Nightmare Fuel / Miraculous Ladybug

Paris has it's fair share of sleep paralysis demons. This is one of them.

Miraculous Ladybug may be one of the last western cartoons you should be scared by, but make no mistake, it is not completely removed from any horror whatsoever, as it's fully committed to descending into nightmare-inducing depths that not even Code Lyoko would be allowed to go. This is not surprising, considering that one of its production companies is known for taking anime to frightening new heights.

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General

• You can always count on any villain to be quite scary. Sometimes their powers are downright apocalyptic, or leave people in conditions that are as good as dead (such as being erased from history in "Timebreaker", or transformed into something inanimate, or any form of brainwashing that totally overwrites your personality). These effects are cast as easily as gesturing in the general direction of the target; none of the usual windup/delay/drawbacks that keep a lid on the enemy's most dangerous powers. No akuma effect seems fixable by anything anyone tries, or wear off with time or even the release of the akuma victim - under normal circumstances, everything a villain has ever done to a victim is 100% permanent, even if they are de-akumatized by Hawk Moth/Monarch himself. Even the more comedic villain effects don't seem as much of a laughing matter when you consider there's no expiration date, Curse Escape Clause, etc. As shown when Monarch allowed himself to be inflicted with a Cataclysm that gradually eats away at his body throughout the fifth season while taking away the Lucky Charm that would have cured him, the show itself would have been much darker without Ladybug's World-Healing Wave.
  • For even more Fridge Horror, remember that said wave is caused by Ladybug returning the item created by her Lucky Charm - which is an ability she can't lead with because it's very energy-consuming. Now... imagine an akumatized object being broken during the course of a battle before she feels the need to use Lucky Charm. That's all it'd take for there to be nothing to be done about any number of innocent Parisians being erased from reality, dancing until they die of exhaustion, or crumbling into piles of glitter.
    • This is somewhat negated in season 3 where it's revealed that she can still summon a Lucky Charm that repairs the damage done even if the akuma was already released and purified, but until then, it was unclear if that would work or not. And what if villain had left her unable to use the power, meaning she had no way to get it back? Sandboy, Silencer, and Miraculer did this to her, and each time she found a way around it, but what if it hadn't worked?
• Since Gabriel targets anyone who experiences a negative emotion, regardless if they are native French speakers or not, really anyone could be transformed at any time anywhere in Paris. Parisians have to walk around with the fear that anyone could be transformed and wreak havoc at literally anytime. It's even worse that some, like Stormy Weather, were scared of being Akumatized before then, and couldn't do anything to stop themselves from doing harm. Leaving it for Ladybug and Cat Noir to save them. A depressed Marinette even lampshades this in Season 5 over her frustration over not fully expressing her feeling without fear of getting Akumatized. Not even his own son Adrien is safe, having Akumatized him in two aborted timelines and only restrained himself from Akumatizing the youth until he gives him an Alliance Ring.
  • Season 2 has confirmed that Hawk Moth specifically targets Marinette's class because he can count on Chloé, who uses her influence as the mayor's daughter to press the school facility into letting her get away with her antics. Imagine parents waving off their children as they go to school having to worry if today is the day a superpowered madman forcibly turn their child into one themself, epspecially a parent with a child like Chloé who willingly accepts the power. But it's worse for Gabriel if a parent knows that he is corrupting their child, Tomoe storming into Gabriel's chambers and violently threatening him for turning her daughter Kagami into Ryukomori.
    • Even worse, "Zombizou" shows that while negative emotions are easier for him to use, even positive emotions can be used to tempt and akumatize others.
    • To add to that, there's something very eerie about him using high school kids as his main pawns. What's scarier is that the majority of his villains are kids, even Manon, a girl not from the school. On several occasions, he's even akumatized a baby with the first time being an accident and deciding to roll with it.
• While Chloé is a mostly friendless spoiled brat, Season 5 paints her history with Marinette in a more negative color as she is revealed to tormented the girl for about three years. Her most notable and loathsome act was manipulating Lê Chiến Kim into pulling a traumatizing prank on Marinette a year before the events of the series, the psychological scars being the sole reason for Marinette's relationship issues with Adrien and Luka. Things would have been much worse if Socqueline Wang have not prevented Chloé from posting the video of the prank online. Even when confronted by Adrien in the present about it, Chloé showed no remorse about making Marinette suffer and justified the incident as upperclass privilege.
• Lila Rossi/Cerise/Iris Verdi presents herself being more dangerous than Chloé and Gabriel, but in subdued yet more horrific way. Being a consummate liar and master actor skilled in diguise, she manipulated her way into numerous families under false identities. It begs the question how she pulled this off multiple times, or if the aliases are fabricated or actual stolen identities. Lila also shows that she does research in those in her crosshairs for extortion purposes (Gabriel) or to destroy them in anyway possible (Marinette). The fact she is aware that Gabriel is Hawk Moth/Monarch prior to gathering intel on his life begs the question if might she uncovered Marinette's identity as Ladybug in the same manner.
  • Lila only got involved with Gabriel thanks to Ladybug calling her out on her lies, being one of the Akumatized villians to she retained her sense of self and willfully get re-Akumatized in forms that reflect her true nature: Volpina in frabricating lies via illusions, Chameleon in assuming others' identities, and Hoaxer in turning people on each other with false information. While she weaseled her way into the fridge of Gabriel's inner circle with the role of keeping Adrien away from "bad influences" like Marinette, Gabriel's act of firing Lila for failing him causes a series of events that allowed her to gain blackmail on both him and Tomoe before acquiring the Butterfly Miraculous.
  • Lila best displays how dangerous she can be when she turned most of Dupont Collège against Marinette on multiple occasions when she refuses her offer of being her friend, socially ostracize her to the point that she's stuck in the bakery more or less for her own safety... and Lila left no evidence of her wrongdoing. She would be one of the very few people who can directly and intentionally push Marinette into leaving herself open to get Akumatized. While forced to leave Dupont Collège, Lila continues to harrass Marinette in high school by creating the identity of Iris Verdi.
  • Lila exploits Chloé into collaborating with her against Marinette, taking advantage of Chloé's resources and privilages before abandoning her to an angry mob once she got what he wanted from their arrangement.
  • Lila also manipulated Kagami, first when being attacked Onichan over 'loving' Adrien and showing her willingness to give up pursing him if the villian killed Ladybug for her and then giving Onichan a chance to do so by faking an injury to lure Cat Noir away from Ladybug. The horn Lila was inflicted with didn't grow bigger either so her offer on giving up on Adrien if she got rid of Ladybug was genuine. Even Gabriel was impressed. Later, Lila then tricks Kagami into believing Marinette doesn't want to be a friend, having the unitentional effect of placing Kagami into a suicidal despression.
  • Also, remember the sinister looks Akumatized people make during assuming their villian form? Here's one for Lila, a Slasher Smile in all its glory.◊
  • Then she becomes the new Hawk Moth after Gabriel's death. And while Gabriel was at his core a Well-Intentioned Extremist, Lila shown none of his redeeming qualities and proves herself to a Superior Successor as her future self once used a time-traveling villian to obtain the Miraculouses for the heroes when they at their weakest.
• The way the police turn on Ladybug and Cat Noir in "Copycat" and "Rogercop". It's as if they're the Clone Troopers who act only upon a single command from whoever is in control of them. It doesn't get any better when the scene transitions to night, where it looks like a manhunt for them has been put into effect.
• A relatively recent video (a fake season 2 promo) featured an Akuma going after Marinette. While it is not canon, it does raise a disturbing line of thought. If we assume that having a Miraculous doesn't make one immune to Hawk Moth's Akumatizing abilities, then Marinette is literally the worst possible person who could be Akumatized. She would immediately hand over her Miraculous, and even if Cat Noir managed to reclaim it, Hawk Moth would know exactly who Ladybug was, and that's the best-case scenario. Worse, Ladybug/Marinette knows exactly how Cat Noir fights, and could likely capture him where the other villains failed, provided she doesn't end up with a garbage power to replace her Miraculous. Even if she fails there, Hawk Moth would have his hands on the only known Miraculous that can purify Akumas and reverse the damage the villains do. Cat Noir would be stuck fighting a losing battle, even if he managed to free Marinette from the Akuma's control. Not to mention we'd likely see a semi-repeat of what happened with Stoneheart. The Akuma that had turned Marinette into a villain multiplying and her guilt over allowing herself to be corrupted ironically allowing Hawk Moth to corrupt her again. Marinette's villainous alter ego would only need to win once. Besides which, we have no idea what happens to a Kwami if the person who holds their Miraculous is Akumatized.
  • Though, he may not find out, if he akumatizes Marinette but she doesn't become anything like Ladybug after. Cat Noir could defeat her without Ladybug around and free the Akuma, and as long as she keeps her emotions under control, Ladybug takes out the Akuma without Adrien or Hawk Moth learning who she is. We see that you don't need to de-evilise the Akuma to bring the Akumatised person back, after all.
  • She still has to de-evilise the Akuma to detransform those who become clones of her akumatized form. Hawk Moth can just keep it hidden somewhere and those people will be statues forever or until she's Akumatized again.
    • As of "Zombizou", non-canon can no longer be said, as Hawk Moth has tried, and luckily failed to akumatize her.
    • And as of "Ladybug", he hasn't just tried. He succeeded. Marinette was briefly akumatized, and was ready to give up her Miraculous before her transformation could even start. If it weren't for Nathalie's health, he would have won before the battle even started.
    • In "Cat Blanc", while his new attempt at akumatizing her is set up in an alternate future, Hawk Moth stated that Marinette will be his masterpiece if he succeeds, a similar word when he refers to Style Queen. Which means that if she gets akumatized, Marinette could potentially become one of his most powerful and dangerous akumatized villains, more powerful than any other.
• According to a tweet Thomas Astruc, The Pied Piper of Hamelin was a past holder of the Fox Miraculous. Now, the question is: why and how did he take 130 children from Hamelin? Do the illusions from the Fox Miraculous allow for hypnosis, too? If it were possible to, say, create a massive Hypno Pendulum, then the Fox Miraculous could well be far more dangerous than initially thought...
• There seems no limit to the range or level of the powers the Butterfly can grant, up to and including power enough to shift the orbit of the planet or destroy the entire universe!
• The Cat Miraculous bestows the wielder the power of destruction. When some fans asked Thomas Astruc on Twitter about what would happen if someone evil becomes the wielder of Cat Miraculous, it would be even more than extremely dangerous. Not to mention, Plagg is the first example of the damage a Kwami can do with without an owner, as he's responsible for sinking Atlantis and once gleefully admits to wiping out the dinosaurs in an act of petty revenge.
  • Cat Blanc goes up to eleven by showing how dangerous and nightmarish the Cat Miraculous's power can become if the owner gets akumatized by removing any limitation, and Driven to Madness to the point that his power can potentially trigger the end of the entire universe.
  • The fifth season also shows what happens when a person is inflicted by a Cat Miraculous holder. While previous scenarios were of instant destruction, notably in the Bad Future that produced Cat Blanc, it can also inflict painfully slow damage similar to terminal cancer that would eventually kill the user.
• The Ladybug Miraculous bestows the wielder the power of creation is as equally danagerous, especially due to the sweet tooth of its Kwami Tikki. It turns out she can develop an addiction to any sweets she never tried before, sporting Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises as she becomes desparate enough that she would resort to stealing or worse create strange weather phenomenon to produce said treats. The worst-cause of the latter being a galette large enough to be on the Torino scale.
• The Snake Miraculous bestows the wielder the power of rewind time, a useful ability but it does not effect the user. Imagine having a terminal illness or on the verge of dying and being unable to personally use the Snake Miraculous to save yourself, or if you lost a limb and can you only reverse the action of the own who commited while your servered limb remains servered. While its Kwami Sass can use his power without a owner to further rewind time to avert a Bad Future scenario, it has the sideffect of dragging in people and things from various timelines.

Season 1

Stormy Weather

• The way Aurore gets Akumatized. She gets stuck in an elevator, which malfunctions, and creeping through the door is the Akuma. Before getting corrupted, you can see she was actually scared of the thing.
  • It's especially unnerving if we assume that she had some idea of what it was going to do to her and was trying to fight it off to avoid becoming a monster. It means that that bit of reluctance became completely irrelevant once the butterfly touched her parasol and Hawk Moth got into her head.
• The first thing Stormy Weather does after her transformation? Trapping Mireille inside an elevator with an ice wall, and leaving while she's begging for help.
• There was also the dangerous icicles nearly sinking in on Alya and Manon while they were trapped inside of ice, all with Alya trying to keep Manon under control.

The Bubbler

• There's the Bubbler trapping the students in bubbles and sending them up to space.
  The Bubbler: Outer space is the next stop for your precious peeps, and they're never coming back!
• A good number of the adults the Bubbler sends up had to have been parents of infants or very small children. Anyone who has children will know that leaving a baby unattended (especially out in the open) is not a good idea.

The Pharaoh

• Pharaoh gains the powers of the Egyptian Gods. He uses these powers to knock Ladybug and Cat Noir around, tossing Cat Noir into a coffin and planning to leave him there, turns people into mummies, and plans to send Alya, a girl younger than him, towards the Sun as part of an ancient sacrifice.

Lady WiFi

• Alya as Lady WiFi. You see her as a friendly person on the surface, but as Lady WiFi, she can be anywhere you can be. Given the fact that she travels through Cyberspace, she could come out of nowhere and take you down without a struggle.
  • When it looks like Ladybug and Cat Noir are running away from Lady WiFi, she attacks them from above and everything echoes, from her laughs to yelling "I've got you now, Ladybug!" If she had more signal to attack the two while they were trapped down below, she would have been able to kill them so easily.
• Also, she traps Cat Noir inside of a freezer, unknowingly causing him to revert back to Adrien. She, with Hawk Moth's help, plan to leave him there to freeze. Instead of just going in there and taking away the Miraculous, it can be assumed that Lady WiFi would have originally meant to leave Ladybug trapped, take her Miraculous and mask first, and then take it from Cat Noir after he's frozen to death.

Timebreaker

• Clearly most of the episode. A Brainwashed and Crazy Alix continuously freezes people in time, first off with Kim, tricking and mocking Rose for help, Mylène and Alya, the second running right after being caught, and, making her the most dangerous, killing Cat Noir! Luckily, Ladybug goes back in time to make sure this never happens.
  • Let's not forget the fact that they're all kids. Yes, kids are erased/killed in a show broadcasted on Nick and Disney Channel.
• The disturbing grins Timebreaker makes during the episode (like in her profile picture).
  • Timebreaker's French voice is also very unnerving, as she sounds deeper and constantly snarls, making her sound like a feral animal and more Ax-Crazy in this version. However, special mention to this psychotic Evil Laugh she makes after spotting Alya in the English dub.
• There's also something chilling about the way things go From Bad to Worse when Ladybug and Timebreaker head into the past. Partially being responsible for the second time Alix's watch is destroyed, with her calling out to Chloé to put it down, everyone stops to hear Alix say something that made the past Marinette scared.
  Past Alix: Ladybug... It's all Ladybug's fault!
  • This is how Marinette looks when Alix blames her. It's quite scary to think how public opinion could turn on you.

Mr. Pigeon

• Mr. Pigeon showing his wrath by kidnapping all of the park keepers. Judging from the way he almost had Ladybug and Cat Noir in a cage earlier on, although with bird poop, he could have something more deadlier planned for the ones who did him wrong.

The Evillustrator

• The Teaser at the beginning. When you see Stormy Weather walking after Marinette, it looks like she remembered who she originally was and went after Marinette after finding out who she was too. Then Lady WiFi appears, and the two incapacitate her without a cinch. Had it not been for Nathaniel's Big Damn Heroes Moment, she would have faced a much worse fate had it not been All Just a Dream.
• In the same episode, the Evillustrator refuses to take the Miraculouses and instead prepares for his date with Marinette. Hawk Moth, being a villain who never wants his pawns to disobey him, uses his Villain Override Abilities to force him to do what he says. Even though he is never seen outside of his lair (or so we think), he can be pretty threatening if he could take control of any villain.
• There's also the Evillustrator's way of causing terror: he can erase any kind of entrance blocking him, find anyone easily, and if he could, erase anyone out of existence. That's the kind of thing that makes him a Reality Warper. Fortunately for most of the episode he's in Poke the Poodle mode, but by the end he's a Not-So-Harmless Villain and tries to kill Chloé.

Dark Cupid

• Cat Noir when Dark Cupid turns him evil. While telling Ladybug he loathes her, he tries to crush her like a grape. When as a villain, he becomes more monstrous, as seen when he wanted to use his Cataclysm against her!
  Evil Cat Noir: I've always wondered what would happen if I used my Cataclysm on someone.
• Dark Cupid encounters Marinette and Alya, two girls he's acquainted with in his class. He shoots an arrow at Alya, the latter despising Marinette and almost cutting a picture of them together if it wasn't for the World-Healing Wave. Imagine if Marinette was struck by the arrow. Like how Cat Noir teams up with Dark Cupid in the episode, Marinette could've gave him her Miraculous and helped him defeat Cat Noir. What's even worse is that she knows Cat Noir only too well.

The Horrificator

• The Jump Scare attacks used in "The Horrificator". Quite shocking when you think about it, especially the screams that follow afterwards.
• Keep in mind that the Horrificator is the kind of villain who wants to kill others through means of suffocation.
• While Horrificator stands out as being relatively inhuman compared to most of the villains, the situation is often more scary the the monster. The Dwindling Party in the beginning and the moment Nathaniel gets sucked behind the desk (complete with some awful sucking and thumping sounds) in particular.

The Puppeteer

• The Puppeteer herself. She can make anyone Brainwashed and Crazy if she happens to hold their plushies and demand they come to life. Bonus points for having the voice of Nui Harime in the English and French versions.
• Hawk Moth corrupted a child, none other than Marinette's charge little Manon. A child that was having a disagreement with her mother over if she could have a certain doll. When Manon's mother realizes what happened to her daughter, the fear on her face is palpable.
  • Before she accepts Hawk Moth's mission, Manon talks with him and manages to anticipate his sayings thanks to her own desire to defeat Ladybug and Cat Noir, all while keeping a creepy tone and sporting an evil smile on her face all along.
• Marinette and Alya's faces when Alya turns back into Lady WiFi. For Alya, she has a split second to realize what's happening, and for Marinette it's an Oh, Crap! moment after lightheartedly stalking Adrien on the train on Alya's advice.
• The return of RogerCop and Evillustrator. Two former akuma victims who have put the trauma behind them suddenly revert to their demonic selves, and have no control.
• Cat Noir is more terrified in this episode than in other ones, when Ladybug deduces that the Puppeteer can control heroes and villains through the plushies that Marinette made, including one of him. The poor guy appears to flashback to when he nearly killed Ladybug after Dark Cupid made him Brainwashed and Crazy.
• Honestly, hearing Carrie Keranen and Bryce Papenbrook talk in a child-like manner while controlled is quite... unnerving.
  Lady WiFi (Puppeteer): I want Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses, to win! Forever and EVER!
  Cat Noir (Puppeteer): I'm gonna get you Ladybug! You'll be super duper sorry!
• Word of God says that if the Puppeteer has a doll of someone across the other side of the world, she can still control them. Nothing Is Scarier than that.

Reflekta

• There's something scary about how Reflekta, with no hesitation, decides to shoot her friend Rose instead of sparing her. Unlike the Evillustrator with Marinette or the Horrificator with Ivan, Juleka really meant it when she told Rose to forget about her, and in the process of becoming a villain, she forgets all sympathy for her too.
• Speaking of which, when Juleka gets akumatized, she goes from shock and awe to one creepy goth.
• In the English Dub of said episode, Reflekta gets a really crazed and insane Evil Laugh that, while sounding better than the original dub, shows how Erin Fitzgerald can truly pull off an evil performance.
• Reflekta's initial attack plays unsettlingly like a school shooting, with her leaping into a crowded room before blasting away at everyone in sight, lots of shots of terrified students hiding as she paces the hallways looking for more targets, and Ladybug and Cat Noir walking in on scenes of people comforting their panicking and traumatized classmates. It's eased by the fact that Reflekta's powers are the least life threatening of any akumatized victim we've seen, but there is still lots of tension there.

Pixelator

• Vincent Asa stands out as one of the creepier akuma victims even before he gets the power to send people into another dimension - a Loony Fan photographer who doesn't care about Jagged Stone's privacy or that of his family, nor does he seem to care about the potential consequences to himself for invading it. One gets the feeling he could have become dangerous without Hawk Moth's help after what happened at the hotel.

Simon Says

• "Simon Says" has so much of this for Adrien that as Cat Noir he's in Let's Get Dangerous! mode for most of it.
  • The amount of fear that Adrien suffers when he hears that the titular akuma wants his father's head on a platter for sabotaging his attempt at winning a competition.
• Adrien's brainwashed bodyguard nearly squeezes Cat Noir to death when the latter is wrestling the former. Cat has to use his Catacylsm to shove his bodyguard down an elevator shaft, which is Nightmare Fuel in itself.
• The many hints that Gabriel is Hawk Moth and deliberately endangered himself so as to get the Miraculous. From commenting on how Simon targeting Gabriel is a risk that Hawk Moth is willing to take, not having a We Will Meet Again rant at the end, and Gabriel noticing Adrien wearing a ring after hugging him. If this theory turns out true, Fridge Horror ensues as a Rewatch Bonus.
• Gabriel's stubbornness about not evacuating or taking safety precautions. He tells Adrien Go to Your Room! when the latter begs him to take care of his safety, reassures Ladybug that he's depending on her to protect him, and tells Cat Noir You Remind Me of X when the latter calls him out for thinking he's invincible. This ends up biting Gabriel in the butt when Simon's brainwashed army crashes the gates and doors, taking him hostage. He was only lucky that Adrien was not taken as well for revenge.
• A brainwashed Gabriel nearly jumping off the TV studio roof; small wonder that Cat Noir chases after him in a panic. Ladybug then forces Cat to stop and help her defeat Simon Says, and Cat has to make that Sadistic Choice and hope that Ladybug's World-Healing Wave will save his father.

Volpina

• Marinette abuses her powers as Ladybug to mercilessly humiliate Lila for telling one Celebrity Lie after another to impress Adrien. Beware the Nice Ones doesn't even begin to cover it, and it shows just how scary Marinette can be when her Green-Eyed Monster comes into effect.
• When Lila becomes Volpina thanks to Ladybug, her illusions can be quite scary when you put them in contrast. She could have destroyed Paris with a meteor, have Hawk Moth out in the open with no limitations to his powers, use an array of weapons at her disposal, destroyed a building and killed several civilians, make clones of herself, and if her illusion of Adrien was real, she could have dropped him and killed him at the same time. Even when she's back to herself, she refuses to forgive her, and the worst part? Hawk Moth implies that she will be back for more.
  • Also, remember that evil grin every one of Hawk Moth's victims makes before transforming into a villain? Here's one for Lila, a Slasher Smile in all its glory.◊
• Cat Noir had to Shoot the Hostage to prove that illusion Adrien was a fake so that Ladybug wouldn't sacrifice her Miraculous. In other words, he had to destroy himself, and he nearly saw his terrified civilian self fall hundreds of feet to a grisly death. Heh heh, good luck sleeping tonight, Adrien!
  • Hawk Moth now knows Ladybug's weakness: Adrien Agreste.

Ladybug & Cat Noir (Origins – Part 1)

• In this episode, that takes place before the first season, we find out that the kwami are meant to be used for good and that Hawk Moth gets his powers by enslaving the moth kwami Nooroo. He igores Nooroo's warnings that something terrible will happen if he abuses the power, which happens multiple times with one Bad Future where he gets killed.
• We also learn that, should Ladybug fail to purify an akuma, said akuma will multiply and possess people at random. When exactly this happens, Marinette is so distressed that she removes her earrings, despite Tikki's protests.

Stoneheart (Origins – Part 2)

• Stoneheart throwing Chloé from the Eiffel Tower at such a great speed that if it were real life, then being caught by Ladybug wouldn't have helped.
• The way Hawk Moth communicates with the heroes: by getting Stoneheart to cough up loads of akumas that form the shape of his head to talk to them. While it's unknown if he could do with this anyone he akumatizes or if it only applied to akumas that hadn't previously been purified, it's still very unsettling to see lots of insects coming out of someone's body.
• Ivan and Mylène almost falling to their deaths, especially in Ivan's case where it happens because he transformed back while hanging from the Eiffel Tower but was unlucky enough for the de-akumatization to cause him to no longer hold on, and because he didn't remember how he got there. Ladybug and Cat Noir have to think fast to save them both and purify the akuma.

Season 2

The Collector

• The fandom's fears are confirmed. Gabriel Agreste is Hawk Moth, and it's implied that he suspects Adrien is Cat Noir.
• Gabriel is normally a Knight Templar Parent who genuinely loves Adrien, despite his obsessive micromanaging of his life. Gabriel as the Collector, on the other hand, shows no qualms about possibly trapping Adrien in his book. And on top of that, as Hawk Moth, Gabriel attempts to kill Cat (who he might suspect is Adrien) on a regular basis.
  • The Collector actually heads for Adrien's bedroom to trap him after taking out Nathalie and the Gorilla.
    The Collector: Adrien? I have a great collection I want to show you...

Despair Bear

• Cat, while possessed by the titular akuma, comes within an inch of using Cataclysm on Ladybug. If not for Chloé's intervention, she wouldn't have survived.
  • Arguably, it's even worse than previous occasions when Cat was Brainwashed and Crazy. When he got affected by Dark Cupid and Princess Fragrance's powers, Cat still went through the usual Stock Footage and song to activate the Cataclysm, so Ladybug saw it coming and had the chance to avoid it; in fact, on both occasions, she actually used the Cataclysm to her advantage to defeat the episode's villain. And, when he got controlled by The Puppeteer, she only wanted to defeat and capture Ladybug, not to kill her, so he didn't use the Cataclysm that time. Despair Bear, however, is a No-Nonsense Nemesis who uses Combat Pragmatism, skipping the whole activation sequence and trying to use the One-Hit Kill right when Ladybug was holding Cat, so she has no chance to avoid the attack by her own.

Prime Queen

• Prime Queen is willing to trap Chloé on a speeding train just to get Ladybug and Cat Noir to confess their feelings for each other. A few minutes later, she locks Alya in a sarcophagus and threatens to drop her into the Seine to get the Miraculouses. Keep in mind that she's not even aware of their importance to Marinette and Adrien - as far as she knows, they're random people who called into her show.
  • Of course, Nadja would recognize Chloé as the Mayor's daughter, and Alya is identified as the Ladyblog's creator, so Nadja isn't using random people as hostages but the closest relative of an important political figure, and someone who Ladybug and Cat would be, at the very least, fond of. Still doesn't make it any better for the victims or the heroes.

La Befana

• Befana turning people into coal, including her own son. Even moreso when you see the non-people objects turned to coal break easily.
• If not to coal, she turns people into fairies... who mindlessly obey her and have white, expressionless masks with blank eyes.

Riposte

• How close Riposte comes to killing Adrien in their initial confrontation.
• Riposte would have slayed Ladybug if Adrien hadn't safed her at the very last moment.
• Hawk Moth turned someone with a grudge against Adrien into an akuma with an Absurdly Sharp Blade. Given Riposte's actions, it indicates that Gabriel values the Miraculouses over his own son.
  • Except that he did stop her from slashing Adrien in half, and ordered her to get Ladybug's Miraculous for him first. It's quite possible that he would deprive her of her powers once she did that.

Robostus

• Almost a parallel to The Puppeteer, Markov is a genuinely sweet little robot who has limited experience with the world, and has never even been separated from his creator before. He becomes Robostus, the akuma closest to taking the Miraculouses from our heroes, and has so far been the only akuma to turn on Hawk Moth and come close to murdering him. Used to Be a Sweet Kid, indeed.
• Robostus' powers were reminiscent to many of the nightmare fuel inducing Skynet. Ladybug and Cat Noir were lucky all Robostus wanted was to Become a Real Boy...
  • Even worse! As soon as Max tells Robostus he will not be friends with a supervillain, Robostus angrily declares that's he's done with humans. Remember this robot already accessed one missile system in the city. That robot apocalypse may have been closer than they thought...
• Max's place as Robostus' hostage is a frightening enough situation on its own, seeing the friend you created bring the city of Paris to chaos and defeat the city's protectors. Then we learn from Master Fu that Robostus would have required a sacrifice to receive the humanity he wanted so much. Max's presence in the firefight suddenly makes even more sense, and becomes even scarier a situation.
  • It's even worse if you remember that Markov's core motivation for becoming human was to be like Max and avoid scrutiny from the staff. Also, he did not know the cost of the wish. Imagine if he did succeed, to find Max dead right next to him...
    • Even worse, Master Fu says that in order for Robostus to become human, someone else would have to lose his humanity. Episode doesn't go into details as to what that means, but likely either Max would die, or suffer something even worse.
• Within seconds of gaining power, Robostus turns every car against its owners and sets to work making his own Devastator.

Gigantitan

• Even though it's Played for Laughs and he was intending to target The Gorilla (itself a case of this as Gabriel was planning to akumatize the man who's responsible for protecting his son), the fact remains that Hawk Moth was willing to use a baby as his newest pawn.
• The giant akumatized baby in general. A Godzilla-sized villain with all the strength that implies combined with all the moral restraint and understanding of consequences of a toddler. To drive the point home, one of the first things the akumatized baby does is almost step on his mother.

Dark Owl

• Dark Owl's Near-Villain Victory is pretty chilling, getting ahold of Ladybug's earring long enough for her to start changing back.
• Dark Owl is also one of the only villains to outright try and kill Ladybug and Cat Noir.
• After being tricked, Hawk Moth orders Dark Owl to "destroy [Ladybug and Cat Noir]!" Again, it's implied that Gabriel knows that Cat Noir is his son.

Sapotis

• The reveal that Hawk Moth can akumatize multiple people with one akuma.
• Once more Hawk Moth is akumatizing children.

Gorizilla

• With Gabriel beginning to suspect that Adrien and Cat Noir are one and the same, Hawk Moth's fears when, as part of her plan, Ladybug has Adrien jump from a building. Intending to catch him, Ladybug is caught by Gorizilla. With Adrien unable to transform in the open and Ladybug caught, Hawk Moth desperately cries for Gorizilla to let her go so she may save him.
  Hawk Moth: If indeed you are Cat Noir, then transform, son! Please... come on, son!... DROP LADYBUG!
• Bear in mind, despite his obvious fear in the above scene, Gabriel / Hawk Moth *still* waited until the last possible second to release Ladybug. Even while watching Adrien fall to his death, he wanted to be sure Adrien either wasn't Cat Noir or really wasn't going to transform.
• The strange room beneath the Agreste mansion. Hoo boy, where to begin?
  • It looks like a mausoleum, but its exact purpose is left vague.
  • The reveal of the room follows a shot of Emilie, making it just about impossible not to connect the two.
  • At the far end of the room, there is something that looks like a casket.
  • The ending music in the final shot is joined by ominous drumbeats that sound eerily like banging, giving the implication that someone or something is inside the casket, and that someone or something is trying to escape!.
  • In "Style Queen" we learn that the room really IS a mausoleum, and Gabriel is seen placing flowers on his wife's casket (with her body inside) to boot!

Captain Hardrock

• When Ladybug and Cat Noir are forced to beach Hardrock's ship so they can free the prisoners safely, the ship comes within inches of hitting some civilians.

Zombizou

• The fact that this is the first time Hawk Moth actually tried to akumatize Marinette. Just think about what would happen if Miss Bustier didn't protect Marinette.
  • Even if Marinette's Miraculous made her immune to actually getting akumatized, all that means is that Hawk Moth would learn who Ladybug is and start going after Marinette directly.
• This episode is basically a Zombie Apocalypse episode with all the tropes it entails, including Dwindling Party and its associated tropes. The group started out with all of Marinette's classmates but Sabrina, Mylène, and Ivan. By the time it ends, everyone is gone, including Cat Noir who performed a Heroic Sacrifice.

Syren

• As of this episode Gabriel is aware that the Miraculous have additional hidden powers and vows to find the only one who knows the recipes to them; Master Fu.
  • If the NY leak about the power-ups is correct then one of the potions grants unlimited access to a Miraculous' superpower; Ladybug may use as many Lucky Charms as she likes and presumably Cat can use as many Cataclysms. If this holds true and Gabriel manages to get a hold of the recipes...unlimited akumas...
    • Considering that the leaked plot for an upcoming episode apparently involves the re-akumatization of many previous villains...
• Then there is Syren herself... A delusional Yandere who can weaponize her own Ocular Gushers and floods the entire city of Paris in just a few minutes. And she did all of this so she could Kim to herself at the bottom a sunken city. Plus considering that there are still people in those buildings, it is most likely that all drowned and died slow and painful deaths. When she said they would sink under her sorrow, she meant it.

Troublemaker

• In a far more mundane example than most on this page, Jagged Stone and the cameras barging into Marinette's room and sharing all her private stuff with the world.
• But in a more troublesome example, Troublemaker managed to take off one of Ladybug's earrings, being the next villain after Dark Owl to nearly see Ladybug's true form. Only this time, Cat Noir was in the room, and Troublemaker was nowhere near defeat.

Sandboy

• Gabriel appears to have some amount of control over Nooroo. How much? He can command Nooroo to stop speaking, and the poor thing has no choice but to obey.
• The various nightmares Sandboy creates get outright disturbing.
  • Marinette's first nightmare, in which an Adrien clone invades her home, creepily climbs up into her bed, and declares his unending love for Chloé. Let's just say you'd be forgiven for thinking he was demonically possessed.
  • When Marinette gets outside, she sees what effect Sandboy has on other people...including civilians getting chased by giant spiders and dinosaurs.
  • Adrien's first nightmare is him getting locked in his room, with no way to get himself out. Considering how much the kid values his freedom…
  • While it's mitigated by the fact that it manifests itself as bedsheet ghosts, Master Fu's nightmare is of his greatest failure–the downfall of the Order of Guardians and the loss of two Miraculouses–coming back to haunt him.
  • Marinette's second nightmare (as Ladybug)? Being powerless. And Sandboy, demonstrating combat pragmatism, hits her just as she's about to use her Lucky Charm.
  • Adrien's second nightmare (as Cat Noir) involves Ladybug not only rejecting his advances, but turning evil to boot.
• After the kwamis accidentally contact Hawk Moth, he immediately tries to enslave all of them with his will, and considering how they react (clutching their head in pain, and in some cases like Pollen, Barkk and Kaalki, falling to their knees), the process is not pleasant at all.
  • Also, what could've happened if the kwamis didn't cut the communication just in time, especially when you take into consideration that Tikki and Plagg, the most powerful of them all, are with them ?
• Hawk Moth/Gabriel now has a good idea on where the other Kwamis are thanks to their communication ritual, and he plans to enslave them all.

Style Queen

• Hawk Moth/Gabriel is horrified to see Adrien being turned into a gold statue by his own akuma. And it gets worse by the fact that Style Queen begins to pull a Darkest Hour by threatening to kill Adrien by making his body slowly crumble into glitter dust.
  Style Queen: Gabriel Agreste, if you refuse to show your face, your son will soon be nothing but GLITTER IN THE WIND!
  • A Freeze-Frame Bonus of Style Queen stands up on her forcefield and Ladybug breaks it after it gets cracked by Plagg's Cataclysm, you can see his lower body already reduced into a pile of glitter dust. He fortunately gets better after Ladybug defeats her.
  • While this is not the first time an akumatized villain has the power to turn people into breakable inanimate objects since Befana, it's clearly show that Adrien as a golden statue is not solid, as shown when Style Queen reduces him into glitter dust, sucks him into her staff and then materializes him into a laying position at the Eiffel Tower.
  • While the way Style Queen holds Adrien as her hostage not only gives some Sleeping Beauty vibe, with her announcement that she will make his body completely disappear into glitter dust in the wind to every Parisian, both Ladybug and Chloé notice that his leg started to crumble. This situation is basically equivalent to Dead Guy on Display.
  • Seeing Adrien as a golden statue, laying on a golden coffin protected by a forcefield might remind someone of a tomb shown in a mausoleum.
• This seems to be the first time we see Gabriel engineer an akuma villain. Without being empowered he ensures Audrey is as furious as possible and seemingly thought around every weakness possible; making Style Queen intangible makes most of Ladybug's attacks futile, teleportation allows her to jump around a battlefield quickly and allowing her to generate force fields means the one actual solid part of her, the rose that holds the akuma, can be safely tucked away almost rendering her without any weaknesses. Almost.
• It turns out, Plagg can use Cataclysm without Adrien. Except Cat Noir is a vital Power Limiter. The subsequent blast devastated half of Paris, starting with toppling the Eiffel tower, and tearing up absolutely everything in the area, easily surpassing the damage Style Queen herself caused. And it kept on growing. Plagg even seemed scared of it himself, telling Ladybug she had to fix everything quickly. It's implied he held back as much as he possibly could, and in the past, it wiped out the dinosaurs.

Queen Wasp

• As of this episode, two things have been made clear. 1.) Those who have been akumatized before can be akumatized again, and 2.) Even those wielding the Miraculous can be akumatized.
• While Chloé was never an ideal candidate to receive a Miraculous it's a good thing she found it. Whilst Chloé's primary motivation is proving herself "exceptional" to her mother, and granted she does cause some significant chaos, imagine what someone with much more insidious intent could do with a Miraculous that grants the power of paralysis...

Malediktator

• When André "Poster Child For Political Power Abuse" Bourgeois gets akumatized, he gets mind control powers. Yeah...

Frozer

• Just like Syren, Frozer demonstrates the world-altering powers an akuma villain can possess. How long did it take him to render Paris a frozen wasteland? A few minutes? Less?

Catalyst

• Gabriel and Nathalie have video surveillance on Lila's apartment. It seems that they were spying on a teenage girl for several months.
• Through the titular akuma, Hawk Moth is able to reakumatize those who were akumatized before. Not only that, but also he and his villains have turned red.
  • Whenever an akuma is spotted before it hits the target, like in Stormy Weather and Zombizou, it always induces an incredible amount of fear. That's with a single regular akuma. Imagine how terrified the Parisians were when an entire swarm of blood red akumas descended upon Paris.
• Volpina creates an illusion of Cat Noir being destroyed by his own Cataclysm. Fake though it may be, we nevertheless get to see Cat Noir petrify and then crumble into dust.

Mayura

• Chloé finds out first-hand why you never reveal your identity to anyone. Any battle that she's in from here on out has a chance of getting her parents kidnapped or killed. Also, even if she gives up the Miraculous and a new Queen Bee takes her place, there's a chance they could be targeted.
• The giant moth creature Nathalie creates with the Peacock Miraculous when Hawk Moth is about to be captured by the heroes. And then there's how creating it makes her so tired that she can barely stand.

Season 3

Chameleon

• Whilst this isn't the first time Lila willingly chooses to be akumatized, it is the first time we see anyone grab an akuma and accept its power. Lila even initiates the conversation between herself and Hawk Moth.
• As Ladybug and Cat Noir take off, Lila's face falls from smiling to a dark rage. It's incredibly unsettling to see the anger Lila has towards superheroes to the point she'd choose to help a terrorist.
• The plan to extract the akuma from Lila's earrings run into a pinch when she keeps transforming into people that don't have that jewelry on them. The solution? Trick Lila into transforming into a clam and crack her open, splitting her in half.

Animaestro

• This villain falls straight to the Unintentional Uncanny Valley since the characters he transform into are animated in 2D, plus the way that Animaestro looks is pretty disturbing and cringe inducing. It didn't help that Thomas Astruc (The show's director) was the one that got akumatized into this villain.

Backwarder

• Master Fu and Marianne's flashback at the beginning is rife with subtle Nightmare Fuel. First of all, even though the word is never actually said, the two of them are fleeing France from the Nazis. This is disturbing enough, but then there's also Fu's chilling conclusion that, should any of the Miraculous fall into enemy hands, it could mean the end of the world.

Reflekdoll

• Duusu's black/red eyes and her sudden mood swings are very unsettling. Nooroo is shocked to see her like that. Something is clearly wrong with that kwami.
  • Although, considering the fact that she's the kwami of Emotion, it's to be expected that she's very emotional.
• Nathalie's health continues to decline after using her damaged Miraculous again.
• Hawk Moth calls on Nathalie's self-destructive help without the slightest hesitation, and only shows a trace of concern at the end.

Silencer

• Luka's Death Glare after being corrupted by the akuma is quite frightening, especially when you know how calm and laid-back he usually is.
• The way Silencer uses his powers is rather chilling: He puts two fingers to his victims' lips, one to his own, and whispers "Shhhh..." It's very soft, almost as if he was trying to calm someone down instead of stealing their voice. In other words, it's scary in the same way that the Soft-Spoken Sadist trope is scary.

Onichan

• The fact that Hawk Moth sends Onichan after a teenage girl to get rid of her is unsettling.
• The forehead horn that Onichan curses Lila with that grows with every lie she tells and acts as a honing beacon for the supervillain, combined with Onichan's relentless and vengeful nature, certainly made Lila fear for her life. After all, no matter where Lila goes or how fast she runs... Onichan. Will. Find. Her!
• It's rather disturbing seeing Lila casually manipulate Onichan into killing Ladybug. Her horn didn't grow bigger either so her offer on giving up on Adrien if she got rid of Ladybug was genuine. Even Hawk Moth was impressed. Later, she even fakes an injury to lure Cat away so Ladybug will be alone with Onichan.

Miraculer

• There are many insidious implications of Chloé's identity being public knowledge but there's something particularly unsettling and creepy about Mayura just...watching Chloé while she's at home.
• Gabriel and Nathalie smiling as they manipulate Lila into provoking Chloé's akumatisation is terrifying enough, but the idea of an unknown adult pulling up in a car to discreetly talk to a teenage girl through a park gate is especially sinister.
• Cat Noir is hit by a Cataclysm. It does not kill him but he ends up unable to walk properly, and can barely get his words out afterwards. Since Cataclysm destroys whatever it hits, odds are Adrien's bones got disintegrated! Yikes!

Oblivio

• Marinette and Adrien wake up without their memories and realize that they are hunted by an unseen yet powerful and dangerous enemy that is always close behind them.
• Hawk Moth knows that the Montparnasse Tower has been evacuated and that the only ones inside the tower aside from Oblivio are the two heroes. If he remembered to bring his phone with him, he could have learned BOTH of our heroes' identities (since Adrien learns Marinette's identity before he makes the call). Though, with Gabriel being Gabriel, he probably wouldn't have picked up anyway.
• Oblivio itself is hyper scary once you realize it's just a featureless, intangible sillhouette whose voice is an otherworldy-sounding mix of Alya and Nino's, making it akin to a Creepypasta monster. It's easily the most alien of any of Hawk Moth's akumatized villains.

Desperada

• Ladybug and her allies were defeated more than 25,913 times. If it weren't for the Second Chances or if Desperada took out Aspik/Viperion first just once, Hawk Moth would have been victorious and gotten three extremely powerful Miraculouses.

Startrain

• If Marinette hadn't the Horse Miraculous with her the startrain and its passengers would never found their way back to earth again. They would be lost in space. With no lasting supply of food, water or air their end would have been horrible.
  • Even if they somehow found their way back (Ladybug's world-healing wave took the train back to the tracks after all), Marinette not having the Horse Miraculous would have clued Hawk Moth to the fact Ladybug and Cat Noir were already inside the train.

Kwamibuster

• Kwamibuster actually manages to capture Tikki and Plagg so that Marinette and Adrien remain powerless. She also comes dangerously close to finding out their secret identities several times, and even if she wouldn't remember them after being de-akumatized, Hawk Moth would.
• Hawk Moth realizes how many Miraculouses Master Fu is protecting. He plans to get them all so that he can create an army of Mirculous wearing supervillains.
  • If Marinette had failed, he would have no less than 18 Miraculouses and Kwamis under his control while Master Fu and Wayzz would be the only ones left to oppose him.

Feast

• Feast is an ancient and powerful sentimonster that will not stop until it has devoured every Miraculous that exists and it will do the same with everything and everyone who gets in his way. What is even worse is that Hawk Moth gives it the power to track down the Miraculouses no matter where they are so it was able to find it's way to Master Fu immediately.
  • It would also be able to track down Adrien and Marinette who are sleeping at that time and would be taken by surprise.
• Adrien's mother used to have the same dizzy spells Nathalie is experiencing. It is not unlikely that she will suffer the same fate.
• Hawk Moth learns Master Fu's identity and is now more determined to succeed than ever.
• Now the whole world including Hawk Moth knows that the temple in Tibet has reappeared and that it contains many Miraculouses. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Gamer 2.0

• Ladybug and Cat Noir have to compete in a real-life video game tournament with their former akumatized villains as their fighters in order to free them. Most of those fighters are sympathetic people, many of them are their friends, and some are part of Ladybug's family.

Stormy Weather 2

• Stormy Weather announces her return by creating a massive volcano in the middle of Paris and then proceeds to use said volcano like a massive booster rocket to knock the planet out of orbit. That's right, one of the earliest villains Ladybug and Cat Noir ever faced had world-ending potential the whole time.

Ikari Gozen

• Hawk Moth has found out Master Fu’s identity so he had to go into hiding.
• Ikari Gozen swallows her own daughter (twice) and declares that she will never let her out again.

Timetagger

• Timetagger sends Bunnyx into different time periods; among them the year AD 79. He declares that things are going to heat up and when Bunnyx returns, she is exhausted and surrounded by smoke. It is very likely that she was sent to Pompeii during the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
• In the future there will be a new Hawk Moth who seems to be even more dangerous than the present one. Gabriel Agreste is deeply concerned about this information, the fifth season adding salt to the wound by having him be the one who potential set that event in motion.
  • The Butterfly Miraculous is taken from Gabriel Agreste; that means there is another one who knew his secret identity, someone who didn't stay loyal to him to keep that secret like Nathalie. Later episodes hint that someone to be Lila, who kept the information to herself. Imagine if future Adrien learned that information himself and not get akumatized as a result...
• Beyond the new Hawk Moth in the future the Miraculous Team has also made other enemies they've had to deal with including what seems to be a mad scientist, a dark counterpart of superheroine Majestia, and even a hostile alien army. As cool as these exploits are, it looks like the future is gonna be a pretty dangerous place and things will only escalate. According to Bunnyx in the future Ladybug will have to organize and command an entire extended team in order to deal with Paris's many crises.
• One of the periods Timetagger sends Bunnyx to is the far future in the middle of what he calls the 7th Interplanetary War. Kind of frightening to think that not only will there will space wars in Earth's future, but at least 7 of them.
• When Timetagger has Bunnyx defeated and at his mercy, he threatens to get rid of her by sending her back in time before the Big Bang.
  • Among the enemies Bunnyx listed, there is "Twin Queens of the Inner World". And there is only one set of twin girls in the show so far...
• To top it all off, near the end of the episode, we see that Lila is babysitting both Chris and the twins, and Chris is already completely enamored with her... given that Chris becomes Timetagger in the future and the twins are likely candidates to become the "Twin Queens of the Inner World", might it be possible that Lila is the the one manipulating them and akumatizing them in the future? Could she be the one who won't stay loyal to Gabriel after she finds out his secret? Have we just discovered the identity of the Future Hawk Moth? Imagine Lila Rossi becoming the most dangerous threat of them all in the future... Worse when it turns Gabriel out that his actions o Lila acquiring his Miraculous following after his final battle with Marinette.

Party Crasher

• Markov accidentally redirects all of the power in Agreste Mansion to the music system; including the power going to Emilie’s life support and the elevator to Hawk Moth's lair. Adrien’s mom almost dies and Gabriel is powerless to do something because he is trapped.
• Party Crasher may look silly but he is able to predict the attacks of his opponents and manages to defeat and capture Ladybug, Viperion, Carapace, Pegasus, and Cat Noir before Monkey King can finally turn the battle. He is one one of the most dangerous villains the heroes has ever faced.
  • He's the only akumatized villain thus far to successfully take out Ladybug and leave Cat Noir without her, instead of the usual reverse. She's been crippled by an akumatized villain before but always managed to use her wits and some help from Cat Noir to turn it around. Not here. She's helpless until Monkey King saves her.
  • Party Crasher's victims are trapped in single mirror panes, unable to move but possibly still conscious, and stuck that way forever unless the mirror is broken.

The Puppeteer 2

• The wax figures of Musée Grévin (among them many supervillains) come to life and attack everyone.
  • Nino and Alya are surprised and captured by statues of Lady WiFi and the Bubbler.
  • Adrien and Marinette are attacked by a statue of Hawk Moth himself. Adrien fights it, but he doesn't stand a chance and is almost killed.
• The Puppeteer uses the wax figures of Ladybug and Cat Noir to catch their respective partner off guard by pretending to be the real one.
• The Puppeteer threatens to dip two hostages in boiling wax.

Cat Blanc

• As soon as he learns that his son is Cat Noir, Gabriel plans to akumatize him so that he can get his Miraculous. And unlike Nathalie he goes through with his plan without any qualms or regrets. If there were any doubts about Gabriel truly being a bad person, let this moment alone vanquish them all.
• Hawk Moth manages to akumatize Cat Noir with a conflicted Cat Blanc's first actions are killing his girlfriend and his own father, destroying a chunk of the moon and flooding all of Paris.
• In the Bad Future Paris is in ruins and flooded. All the Parisians (including Ladybug and Hawk Moth) have become statues and the only survivor seems to be Cat Blanc.
  • When Cat Blanc sends Ladybug underwater, she witnesses all the Parisians submerged and turned into statues, including herself and Hawk Moth, and as she touches her alternate self's statue, it suddenly decomposes into nothing. Marinette basically saw her own dead body fading away before her eyes.
• Everything about Cat Blanc is very unsettling:
  • There's the cause of Adrien's akumatization: the anger, grief and confusion of learning Hawk Moth is his father and his mother is still alive but in a coma.
  • Cat Blanc didn’t even mean to destroy Paris and kill everyone in it. Unable to aim the Cataclysm at the love of his life or his villainous father, he turned it on himself and essentially tried to commit suicide to avoid harming the people he loved; the backlash of this attempt is what destroyed the city. And imagine how he felt when he came to after trying to sacrifice himself only to see his home destroyed and everyone dead and it was all his fault. No wonder Cat Blanc had gone mad by the time Ladybug arrived.
  • Although Hawk Moth is killed by Cat Blanc, instead of turning back into Cat Noir, he still remains akumatized. After Bunnyx brings the main timeline's Ladybug to his, she finds out that Cat Noir has been akumatized and now suffers from nasty mental instability, with his behavior constantly changing from being in love with Ladybug, to trying to kill her and back again as his old self in the blink of an eye. Which makes you wonder how long he has been akumatized and alone in the ruins of Paris, which certainly shattered his mental and emotional state.
    • According to Thomas Astruc on his Twitter account, Cat Blanc was spending his time alone by himself in the ruins of Paris, singing and waiting for Ladybug for MONTHS. Just try to imagine what he is doing aside from singing and waiting, and how he survives without any help from anyone. Cat Blanc basically lives with something that he fears during his whole life: being isolated or alone from his loved ones. If Bunnyx didn't teleport the main timeline's Ladybug, this poor boy would be akumatized for the rest of his life, and there would be no hope that he will return to Adrien/Cat Noir, since he killed his Ladybug.
  • While his singing about a "little kitty on the roof, all alone without his lady" is count as tear-jerker, this moment is also very disturbing because Cat Blanc sings this with a flat and lifeless tone, in the middle of Paris' ruins. After we saw his mental state, you can think that his song also count as his Madness Mantra.
  • Cat Blanc's behavior when he is excited to see Ladybug again by circling her and suddenly grabbing her earrings reminds you of a wild predator targeting their prey, becoming ready to hunt them. Also, the way he speaks to Ladybug is very unsettling, as his voice sounds raspier and angrier. Not to mention he always randomly shows his Slasher Smile with Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises every time he is about to attack her◊. Keep in mind that it's Adrien we're talking about.
  • The way Cat Blanc threatens Ladybug on the base of the ruined Eiffel Tower by pointing a finger-flick Cataclysm at her and walking towards her until she gives up her Miraculous quite looks like he has a gun pointed at her.
  • What is even worse is that his power seems to have absolutely no limits and that he is able and willing to destroy the WHOLE GALAXY, and this is at minimum; Bunnyx flat out states that the after-effects of his attack will destroy the ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
• Bunnyx is literally running out of time as she is starting to dissipate. If Ladybug fails to persuade Cat Blanc, all of them including the entire universe will completely disappear from existence.
• The episode implies Gabriel is starting to take interest in Marinette as a potential Akuma. And while the event in the bad timeline was stopped, who's to say he still doesn't believe that in the corrected one and might try again? (He does, with his attack through Lila in "Ladybug" and then two more times in "Elation" and "Derision").
• Learning that Ladybug and Cat Noir are people that might be sympathetic to him and Gabriel only cares about exploiting it for Akuma, which suggests he has no intention of any kind of negotiation or deal to cooperate. It seems he'll only accept defeating them or having them surrender to him on his terms alone and give Gabriel total control of both their Miraculous and it's complete power without any input from them. Looking at that it seems like they'll end up fighting to the bitter end with no hope of a happy end to that plotline.
• The mere fact that Gabriel will force his son to break up with anyone he becomes romantically involved with just to akumatize his heartbroken partner. There is virtually no level Gabriel isn't willing to stoop to so long as it gives him a mere chance to achieve victory.

Félix

• Since this episode takes place after "Cat Blanc", the moment when Gabriel tries to talk with Adrien about revealing his identity as Hawk Moth and about Emilie's real condition falls into Fridge Horror.
  • What is the real reason for Gabriel to confess this, did he want Adrien to just understand him? Or did he want Adrien to aid him in taking Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses? Since we already know Adrien's reaction to this revelation from the previous episode, is it foreshadowing Cat Blanc will eventually appear in the main timeline?
• Félix has no qualms to ruin Adrien's reputation. He even goes so far as to work with supervillains to get what he wants. And despite his fake apology, he has no regrets.
• When Gabriel realizes that Félix stole his ring, he is beyond furious. This is far from over and might not end well for Félix.
• Félix, disguised as Adrien, tries to put the moves on Ladybug while the cutesy music becomes disjointed and just plain creepy, and even tries to forcefully kiss her without her consent. Does This Remind You of Anything?
  • What’s worse is that we’d just seen Félix fight 3 Akumas to a draw, so it’s not hard to fear that Ladybug would have a hard time defending herself from him.

Ladybug

• If Hawk Moth hadn't been distracted at the very last moment, Marinette would have been akumatized and nothing would have stopped her from bringing him her Miraculous. She was already about to take off her earrings...
• Nathalie's health is getting worse and worse, and it's implied that using the Peacock Miraculous is what caused Emilie to be in her current state.
• Mayura destroys the sentient Ladybug Sentimonster the moment she sides with the heroes. Basically, Ladybug sees her own death, and Cat Noir sees his beloved dying, with him totally unable to rescue her.
  • Mayura's callous destruction of the false Ladybug and Hawk Moth mocking them for caring about a magical creation is kind of disturbing, especially given how Hawk Moth treats Nooroo. They clearly just see magical beings as things to be used and nothing more.
• Marinette's predicament. The idea of being falsely accused is bad enough, but Lila manages to turn the whole school against her and socially ostracize her to the point that she's stuck in the bakery more or less for her own safety... and of course Lila left no evidence of her wrongdoing, making it impossible to prove the accusations false. If Adrien hadn't stepped in to help her out, she could still be in that situation.
• This episode shows just how helpless Marinette can be if it's not a situation she can superhero out of. She and Alya couldn't get anything on Lila and Adrien had to basically cave to her to get Lila to fix the situation on her own terms. And for everyone expecting Marinette to heroically shrug off an Akuma like Chloé did out of a sense of duty or what not she gave in just as easily as everyone else typically does and was only saved by dumb luck.

Heart Hunter

• Heart Hunter's design is very unsettling, being a grotesque floating head with two faces. And that's not even getting into what they can do to anyone who feels any kind of love.
  • Okay, let's get into it. They seek to consume love in all its forms. If they detect any form of love in someone, the Audrey face will use its Eye Beams to reduce them to just their love, which the André face promptly devours using its Vacuum Mouth. Oh, and this isn't undone when Hawk Moth de-akumatizes them, Ladybug still has to use the Miraculous cure to bring everyone back.
• Hawk Moth and Mayura manage to find and capture Master Fu and to get hold of the Miracle Box. Now they have every Miraculous except the Ladybug, Cat, and Dragon.
• Hawk Moth convinces Chloé to join him so she can get revenge on Ladybug. She even lets herself be akumatized willingly.

Miracle Queen

• Pegasus sending Snake Noir through a portal to the sun. If he hadn't had the Snake Miraculous, he would have been burned alive.
  • Imagine Gabriel learning both the Black Cat Miraculous and his son were jettisoned into deep space to be destroyed by the sun. Not only would it have been impossible to enact his plan, he would have been left with nothing. And it would have been all his fault.
  • Actually, it would be far worse than just being burned alive. There are gamma rays and toxic gases to worry about too, and since Adrien wasn’t close enough to just disintegrate, being exposed in the middle of space could have easily just made his lungs explode and failing that, boil bim from the inside and kill him in seconds.
• Hawk Moth knowing the secret identity of every Miraculous holder except Ladybug, Cat Noir and Bunnyx. And since the Miraculous cure transported them back to where they were before, it's possible that they don't even know their identities were revealed.
• Gabriel manages to fix the Peacock Miraculous. Now he finally has two working Miraculouses and doesn't have to worry about any consequences.

Season 4

Lies

• Lies' power creates a dome of eerie light around her which paralyzes everyone who's ever told a lie. And since people lie all the time, she leaves a trail of paralyzed bodies behind her wherever she goes.

Queen Banana

• After Chloé is akumatized she is just as furious and upset as before. Hawk Moth immediately sends a second akuma after her and implies that he can repeat this as often as he wants since Chloé's anger is infinite. The akuma reaches Chloé only seconds after she accepts the magical charm.

Gabriel Agreste

• Gabriel (or rather the sentimonster of him) confronts Félix and coldly threatens to destroy his life, telling him he can make him disappear with the snap of his fingers.

Mega Leech

• The titular Mega Leech allows Malediktator to clone himself into tiny versions of him, which creepily crawl onto people like bugs, walk into their ears and take control of their bodies. And there are MILLIONS of them!
  • The design itself is really unsettling and borderline disturbing especially for anyone who has Trypophobia. It takes a form of giant blue leech with many eyes on its entire body. Brrr...

Guiltrip

• Rose's chronic illness which she kept from all her classmates but Juleka, fearing everyone would treat her differently due to frequent trips to the nurse's office. Juleka is also affected as Rose's Secret-Keeper in not wanting to let her friend down while also fearing she would not be able to help her in the long run.
• Guiltrip's guilt bubbles were so powerful, they nearly got Cat Noir to Cataclysm himself. If Ladybug hadn't been there to pull his hand away, he would have died.

Crocoduel

• In an unintentional example, since Cat Noir has no idea who Purple Tigress is under the mask, and since he's committed to his flirty persona, he ends up flirting with Juleka, who very clearly looks uncomfortable. It's particularly unsettling given how considerate Adrien usually is towards Juleka.
• Imagine you and your (ex)partner after being freed from some sort of demonic possession, wind up dropping to the ground from presumably hundreds even thousands of feet in the air, crushing innocent civilians underneath the weight of the ship, your home...

Optigami

• Nathalie created a sentimonster that spied on the exposed heroes for a longer time to find out who Ladybug is. Nobody has ever noticed it. It is only a lucky coincidence that it never followed Alya into Marinette's room.
• Gabriel realizes that Alya plays an important role in Ladybug's team and decides to focus on her. He is getting closer and closer to Marinette.
• Kaalki teleporting the Eiffel Tower into a desert and the Arc de Triomphe onto the moon is hilarious. It stops being funny when a train ends up under the sea, a skyscraper in an active volcano and several vehicles in space.
• We see yet again just how bad it can be if Shadow Moth knows someone's identity even if they're not given a Miraculous and even if they're not someone he can manipulate to betray Ladybug like Chloé using Style Queen and Optigami in sync, he slowly picks off the other heroes one by one while they have no idea they're being singled out, and predict and control Ladybug's actions by giving her a fake Nino as her only option for backup. Even though Alya manages to evade him, she's completely unaware that Nino is a fake, because as Adrien's friend who's over his house, he's familiar enough with him to almost perfectly impersonate him, and he's familiar with how to use the Turtle Miraculous because of his battle with Jade Turtle last season.
• There's something oddly terrifying about Style Queen just flying through the building turning everyone she finds into glitter (and not even glitter statues this time, all the victims instead collapse into piles of glitter). There's no place safe from her; not the vents, not the door (as shown by people frantically trying to get out the glittered shut doors before she finds them) and the only reason the elevator is safe is because Shadow Moth lies to her that nobody is in there to protect Adrien. She basically goes on a mass murder spree in the building that only Ladybug can reverse.

Sentibubbler

• Shadow Moth capturing Alya's whole family, Marinette and Nino and threatening to send them into space if Alya does not work with him. Later he lets them fall into their doom and only Ladybug´s quick reaction prevents a tragedy. The worst is that Gabriel doesn't have an iota of remorse.
• Marinette's nightmare early in the episode. Alya reveals her identity as Rena Rouge to her family and allows Trixx to eat at the table openly, and when Marinette protests, Alya slyly reveals Ladybug's identity, then walks over to the balcony to let Shadow Moth inside, Miracle Box in his hands. But when Marinette tries to run to transform, she's stopped by none other than Cat Blanc, who creepily tells her she doesn't have to hide anymore. Poor Marinette can only whimper in terror as the entire group zombie walks towards her.

Wishmaker

• Adrien's spiral into depression is played entirely realistic, given the culmination of the last couple of episodes. He firmly believes that he will no longer be of any use to the team with the sheer volume of allies Ladybug has recruited, compounded by the fact he is being left in the dark about their identities, instead of being an equal partner in the team. Furthermore, Nino's secret from the prior episode has shook his faith in Ladybug, with the whole "rules only seem to apply to me" thing. Now his lack of ambition is fueling his depression, which is causing major problems in his crime fighting.
• It gets to the point where he ends up taking the hit from Wishmaker deliberately, just to find out what his childhood dream was as he doesn't remember. While Marinette had the goofy looking but still relatively normal knitting fairy, Adrien transforms into... Adrien. His entire dream was to be what his parents wanted him to be. In other words, this 14 year old boy has no true ambitions of his own, and now has severe depression working against him following his breakup with Kagami earlier on in the season. Poor guy really needs a hug, and a vacation.

Qilin

• The entire scene with Sabine on the bus plays out with frightening realism, where a guy in a position of authority harasses and accuses an innocent person of a crime, refuses to even consider that her story is correct, and abuses said authority to bully her and get her into trouble just because he can. Then once police get involved, he acts scared of her, as if she is going to pull a weapon on him, telling Roger she is dangerous. The way the scene plays out can also be taken as a realistic portrayal of racial profiling.

Dearest Family

• Gabriel creates the Megakumas, which are capable of destroying Ladybug's charms which means her one defence against his magic is rendered null.
• Tikki's hunger when she develops a craving for the Dupain-Cheng family's galettes becomes this as she begins eating every galette she can find without care and even threatens to create a giant galette as big as the sun. Even turning into Ladybug causes Marinette to develop the same cravings. A NF made nasty because Fanon likes to portray Tikki as having a scary side, making this a nasty Cerebus Retcon Ascended Fanon.
• Gabriel has now devolved into a full-on Misanthrope Supreme if The Stinger is anything to go by, declaring to his comatose wife that once he gets the Miraculous, he will use them to destroy the entire frickin' world for taking her away from him and create a new one where they can be together again!

Ephemeral

• Moolak's face is rather disturbing.
• We get a first glimpse of what it looks like for someone to use the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses to make a wish. And it is terrifying. Only a bright red flash is shown from outside Marinette's room, and the Kwamis seeing it causes them to freak out. Sass explains to a confused Luka that this isn't no ordinary reality changing wish. Their entire world will be erased and rewritten like a sentence in a notepad so that Gabriel will get Emilie back. Imagine that you're an ordinary Parisian working through your day, wondering if there will be an Akuma, and a red flash appears in the sky. You don't know what's happening, this has never happened before, and suddenly, you get erased along with your loved ones. No wonder Sass had to use his unhindered powers to stop this.
  • The kwamis' reaction implies that this has happened before.
• Once again, we get to see just how horrifying the relationship between Gabriel and Adrien really is. First, when Gabriel realizes his son is Cat Noir, he brings him to where he’s keeping his mother. He then infects him with an Akuma, and when Adrien tries to fight back, he is able to cow Adrien into submission by simply telling him to obey. This one simple word immediately destroys Adrien’s will to fight back, and he removes his ring, hands it to his father and is akumatized, dooming that timeline.
  • Plagg doesn’t get it easy either: As soon as Shadow Moth puts on the ring, he immediately tries to use Cataclysm on Shadow Moth, only to be stopped as Shadow Moth is his new master. Just for him and Adrien to be forced to obey Gabriel like they are just slaves to him is just horrifying.

Risk

• The fact that Risk and his powers are so unnoticeable: at first glance, he is seemingly just a normal boy on a bicycle and nobody who gets infected realizes anything. This enables him to make his way through Paris, infecting the whole population (including all the heroes) with no one to stop him.
• Imagine being in Félix's position. You discover your cousin is being forced to do something he doesn't want to do, and resolve to help him out. When you get there, you discover that he is being browbeaten into submission, and know that he has some way of countering it, because it is a secret he is privy to. Then in your digging you not only discover proof of your relative being a global terrorist (due to the events of New York), but discover an even bigger secret that you weren't privy to - your dead aunt is not only not dead, but is being stored under the streets of Paris by a terrorist for an unknown reason. Bear in mind, Adrien and Félix are 14-15 years old; and he just saw for all intents and purposes his aunt's corpse being trussed up like a museum piece.

Strike Back

• Strike Back is easily the most horrifically overpowered Sentimonster in the whole series. It's Nigh-Invulnerable and is able to absorb and mimic the attacks of its foes like a giant humanoid metallic evil Kirby. It therefore manages to achieve such abilities as duplicating itself and even performing Cataclysm on a building, narrowly missing Cat Noir. It soon turns the entire sky an apocalyptic red and orange, something not even Cat Blanc had done in his timeline.
• The heroes manage to defeat the Strike Backs by dropping them into the Sun. There was likely no other way to safely dispel them, but what a horrifying way to go.
• Simply by agreeing to trade the Peacock Miraculous with Félix in exchange for the latter using the Dog Miraculous to fetch the rest without Ladybug being any the wiser, Gabriel gains full control of every single Miraculous in France other than the Ladybug, Black Cat, and Peacock. The final shot is that of his giant, dark floating head made of Megakumas, all while he shows off his newfound unlimited power by displaying the symbol of every last Miraculous he's obtained - and he vows to launch a never-ending series of onslaughts against the entirety of Paris as long as nobody brings him the Ladybug and Black Cat, promising to loom over them day and night. There are only two Parisian heroes left to fight him. Worse still, with the power he holds, he could take it much, much further than simply France.
  • Hell, the fact Félix actually went through with it! He knows all these shady stuff, but instead of doing anything good with it (like telling them Shadow Moth's identity for a start), he practically gave Shadow Moth the means to finalize his plans all just to get the Peacock Miraculous.
  • Gabriel weaponizes the power of the Turtle to create an invincible barrier around his giant projection. He's literally untouchable now. He just got upgraded from Laughably Evil to Invincible Villain.
• Lila witnesses Nathalie having a violent coughing fit on the plane and smiles to herself. How creepy. Just what is that girl planning?

Season 5

Evolution

• The poor Kwamis are completely at the mercy of Gabriel who treats them like slaves, is quick to abuse and lash out at them and is starting to lose his mind. The episode ends with the Kwamis watching in horror as Gabriel has a Villainous Breakdown.

Multiplication

• Once again Gabriel terrorizes the poor Kwamis and swears that Tikki and Plagg will soon join them.
• The Alliance rings are quite a worrying concept; on top of The Reveal that Gabriel and Tomoe came up with the Alliance rings to spread their influence over Paris, these rings, as Ikari Gozen demonstrated, also have the purpose to upgrade Monarch's villains with Miraculous powers. Now remember that some of these can be really dangerous...
• Ikari Gozen returns, but instead of just one giant akumatized car-centaur hybrid, a whole flock of them are rampaging through Paris and destroying everything. Monarch wasn't beating around the bushes when it came to empowering his villains. What's worse is that her real identity, Tomoe, deliberately got akumatized to test out the Alliance rings, meaning all this was done willingly.

Destruction

• Monarch is cornered by Ladybug and Cat Noir after a fake scavanger hunt the heroine organized herself leads him into an ambush. He nonetheless escapes... by allowing Cat Noir to accidentally Cataclysm him. Consequently, when he detransforms, his arm has a large, nasty-looking black scar that cannot be instantly healed due to taking Ladybug's lucky charm with him. In short, it took Gabriel a very near-fatal move to escape the heroes' clutches, and Cat Noir is justifiably horrified at what just happened. Later episodes show the consequences of Gabriel's gambit as he is slowly dying in a matter similar to terminal Cancer.
• The poor Kwamis are trapped in transparent fishbowl-like cages as they witness Gabriel destroy their Miraculous and reshape them into rings.

Jubilation

• After escaping the Lotus-Eater Machine set by Darker Owl, Cat Noir is so enraged at him for toying with his feelings that he prepares to Cataclysm him. Considering that just one episode ago he was horrified and felt immense guilt over accidentally Cataclysming Monarch because even he didn't deserve that done to him, the idea that he would intentionally try to kill someone with this power is downright terrifying (not to mention a very good indicator of just how unbelievably pissed he was). Thankfully, his better nature won out and he just destroys his mask containing the Akuma, but still, this is yet another chilling reminder that pissing off someone who has the power to destroy anything he touches is never a good idea.

Passion

• Gabriel revealing he is dying to Nathalie, whose own health is failing from using a broken Miraculous and is installed with fear of what would happen to Adrien if she or his parents are not by his side.

Reunion

• Though people such as Lila and Chloé have embraced akumas heading for them before, Jalil becomes the first civilian in the series to make the deal with Monarch before he even sends out the akuma, let alone before it reaches someone. While he realizes his mistake, this combined with the apparent influx of Monarch supporters on social media have disturbing implications on just how much influence this terrorist holds over Paris.
• In real-life, Jeanne D'Arc's death drove her comrade and closest friend Gilles de Rais to madness before was he executed for ritualistically killing children. Within the series storyline, Jeanne faked her death and discarded the Ladybug Miraculous with her memory as Scarlet Fate and of her role in French history erased from her mind as consequence. Imagine the horror if she knew that faking her death would cause one of her dearest friends to become a murderer with the blood of innocent children on her hands.

Elation

• Marinette's mental breakdown, being one of the closest times she gets Akumatized and this time not the result of another's malicious intent.

Deflagration

• An upset Plagg gleefully admitting to wiping out the dinosaurs for making fun of him, right after Zoé keeps him from attempting the same thing on Chloé.
• To date, this is the closest Monarch has ever come to actually winning in a moment of time that was not averted by Future Alix or Sass. He found out the identities of Scarabella and Kitty Noire, then used a combination of the Horse, Rooster, Ox, Mouse and Bee miraculouses to steal the Ladybug and Black Cat miraculouses away from them while they were powerless to stop him. It was only thanks to Plagg's quick-thinking that they were able to stop him at all, though he and Tikki nearly brought about the end of the world to do so.

Perfection

• It's revealed that Lila's grudge against Marinette has turned into a full-blown obsession. It goes as far as to stalking her and 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. Judging from some of the photos, this has been happening for a long time. She's fully committed to ruining Marinette's life and is making good on her threat.
• While not attacking anyone except when provoked, Kagami's form as Ryukomori is an embodiment of her suicidal depression.
• Tomoe forcing her way into Gabriel's chambers and attacking him with her bokken, threatening to destroy his dream if he ever endangered her daughter again. While Tomoe is a member of Gabriel's inner circle and provider of the Alliance System, it's clear that she is willing to let Gabriel die to keep her daughter safe.

Migration

• Gabriel learning Luka knows the identities of Ladybug and Cat Noir, vowing to make him reveal his secrets by any means. Luckily, Luka leaves France to travel aboard before Gabriel could follow up on his threat. But imagine the lengths he would go to if he learned that Ladybug's identity is also known to Alya, whom Marinette told in confidence, and Kagami, who had learned the truth in secret like Luka.

Derision

• Marinette's trauma from being a victim of a sadistic prank, being the root of her most of her troubles in the series overall from her habit of overplanning to her initial issues with Adrien due to him being friends with Chloé (who masterminded the prank). Furthermore, when Adrien confronts her about it, Chloé showed an utter Lack of Empathy for screwing up Marinette badly and justified her actions as her right as someone of the upper class to put someone like Marinette in their place.
• Another example of why pissing off someone with the power of destruction is never a good idea. Adrien was clenching his fist in anger after hearing Kim's story of how Chloé talked him into pranking Marinette, Kim not realizing that he psychologically messed up Marinette to Chloé's satisfaction. The moment Kim get akumatized to Dark Humor, Adrien's first instinct as Cat Noir is to quickly deliver the most brutal beating he's ever given an enemy before pinning him down and telling Kim he'll Cataclysm him. While Ladybug's intervention saves Kim, and Adrien ends up forgiving Kim for falling for Chloé's manipulation, what would have happened if he truly hadn't learned from the Darker Owl incident?

Intuition

• The fact that Monarch had Bug Fighter attempt to take the Ladybug Miraculous while Ladybug (as Cosmobug) is in space shows the lengths he would go to for his beloved in the most vile way possible. If Bug Fighter had succeeded, Marinette would have suffer an antagonizing thirty seconds before losing consciousness and then died about a minute after that.

Adoration

• Marinette finally confess her love for Adrien, the two of them lean in for The Big Damn Kiss... and then it's suddenly interrupted by a shadowy Gabriel saying "Adrien, no." Adrien reels back, struck with a strange feeling he can't explain, and heads back inside, telling Marinette she should go home. While it's been implied before, this is the first direct confirmation that Gabriel can influence Adrien's actions with his ring, and it's terrifying to behold.

Emotion

• Félix returns, and creates perhaps the most powerful Sentimonster of all: a red moon that allows him to banish anyone he snaps his fingers at. So powerful is his resentment against his perceived oppressors that for the first time in the series, Ladybug uses her Lucky Charm for some kind of answer to this threat and receives... absolutely nothing. The universe was probably just telling her to accept her fate and let Félix's better nature win out, and while that eventually does happen, just imagine how bleak it must have looked to her...
• Also Paris after Félix mostly erased everyone, utterly silent with a red glow over the cityscape with only him, Kagami, and Adrien the only living beings seemingly left in Paris besides whover is in hiding.

Pretension

• Once again Gabriel orders Adrien by tightening his left-hand where his ring is located to leave him and Marinette alone in the kitchen. Adrien instantly leaves them without question. In his bedroom, Adrien becomes worried about what Gabriel will do to Marinette and wants to return to the kitchen. When Plagg asks what makes him unable to do that, Adrien says that he just can’t do that. His expression clearly shows that Adrien does feel something wrong with himself. Speaking about People Puppet...
• Tomoe willingly being akumatized to get Kagami away from Argos. In fact, she has no problem in paralyzing her own daughter with Venom to make sure that Kagami will not run away from her.
  • Before taking away Kagami's ring bearing the family crest, Tomoe tells her that she will force her into obedience.

Revelation

• Hoaxer's ability to brainwash people connected to Alliance into believing whatever she types on the social media platform, from forming an angry mob to attack Marinette by making them think she's Monarch to maniuplating Nathalie into providing blackmail on Gabriel all while keeping the latter in the dark of her true plan. Furthermore, it all hints to be the start of the Hawk Moth that suceeds Gabriel.

Confrontation

• One would think after her exposure for what she really was, that she'd be out of the picture as a regular but terrible person? Wrong. Lila Rossi is revealed to have never really existed at all, discarding her identity with ease to become Cerise. It frankly turns everything known about her upside down. Who is this girl really, if she has a completely different identity all this time that she can discard the persona seen for so long without a second thought? Why is she doing all of this in the first place, and for what reason? It's an understated horror that for all seen about her, that her true identity is a complete unknown... and she's still on the loose.

Collusion

• After Lila is exposed, she moves to an underground base with a map of Paris taped to a mural of the “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” painting, making it look like as if the wave is going to crash into the city. Lila’s plans appear to have shifted from lying to make herself look more appealing and pitiful to outright planning the downfall of the city, possibly taking everyone down with her for good measure.

Revolution

• As mayor, Chloé becomes surprisngly more threatening than she was; she can sic her Mecha-Mooks on anyone she doesn't like, falsely imprison others, and even re-write the school's history lessons to present herself and her family in an undeservedly glorious light, not unlike real-life dictators. She even successfully lures Ladybug and Cat Noir into a trap where they'll be forced to run out the clock on their superpowers, exposing their true identities and leaving them helpless to end her reign of terror.
• Even though it's Laser-Guided Karma, Audrey makes it clear to her daughter Chloé that SHE blames her for tarnishing the Bourgeois family name, and intends to control every aspect of her child's life. Considering that Mrs. Bourgeois had a direct role in shaping Chloé's toxic personality, this isn't just a case of her refusing to recognize her own fault for the way her daughter turned out, but makes it clear she's about to be even worse to Chloé like she was to André before he found the courage to finally stand up to them.
• It also shows not even Lila/Cerise's allies are safe. While she doesn't directly make their lives miserable, she will abandon them the moment they served their purpose and leaves them with the consequences of their actions. She also acquired a laptop holding data on the Alliance System and is now her more dangerous, to both the heroes and Gabriel along with everyone else.

Representation

• Gabriel's latest Akumatized villiain form Nightormentor, who can subject anyone to envision their worst nightmares with addition of the Horse Miraculous's teleporartion ability. It's more horrific since Gabriel assumed the form as a means to discipline his own son for attempting to defy him in the most cruel and traumatizing way possible. Worse, Ladybug is unable to use her World-Healing Wave to fix the effects of his power due to not having been present for the fight against him, which means Adrien, along with Rose and Juleka who were also hit by his power, will presumably be plagued by waking nightmares for the rest of their lives.
  • Adrien, in particular, is subjected to Nightormentor's power and forced to relive a nightmare similar to the traumatizing Bad Future Ladybug had witnessed, seeing himself as Cat Blanc in the ruins of Paris with a shattered moon in the sky and holding a dead Ladybug before her body dissolves in his arms.
• There is a Domestic Abuse implication that Amélie herself was abused by Colt as Félix accounted in his play that "if he became a fond of anyone who displeases his father", and it showed an arm of a stuffed bunny being ripped and in "Gabriel Agreste", Amelie also wore a bunny mask in the party.
• This episode confirms that Félix is a Sentimonster. It turns out that Colt hated Félix so much due to his condition getting worsened after using the Peacock Miraculous, that he called him as "monster" and controlled him out-of-spite until his death. This also adds context to Félix's horrified reaction of the Strike-Backs being teleported into the sun's gravitional field and his sadness over erasing Red Moon while calling it "sister".
  • During one of his father's rage of fit, he cracked the ring containing his amok when he hit it with too much force, making Félix faint and realizing his life was linked to his father's ring.
    • Had it cracked a little bit harder, Colt could have killed Félix.
• Adrien and Kagami are locked up in white torture rooms with cameras watching and recording them, no windows, little entertainment, and there's no chance of escaping again. Meaning Adrien's literally living in his worst nightmare.

Conformation

• The Miraculized, being an army of Alliance users—adults and children—who were subjected to Nightormentor's power and then recieve an app that would calm them before brainwashing into thinking Ladybug and Cat Noir have kidnapped Adrien and Kagami. The fact that most of the Earth's population become an army that can track Ladybug and Cat Noir and use Miraculous powers is horrific enough, as Marinette finds herself literally fighting the world.
• A weakening Nathalie confronting Gabriel in his repository with a crossbow and how he's willing admits to sacrfice someone to bring Emilie back.
• Adrien temporary giving up his Black Cat Miraculous, knowing he's not in the right state of mind to wield his Cataclysm and having zero chance to escape.
  • Again, Cat Blanc.
• Plagg discovers that the heroes' worst enemy is the father of his holder.
  • Tikki confirms it and he whimpers in fear. Meaning his enslaved Kwami siblings were under the same roof all this time and he had no knowledge of it. Tikki was even scared for Marinette when Monarch took her by her leg after finding her hiding in the kitchen.

Re-creation

• Gabriel's condition is in its final stages; his body beginning to slowly dissolve while coughing up ash.
• The Miraculized keep coming out of nowhere via the Voyage portals, and attack anyone who gets in their way; even immobilize anyone with Venom who resists them.
  • Zoé and Nathaniel protect a paralyzed Marc from a Miraculized; Knightowl protect them but crashes into a ferris wheel when one uses Clout on her and Mr. Damocles as The Owl protects Max from it.
  • Not even Jagged Stone and Lady Dragon can resist their stings en masse.
  • Alya wonders what is Ladybug doing when seeing this and even tries calling Marinette several times, only for it to go to voicemail everytime.
  • When surrounded by them, Luka has a nightmare.
  • Majestia can't find either Ladybug or Cat Noir.
• Monarch admits he is willing to cause this level of terrorism and lost lives just for him to get what he wants.
• Lila/Cerise is the only one not affected by the nightmare dust. She makes her way to the Agreste mansion using the laptop she stole to casually make her way inside, witnessing the battle between Bug Noire and Monarch.
• Tikki and Plagg holding onto each other for dear life when Gabriel finally gets his hands on the Ladybug and Cat Noit Miraculous.
• Tomoe manages to escape punishment for her crimes helping Gabriel since she wasn't discovered by Ladybug. She is even the new owner of his brand and will be "continuing his legacy".
• Lila/Cerise, having acquired the Butterfly Miraculous, sets up her enrollment at the same high school that Marinette is attending. With Gabriel dead, she intends to give Marinette her full revenge-driven attention; both as Iris Verdi and the new Hawk Moth. But then something appears behind her, ending the scene with her shocked expression with the audience unaware of what jumped her.

Specials

"World: Shanghai - The Legend of Ladydragon"

• Your teenaged great-niece is in town, and goes for a walk. Hours later, she isn't picking up calls or texts, and nobody has seen or heard from her. She is in a city she doesn't know, using a language barely anyone there speaks, and she could be lost, or worse. Even the news bulletins of Marinette's disappearance hit home for anyone who has had a child or sibling go missing for an extended duration.
• From Marinette's POV, being stalked and followed by three guys on mopeds, in a city you don't know, with no map, translator or even friends to call on. And since she had already been robbed blind of all her material possessions...
• Cash, a pawn shop owner extorts teenagers for different reasons. For Fei, he wants a lot of money to tell her who killed her adoptive father (he did it), while for Marinette, he asks for 100'000 Yuan (almost 13k Euros) to buy back her stolen earrings. And in case he doesn't get what he wants, he has enforcers willing to beat the customer into submission.
• Yan Woshi pulls an Eviler than Thou on Hawk Moth after the latter orders him not to attack Shanghai or else he will take his powers away from him. Woshi declares that he takes orders from no one and blasts Hawk Moth, straight-up disintegrating him instantly. Cat Noir later suffers the same fate while trying to get close enough to use Cataclysm (incidentally, the only reason Hawk Moth even cared about Woshi attacking Shanghai at all was that it could potentially put Adrien in danger). Fortunately, Miraculous Ladybug brings both of them back.

"World: New York – United Heroez"

• While Ladybug and Cat Noir are stuck in New York, Mayura creates a sentimonster that rampages through Paris without any her around to stop it, making it look like a war zone.
  • What is even worse is that Mayura recalls the sentimonster before Ladybug has any chance to do her Lucky Charm. This means that the damages are permanent and cannot be magically fixed.
• Cat Noir accidently uses Cataclysm on Uncanny Valley and kills her. While she is revived by Ladybug's Lucky Charm, he is still devastated by this incident, to the point he temporarily gives up his Miraculous.
• Liiri's power of Liberation frees the heroes of New York from everything that keeps them from achieving their full potential. Unfortunately, we are talking about things like restraint and lenience. As a consequence, there is a whole team of superheroes rampaging through New York.
  • Even worse, Majestia is trying to move the moon to the earth.
  • Knightowl goes full Knight Templar, using explosives and brutal violence on people committing misdemeanors, such as blowing up a car that had been parked illegally, or getting ready to beat up someone with a late library book.
  • Just as bad, Victory, who's also the President of the United States, has full control over the nuclear football, a briefcase-shaped computer, that gives her control over a ridiculous array of hidden weaponry throughout the city, Liiri's affect on her leaving her screaming about her plans to oppress others. And then Miraclonizer steals it, revealing that the 'football' also controls friggin' NUKES.
  • Doorman ends up going into places he shouldn't be. The ice-based heroine starts skating around on icy slicks she creates, not cleaning them up afterwards. The plant-based hero starts growing plants everywhere. The weather controller starts making wild, dangerous storms. Considering what characters like the Flash are capable of, Manhattan should feel lucky that the worst their speeder wanted to do was just sit down and relax.
• Hawk Moth threatens to fire a nuclear rocket which will end in an atomic war unless Ladybug and Cat Noir give him their Miraculouses. When they refuse, he goes through with his threat. If it wasn't for Majestia...
• Hawk Moth learns about the lost Miraculouses and swears to find them.

"World: Paris — Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir"

• The Supreme. Its never revealed who (or what) he is, but he’s the reason that Shadybug and Claw Noir’s universe is such a Crapsack World. He rules over the world as a Shadow Dictator and has almost all the Miraculous of his world under his control. The closest he comes to actually appearing is when Shadybug attempts to make a wish using her and Claw Noir’s Miraculous, only for it to be revealed that he placed a spell on them that prevents their universe's versions of Tikki and Plagg from fusing into Gimmi. The fact that the Supreme's influence on Kwamis is continuous in any universe shows him to be greater threat to the multiverse if he wanted to expand his dominion.
  Only The Supreme divides reality. Reality is The Supreme.

• Also the Crapsack World universe that the Supreme shaped in his image. While Gabriel was able to move on with his life as Betterfly, the demise of his universe's Emilie a mystery if it similar to her prime version or not, Marinette and Adrian are not as fortunate.
  • The Marinette who became Shadybug suffered the same trauma her prime universe self suffered at Chloé's bullying without the presense of Alya or a mother, missing or negliectful, in her life. Upon learning the life of her prime universe counterpart, Shadybug is consumed with envy to make a Swapped Roles wish. This results in her attaking Ladybug so she can use the prime universe's Gimmi after learning she can't use her universe's version.
  • The Adrian that became Claw Noir takes after his prime universe self's male relatives: Félix in having no social life and Gabriel/Monarch in being obsessed to bring back his mother. The similarities with the latter are even more horrific when the forced Cat Noir to inflict him with a Cataclysm, possibily forcing Cat Noir to relieve the drama from doing the same thing to Monarch hours earlier.

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