Memes / Miraculous Ladybug

• "Feed Adrien!" or "Let Adrien eat!" ^note In episode 15, Adrien was really eager to eat Marinette parents' food, but kept having them taken away from him before he even managed to touch them; cue the fandom wanting to feed the poor kitty. On a more serious Fridge Horror note, as he's a model and they're often underweight, and his dad is not winning any parent-of-the-year awards, it's very widespread Fanon that his dad forces a restrictive diet on him, and since he can't exactly explain that superheroing causes him to burn off energy from meals faster on top of that, the poor kid is in serious need of a good meal or three, to the point of endangering his health, and only doesn't look it in the show because he's calling upon all of his skills as a model to keep up that smile and confident walk so as to not look like he's starving and exhausted 24/7.
• Marinette's phone kleptomania. ^note She's stolen three people's phones in the series (Adrien's in "Copycat", Alya's in "The Mime", and Chloé's in "Reflekta"), so the fandom portrays her as a compulsive phone stealer. Ironically, she actually sacrifices her own phone twice, in "Horrificator" and "Antibug".
• "Eren, what are you doing in that cat costume?" ^note  Adrien is voiced by Bryce Papenbrook in the English dub who also happens to be the voice of Eren Jaeger from Attack on Titan. Due to Papenbrook using the exact same voice for both characters, multiple jokes such as the former have spawned.
• Nino and his potatoes. ^note After the only shot of Nino in the Christmas special trailer aired, the fandom immediately latched on to the fact that he looks like he is eating a baked potato out in the snow - in his usual summer clothes. Cue any and all jokes about Nino's passion for potatoes and urgent need of a jacket. Worth noting that, in the actual episode, the shot in question had Nino clearly indoors, while Marinette and Adrien spent significantly more time outdoors in their regular outfits.
• "She's just a friend." ^note This became very popular after the script reading of a season 2 episode at the Miraculous panel at SDCC 2017, in which Adrien's response to the pictures featuring him in Marinette's room is a heartbreaking "she's just a friend", although the line was ultimately moved to another episode.
  • Adrien "Just a Friend" Agreste. ^note The fandom sees Adrien's constantly calling Marinette 'a friend' as a denial of his feelings for her, as many of his behaviours around her are not things you do with friends, however close ones. And behaviours he hasn't shown towards Nino or Chloé, who are his best friend and longest friend respectively.
• "Where is Lila?" answered by "On the Eiffel Tower" ^note After debuting in the Season 1 finale, Lila abruptly vanished for almost the entirety of Season 2. The response comes from the end of Volpina, where even though she's purified on a usually inaccessible part of the radio tower, she somehow gets down by herself. Whenever she is deakumatized it happens on the Eiffel Tower.
• After the events that caused Dark Owl to be a Wham Episode, memes popped up of Plagg desperately wanting to tell Adrien about Marinette's identity, but Tikki threatening him viciously to keep the secret.^note This despite the fact all Tikki did was shush him when Plagg recognized Marinette out of costume
• Breakdance AU ^note An Alternate Universe where the characters are dressed in street outfits based on their super-powered forms and practice… breakdancing. There are even cosplays of it!
• Season 2 is fanfic^note Fans have noticed that many of the Season 2 episodes have plots that contain many elements and story beats from Fandom Specific Plots common in Miraculous Ladybug fanfictions.
• "The Sandboy just checked in! Now nightmares can begin!" ^note Sandboy's catchphrase.
• Associating Adrien with Adriano Celentano^note Around the start of season 3, the new cartoon "Adrian" started being advertised in Italy. Between the title and Celentano being the creator, main writer, director and even voice of the main character (named Adrian and looking like a younger Celentano to boot), Italian ML fans immediately associated Adrien to Adriano Celentano and his cartoon.
• "Super Penguino" ^note  In "Oblivio", the show used playing a mobile game called "Super Penguino" as a metaphor for kissing/making out. Fans have started to do the same
• "Give Juleka her bike back Marinette!" ^note  Popularized by Anielette, in "Onichan", Marinette steals Juleka's bike right in front of her in order to catch up with Adrien's limo and isn't shown giving it back to her at the end.
• Nino is going to kill Gabriel Agreste^note Jokes that Nino is going to kill Gabriel because he's been a horrible dad to Adrien (Hawk Moth reveal optional) have been popping up a lot. Often, Marinette is made his partner in crime.
• "Salt Fics"^note Essentially, the Revenge Fic under a different name. Usually used to refer to any Revenge Fic set post-"Chameleon" that primarily attack Lila, Adrien, and/or Alya in some way.
• The Lila Anon^note On Archive Of Our Own, an anonymous user roleplaying as Lila Rossi started commenting on Miraculous Ladybug fics in-character. Writers quickly grew annoyed with "her", and "she" became a target of mockery and scorn.
• X is a Sentimonster^note During Season 3, a fan theory had popped up suggesting that Adrien was a Sentimonster created by his mother using the Peacock Miraculous, resulting in her coma. Things quickly escalated after it was theorized that Adrien's cousin Félix is a Sentimonster, and then Nathalie, until it became a joke to say that a character is actually a Sentimonster. Came back in full force after the episode “Optigami” appeared to imply that Sentimonsters could wield a Miraculous.
  • The Sentimonster Adrien Theory^{Explanation(spoiler)} The ending scene of Season 4 episode Megaleech caused an uproar among the supporters of the Sentimonster Adrien theory, seeming to partially confirm it. Those against the theory, meanwhile, brought up multiple pieces of evidence against it, and some got mad that the theorists were ignoring the real possibility of Adrien’s behavior being symptoms of parental abuse. And then Wishmaker added even more fuel to the fire with Adrien’s lack of a childhood dream beyond pleasing his parents, causing an even further panic. It’s become one of the biggest topics of discourse throughout mid-Season 4.It finally was revealed that he indeed, along with his cousin, was a sentimonster
  • Sentimonsters eating uranium^Explanation Some crack fancomics on Tumblr made jokes about Sentimonster Ladybug (after detransforming into Senti-Marinette and Senti-Tikki) randomly finding and eating some raw uranium ore, and then Adrien also finding uranium delicious and not knowing why (because he doesn't know he's also a sentimonster). Fans ran with this, and now it's a sort of joke fanon that sapient sentimonsters really like to eat uranium.
• Banana Noir^note In the episode "Feast", Marinette and Adrien had to fight a Sentimonster without their Miraculous. While Marinette donned a more practical outfit to conceal her identity, Adrien put on a banana costume, referring to himself as "Banana Noir". Fans quickly latched onto this identity, even building up his Akumatized form Banana Blanc as the most powerful Akuma Hawk Moth has ever created.
• Adricat^note For some reason — many suspecting a combination of the show's lengthy hiatus and the mass coronavirus quarantine taking place at the time — Adrien X Cat Noir became hugely popular in the middle of April 2020, leading to the Miraculous Ladybug tag trending at number 1 on Tumblr for a time and many, many confused fans.
• Adrien said "ass"!^note The caption of one of the photos on Adrien's official Character Blog says that he thinks Ladybug "kicks ass". As it was generally assumed that Adrien was too innocent to swear before now, fans had a field day with it.
• Marinette wears a ladybug onesie^note  When images of past Ladybug Miraculous holders were revealed, a lot of people caught on to the fact that they all had unique designs for their Ladybug themed outfits, while Marinette's outfit resembles a onesie. It certainly didn't help when Adrien had a more detailed Ladybug outfit when he and Marinette swapped Miraculouses in "Reflekdoll".
• Can't wait to see how the dub handles this one.^{Explanation(spoiler)} Before the premiere of Season 4, it was revealed that Ladybug would choose heroes to use the remaining Zodiac Miraculous, including the Rooster. The French title for this particular hero is "Coq Courage", which translates to "Brave Rooster". Except the word "Coq" is used in a very different way for most North American English speakers (it sounds like the word "Cock," which admittedly also means rooster, but often is just slang for the male reproductive organ). Fans immediately latched onto it and are joking about how they'll change the name for the English Dub. Ultimately, Coq Courage was named "Rooster Bold" in English.
• Harriel^note  In “Psycomedian”, the character of the day, Harry Clown, is shown to be old buddies with Gabriel. Their interactions were interpreted to their logical extreme by fans, and the pairing was shipped for comedic value due to the characters’ polar opposite personalities and the fact that Harry is blatantly based off of a real-life person.
• Get lost, little Butterfly^note  In “Psycomedian”, Ladybug is under the influence of a villain who manipulates emotions. As a consequence she is in a state of constant rage (Angrybug) and uses a different version of her catchphrase when she lets the butterfly go.
• I hope Adrien has a good Christmas. ^Explanation A scene from "Santa Claws" where Marinette says that she hopes Adrien has a good Christmas, while Adrien's head appears in the sky. It's popular to edit the clip with various different audio when Adrien appears.
• Alya is stuck living with Marinette. ^Explanation Starting from season 5, Alya is seen in many episodes having sleepovers with Marinette, often enough people started joking that she moved in or that Marinette is keeping her from going back home.
• Is Nino actually Luka?^Explanation A joke theory based on an anonymous Tumblr ask listing several similarities between the two characters postulates that Nino and Luka are, somehow, the same person. (As the original ask points out, there are several obvious flaws in this theory, which people ignore or Hand Wave for the sake of the joke.) One fan created a blog dedicated to collecting "evidence" for the theory, and it has appeared in a few Crack Fics.
• Congratulations, Gabriel Agreste! You won the Gendo Ikari Father Of The Year Award!^Explanation  Gabriel is a father that's neglectful At best, abusive At worst who wants to bring his Not Quite Dead wife back to life and is willing to use everyone, including his own son, to do it. Strypgia, an Evangelion Fandom VIP, pointed out that this makes Gabriel an Expy of Gendo Ikari, who is infamous not just in the Evangelion community, but in all of fiction for being an extremely horrible father. (While Strypgia actually says Natalie is an Expy of Ritsuko Akagi, once you find a character is an Expy of someone associated with Gendo, it's easy to find the Gendo Expy.) Gabriel even dies in a similar way to Gendo: Gendo dies to the thing he considered the most important in his plan (EVA Unit-01), lamenting about how he wasn't a good father to his son Shinji. Gabriel dies to the thing he considered the most important thing in his plans (the combined Power of the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses), lamenting about how he wasn't a good father to his son Adrien. The main difference is that Gabriel's death was entirely his own choice.
• Biblically Accurate Kwamis ^Explanation  After being briefly teased before in a previous episode, the Season 5 finale finally showed Tikki and Plagg's true forms, revealing that they were gigantic Angelic Abominations, which prompted many fans to compare them with how angels are described in the Bible.
• Foosball ^Explanation  At the end of Representation, Kagami's and Adrien's parents lock them in white, near-featureless rooms, except for a bookshelf for Kagami and a foosball table for Adrien. The incongruity of this object lead to several jokes.

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