain into murdering her own classmates in order to save herself, which is only stopped by Marinette and Cat Noir intervening.
  • In "Queen Banana", she breaks off her friendship with Adrien after he reminded her that he can't remain friends with her if she keeps bullying his other friends. As Queen Banana she's ambiguously Not Brainwashed. Afterwards she also refuses to keep the Magical Charm from Ladybug that would protect her from Akumas after witnessing Ladybug giving the Bee Miraculous to a new holder (Zoé tricks her later on into accepting the Magical Charm by claiming that it's from their mother).
  • In "Gabriel Agreste", to get back Adrien's friendship, she records a video of their classmates badmouthing Adrien's father, which she attempts to show to Gabriel in order to convince him to pull Adrien out of school, so she could isolate him from all of his other friends and force him into an abusive relationship with her. After getting captured by The Collector, she claims under the influence of his powers that she only did this to hurt Marinette For the Evulz.
  • In "Penalteam", she outright summons Shadow Moth to akumatize her and threatens to kill her prisoners (which include a pregnant woman) if the heroes fail to defeat her, all over not being benched in a soccer game. At the end of the episode, she joins a Villain Team-Up with Lila, in order to plot together against the people they hate (namely Marinette and Ladybug).
  • In "Deflagration", she once again accepts an Akuma willingly in order to get revenge on her classmates and half-sister after her attempt to humiliate and bully Marinette over getting together with Adrien ends up with Zoé standing up against her and herself getting humiliated in front of the whole cafeteria, her willingness to get akumatized leading to Monarch almost winning by allowing him to steal the Miraculous from Alya and Zoé before they can transform.
  • In "Derision", it's revealed just how much Chloé used to torment Marinette before the show started, playing cruel pranks on her, getting her unfairly punished, trying to leave her friendless and at one point even getting Kim to orchestrate another vicious prank on her while she was confessing her feelings to him, which gave her trauma that still affects her dating life and subsequently her relationship with Adrien to this day and even gave her a strong enough panic attack to make her vulnerable to Akumatization in this very episode. Unsurprisingly Chloé's still unapologetic about all of it, which leads to Adrien cutting out any possibility to ever reconcile their friendship for good.
  • In "Adoration", she cruelly unfriends Sabrina on Lila's behalf for not wanting to help them to frame Marinette for theft, which leads to Sabrina getting akumatized. Afterwards, she teams up with Vanisher in order to incriminate Marinette of stealing various items, which almost leads to her getting expelled from school again (or Zoé getting sent back to New York after she took the blame for the theft) before the ruse is finally uncovered by the heroes.
  • In "Confrontation", she helps Lila in her scheme to fake their classmates' career forms to frame Marinette of ruining their futures to further alienate her. But Sabrina, whom they forced to forge the fakes, refuses to participate and informs Marinette of the scheme, and the two successfully expose Chloé and Lila with a counter-plot. While Chloé uses her father to avert expulsion and ultimately forces Mr. Damocles to resign as principal, her friendship with Sabrina is officially destroyed for good and Ms. Bustier vows to be tougher on her. But Chloé remains in connect with Lila after she left the school on her whim and assumed another identity.
  • In "Collusion", Chloé, under direction from a now-underground Lila/Cerise, goes scorched earth on her enemies. She starts by abusing her father's power to force the new principal Ms. Mendeleiev (who is more spineless than Mr. Damocles) to unjustly expel Marinette and fire Ms. Bustier. Then, after Gabriel Agreste publicly ruins her father with edited footage of him confessing to his misdeeds for refusing to approve on of his and Tomoe Tsurugi's plans, she, facing a Karma Houdini Warranty for everything she's ever done with her father possibly being forced out of office, accepts an offer to become interim Mayor and Gabriel's puppet, which becomes official after André indeed resigns as mayor near the end of the episode.
  • In "Revolution", after having superheroes and villains outlawed in Paris, Chloé hypocritically breaks her own law, by striking a deal with Monarch to akumatize her into giving her the power of multiple Miraculouses, which she uses along with robots supplied to her by Gabriel to imprison everyone who has ever defied or stood up to her or whom she just plain doesn't like, including Marinette, Adrien, and even her father. She also erects statues of herself everywhere and shuts down her classmates' attempts to protest against her. Later, she traps Ladybug and Cat Noir and tricks them into using up their special powers in order to publicly expose their identities and end their hero careers once they de-transform. However, Ladybug and Cat Noir's bravery in the face of the situation causes them to unlock the ability to stay transformed after using their special powers, and the former successfully inspires the citizens of Paris to revolt against her tyranny. In quick succession, Chloé is de-akumatized, ousted as mayor, abandoned by her allies, and is exiled by her father to live with her mother, who holds her responsible for the ruin of their family name and reputation and vows to be harder on her than ever before. And most of all, her final attempt to regain some control over things by calling Marinette to taunt her over Adrien's departure to London completely backfires, as Marinette (who had already learned of it and shared her first kiss with him just prior) quickly shuts her down and coldly tells her that she has lost all power over everyone and everything, and that she is the one who is "utterly ridiculous", before hanging up. This ends up finally breaking Chloé's spirit and she can only break down crying over her losses, having finally realized and paid the the price for her evil ways.
• Trademark Favorite Food: It has been mentioned more than once that Chloé likes sushi.
• Tragic Keepsake: Downplayed. Her bee-colored, diamond-eyed teddy bear from when she was a toddler and from back when her mother was still around. However, her mother isn't dead, just very neglectful, making a Chloé a "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl.
• Transhuman Treachery: She's the character with the highest number of Akumatizations from the show after Mr. Ramier (and also with the most overall akumatized forms) and a good chunk of those were voluntary on her part.
• Troll: Chloé’s a smug, obnoxious jerk who really enjoys making people mad.
• Trumplica: She is a wealthy blond who dresses in gold and is spoilt, spiteful, immature, and abuses her power and privileges. After she Took a Level in Jerkass all of these traits were ramped up, and Astruc even compared her to Trump.
• Tsundere: She is a cold-hearted bitch most of the time but "Zombizou" proves that Chloé actually does have a heart after all — she's just very selective about who she shows her softer side to (aside from Adrien and possibly Sabrina). It's strongly implied that this is connected to her Missing Mom.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: In "Collusion", with the help of Cerise, Gabriel and Tomoe, she takes her father's place as the Mayor of Paris after he resigns from the position. However, she ends up losing this position in the next episode, "Revolution".
• The Unchosen One: Unlike Alya and Nino, Chloé was not originally chosen by Ladybug to receive her Miraculous, and just happened to stumble upon it after it was knocked out of Ladybug's hands. Eventually graduates out of this, when Ladybug decides to give her another chance. Ultimately it's subverted, as she proves she has no right to wield the Miraculous after she betrays the group.
• Ungrateful Bitch: She cares little for the fact that Sabrina has been following her every order since elementary school and still treats the other girl like her servant. In "Kung Food" Chloé complains that Ladybug took too long to rescue her and threatens to tell everyone. Ladybug roughly drops her with a sarcastic "Oops" in retaliation.
• Unnecessarily Cruel Rejection: Chloé kicks off the plot of "Dark Cupid" when she rejects Kim's confession by uploading an embarrassing photo of him with a bag on his face and telling him that her heart is "saved for someone more awesome than you."
• The Un-Smile: She gives a couple of these in "Revelation" as Lila tries to promote her as her deputy for class rep.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She is such a mean person that she is often the cause of somebody else turning into an Akuma. This is to the point that when Hawk Moth learns in "Despair Bear" that she's inviting all her classmates to a party so she can prove how nice she is, he sends an Akuma in advance, knowing full well she'll make someone vulnerable to it. It does inevitably happen, but since Chloé is actually trying to be nice for once, Hawk Moth gets frustrated that it's taking longer than usual.
• Upper-Class Twit: Despite her father's money and influence, Chloé has very little in the way of social tact or work ethic. Sabrina has done all her homework since they were in elementary and her father's influence usually cleans up any mess she makes.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The reason Adrien can't truly push her away. When they were children, she became one of his first friends after she reached out to him with genuine kindness and the memory of it is strong enough for him that he wishes to maintain their bond even if it's become somewhat twisted on her end. Subverted when Adrien learned in "Derision", that Chloé tortured Marinette for years.
• Villain Team-Up: As of "Penalteam" she teams up with Lila Rossi in order to plot together against Marinette.
• Villain Has a Point: Double Subverted. While her reasons for being a hero are not altruistic, Chloé does explain in the third season finale that the only reason she sided with Hawk Moth willingly in the first place was because Ladybug kept picking other backup heroes while she advertised her availability.
• Wealth's in a Name: She's a Rich Bitch, and her surname "Bourgeois" is a term used for the snobby, apathetic middle class.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Common among children when one parent leaves, Chloé idolizes her mother even though Audrey abandoned her and is so desperate for her approval that she would reveal herself to be Queen Bee. Not earning Audrey's approval is enough to cause Chloé to become akumatized again.
• What You Are in the Dark: Stripped of her power, exiled from her hometown of Paris as the most hated person there, and stuck under her controlling mother's thumb while leaving forever, Chloé thumbs through her contacts and stops on Sabrina, seemingly intending to reach out to the one person she could call a friend. But she instead scrolls to Marinette to take one last shot of cruelty on her way out. It doesn't pan out that way, but demonstrates that, even at her lowest point, Chloé's instinct is to make someone else suffer to validate herself.
• Willing Channeler: As of the end of "Heart Hunter", Chloé gets akumatized willingly through the fourth and fifth seasons.
• Yes-Man: Ironically, after destroying her friendship with her former servant Sabrina, she becomes this to Cerise in "Collusion" and "Revolution", even repeating all her lines from her through an earpiece.

Tomoe Tsurugi

Akumatized form: Ikari Gozen/Ikari Dozen/Matagi Gozen

Voiced by: Frédérique Marlot (FR), Minae Noji (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Cony Madera (MEX), Marta Altinier (ITA)

Kagami's mother. She is the head of Tsurugi Corporation, a tech company that specializes in many highly advanced technological devices. Although she is a blind woman, she is also a talented fencer.

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• Abusive Parents: Like Gabriel Agreste, she is emotionally abusive and controlling to her daughter. It's rather telling that in "Ikari Gozen" she claims that Gabriel is too lenient on his parenting. At the start of "Ikari Gozen" she prevented Kagami from having friends other than Adrien, but didn't even allow Adrien's number to be in Kagami's phone. In "Lies", Kagami reveals that she enjoys drawing, but Tomoe forbids her from doing so, with the stated reason that she isn't good at it and thus shouldn't bother wasting her time. Not only is Kagami actually a good artist, but Tomoe is blind. Unless she has Daredevil-like hightened senses that allow her to feel the pencil lines on the page with her fingers (though to her credit, it wouldn't really be all that surprising if she did), how the hell would she even know what Kagami's drawings look like?
• Alliterative Name: Tomoe Tsurugi.
• Blind People Wear Sunglasses: Tomoe, a famous Blind Weaponmaster, wears sunglasses over her eyes.
• Blind Weaponmaster: She's a worldwide fencing champion, according to Adrien's web search. Also, her "cane" is a shinai, a practise sword made of bamboo.
• Cool Car: She owns an elegant red-colored car with an auto-drive system named "Tatsu" that only follows her voice-printed commands.
• Culture Equals Costume: Her outfit resembles with Miko white kimono and red hakama.
• Crazy-Prepared: In "Pretension", it's shown that Tomoe stored six Alliance Rings inside her car to prepare for incoming akumatization so she can gain more than one Miraculous Superpower. In order to get Kagami from Argos, Tomoe instantly takes all six rings and orders Monarch to akumatize her into Matagi Gozen.
• Double Standard: Becomes angry at Gabriel for akumatizing Kagami into a suicidal Akuma who wants to disappear in season 5, while conveniently ignoring the fact that her social isolation of Kagami led to the circumstances necessary for her to be akumatized in that way.
• The Dragon: She replaces Nathalie as Monarch's right hand lady in season 5.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: She admires Tomoe Gozen, a female warrior who defied her society's restrictions in becoming a samurai, but only pays attention to the perseverance and female warrior parts of her story, and is infuriated when Kagami defies her restrictions.
• Emotion Suppression: She expects this from Kagami. She criticizes Kagami for allowing her emotions to control her and even takes away her ring bearing their family's crest as she declares her as a weak disappointment.
• The Empath: Downplayed. While there doesn't appear to be any magical or supernatural reasoning behind it, Tomoe senses Gabriel's discomfort whilst on the train. This could just be chalked up to being particularly perceptive, as Gabriel vocally grimaced, but it's worth noting that Tomoe is blind.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She gets angry at Gabriel after he akumatizes Kagami in "Perfection", specifically because the Megakuma went into her ring. It's implied from this that Kagami is a sentimonster and that said ring (which is different from the one that got akumatized in "Riposte") contains her Amok, since Tomoe calls Gabriel out on putting her daughter's life at risk.
• Evil All Along: It's revealed in season 5 that she knows that Gabriel is Monarch and is working with him willingly.
• Evil Matriarch: Tomoe is head family of the Tsurugi Clan — A clan of female samurai descendants— who wants to train Kagami as her perfect successor by any means and wants to pair her daughter with Gabriel's son to continue their villainous legacy to get the Miraculous and create a perfect world.
• Foil: To Gabriel - both are extremely controlling parents to their two prodigious children, both excellent fencers. Gabriel is a father to a son, Tomoe is a mother to a daughter. The two appear to be single; Gabriel's wife is in an unspecified coma and Kagami's father is not seen nor mentioned.
• Foreshadowing: There are several elements foreshadowing her alliance with Hawk Moth:
  • Tomoe is a buiseness partner of Gabriel Agreste, who is secretly the Big Bad to her Dragon
  • She's shown listening to the news in Feast when a journalist mentions the reappearance of the temple of the guardians of the miraculous. It's revealed that she wants to steal them two seasons later.
  • The logo of her tech company appears in the opening of season 5, right after a shot of Monarch.
  • We don't see her Akumatization onscreen during either of her first two Akumatizations. This is because it would reveal to the audience that she was in league with Gabriel and (at least the second time) corrupted on purpose.
  • Her physical appearance is similar to that of Nathalie. She takes her place as Gabriel's Number Two in season 5.
  • As said above, she is a foil to Gabriel.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: While Gabriel's goal is clear to get the Miraculous needed to make his wish and revive his wife, Tomoe's are not. At best she's setting up an Arranged Marriage between her daughter and Gabriel's son.
• It Runs in the Family: Her grandfather was a fencer. She herself became a renowned one as an adult. And now Tomoe's daughter, Kagami, is noted to be formidable fencer despite her age.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Tomoe is extremely controlling towards her daughter Kagami, as emphasized in "Ikari Gozen". Nevertheless, at the end of the episode, she does relent and allow Kagami to stay with Marinette a little longer.
• Karma Houdini: At the end of Season 5, Tomoe manages to escape punishment for her crimes helping Gabriel since she wasn't discovered by Ladybug, making her one of the few villains in the season that isn't redeemed or punished for their actions throughout the series. She is now the new owner of his brand and announces her intentions of "continuing his legacy".
• Magitek: Her company designed the Alliance System and Rings to utilize any Miraculous power that Monarch currently has.
• Mama Bear: In "Perfection", she attacks Gabriel after finding out that he sent a Megakuma into her family ring, which could have endangered her daughter.
• Master Swordsman: Tomoe is a famous and talented fencer. Even an incredible fighter like Kagami doesn't stand a chance against her mother.
• My Beloved Smother: Something she has in common with Gabriel, if not more so. She ensures that Kagami is well-trained in their family tradition as fencers, but this has caused her daughter to lack in friends and basic social skills, something that she either is unaware of or does not consider important, believing that just having Adrien is enough for her need for friendship. She openly remarks that Adrien being involved in a public contest is a sign that Gabriel does not have a tight enough grip on him, and when her controlling nature drives Kagami to disobey her and take part in the contest in "Ikari Gozen", this defiance of her authority was enough for her to be akumatized.
• Named After Someone Famous: Her first name is a definite homage to Tomoe Gozen, the most famous example of female samurai in Japanese history. She actually brings up her namesake during her akumatization episode.
• The Perfectionist: Tomoe strives to make Kagami as her perfect heir to succeed their clan of female samurai and successor to continue her quest to get Ladybug and Cat's Miraculouses to create a perfect world, and pair her with Adrien as a perfect couple.This leads Tomoe to constantly train Kagami in ''fencing'' and ''kendo'' during free time, limiting her social life to get a friend so Kagami will always learn everything about their culture, and forbid her to do what Tomoe hasn't approved. This ultimately results in Kagami finding it difficult to show her emotion toward Tomoe or understanding her peers' feelings.
• Post-Modern Magik: Her company manufactured the components that allowed Gabriel to render and reforge the Miraculouses other than his own into rings. This allows them to technologically transmit their powers to the people he akumatizes through their own Alliance smart rings.
• Professor Guinea Pig: She tested the prototype of the ring from which she gained access to the power of the Mouse Miraculous on herself by getting akumatized willingly.
• Shipper on Deck: "Animaestro" shows that she approves of Kagami and Adrien's relationship. Taken to egregious levels in season 5 when she's shown wanting them to become a couple again and marry each other at any cost.
• Sunglasses at Night: Justified since she's blind.
• Super-Hearing: As seen in "Intuition", she can hear Gabriel's irregular heartbeat through her screen, her enhanced hearing probably being a result of her blindness.
• Trophy Child: Kagami.
• Walking Spoiler: Her role as the new right hand of the Big Bad makes her this.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Believes utilizing the Miraculouses would be beneficial to the planet.
• Willing Channeler: She willingly allows Monarch to akumatize her in "Multiplication" in order to test out the Alliance Ring prototype. In "Pretension" she calls Gabriel in order to request him to akumatize her after Argos kidnaps her daughter.
• Would Hurt a Child: In "Pretension", as a Not Brainwashed akumatized villain, she has no problem fighting Argos, whom she knows is a teenager and also tries to paralyze her own daughter with Venom when she finds her with him.

Akumatized Villains

General

• Alternate Identity Amnesia: In general, those who are brainwashed by Hawk Moth have just vague memories and impressions of what they did while akumatized. It's only the ones who choose of their own free will to side with him that remember everything.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Many of these villains have unusual skin colors, with the most frequent skintones being blue or pale purple.
• Amulet of Dependency: Their akumatized object is often transformed with them and becomes the main source of their power. The heroes can reliably take out two birds with one stone in deakumatizing someone by disarming a villain of an obvious tool their powers are being channeled through.
• Antagonist Abilities: Many of the villains are shown to be incredibly powerful with a wide variety of superpowers - some capable of toppling the Eiffel Tower with a single blow - on top of the general enhanced strength, speed, and durability. It is especially telling that it takes at least two Miraculous wielders to defeat one akumatized villain, and some villains are so powerful that it takes three or more heroes to defeat them. This is in heavy contrast with Ladybug and Cat Noir, whose abilities require quick thinking and skill to distract and misdirect their opponents.
• Antagonist Title: In the first four seasons, almost all episodes are named after their villains. This is finally dropped in season five.
• Armies Are Evil: Many of the villains created have the power to enlist random citizens in their cause, either through mind control (like with Pharoah, Darkblade, Kung Food, and Simon Says) or through intimidation, (like with Rogercop and Reflekta).
• Ax-Crazy: Some villains like Stormy Weather or Timebreaker become really deranged after their transformation, and are willing to kill innocent people, without any empathy.
• Beware the Nice Ones: From a man feeding pigeons in park to a sweet teenage girl with a celebrity crush, most of them are harmless and genuinely nice people before Akumatization.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Many of them possess goofy and saccharine designs and names, strange and outlandish powers, and comedically weak motivations. With that said, almost all of them are big enough threats that not only warrant both Ladybug and Cat Noir working together to combat on equal footing, but also cause massive collateral damage in the process.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: All of them (barring a few very specific exceptions), to the point it is basically Hawk Moth's modus operandi. Quite a few are also capable of infecting others, turning them into their minions.
• The Bus Came Back: The first two seasons set up the series’ rogues gallery of villains and as the series progresses, characters who were previously akumatized are either re-akumatized with the same identity or differing powers/personas so that less and less distinct villains appear.
  • The Puppeteer, by utilising doll copies, was able to bring back old Akuma villains such as Lady Wifi, The Evillustrator, and Rogercop.
  • Taken to the extreme in "Catalyst" when the titular villain grants Hawk Moth the power to create as many Akumas as he wishes, and with the help of Volpina's illusion, it results in no less than twenty seven former villains becoming reakumatized.
  • From season 3 onwards, more previous villains are reakumatized, most of the time with upgrades to their powers:
  • Mr. Pigeon and Gigantitan become recurring minor villains (with Mr. Pigeon returning as the main villain of an episode in "Mr. Pigeon 72").
  • Reflekta returns in "Reflekdoll", this time being assisted by the titular sentimonster.
  • Gamer returns in “Gamer 2.0” and abducts almost every person who was akumatized by that point to use their villain personas in a video game battle royale.
  • Stormy Weather and The Puppeteer come back in "Stormy Weather 2" and "The Puppeteer 2" respectively.
  • Lady Wifi, Reflekta and Princess Fragrance all come back in "Félix" when Hawk Moth akumatizes them as the "Punishers Trio". The three return once more alongside Timebreaker and Horrificator in "Gang of Secrets".
  • Hawk Moth almost manages to recreate the events of Heroes' Day when Lila gets Marinette expelled in "Ladybug". Being helped by Catalyst again, he brings back some of his old villains such as Reflekta, Princess Fragrance, Zombizou and The Dark Owl. However, Nathalie's failing health meant Gabriel detransformed almost as soon as everyone was akumatized.
  • Lampshaded in "Mr. Pigeon 72". Marinette notes that Shadow Moth targets people he's already akumatized because he understands them better, knows which buttons he needs to press and has "learnt exactly where it hurts [them]".
  • The Collector returns in "Gabriel Agreste", Shadow Moth akumatizing a sentimonster of himself this time.
  • Malediktator and Reflekta come back in "Mega Leech" and "Guiltrip" respectively, both of them assisted by the titular sentimonsters.
  • Captain Hardrock and Guitar Villain come back as the villainous duo Crocoduel in the eponymous episode.
  • Style Queen comes back in "Optigami" as a bait villain for Shadow Moth's plan.
  • Glaciator and Robostus come back in "Glaciator 2" and "Hack-San" respectively.
  • Qilin, Weredad, Bakerix and Befana come back as the villainous group Dearest Family in the eponymous episode. The Collector also makes a brief return in this episode once Gabriel finally manages to break through the Magical Charms.
  • Syren and Mime return as minor villains in "Ephemeral". In the same episode, more previous akumatized villains are brought back by Sass' Second Chance from the past, such as Captain Hardrock, Gorizilla and Gamer.
  • Rogercop returns as a minor villain in "Kuro Neko".
  • In season 5, Gabriel uses the Alliance Rings he gave out to the public in order to transmit Miraculous' powers to some of his old villains and make them more powerful than their initial iterations:
  • Ikari Dozen, an upgraded version of Ikari Gozen with the Mouse Miraculous' power, appears in "Multiplication".
  • Darker Owl, an upgraded version of The Dark Owl with the Pig Miraculous' power, appears in "Jubilation".
  • An upgraded version of The Pharaoh with the Turtle Miraculous' power appears in "Reunion".
  • An upgraded version of Glaciator with the Tiger Miraculous' power appears in "Elation".
  • Dark Humor, an upgraded version of Dark Cupid with the Monkey Miraculous' power, appears in "Derision".
  • Riposte Prime, an upgraded version of Riposte with the Turtle Miraculous' power, appears in "Protection".
  • An upgraded version of Vanisher with the Dog Miraculous' power appears in "Adoration".
  • Matagi Gozen, an upgraded version of Ikari Gozen with the powers of the Rooster, Bee, Horse, Mouse and Tiger Miraculous, appears in "Pretension".
  • An upgraded version of Reflekta with the Tiger Miraculous' power appears in "Confrontation".
  • Gabriel re-akumatizes himself into Nightormentor in "Conformation" in order to set in motion his finale plan, this time upgraded not only by the power of the Horse Miraculous, but also by the powers of the Mouse and Rooster Miraculous.
• The Corruptible: Being on an emotionally vulnerable state is practically a requirement to be akumatized; whether by going through a Moment of Weakness or just having a bad day, once on this state, Hawk Moth's Akumas will readily corrupt you.
• The Corrupter: Though rare, a few akumatized villains have the ability to corrupt people into their side as part of their powerset, with the ability itself varying depending on the villain.
• A Day in the Limelight: Becoming akumatized is the most common way for a minor character to get focus and development.
• The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: Being akumatized causes the villains to become so hyperfixated on both their revenge, and getting the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous, that they outright reject being called by their former names.
• Deal with the Devil: Hawk Moth contacts his victims to offer them the power to right or take revenge for whatever wrong they've suffered in exchange for Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous. Of course, they clearly aren't in their right mind when they make the decision, and it's shown to be near impossible to resist.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Their standard procedure, thanks to Hawk Moth's influence.
  Hawk Moth: (to Glaciator) Since they refused to let you melt their hearts, I'm giving you the power to melt their entire bodies instead.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": An easy way to get on their bad side is by referring to them by their pre-Akumatization names.
• Dwindling Party: Double subverted. Early in season four, Marinette is able to summon and create Magical Charms, items that prevent a person from being akumatized or amokized when worn. This means with every villain's defeat Ladybug can, and has, been providing lasting protection to akuma/amok victims and removing Shadow Moth's ability to recreate his most prolific Akumas. However, late in Season 4 he develops Megakumas that can overpower her charms, rendering them worthless. It's revelead in "Confrontation" however that the Magical Charms can create shields strong enough to repel Megakumas if the people wearing them focus or are encouraged by other people.
• Evil Knockoff: It's possible for someone to be granted the abilities of a miraculous, as seen with Copycat, Volpina and Antibug. Unlike the real deal, they can often use their superpower as much as they want.
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: Vaguely butterfly-shaped dark marks around their eyes are present in plenty of the designs.
• Iconic Item: Whatever object was possessed by the Akuma.
• Improbable Weapon User: Bubble wand. Umbrella. Book. Weapons made out of food. It's harder to find a villain that uses a typical weapon (such as sword wielding Darkblade).
• Kick The Son Of A Bitch: It's hard not to root for them just a bit when they target, say Chloé or Lila. Often, the akumatized villains specifically target them because they wronged them and thus led to their akumatization in the first place, while other times, they just happens to be in the path of their rampage.
• Logical Weakness: Because Hawk Moth amplifies their negative emotions, particularly their desire for revenge, they tend to focus more on their revenge than following Hawk Moth's instructions. This often comes back to bite him, provided he doesn't decide to override his minions' control.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: If Ladybug or Cat Noir try to get them to reason by calling them by their old names, expect most of them to reply with some variation over how they are gone, and the villain is here to stay.
• Meaningful Name: Their names are relevant to their motives, abilities, etc. Often also punny.
• Meaningful Rename: Alongside generally being related to their powers or motives in some ways, a villain's name also serves as a way to separate themselves from their pre-Akumatization selves.
• Moment of Weakness: Also known as Hawk Moth's favorite time to say, "Hi".
• Monster of the Aesop: Occasionally, their akumatized forms are about some sort of central lesson — Timebreaker is about owning up to your mistakes and being responsible for your own possessions, Horrificator is about standing up to your fears, etc.
• Monster of the Week: Hawk Moth turns a whole bunch of recurring and one-shot characters into akumatized villains over the course of the show
• Near-Villain Victory: Many of them came dangerously close to defeating Ladybug and Cat Noir.
• Not Brainwashed: If one accepts an Akuma of their own free will, they remain in full control of themselves while akumatized, and keep their memories after returning to normal.
• One-Shot Character: While several akumatized villains do appear more than once, some even becoming recurring characters, most of them don't appear after their titular episode.
• Personality Powers: They gain powers that are in some way related to the incident in which they were wronged. Aurore lost a chance to be a weather girl and thus becomes Stormy Weather and gains weather powers, Officer Roger becomes the robotic Rogercop after being fired by Mayor Bourgeois, Nathaniel becomes his comic superhero persona after being mocked for it, and so on. However, some akumatized villains have powers more related to the possessed item, like the Bubbler.
• Put Them All Out of My Misery: Standard procedure: Hawk Moth gives them powers, and they can (and will) get revenge for a slight, in exchange for the Miraculouses. If the entire city of Paris has to go as collateral damage because of said revenge or the Miraculous holders playing hard to get... well... so be it.
• Recurring Element: Every Evil Knockoff or Power Parasite that's gained access to Lucky Charm has used it to conjure the same gnarly-looking BFS. More often than not, it's proven less than effective.
• Revenge: More often then not, getting back at the person that caused their Akumatization is their priority, or they're at least among the targets.
• Revenge Before Reason: Some villains end up so hyperfixated on getting their revenge that they forget their other, more important deal with Hawk Moth in getting the Miraculous. Even when this isn't the case, though, the heroes have managed to win often by taking advantage of this need for revenge as well.
• Sanity Has Advantages: No akumatized villain is ever created relatively sane, or even focused most of the time. Indeed, the few villains who are created without an insane hyperfixation on revenge tend to prove more useful than the rest of their brethren.
• Sanity Slippage: Often a side effect of being akumatized.
• Shadow Archetype: Although they are Brainwashed and Crazy, they still have personality traits and desires of their true selves, but without a moral compass to hold them back. No one has ever been proud of their inner selves being shown to all Paris. Chloé, Lila, Techno-Pirate, and Cash are the main exceptions due to the former two being Alpha Bitches and the latter two being criminals, thus they act very similarly.
• Stupid Evil: Since all of the villains are Brainwashed and Crazy via amplifying their more negative attributes, many of them can be distracted and fooled by both Ladybug and Cat Noir and whatever vendetta that led to their Akumatization in the first place. Which makes the ones that are dangerous because of their savviness (ex. Dark Owl, who still has Mr. Damocles' knowledge of superhero comics) stand out all the more.
• Superpowers for a Day: Goes without saying.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Although the Origins Episode reveals that Akumas are actually meant to be used for creating superheroes.
• That Man Is Dead: Pretty much the universal reply to being called by their real name. Hawk Moth himself even refers to Akumatization as "becoming someone else".
  Lady Wifi: Alya's been disconnected. I'm Lady Wifi.
  Darkblade: D'Argencourt was defeated, not Darkblade!
  Dark Cupid: I'm not Kim, I'm Dark Cupid!
• Took a Level in Badass: Anyone akumatized by Hawk Moth gets powers that make them more dangerous than their civilian counterparts. Though it's temporary and comes with a price...
• Took a Level in Jerkass: This namely, as they lose their moral compass. Along with a chunk of their sanity most of the time.
• Totalitarian Utilitarian: While some of their motivations come across as rather petty and selfish (Stormy Weather trying to destroy Paris with turbulent weather for losing a popularity contest, Darkblade conquering Paris after losing a democratic election, Gamer going after Marinette and converting innocent civilians into energy for losing a spot in a gaming competition) some of the villains actually try and make things better, Hawk Moth using their good intentions as a way of convincing them to work for him (Rogercop enforcing the law and making the Mayor be held accountable for his corruption, Gorizilla wanting to find and protect Adrien, Zombizou wanting to spread love across all of Paris). It is Hawk Moth's corrupting influence and their rather questionable methods that make them bad guys.
• The Unfettered: Because they are born from hyper-exaggerating their victims' emotions surrounding random misfortunes, the villains often have strange and simplistic motivations and goals that they nevertheless pursue with insane, single-minded obsession. Timebreaker, for instance, came from Alix' anger at her family heirloom breaking, resulting in Timebreaker wiping out her entire class and commanding great power for no reason other than to fix a watch. This sometimes causes problems for Hawk Moth when what the villain is obsessed with doesn't entirely line up with what he himself wants, as it often results in them being distracted and him having to curtail them.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Many of them have sympathetic motives and/or target characters who seriously deserve some karma, but the fact that they've lost their moral compasses in the process means that they have to be stopped.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Some of them are just ignored after being turned back to normal, especially if they're not recurring characters.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: With Revenge being the most common motivator behind akumatized villains, the people that get akumatized are sunk to their lowest point before Hawk Moth's corrupting influence latches on, and they will tear the city apart (often literally) to get even with the person who wronged them.
• Would Hit a Girl: Male villains don't hesitate to attack Ladybug or any of the other girl superheroes.
• Would Hurt a Child: Even though the heroes are just teenagers, that won’t stop the adult villains from trying to give them a beatdown or even kill them.

Season 1

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Season 2

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Season 3

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Season 4

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Season 5

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Amokized Sentimonsters

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Other villains

Mike Rochip/Techno-Pirate

Akumatized form: Techlonizer/Miraclonizer

"Wouldn't you rather have an atomic bomb?"

Voiced by: Kellen Goff

A tech-themed American villain whom Hawk Moth teams up with.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: He has blue skin.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: As Miraclonizer, he possesses the Eagle Miraculous, granting him flight and the power of Liberty, while his appearance gives him the appearance of an American eagle.
• The Brute: Despite being a tech-themed villain, he seems to veer more into this. He seems to see technology as something to profit off of and it is never said if he has any tech savvy on his own. He is first seen stealing the turbine off of a moving airplane, needlessly calling attention to himself and endangering civilians when he could have stolen an inactive plane's turbine. When Hawk Moth tells him that he wants Lafayette's sword, he asks why he just can't steal something more impressive like an atomic bomb.
• Delinquent Hair: His hair is in a mohawk.
• The Dragon: He serves as this to Hawk Moth in the New York special.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: We know nothing of his past or motives; he's just an American villain who steals technology for no given reason.
• Idiosyncrazy: He's entirely focused on stealing technology.
• Punny Name: His short name (Mike) sounds like "microchip", fitting for a tech-themed villain.
• Talk Like a Pirate: He does this, as befitting of his name.
• Technopath: He appears to have a form of this power, which naturally gets enhanced when he's akumatized.
• Villain Team-Up: He performs one with Hawk Moth.
• Would Hurt a Child: He almost caused the plane with Marinette and her classmates to crash.

Cash

Akumatized form: King Cash

Voiced by: Caleb Yen (EN)

A ruthless black market dealer.

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• Berserk Button: Getting robbed or duped sends him into a rage.
• The Cameo: He appears in The Stinger of "Miraculous New York", engaging in a shady deal in a dark alley.
• Character Catchphrase: “A deal’s a deal.”
• The Fagin: Is this for Fei who has to steal for him.
• Faux Affably Evil: He acts friendly and polite when talking to Fei and Marinette, but it’s completely insincere. He drops the “affable” act after Fei robs him.
• Greed: He is obsessed with money. He tried to sell Marinette’s earrings back to her for 500 times what he thought they were worth. Hawk Moth is aware of his greed, and uses it, and his anger, to akumatize him. For bonus points, his supervillain name in the original French version translates to "Silver King" or, more colloquially, "Money King".
• Hate Sink: Cash is a sleazy, heartless criminal who killed a man and threatened to murder two teenage girls, and he has no humorous, sympathetic, or redeeming qualities.
• Karma Houdini: Despite his actions (which include the murder of Wu Shifu), he managed to escape jail and is still free as of "Miraculous New York".
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: He claims to know a lot about antiques and dismisses the Ladybug earrings as “commonplace”. Little does he know they’re actually a very powerful magical relic. He also calls the Sacred Cave Key a “lousy trinket”, when it’s the key to getting the Prodigious, another powerful magical relic.
• Meaningful Name: His name is Cash, and he's as greedy as they come.
• No Name Given: Implied; "Cash" is presumably not his legal name, since that name cannot be spelled with Chinese characters.
• Smug Smiler: He usually has a smug grin on his face.
• Verbal Tic: He sometimes ends his sentences with “baby”.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: He's an arsonist, a murderer, and he has no problems trying to murder children.
• Would Hit a Girl: He sends his thugs to attack Fei and Marinette, and soon after gives Fei a death threat.
• Would Hurt a Child: He has no problem sending his thugs after Fei and Marinette.

The Supreme

Voiced by: Keith Silverstein (EN)

A villain that rules an alternate universe from the shadows, using nearly every Miraculous to do so.

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• Ambiguously Human: It's never established if he's a human or something else entirely.
• Ambiguously Related: It is unclear if he has any connection to the Order of the Guardians, considering how his symbol looks like an evil version of the Guardians symbol.
• Ambiguous Situation: It is unclear if he's an alternate version of Master Fu, Su-Han, or someone else entirely. It is also unclear if he has a counterpart in the main universe as well.
• Bad Boss: He allows Marinette and Adrien to use their powers for evil but neglected to tell them that doing so would slowly destroy them. Also to Plagg and Tikki, as to prevent anyone from using the Absolute Power, he put a magical seal on them, depriving the kwamis from their ability to talk.
• Evil Sorceror: Has enough magical knowledge about the Kwamis to put silencing spells on them that persist with new holders. He can even bind Tikki and Plagg from combining into Gimmi, causing them pain and knocking back anyone who tries.
• Foil: To the Order of the Guardians, as both have a similar symbol (the Supreme's symbol looks like that of the Order of the Guardians, only more angular and crossed out) and give the Miraculouses to certain selected people, but the Supreme only does it to perpetuate his own evil power, while the Order of the Guardians only do it for the good of humanity.
• The Ghost: We never see him, and only hear his voice once in his debut.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Of the "Miraculous World: Paris" special, as he's the one that granted Shadybug and Claw Noir their Miraculouses in the first place.
• I Am the Noun: He gives an inversion. "Reality is The Supreme".
• Properly Paranoid: He placed a spell on his universe's version of the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses to prevent anyone from being able to use a Wish if they found out about it, paranoia that ends up justified when Shadybug tries to do so. He even went so far as to bind the Kwamis' ability to speak so they could never reveal it themselves.
• Sigil Spam: His symbol is the closest thing to him being shown, seen surrounding Betterfly near the end of his version of the intro, appearing over the silenced Kwamis' mouths, and surrounding Reverse Marinette as she attempted to summon Gimmi.

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