WMG / Miraculous Ladybug The Villains

Here is where you can find theories from Miraculous Ladybug about the Villains, the Akumatized, and the Sentimonsters.

Hawk Moth

Hawk Moth will be an Arc Villain

According to the opening, there are at least five other kwamis besides Plagg and Tikki. If the pink-purple one is indeed Hawk Moth's, then his unmasking and defeat will set up for one of the other four kwamis' users take his place as Big Bad.

• The other Kwamis potentially being used by Big Bads seems unlikely at present, due to Master Fu possessing all but one of the other unaccounted-for Miraculous. That having been said, there IS one unaccounted for besides the Butterfly Brooch.
  • As of "Volpina", the missing peacock miraculous belongs to Gabriel Agreste, and seems to have previously belonged to Adrien's mother. Since Hawk Moth has not yet been defeated or even unmasked, he is bound to stay for at least one more season.
• Despite the series being confirmed for at least 6 seasons the 2-part finale for season 4 is titled "The Last Attack of Shadow Moth". Who are they going to fight in season 5 to 6 then?
  • Hawk Moth still, he's just not Shadow Moth anymore because he gave up the Peacock.

Hawk Moth will undergo a Heel–Face Turn.

In the opening, a green kwami and a mauve-ish kwami appear alongside Tikki and Plagg, and it is widely believed that the butterfly-shaped brooch and it's mauve kwami is Hawk Moth's Miraculous. There is a rumor floating around that the green kwami is working with a yet-to-be-seen character named Master Fu, who is likely intended to be a kind of veteran hero/mentor to Ladybug and Cat Noir. Why would the heroes' kwamis and the villain's be seen together...unless they'll work together in the future?

• Jossed in regards to Season 1. The reason Nooroo and Wayzz are in the opening appears to be simply because they're the only kwami besides Tikki and Plagg that were shown and named this season.

Hawk Moth's akuma supply is limited.

Hence why he restricts himself to one victim per day.

• I would also think that due to his powers coming from a Miraculous, it's a one-time-per-day thing. Then again, there was Antibug, where he used two (although one had been used the previous day off-screen). Unless he fed his kwami very quickly.
• This makes a lot of sense if we take the akumas to be the same as Ladybug's Lucky Charm and Cat Noir's Cataclysm. Including the five-minute rule. As for the time he made two akumas on the same episode, well, we have seen Ladybug and Cat use their abilities twice on the same day, so it could be a similar case for him.
  • Specifically, Because their Kwamis are eating well. Nooroo probably subsisting as a passive resistance to Hawk Moth's schemes. Thus one Akuma a day, after Nooroo has eaten his daily meal.
  • In "Mayura", Hawk Moth tells the heroes that unlike them, he can maintain his transformation after using his powers because he's more experienced.
• Confirmed. He has to grow his own white butterflies, as we see in several episodes of Season 3.

If Hawk Moth's akuma caught someone who was happy or in a good mindset, they would become a superhero.

This was hinted in Evillustrator, where Nathanael was caught in a moment where he was thinking about both his frustration of Chloé and his crush on Marinette, and both were intensified for his akuma self, the latter of which angered Hawk Moth.

• Possibly confirmed. Nooroo's exposition seems to suggest that Hawk Moth's use of his Miraculous is a corruption of its normal intent, which likely means it was meant to operate on positive emotions, not negative ones.
• Doesn't seem to be the case. Catalyst, Chameleon, and The Collector are all in some form of positive mood when akumatised. The person doesn't become a hero, they just have a lot more control over their actions and aren't directed by their emotions. Using negative emotions makes them Brainwashed and Crazy. Using positive to neutral emotions makes them powerful superbeings. They aren't necessarily geared towards goodness. I actually imagine being consumed by a super positive emotion wouldn't be any better than being consumed by a super negative one. The logic of the negative emotion becoming the only thing they feel would imply the same is true for positive feelings. Based on what we see with the negative emotions, that could range from wanting to make everyone feel the way they do to being extremely invasive with the person who made them so happy. Might be interesting to see if that's the case, or if they keep their own mind the same as if they were feeling neutral to just normal levels of happiness.

Hawk Moth's powers can be employed in reverse.

Rather than bestow/add to negative emotions, the white butterflies can absorb and trap a person's stress, sorrow and/or anger. Basically, be a benevolent Emotion Eater.

Hawk Moth can intercept Ladybug and Cat Noir's calls.

Hawk Moth is misusing a Miraculous that is supposed to be on LB and CN's side, right? So he should be able to listen in when they phone each other with her yoyo and his staff.

• Debatable. He should be able to call them, though.

Hawk Moth is targeting people close to Marinette and Adrien, either knowingly or unknowingly.

While we know that the protagonists save akuma victims not shown in detail on the show (The Magician), it's interesting that a staggering number of akuma can be traced back to people Marinette and Adrien know in real life. Their classmates (all of them!), schoolmates (Stormy Weather), classmates' families (Pharaoh, Rogercop, Mime, Kung Food, Animan), to people they just happen to be in the same area as (Pixelator, Guitar Villain, Simon Says). Especially egregious in that Marinette's uncle comes to Paris for, what, two or three days? and is akumatized the day of his arrival. It's possible that Hawk Moth (maybe via his kwami) can "sense" where Tikki and Plagg are, even if he cannot immediately discern their holders' identities, and sends out akuma to target people close to them to easily draw them out. (Of course, the Doylist answers to this are "Plot, duh" and "It's easier to care about an akuma victim if they're someone our heroes/the audience already know.")

• He might just be trying to flush them out, because he knows about how old they are. He's narrowing things down. Ladybug does not help by making it pretty clear that she knows her classmates compared to Cat Noir almost never using a classmate's name unless he, as Cat Noir, have talked to them a few times.
• As of the Season 2 episode "Despair Bear", it seems he's only targeting people around them because he just assumes Chloé's going to upset someone, so he apparently always has his eye on her. So it seems to just be a coincidence revolving around how Chloé is in their class.

Hawk Moth has a tragic backstory.

Miraculous holders become their innermost selves: Marinette is confident as Ladybug and Adrien is jovial as Cat Noir. Hawk Moth, whoever he is in mundane life, must have his fullest personality burst to the surface with his mask on as well. Along with the persona of a Card-Carrying Villain, Hawk Moth has a tendency to sound sympathetic to his victims misfortunes, especially in the French dub. Perhaps akumatizing is not only to further his mysterious goal, but to vicariously lash out through the Villain of the Week?

• If Hawk Moth's secret identity is Gabriel Agreste, his backstory could take inspiration from the early life of his namesake, Coco Chanel, which included poverty and Parental Abandonment.

Hawk Moth's akumas are not true akumas.

Akumas are comparable to The Heartless, so I propose a dynamic similar to naturally occurring Pureblood Heartless vs. Magitek-made Emblem Heartless from Kingdom Hearts. A) It has yet to be clarified whether or not "akuma" is the name of a white butterfly or a corrupted one. Since the name is Japanese for devil, it's most likely the latter. B) Miraculous heroes have probably always battled akumas, so the creatures must have been around for much longer than when Hawk Moth started using the butterfly brooch for evil. C) The civilians' negativity serves as the tinder for the akumas, but Hawk Moth's own negativity is the spark. They are a mix of two darknesses, and therefore an artificial concoction.

Cat Noir/Adrien will be Hawk Moth's Morality Chain.

Only if, y'know, he really is Gabriel Agreste. It mostly depends on what path the writers want to take for the target audience. Do they want to be simplistic by keeping the Big Bad a human-shaped obstacle for the heroes to defeat, or be optimistic and make him redeemable?

• "Gorizilla" has Hawk Moth lose a game of chicken with Adrien and allow Ladybug to rescue him, blowing a possible chance to learn Cat Noir's identity, lending credence to this theory.

Hawk Moth will choose between potential victims at once.

Realistically speaking, more than one person can experience negative emotions at the same time, even from the same event. When Hawk Moth has the opportunity to pick one person to akumatize over someone else, the choice will be based in personal issues and give the audience a hint to his secret identity.

Akumatized villains can dispel the dark power

There are several reasons for why this has yet to happen: Hawk Moth specifically targets those in a fragile state of mind and emotion, victims don't understand what is happening to them to properly resist, and they enjoy the power that comes with the transformation. But if it came to pass that Marinette or Adrien was corrupted by Hawk Moth, they manage Fighting from the Inside, then finally forcing the akuma out through Heroic Willpower, and it will be so awesome!

• If it happens, Hawk Moth will keep an eye on them.
• Confirmed on both counts. But of all people it's Chloé who resists akumatization. Hawk Moth is also keeping an eye on Chloé but has been ever since he knew she was Queen Bee, sizing her up to be an ally.

Hawk Moth's Heel–Face Turn

Hawk Moth is doing the wrong thing for the right reason, and his Arc will be resolved in the first two parter of season 2, at which point he'll join the winning team as the Zordon figure, trying to discipline Ladybug and Cat Noir into great heroes to fight the forces of a new big bad in Ladybug in Shanghai.

• Jossed. He did lose but he's more determined than ever.

Hawk Moth has Villain Teleportation.

Going by the majority view of "Hawk Moth is Gabriel Agreste" - this would explain how he could be on TV one minute, then right back in his lair (and in costume on top of it) the next, in "Simon Says." Not to mention how Volpina's illusion of him behaved, too.

• Corollary to this theory; Hawk Moth can only teleport in total darkness. That is why (other than cheap reusable animation) his lair is dark until that shutter opens. if Gabriel is Hawk Moth is true, this also explains why he wasn't giving a rant at the end of Simon Says. He was on the roof in broad daylight, unable to use his teleportation.

Hawk Moth’s akuma victims will reappear as heroes.

During a season finale, a powerful enemy arises. If an akuma, it is one too powerful for Hawk Moth to control. When Ladybug and Cat Noir are driven into a corner by their opponent, Hawk Moth uses his powers properly and benevolently when they respond to all past supervillains’ desire to help their heroes and transforms them again.

Hawk Moth is being mind-controlled

Ties into the "Gabriel Agreste is Hawk Moth" theory. A new character has been confirmed for Season 3 named Mayura and she holds the peacock miraculous, is a supervillain, and will become Hawk Moth's boss. The main idea that would hold this theory together would be if the peacock miraculous can be used to hypnotize/brainwash somebody. True, Hawk Moth appears to be acting alone but if he is Gabriel Agreste then the plan falls short. Gabriel Agreste cannot use the Ladybug earrings because he does not have piercings. In addition, in the episode "Simon Says" when Cat Noir shouts at Gabriel to "do what I tell you" it makes Gabriel react. This implies that Gabriel is very familiar with somebody angrily giving him orders. And since Gabriel has the peacock miraculous it would mean that the only way for Mayura to ever show up is if Gabriel hands it over. "But wait!" I hear you say. "Sure this proves that if Gabriel is Hawk Moth then he is taking orders, but what proves that he's brainwashed?" Well, Hawk Moth acts like he trying to take the miraculous for himself without referring to anybody. And if Gabriel Agreste is a brainwashed Hawk Moth then it opens the door to the possibility of a redemption, so Adrien doesn't lose his father.

If Hawk Moth is Gabriel, then his Control Freak tendencies extend from a case of Even Evil Has Loved Ones

Given that Hawk Moth's MO is going after people after they've been hurt emotionally and Gabriel is very much a Knight Templar Parent, if he is indeed Hawk Moth, he probably doesn't want unintentionally akumatize his own son, hence his attempts to control Adrien's life is an effort to try to protect Adrien from his own plans.

Hawk Moth will persuade Lila to help him as an undercover ally.

Since Hawk Moth won't have Mayura as his boss until Season 3, and there will be two new Miraculous superheroes in Season 2, Hawk Moth needs a new advantage over his enemies in Season 2. If he can't have more superpowered allies than his akumatized villains, the second best thing would be a civilian ally who could intentionally lie to, manipulate, and sabotage people to get prime vulnerable victims to transform, like if Chloé was being intentional with her cruel actions. Cue Lila, a new girl not as familiar with Hawk Moth's reputation and still angry at Ladybug after the events in "Volpina". Hawk Moth, the one person who could be a better liar than Lila, could promise to get her whatever she wants, like revenge on Ladybug, if she helps him make akumatized villains and pull off any scheme he has. Considering Lila's bitterness towards Ladybug, desire to win Adrien over, and be well-loved and popular among others, her impressive skills of deception would be majorly handy to Hawk Moth until he could get another helper or advantage.

• We've seen in "Catalyst" that Lila is completely willing to do whatever Hawk Moth asks of him. She will presumably continue to aid him throughout Season 3.

There's an in-universe reason for why Hawk Moth doesn't force akumas to do his bidding

Wonder why Hawk Moth doesn't use the power he clearly possesses to force the akumas to get the Miraculouses before doing their own thing? While on a Doylistic level that would prevent the plot from varying between episodes, from a Watsonian perspective there may be a good reason for it. Either:

1. Hawk Moth is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to use the Miraculouses for good purposes, and owing to that draws the line at using force on his akumas unless he absolutely has to; or
2. Nooroo, while enslaved, can potentially fight back and exert some kind of magical influence over the Miraculous that prevents a user from using it for the worst it is capable of unless the user truly puts their mind to it, and there's subtle enchantment on Hawk Moth that prevents him from taking the brute-force approach.

Hawk Moth will gain more power

Given the revelation that Hawk Moth is indeed Gabriel it's confirmed that he owns both a digital and hard copy of the Miraculous Spellbook. Fu has confirmed that with time he will be able to decipher his own digital copy of the book's code and unlock powers for Ladybug and Cat Noir that were previously unknown to them, these new powers having to do with the Stones and Pearl revealed at a previous con. It can be speculated thus that if there are additional powers for the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous that there are more powers for the other Miraculous, the Butterfly Miraculous included. Given Gabriel has a copy he will decipher it and access the Butterfly's full powers which will explain the circumstances of The Heroes' Day which will feature 14 akumas at least; one of the Butterfly's additional powers enables him to create as many akumas as he likes, this would be a counterpart to one of Ladybug's additional powers which allows her to create infinite Lucky Charms. The Heroes' Day is a season 3 two-parter and it's confirmed Ladybug and Cat will get new powers in season 2. This is due to the fact that Fu was trained to read the code whereas Gabriel will have to translate it from scratch, Fu will decipher it first but it will take Gabriel longer.

• Hawk Moth has already been shown to possess the power to create multiple akumas in one day, this was shown in "The Collector", as both he and Lila were akumatised on the same day within two hours and in no more than thirty minutes after Volpina's defeat. "Antibug" doesn't count, because Sabrina was not akumatised on the same day as Chloé. There were also two akumas in "Princess Fragrance", the titular Princess Fragrance and the Magician of Misfortune, an akuma attack is mentioned at the start of "Darkblade" as well, before D'Argencourt is akumatised. So we know he already possesses the power to make more than one a day. He just doesn't usually do it, and considering how Stoneheart's akuma copies itself... There's also the fact that, at no point, is it shown or even implied that Hawk Moth has a special ability like Lucky Charm. Akumatisation is not shown in that light, something that is backed up strongly by how in "Despair Bear", "Robostus", and "Gigantitan", he is in no rush to get his akuma anywhere nor is he in a rush to stop conversing with Robostus like he needs to get going to feed his kwami. Akumas get places pretty quickly, as shown in other episodes like "Dark Cupid", "Prime Queen", and "Befana" where the person has not moved even though there are people nearby them, meaning he has no time to just detransform, feed Nooroo, and be back in time to chit-chat with his victim. He

Wielders of the Butterfly Miraculous communicate with the butterflies.

It is confirmed in "Queen Wasp" that heroes besides LB and CN can use their weapons as comms. But how do you make a phone call with a sceptre/Sword Cane? The same way it does with champions. The butterfly heroes can send a "regular" butterfly (one that hasn’t been charged with power) to follow another hero, and touching it creates a similar but more temporary link like how Hawk Moth telepathically speaks to his akuma villains.

• Jossed. The stone of the swordstick flips up and HM talks into it.

Hawk Moth is holding back

If he wanted he could target people with far, far bigger issues (e.g. an abuse victim) or just more cruel and amoral (hardened criminals, terrorists). He doesn't because he's afraid such individuals would either be too destructive and could destroy the Miraculous or couldn't be trusted to not turn against him (for example, a corrupt politician is likely manipulative enough to outsmart him to steal his Miraculous for themselves).

His frequent stints as Shadow Moth will push him into a Sanity Slippage.

It is established that Miraculous are so powerful that people are only allowed to use one at a time because such overwhelming power could drive the user mad after prolonged usage of them. If the current lineup of episodes for Season 4 is any indication, Shadow Moth (a combination of using the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculous) will be the new status quo. Even if he has a more intimate understanding of his miraculous than the heroes and being more resilient since he's an adult, the sheer regularity of it will not do Gabriel any favors.

Odds are it will start with him acting irregularly in-costume, losing his patience with his villains more quickly and perhaps even inflicting his Agony Beam on them unprovoked. Soon it bleeds into his civilian life. He becomes abusive (more so than usual) to everyone around him and he might start hearing voices, his natural skittishness growing into full paranoia.

We will see Hawk moth's wish

In the end, he will gets his hands on the two miraculouses. And certainly reveal his identity to Marinette and Adrien (and to each other) at the same time. His goal is to "rewrite reality", and for this reason his wish will be something like: "I wish miraculouses had never existed." Marinette will wake up in a world where kwamis are not around, where she never was Ladybug, where nobody has ever heard of akumatized or miraculous wielders heroes. Even worse, she never met Adrien as he did not go to school (as his mother was always around). But Marinette will remember everything for some reason. Either because she is the best Laybug, the guardian, or an even more special reason than that (or a combination of all those). She will try to contact Adrien/Cat noir, and despite he can't recognize this strange girl, he will quickly believe her as his sentiments for Marinette will resurface soon like in "Oblivio". Unfortunately, there is the "price to pay" for the wish. Maybe Adrien will start to show the same symptoms as his mother. Gabriel will realize he did not want to exchange his life for the one of his wife and may recall his wish. If not, Powers That Be may intervene when they realize Marinette somehow wasn't affected by the wish and this is not normal, thus; they will recall the wish themselves.

Shadow Moth will get ahold of Adrien's ring in the season 4 finale.

The first rule of animation is to always create models that can be reused, and Shadow Noir had less than a minute of screentime in "Ephemeral." The animators have not yet gotten their money's worth out of that model; therefore, we’re likely to see him again.

• It did not happen in the Season 4 finale, but it's still possible it will happen in future seasons.

There will be a Bait-and-Switch reveal about Gabriel.

He will spent most of the episode on a daytrip somewhere secret, while Adrien, Marinette, and probably Alya and Nino, tail him. Instead of something shady that the kids are expecting, or the Internal Reveal the audience is expecting, the whole thing is innocent, but something Gabriel considers embarrassing and hazardous to his public image: going to visit family in a working-class neighbourhood, a loved one's grave, his old school, even his childhood orphanage, etc. Realizing he's been outed, Gabriel opens up to Adrien about some details of his Mysterious Past.

• And it'll turn out to be another cover-up like the Collector.

Gabriel has a Inferiority Superiority Complex

In the fine tradition of Uptown Girl, Gabriel grew up poor and his wife came from Old Money. Feeling self-conscious about his humble origins in comparison, Gabriel strived to become the wealthy, sophisticated man he considered worthy of his then-girlfriend. Clearly, he succeeded and became the Self-Made Man he is today. Sadly, now that his love is not around to remind him how she couldn’t give a flapdoodle how powerful, important or rich her husband is, Gabriel’s psychological need to be the "best" version of himself is getting worse.

The fact that Gabriel would have to sacrifice something for his wish didn't actually set in until Gimmi themself told him.

At least once, this troper remembers Ladybug telling Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch that someone would have to take Emelie's place if he made his wish. Despite this, Gabriel keeps talking like he's going to heal Emelie, Natalie, and himself with the wish.

Yet when he actually made the wish, he sacrificed himself.

Alternatively, it changes because what Cat Noir said to him when he was Nightormentor had set in by that point, and he realized that he wasn't a good father, and thought that the only way to make up for it at that point was to sacrifice himself, or at least that he was more disposable.

Hawk Moth's identity

Gabriel Agreste is Hawk Moth and he is a huge comic book nerd.

He went to pursue a career in fashion because he secretly loves comic book villian costumes and wanted to create some of his own. Sadly he found himself only desgining for supermodels, which had nothing super about them. All of them were spoiled, stupid little stick figures with poofy lips who think only about themselves. He finally found solace as Hawk Moth creating the names and costumes for the god-villians he always dreamt of.

Hawk Moth's identity is not intended to be a plot twist. His reasons are.

Hawk Moth is Gabriel Agreste according to this WMG- it's hinted heavily at multiple times, and many people reject the idea simply because it's not a plot twist. But what if that's the point? What if Gabriel's reasons are the plot twist? Everyone who assumes Gabriel is Hawk Moth also assumes his goals relate to his missing, possibly dead wife. Even without her photo in the locket, people were assuming this. What if the photo in the locket is meant to be a hint to Hawk Moth's identity, and not his goal? What if Hawk Moth's goals have little or absolutely nothing to do with Madame Agreste? Think about it- if Hawk Moth wanted to find his wife, he doesn't need to turn to villainy nor get the powers of the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses. All he needs is to grant heroic psychic powers to a medium, who can tell him where his wife is. If Hawk Moth can grant the power of time travel, it's not unreasonable he can grant the power of Sight. Logically speaking, this means whatever he needs or wants can ONLY be obtained through villainous methods. Through abusing the power of the Moth Locket in order to obtain, simultaneously, the powers of the Black Cat and Ladybug. It is Gabriel's reasons for becoming Hawk Moth and why he must use the tactics he does that are the plot twist, not that he is Hawk Moth.

• He is also very much aware that he's possibly putting Adrien in danger, but he absolutely needs to do what he's doing (and getting the ring would eventually protect Adrien). This may be related to the below WMG about Gabriel actually knowing Mrs Agreste's whereabouts, and the two have a goal regarding the Miraculouses.
  • Considering both WMG were penned by the same person, that's the idea, yes. He can't take the ring now, though- Adrien couldn't be safer than being Cat Noir.

Rose's power will be instrumental to taking down Hawk Moth.

Rose's ability, "Present", shows a person what their greatest desire is. If Pigella were to use it on Hawk Moth (either as a distraction or in an idealistic attempt to help him), it could reveal Hawk Moth's identity. After all, "save Emelie Agreste" isn't something a person would want unless they knew her personally.

Mayura (Le Paon)

Identity

She is Nathalie.

Would be amusing to see her turn the tides on her boss.

• They have very similar short hairstyles, and peacocks are regarded by humans to be ostentatious and beautiful, something that could be reasonably related to in the fashion world.
• Confirmed.

Mayura we've seen in promotional material is someone who has been akumatized.

The akumatized person taking the appearance of Mayura could probably be Nathalie. But like with Lila being akumatized to look like the Fox Miraculous wielder, she's not the "true" wielder of the Miraculous: it was Mrs. Agreste.

• Jossed. It's Nathalie.

She is Emilie Agreste.

Combining this with the peacock being the symbol restoration, here is a theory on how it could transpire: Years ago, Emilie was diagnosed with an incurable disease. When she could no longer keep up the facade of health, she 'disappeared' - or, rather, that's the story that Gabriel made up to conceal the fact that his wife is currently being held in observation in a remote, private (and incredibly expensive) medical institution. Gabriel is now trying to acquire to power of the two strongest Miraculous in order to finally save his wife from her disease. However, if him saying that the Miraculous book was a gift from his wife wasn't (technically) a lie, it is safe to assume that that's how he acquired the Moth Miraculous. As Master Fu said, the book was lost alongside the peacock and moth brooches. However, Emilie kept the peacock brooch for herself and accidentally became its master during her time in the institution. Using the restoration power of the peacock brooch she managed to at - the very least - quell her disease for the time being. By the end of season 2, she will abruptly return to her family, utterly surprising her husband and son by doing so. However, as not even the peacock Miraculous could possibly completely solve her health issues, she takes up the persona of Mayura to finally obtain the Miraculous and heal herself. Similarly, her husband will (despite of initially sighing in relief, until he discovers that she doesn't have much longer to live) still continue his quest to steal the Miraculous for his wife's sake. The Wham Shot that will serve as the conclusion to the second season will have Emilie either transform into or untransform from Mayura.

• Cue to Mayura never revealing her secret identity to Hawk Moth, even if she could probably discover his identity easily and blackmail him with threats that she will kill his wife.
  • Actually, even if she becomes his boss in the truest sense of the word, they may both take some time to discover the civilian identity of the other. That would make them a dark reflection of the relationship between Cat Noir and Ladybug.
• Another possible way this could go down: Emilie just plain wants the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses to Take Over the World, so she either faked her own death knowing Gabriel would go to hell and back just to "save" her, or faked her own kidnapping and is now blackmailing Gabriel into working as her patsy.

The actual holder of the Peacock Miraculous was/is Nathalie or Miss Bustier, not Mrs. Agreste.

Mayura looks like like Nathalie and Miss Bustier. Because Ladybug and Cat don't really change their hair much (Adrien's gets messier, while Marinette's doesn't change at all), and Lila and Chloé don't change their hair much if at all, it's important to look at the hair. All three of them- Mayura, Nathalie, and Miss Bustier, have their hair back with one loose lock in the front. Caline Bustier's lock of hair is actually the same length and in the right spot, but her face is much rounder than Mayura's. This may not matter, considering Hawk Moth's face does not match with his silhouetted civilian identity. The real issue with Caline is that she's a very kind and gentle person compared to the ominous Mayura, though she could be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. Noticeably, like Chloé, she wears colours that match the Miraculous. Regarding Nathalie, she has a much closer face shape to Mayura, she's close to the theoretical Hawk Moth, Gabriel Agreste, and we know she'll tell Gabriel of Adrien's movements. Living in the Agreste household would also make it easy to take her brooch. However, her legs aren't nearly as long and slender as Mayura's, where Caline's are. It's possible that Nathalie WAS its holder, but Caline gets it somehow. Mayura either doesn't wear a mask, or the mask covers much of the face like Hawk Moth's does.

• Caline and Mayura also seem to both wear a necklace on a short chain, though it's hard to tell on Mayura if that's a necklace or not. Mayura also seems to be holding a quill in her right hand, and Caline Bustier does teach literature.
• Caline also has direct ties to most of the akuma victims, as thirteen of her now fifteen students have been akumatised^note Bubbler, Timebreaker, Lady Wifi, Evillustrator, Dark Cupid, Horrificator, Princess Fragrance, Stoneheart, Gamer, Reflekta, Antibug, Vanisher, and Volpina and four of the remaining akumas also attend or work at the school and some of them definitely know her since she seems to be the primary teacher for French Lit and poetry^note Stormy Weather and the Magician of Misfortune are students who likely have her while Ms Mendeleiev is teaching her students maths and science, Copycat seems to be an employee or older student, Darkblade is a staff member and Adrien's teacher. There are around 28 known akuma victims (I count 28 that have names, but there's a number mentioned or implied offscreen), and 17 of them she works with. And that's not counting the akuma victims that are family of any of her students (which is another five including Alix's brother Jalil and Marinette's great-uncle six if you count The Collector). For those keeping score at home, this means there's only around 6 total victims that do not have any obvious or clear ties to Miss Bustier, which is rather interesting. It's 5 if you take away Guitar Villain, since he arrived at the hotel while she was in the lobby and he worked closely with one of her students (and is presently friends with Marinette).
• Caline is also curiously fine with the excuses Marinette and Adrien give, which Ms. Mendeleiev on the other hand does not buy. Almost as if she suspects something. While she might suspect they're being teenagers and snogging in a broom closet, she's awful understanding if that's the case. She doesn't even really seem too upset when Marinette doesn't come back to class after being "in the bathroom" for so long.
• Nathalie is Mayura.

Chloé's mother is Mayura

Ever one to go against the normal guesses, I propose Mayura is Madame Bourgeois, not Madame Agreste or Nathalie. Or my previous guess of Miss Bustier, which was half in jest. Audrey could theoretically be Mayura since she's a blank slate just like Mayura right now. Plus, it's apparent that Adrien knows Chloé through their mothers, since Gabriel has no clue who Chloé, seeing as she introduces herself to him. So Audrey could be in a position to make threats against Adrien and Madame Agreste. She could have gotten the Miraculous from her friend, Adrien's mother.

• Also; Did Chloé's mother leave her at a young age just to create the perfect Akumatised Villain creator? That would really be playing the long game.
• Jossed.

She is Kagami or Kagami's mother

Kagami is similar-looking to Mayura and she, like Mayura, has blue hair. If it's not Kagami, it could be her mother.

• Mayura will be Kagami's mother in keeping with Kagami being a Foil to Adrien; both champion fencers who are lonely prodigies from upper class families who ultimately are both children of supervillains.
• Jossed. She's Nathalie.

Mrs Agreste is not Mayura

That is, supposing Hawk Moth's goal is to get Mrs Agreste back, wouldn't that mean he'd stop being a villain if his wife comes back? If he's so distraught by her disappearance enough that he may be willing to sacrifice Adrien if that's what it takes then there's reason to believe he's recognise her. There's also no proof Mayura and Hawk Moth don't know who each other is.

Mayura is a teenager, not an adult

If you've ever looked at Mayura's art and compared her to any similarly built adult female, Mayura does not have hips like they do. The only adult women who do not have notable hips are Penny Rolling and Ms Mendeleive (because of her lab coat). Instead, she's built more like Marinette. Slender hips that aren't much wider than her waist.

Mayura is related to Marinette.

Like a cousin or an aunt, on her mother's side of the family. She comes to live with Marinette's family for a little while, but her motivation for doing so is because of the Miraculouses, not knowing her cousin/niece has one of her own.

Mayura is Lila.

"Mayura" is Sanskrit for "peacock", hinting at Indian ancestry. "Lila" (or Leela") is a not uncommon given name in India, and it's also Sanskrit for "play, charm", which would tie in nicely to her Consummate Liar persona. Furthermore, Thomas Astruc, when asked about her ethnicity, gave an obvious joke answer (half-Klingon and half-duck), which could be deflecting to hide a spoiler. Finally, as mentioned above, Mayura is built more like Marinette than like the show's adults, hinting that she herself is a teenager. Lila, in addition to her apparent grudge against Ladybug, is approximately the right age and build to be Mayura.

• In fact, according to Feri González "Lila will return with a somewhat important role".
• Well, she does help a Hawk Moth lot during the season 2 finale... as Volpina.
• Jossed.

Mayura will be related to Nino.

Given that we were told we'd found out more about Nino's family and home life this season. Also, despite his cheerful personality and his need to protect the people he cares about, Nino's shown to not have any close friends until Adrien and Alya show up, which would make him not so different from Adrien, and a sharp contrast to Mayura, something the creators of Miraculous seem to enjoy doing. One could even consider that he was the last new holder announced to be a clue, as he would be a bit more of a spoiler than Alya or Chloé.

• Although it is worth noting that Sanskrit is not a common language in either Morocco or Réunion.

'Mayura' is an ancient evil possessing Emilie and will save the heroes at the climax of the season 2 finale.

Consider the following:

• Nathalie proved to be too loyal during "Catalyst" to just turn her back on Gabriel. Therefore, the chances of her being Mayura aren't very high.
• As Nathalie/Catalyst is in Gabriel's lair, it is impossible to deakumatize her without uncovering the truth about Hawk Moth to the heroes. But Mayura could take her out without cutting the plot short.
• Catalyst is Gabriel's trump card. That would give Mayura an in-story justification to incapacitate her. Otherwise, only Blackmail could help her keep Hawk Moth on a leash.
• The season overview states that Mayura would provide the supervillains with 'allies''. That would be redundant with Catayst around. Therefore, one of them has to go.
• Jossed, but it is still anyone's guess how would Nathalie end up becoming the 'boss' of Hawk Moth, given her loyalty and the damaged Peacock Miraculous.

Personality/Character

Mayura will be a Knight of Cerebus

It's stated that Mayura will make Hawk Moth look like nothing, so it's not unreasonable that the show will stop with its light, cheery, formulaic Slice of Life(-ish) deal and become more drama-focused once Mayura becomes active.

• Especially if her motivations are more sinister than his.

Mayura is a much quieter evil than Hawk Moth

She doesn't speak much, if at all. She lets her expressions and actions speak for her, along with occasional lines of dialogue expressing what she wants.

Motivations

Mayura is motivated by revenge against Hawk Moth

Possibly either because she reacted very badly indeed to being akumatised, because she's a Mama Bear who hates how he akumatised her child (or students if she is Miss Bustier, unlikely as it is) or because she doesn't like something he does, like if she is indeed Chloé's mother, how he relies on Chloé to be an awful person to further his own goals.

Mayura is motivated by her own boss to seize the Miraculouses

She's just using Hawk Moth to further her own plans.

Mayura will become more ruthless than Hawk Moth

Either from her desperation to win, or the Peacock Miraculous is damaging her sanity.

Lila Rossi

Lila will reveal the existence of Magical Charms to Hawk Moth

• There is absolutely no way Lila will be interested in giving up the opportunity to be re-akumatized let alone helping Ladybug. The next time she's akumatized as Marinette offers Lila a magical charm, she'll seemly accept it... And then hand it over to Hawk Moth at first chance while explaining to him how it works.
• Jossed. Shadow Moth finds out about the Magical Charms by himself after akumatizing a Sentimonster of himself in "Gabriel Agreste".

If Lila is re-akumatized, it will happen after Alya gets the Fox Miraculous.

That way, Alya can take on her Evil Counterpart.

• Confirmed, although she is de-akumatized by Hawk Moth before the two can fight.

Lila will become a recurring villain

Lila's notably the only akuma victim who doesn't show a single drop of remorse for her actions, so maybe she'll join up with Hawk Moth in taking down Ladybug. A henchman who actually works in the field (instead of purely Orcus on His Throne like Hawk Moth) could spice things up next season (plus she could get a redemption arc ala Zuko).

• It would be interesting to see an accomplice to Hawk Moth who willingly accepts the power the Akuma gives them. These individuals probably wouldn't become Brainwashed and Crazy. She'd also work in secret for a while, using her mirage powers but never being so obvious as when she was Akumatised, allowing for her to maintain a public life.
• If Lila does not Heel–Face Turn, she will takes Hawk Moth's Big Bad position.
• Confirmed. In "Catalyst", she is akumatized once more. She then returns to school in Season 3's "Chameleon" and continues to make Marinette miserable by turning the school against her.

Lila wanted to become an Akuma

She's the only Akuma target who has not lost her anger after getting de-akumatized. Why? Lila actually wanted the two Miraculouses, even if she's not actually working for Hawk Moth.

• Also, she thought that her lying would encourage Hawk Moth to akumatize her.
• While there's no word on her actions in "Volpina", in "Catalyst" the Slasher Smile she has after being returned to normal by Hawk Moth does her no favors.

Lila is the daughter of a supervillain.

What's more perfect to surprise a Consummate Liar than finding out she said an Accidental Truth? Only her true lineage is much nastier than her fake one. Seeing superheroes have returned to the world, one of Lila's parents, who is another Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, will decide to come out of retirement, dust off their Wrong Context Magic, and go head to head with Ladybug and Cat Noir. Even if Lila has some fun being Daddy's Little Villain when first learning of her parent's secret identity, she soon realizes that he or she wants to hurt people For the Evulz, something she is NOT okay with. Lila breaks her ties with her villainous ancestry, pulls a Heel–Face Turn, and teams up with the heroes to stop her mother or father. Potentially, this can be the redemption that proves Lila worthy of the real fox Miraculous.

• Or her ancestor really did posses the Fox Miraculous at some point. It could be why she was so interested in the book, and why she seemed to really snap when Ladybug said she was lying about it.

Lila's parents are divorced.

While her being the daughter of diplomats and constantly moving around already serve as a Freudian Excuse for a need to be the centre of attention, there is also the chance that Lila rarely got enough attention from her parents because they were always too busy fighting with each other until finally splitting up. Since this sounds like a potential Wounded Gazelle Gambit, Lila could admit to her family's dysfunction in a moment of weakness, but her classmates just think she is Crying Wolf and refuse to show sympathy. This will also cause yet another Lila/Volpina divide among the fans: those who feel sorry for Lila's situation, and those who believe she got what she deserved.

• Possibly jossed as "Lila Rossi" is a false identity.

Lila will replace Chloé as resident Alpha Bitch.

Whether or not Lila deliberately usurps her, or Chloé is knocked off her high horse and gains some humbling Character Development, then Lila takes her place in the power vacuum.

• In her concept art, Lila has sunglasses similar to Chloé's on her head. Perhaps Lila will start wearing them as a symbolic crown, while Chloé gives her own up?
• A sad bonus is if Lila tricks Sabrina to befriend her and abandon Chloé, hurting Chloé deeply and resulting in Sabrina only leaving one awful friend to end up with another for at least awhile.
• Seemingly confirmed. Lila's originally-planned character arc for Season 2 was that she would be lying and manipulating her way towards becoming the most popular girl in school and winning Adrien's undivided attention, forcing Marinette, Alya, and Chloé to work together against her. This arc may have been moved to Season 3 starting with "Chameleon". But jossed as Lila wins over Chloé over their shared hatred for Marinette and Ladybug.

Lila is of mixed ancestry.

While confirmed to be of Italian nationality, she probably has some Maltese in her blood. One of the roots of her name is the common Arabic name "Layla" at least.

• This Maltese troper is very confused by this theory, as Maltese people do not speak Arabic nor is Layla a common name at all on the islands.
  • The Maltese language is descended from Arabic.
• Names are not a flawless indicator of where people come from. Alya's family is from Martinique, but not one person in her family has a name that reflects it. Rose is not a French name, either, yet she's French.
• Confirmed by Word of God: she's half-Klingon, half-duck.
• While her being of mixed ancestry at all is still possible, her being Italian is most likely Jossed as "Lila Rossi" is a false identity with her real ancestry unknown.

Only one of Lila's parents is a diplomat.

The other has a different career that also drags them around the globe, like an anthropologist or a downplayed example of Adventurer Archaeologist.

• Assuming the whole diplomat thing isn't just another one of her lies.
• We know in "Catalyst" that her mother works at the embassy, but it's not clear exactly what she does.
• Technically true as of Season 5, where we learn that Lila has several "mothers" and fake identities that she distances from each other. There is no word on whether or not the partner of the mother mentioned here is a diplomat or not (if she even has a partner), but Lila's second mother appears to work at the Style Queen magazine, while her third mother's job is not mentioned at all.

Lila comes from a rich, or possibly aristocratic family.

How else could a middle schooler just pop into a jeweler's and buy a specific necklace, especially as said jewel is from a line of accessories created by posh designer, Gabriel Agreste? The only trait verging on a hint to aristocracy however, is that Lila has a Hime Cut, a symbol for upper-class girls in anime, and this is a heavily anime-inspired show. Lila being from Old Money would also be a potentially interesting contrast to the other rich kids, Adrien and Chloé, who are children of Self Made Men.

Lila will sing in an episode.

Just a hunch, as most of her actresses have some degree of musical experience. It could be part of a ridiculously Big Entrance, establishes her as having substance to go with her flash, or establishes her as a talented Privileged Rival for Marinette.

Lila is a sociopath

Mostly because she is a selfish liar.

• As of "Catalyst", she's willingly committing atrocities for Hawk Moth, which really doesn't help her case. Then "Perfection" shows her essentially stalking people who crossed her and "Confrontation" revealing she uses false identities, with Lila Rossi being one of said identities.

Lila will redeem herself

...and eventually become the superheroine Volpina. Perhaps she'll have realized the error of her ways and eventually befriend our main characters. I have no justifications beside the fact that they put way too much into this character for her to just be a one-shot villain.

• While redemption is still entirely possible, her becoming the real Volpina seems to have been Jossed: as of October 2016, it's been confirmed that Alya will get the Fox Miraculous in Season 2.
• Further Jossed in "Catalyst", "Mayura", "Chameleon", "Revelation", "Confrontation", "Collusion" with her total willingness to commit atrocities for her own benefit, although the ending of "Ladybug" and the "Miraculous Secrets" short centered around Lila put the option back on the table, although it would take a lot of effort and more insight into her background.
• Completely jossed as of right now as she succeeds Gabriel as the next main villain of the show in "Re-creation", even the leaked series Bible describing her as a much bigger evil than he ever was.

Lila will be akumatized into something even worse than Volpina.

Her hate for Ladybug may get to the point where just hiding behind illusions isn't enough anymore. She wants more power, and so Hawk Moth obliges.

• Confirmed. In Season 3, she becomes Chameleon, a shapeshifting villain who can mimic the appearance and powers of anybody she touches. And in season 5, she becomes Hoaxer, an upgraded version of Volpina who can travel through the Alliance rings and brainwash those using them.
• It happens again in "Revelation", when she gets akumatized into Hoaxer, who is pretty much a combo between Volpina and Miracle Queen.

Lila's interest in Adrien

At first was because of his looks and/or fame and/or money, but now, is strictly because she knows Ladybug cares about him and wants to take him for herself for that reason.

• Regardless of what sparked (and maintained) her attraction towards Adrien, she seems to have lost all interest in him as of "Confrontation".

Lila has innate powers already

Powers that make people give her their undivided attention. Think about it- Marinette gets to school and literally everyone is talking about her. This did not happen with the actual celebrity Adrien. Chloé is envious but not really outraged that Jagged Stone wrote a song about Lila. Moreover, Chloé actually believes her, when it's more in character for her to be skeptical. Alya brushes Marinette off in favor of her Ladyblog relating to Lila. For that matter, Lila's interview scored more hits on the blog than Alya's interview with Ladybug herself. Marinette becomes even more consumed by her jealousy than normal and gives Lila her full attention. Even Adrien is enchanted by her because she knows Ladybug, even though Adrien himself personally knows Ladybug. Everyone acts weird because of things Lila has said. Marinette even thinks Lila hypnotized everyone when she first hears about her.

• It's possible that her hypothetical powers are related to the Miraculous given that the only people who seem immune to them are Adrien and Marinette, who are also the only two heroes who wear their Miraculous items all the time.
• Or, more simply, she has the power to knock down the intelligence of everyone around her by several pegs, which would also explain why so many people believe her lies.

Lila will turn the entire school against Ladybug

She's got the lying skills (and possible power) to pull it off. She may even be able to turn Adrien and Alya away.

• Confirmed for season 3 in "Chameleon" and "Ladybug".

Lila will be an Evil Counterpart to Adrien.

They both have a number of similarities: Come from a rich family, New Transfer Student (Adrien the former, Lila the current), popular with classmates, lied about the nature of their relationship with Ladybug, and have or will have some connection to Hawk Moth (he states that Lila could become corrupted again while Hawk Moth keeps a picture of Adrien's mother in a locket). Season 2 will expand on how similar they are and will force Adrien to own up to his mistake he made in "Copycat".

• Neither of them show their true face to the world, either.

Alternately, Lila will be Adrien's opposite

She could come from a poor family, she is a New Transfer Student like he was, but while Adrien is well-liked, he had to earn it thanks to Chloé, while Lila more or less has an Instant Fanclub. Adrien is very honest and open, especially as Cat Noir, while Lila is a liar, even as Volpina. Adrien is a true superhero, while Lila is a fake. Adrien is very mild, Lila loves the spotlight.

Lila is a Military Brat

This might explain why her first day of school can be pinpointed as the 5th of June at the earliest (the dates of previous episodes indicate "Darkblade", at 21/22 May. A poster of André shows the dates 21 and 22 May. Adrien has fencing in the episode, which are every Friday, meaning the 22nd is when most of the episode takes place. Adrien had fencing in "Volpina", but there's a possible 7 episodes between "Darkblade" and "Volpina"- four more episodes that have Jagged in them where he's got more sense than he does in "Darkblade", "The Gamer" weirdly features her diary trap even though that causes a continuity error with the dates, as that episode has posters for the tournament saying it's before "Darkblade" (18-21 May), "Horrificator" and "Simon Says" because Marinette is able to communicate with Adrien more like a human. It's possible "Princess Fragrance" is very late as well, because it introduces Marinette to Master Fu, who has been lurking in the background of different episodes). 5 June is right at the end of the school year, and an unusual time to move. However, it's not unheard of if your parent is in the military. Or a number of other positions, but for the sake of this WMG, it's about her being a Military Brat. This also might explain why she wants to be liked- she moves so constantly she feels lonely.

Lila is being set up to be a romantic foil to Marinette/Ladybug.

Even though Adrien was uncomfortable with Lila, Cat Noir flirted with Volpina immediately and equally immediately believed her while refusing to listen to Ladybug's reasonable suspicions. Even if he disliked Ladybug's jealousy earlier, he'd have no reason to distrust her for mentioning her concern about so many unbelievable things happening on the same day, plus he has worked with her for a long time. He never called either Volpina or Lila out on their lies, and now Lila goes to the same school as them. Lila also did not mend with Ladybug, and Adrien didn't reassure Ladybug of his safety in the more personal way he usually does. Not only is this a potential rift for Ladybug and Cat Noir, but also the ambiguous ending leaves Lila set up to reappear in future episodes, possibly in both their lives. Lila is also the only super villain who disguised herself as a hero first, and she has more knowledge of the Miraculous lore than others by virtue of reading Gabriel's book. Lila is also the only person to really flirt with both Adrien and Cat Noir, aside from Marinette/Ladybug. Also, Adrien as himself was almost immediately taken in by her lies/partial-truths about another Miraculous.

• Sure, she could be but not for those reasons, I don't think. Cat Noir never said he didn't believe Ladybug, he said he's finding her behavior odd, which is perfectly reasonable after seeing her humiliate a girl in the park for telling, as far as he could see, one or two lies to a boy she likes to impress him, and then treating this new hero with equal coldness for no reason. Something she has never done before. He's only ever seen her act cold towards Chloé before and that was after seeing Chloé be so flippant about her safety and lying to them. So yes, he's going to find her behavior odd, but Cat Noir does not let other people's opinions dictate how he sees someone. He also believes her when she tells him Lila's an akuma. Cat Noir also doesn't assure her of his safety as tactfully as normal because, spitballing here, it's a little hard to lie when she can see Adrien being carried off and when Adrien is the target, not a bystander like he is in every other situation. He can assure her Adrien is safe normally because he isn't there to be seen. He's also much better at assuring Marinette of his safety than he is assuring Ladybug. If Adrien doesn't know she's lying, he can't call her out on lying. Adrien also now knows Lila is a liar, and he was starting to lose interest as Lila slandered Ladybug like she did. Lila pushed her lies too far and assumed Adrien's interest in Ladybug was because she was a superhero. He's also still interested in Ladybug (calling her stubbornness irresistible) so he might not like Lila, considering how she slammed Ladybug for the sake of a lie.
• Jossed. As of "Oni-Chan" and especially "Ladybug" Adrien views Lila as an enemy.

Lila has a legitimate (if stupid) reason for her rejection of Ladybug's peace offer

Ladybug had previously humiliated Lila before Adrien... And when she apologized for going overboard, Adrien wasn't there (as far as they both knew), something that in Italy could have come as genuinely offending, and as it came right after Volpina's defeat the message Lila got was likely "Sorry if I had to crush you again". Had this happened between Italians it would have been a dire insult-except Marinette is French, grew up in Paris, and her only exposure to Italian culture are her grandmother's occasional visits, she can't be expected to know about this.

• The part about it relating to her Italian culture is most likely Jossed as "Lila Rossi" is a false identity with her real ancestry unknown.

Lila suspects that Adrien has feelings for Marinette

While she seems hellbent on ruining Marinette, she shows no apparent interest in targeting Chloé (Adrien's oldest friend) or Aurore or Mirielle or any of Adrien's other fangirls. Since her dialogue indicates that she knows Marinette likes Adrien, and that that's at least part of the reason why she's targeting her, Lila doesn't really have much more of a reason to go after Marinette than after any of the other girls. What makes Marinette different? Simple - unlike the rest of those girls, Lila believes, rightly or wrongly, that there's actually a chance of Adrien returning Marinette's feelings (as half the fandom suspects he already does). And given that The Big Damn Kiss at the end of "Mayura", and Adrien's reaction to it, happened right outside Lila's window...

• She eventually found out that Adrien has feelings for Marinette (like everyone else), but it's unclear whether she suspected him of having feelings for her before they started dating or not.

Lila Rossi is the un-favorite and has gone through several bad experiences (long WMG)

It is not the first time in the series that some topics such as abusive parents is touched upon, and in this case it is on the subtle hints on what can happen with the BRAT(Born Raised And Trained). For the sake of the WMG it is possible that the Rossi family had 2 planned sons and an accidental one (wine baby, Lila) which means that Mrs. Rossi didn't like the way things went. It also gets compounded if those older brothers are bona fide aces, whom at series start have left the nest, while Lila has yet to develop her true skill, which can be hinted to be storytelling but is very untrained. Mrs. Rossi is the diplomat and cares more about her sons than her daughter and only remembers when convenient. Mr. Rossi while trying to be a Good Parent is a member of the Guardia di Finanza, it is said that he is a diplomat but for the Rossi family to be dreaded it might be fitting to have him be the Gd F asset, which means he spends a lot of time away for work.

Not all Abusive Parents act the same way and some prefer to act "nice" to get what they want from their children, some go to some tactics as shown in the "unwanted assistance" and as such children whom live with such parents prefer to use some misdirection and lies to avoid the abusive parents' wrath. Also some viewers might notice but her room has more "national items" put as wall items rather than items a young girl would put on, another clue is how unpersonalized her laptop looks. This can be compounded as that like Adrien, Lila is expected to be the "perfect" daughter, with little parental support or guidance, and as such her reactions in some scenes are on the avoid reflexes to let the parent down, however when alone she slumps into depression due to not being able to cope with the psychological demands.

Due to the BRAT situation it is likely that Lila has no friends due to how the moving to a different country can do that, another factor is that the new kid in school tends to be a bully magnet. So by redoing the process for the nth time it is likely that Lila is trying to make herself look better to fit in a place where everyone has "celebrity connections" and knows would be bullied if they knew how her real life truly is. Due to the moving and likelihood of some places the parents have gone it is likely that jingoism has made "heroes" to turn against her. Example:

• Rogercop experience: In a past country Lila gets in a situation similar to the "stealing" incident but given the absent parents she gets cleared of charges of the "theft" but something way more embarrassing gets out, for the sake of the argument let us say that she had Princess Penguin memorabilia (a very young kid oriented show, like 5 years below her real age) stashed in her school bag. Cue the class laughing stock for the rest of that year. A chance when a cop could have been the everyday hero and decided to just go through with the corrupt authority.

Series wise her actions can be analyzed as follow: In Volpina she lies to fit in because the bar is high, however when with Adrien the situation ends up with Marinette pulling something worthy of Super Dickery (Or would it be called Lady Dickery in universe?) and as such crossed the last hero in the list (super heroes were the ones that were missing in the list) that let Lila down. What is ironical is that Adrien was uncomfortable but trying to find a way to get things to settle peacefully. By the end of the episode not only is Lila in the hardest point of access of the Eiffel Tower but out of range for the rescue teams that provides some treatment or support for the akumatized victims. By the time for Catalyst Lila has avoided her troubles by not going to school and using the "rules" to avoid trouble, the moment Mr. Damocles calls is shown that he is going "by the book" instead of calling at another hour (the call is under standard procedures with students that skip school days). What is interesting is not that Lila is covering herself but that Mrs. Rossi didn't cross check on her child's information, which is rare for a diplomat but if the "Black Sheep" is not making any trouble "why check on said sheep?" (the favorite would get reviewed on not wasting time in education and as such checked on the veracity faster) which can make Gabriel Agreste actually seem a more present father in Adrien's life due to keeping tabs on him. By Chameleon one important line is to be seen as "no more heroes" (actual line actual line in English: "Are you trying to be some superhero lecturing me just like Ladybug did? Well thanks, but no thanks.", in Spanish it goes with the equivalent of "goody two shoes/sanctimonious") which showcases a lot of pent up anger, sadness and frustration which can showcase that if the world has treated her as a villain then she is going with a "then let me be evil" situation (something that can be similar to how Nick Wilde in Zootopia decided to embrace the fox stereotype).

What is interesting is that Adrien tries to negotiate and get Lila to show him the "maskless" Lila which could make him lose the "perfect" mask; however Adrien's lack of Social Skills, as well as Lila's lack of some of the same as protocols vary per country, makes the attempt a failure to an extent but it can hint that the way to deal with Lila is to get her to show a bit of her real self to Adrien and as such both learn to lose the mask.The fallout after Marinette pulled the Super Dickery landed Hawk Moth one of the best brains the heroes could have gotten. The actions through the series show some detective skills (including the comparison of body features to do facial/body recognition), and her targeting of Marinette shows that she has very high suspicions that Marinette is Ladybug and as such is targeting the one that wronged her. Now had the first offense gone differently and the heroes were in a better footing the heroes would have had Lila on their side and her suggestion that Hawk Moth is Gabriel because the misdirection of the fashion victim would pass through her and look as something that would look on an early sketch of a new fashion when things look with the idea but are a fashion victim start; add the broadcast in Catalyst and she would have put the finger that the possibility is high enough to keep more tabs on Gabriel.

• Her being the The Un Favourite could be an explanation for why she needs multiple fake identities.

Lila will be the new Hawk Moth in the future

The episode "Timetagger" reveals that there will be a different Hawk Moth in the future (in roughly ten years). The akumatized Chris Lahiffe, Timetagger, reveals this as he is about to claim the Miraculous from Ladybug and Cat Noir. At the end of the episode, Lila becomes the new sitter for Chris and for Alya's twin sisters Ella and Etta. She awes Chris by telling him she invented the rapping game Freestyle Clash 2. She lets him play the game, which Marinette did not. Since he will become Timetagger, whose trademark is talking in rap style, there is an implication that Lila may become the future Hawk Moth. There are villainous "Twin Queens of the Inner World" in the future too, so Lila may also corrupt the twins. Lila begins to work in partnership with Gabriel Agreste in "Oni-Chan" and carries on a covert conversation with him in "Miraculer," so she has an inside track to either be given or steal the Butterfly Miraculous at some point.

• A possible argument against this is that Timetagger may have used a male pronoun for the future Hawk Moth. However, he was deliberately deceptive throughout his interaction with Hawk Moth and this may not mean anything.
  • Also he could just be mistaken, if it's Lila. She's not exactly honest.
• The Stinger of "Revelation" reveals that Lila is planning to have the Butterfly Miraculous. Make of that what you will.
• Confirmed in "Re-creation".

Lila will learn Hawk Moth's identity

If Lila is publicly exposed as a Consummate Liar, Gabriel may feel safe to let her in on his secret, knowing that nobody would believe her even if she did try to tell anyone.

• Alternately, she had guessed his identity, specifically after her team-up (with Gabriel).
• In the episode "Ladybug" Lila smiles when her causing the downfall of Marinette (as prompted by Gabriel) coincides with an immediate flow of butterflies from Scarlet Moth. She isn't surprised — it seems she knows exactly who she's working for.
• Ultimately confirmed in "Emotion".

Lila is into combat sports

She's awfully nimble as Volpina, reflexively executes a boxing parry when Marinette throws a napkin at her, and in "Chameleon" she shows herself rather adept in fighting Ladybug hand-to-hand. Chance is she's enrolled in a kickboxing or MMA gym (or just self-trained and really talented).

• Unlikely. Most of these feats were shown while she was akumatized (and everyone shows superhuman feats while akumatized), as a civilian we saw her helpless against an akumatized villain (Oni-Chan) and generally she never showed any combat sports skills while unapowered in 5 seasons.

In "Miracle Queen", Lila will become Volpina with the real Fox Miraculous

The previous episode ended with the Miracle Box in Hawk Moth's possession. He might give her the Fox Miraculous to use, but she'll look exactly like her Akumatized form. She'll be smart enough to find a way to make it look like she can still make more than one illusion without detransforming.

• Jossed, at least for this episode.
  • But it sorta happens in "Revelation" when she gets akumatized into Hoaxer.

Lila really is a descendant of Volpina

Just because she is a Compulsive Liar, it doesn't mean everything she says is a lie. Maybe the reason why she became like that, is because no one believed she is a descendant from a superhero and laughed at her.

Lila isn't even Italian

She's lied about everything else, why not her own heritage?

• This becomes likely after "Confrontation" with The Reveal that "Lila Rossi" isn't even her name and was just a fake identity she assumed.

Lila will die a Family-Unfriendly Death.

She'll use all of the Miraculous on herself at once, and suffer a horrible case of Power Incontinence, causing her to graphically disintegrate onscreen.

Similar to Emperor Joker, Lila will gain Reality warping powers and altered the whole world in her liking where she is the world’s greatest heroine.

Lila is some sort of supernatural being

Not necessarily Miraculous-related, as there are supernatural beings in New York that aren't, but it's possible. Perhaps she's actually a kitsune, which fits with her fox theme. Whatever the case, not only does nearly everyone believe her lies, but in Season 5 she actually has been leading multiple lives with multiple separate mothers, all of whom think she's actually their daughter. Her lies have got to be supernatural, right?

Lila is a Sentimonster

Following the events of "Representation", and fans' assumption that Kagami is one herself, it's possible Lila could be a Sentimonster tied to the Tsurugi family. It is possible that "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" mural in Lila's lair might be a hint to that connection.

• If she is a sentimonster, then maybe she was created to have lying-related superpowers.

Any one unexplainable inconsistency makes one immune to Lila's powers

Assuming, of course, that her lying is supernatural. Marinette accepted everything Lila said as truth until she overheard Lila say that she was best friends with Ladybug. There's no way to rationalize that idea with Marinette's reality, so Marinette instantly recognized it as false. With that, Lila no longer has any sway over Marinette, even her most basic lies.

Adrien, too, believed Lila up until the point when Ladybug herself called Lila out in front of him. Adrien trusts Ladybug implicitly, so he cannot rationalize the idea that Lila is best friends with Ladybug while Ladybug openly says it isn't true. It's just after Ladybug says this that Adrien realizes that Lila is not the granddaughter of a superheroine, and it's upon hearing Adrien say that that Lila declares her hatred of Ladybug.

But, no matter how flimsy the lie, unless (due to the above) the person has realized that Lila is capable of lying, if there's even the slightest possibility that it's true, people seem to always accept what comes out of her mouth.

There seems to be some leeway - her claim that she was "protecting Max's eyes" when blocking the napkin came after Marinette pointed out that her allegedly-hurt wrist seemed fine. Everyone had responded in shock at Marinette's initial reveal, but went back to believing her after Lila's counter-claim. Perhaps that claim added just enough credibility to everyone present (besides Marinette, of course) that it allowed that rationalization to take place and re-assert Lila's powers over them.

"Revelation" just had Monarch (probably unintentionally) strengthen the power she already had (such that even unexplainable inconsistencies no longer made a difference.)

This does raise the question of why Alya didn't immediately realize that Lila was a liar upon learning that Marinette was Ladybug (as she had believed Lila's lie about being Ladybug's friend, which at that point she should have known wasn't true), but maybe she just never thought about that particular lie after that.

Lila lost interest in attacking Ladybug and Cat Noir.

As of season 5, she doesn't seem to target them anymore, only as Hoaxer when she makes an illusion of them as space aliens that fart bubbles that will destroy the ozone layer, and when she captures Cat Noir with her brainwashed army.

• Jossed. The season 5 finale has her succeed Gabriel as the next main villain of the show, so she'll definitley attack Ladybug and Cat Noir (as long as the other now permanent heroes from their team) in the future.

Lila is older than she claims

To be this prepared and talented at deception implies years of experience. It would not be a stretch for Lila to be an adult pretending to be a teenager. This helps people underestimate her, until it's too late.

Lila has a Compelling Voice.

Not to the point where she can mind control people, but to where people let their guard down and are made more easily manipulated. Marinette's classmates and teachers aren't stupid: they're being bewitched. It's possible that long-term exposure to it can make it stronger, this being how she somehow had convinced multiple different women that she's their daughter. The only people who ever show skepticism towards her when everyone else blindly her word for it are Marinette, Adrien and Gabriel. The common denominator is that they all wield miraculouses, so it's likely that their miraculouses immunize them from her enchantment.

• One thing that casts some doubt on Lila having supernatural lying powers is the fact that Chloé managed to be just as manipulative when Lila was secretly telling her what to say through an earpiece.

As the new Hawk Moth, Lila will force Nooroo to give her a Kwatagama so she can use the Reunion ability to communicate with Gabriel.

While she already got a lot of his useful information in "Revelation", its not unreasonable to think there's more she can pry out of him directly, plus it would also serve as a way for Gabriel to still appear in future seasons despite being Killed Off for Real.

• Gabriel didn't have a Kwagatama though.

Lila is bald.

Even her "tomboy-ish" hair as Cerise is a wig. This is assuming Cerise is not her real name.

Lila (or whatever her real name is) has been akumatized the whole time

Félix's backstory revealed that he was after the specific Miraculous that created him; perhaps something similar is why Lila wanted the Butterfly so badly.

An example of how this is possible: a couple of centuries ago, a young girl was pleading a sad story to passersby who did not believe her, only she managed to convince someone who happened to be the wielder of the Butterfly Miraculous. Taking pity on the girl, the Butterfly user gave her the power to have her story believed by anyone. Then, somehow, the Butterfly Miraculous user died before being able to recall the akuma. The guardian reclaimed the Miraculous, none the wiser.

We've seen that amoks can last for centuries. Why not akumas, especially since this is such a subtle akumatization? There would have been no one trying to find and purify the akuma, and she'd have had no incentive to renounce it. There's a good chance that she hid her akuma object away somewhere safe ages ago.

This is, of course, all contingent on the possibility that you can be akumatized by more than one source simultaneously, and that akumatization stops the aging process.

Since the Butterfly wielder cannot normally be akumatized, perhaps that explains the strange light Cerise sees at the very end of Season 5 - an overcharged Nooroo or something.

Lila is Manon from the future.

That's actually highly unlikely. 4 reasons.

• 1. Yes, they both have amber eyes, but Manon has tanned skin, and Lila doesn't.
• 2. Manon has chocolate brown hair, and Lila has purplish-brown hair.
• 3. Manon has bucked teeth, and Lila doesn't.
• 4. Nadja is most definitely busy, leaving Manon to be babysat by Marinette while she goes to work and report the news, but she doesn't seem like the neglectful type.

• Also, on a side-note, various studies show that people with Lila's behavior would definitely exhibit warning signs in early childhood. While definitely bratty and persuasive with her puppy-dog eyes, Manon doesn't show any signs of being a pathological liar.

Lila never had a crush on Adrien.

She just wanted fame and money from being the female face of Gabriel Agreste's brand, so she took up the identity of "Lila Rossi" to go to the same school as Adrien.

Akumatized Victims

There will be a Gaia's Avenger akuma villain.

It's a very common motivation for destruction.

• This could be a power impervious to Cat Noir: Green Thumb + Cataclysm = fertilized plant monster.

Mireille will get akumatized in Season 2

She's literally the only recurring non-adult with a name who hasn't been aside from Marinette and Adrien. While we're at it, as of "Dark Owl", only two of the four school staff members with names haven't been akumatized yet, either: Ms Mendeleive and Miss Bustier. It's possible they will eventually get akumatized, since Hawk Moth likes to target the school.

• Jossed. As she wasn't akumatized in seasons 3 and 4 either, it's unlikely she will ever get akumatized.

Anansi/Nancy is Alya's sister or relative.

When Season 2 was being written, Thomas Astruc posted sketches of a hopefully new character named Anansi and/or Nancy. Later, Jeremy Zag released photos of Season 2 production, and one of them included a computer screen with a character model that looks like Anansi. However, what is notable is that Alya's model is right next to Anansi's, as if it's being used as a reference for coloring and designing Anansi. It has already been confirmed officially that there is another sibling to Alya that will be seen in the future who isn't Ella and Etta, and like how the Césaire family members are all named after famous jazz singers, if Nancy is Anansi's name, she could be named after famous jazz singer Nancy Wilson. With these details in mind, it could be very possible that Nancy/Anansi is Alya's older sister or a different type of relative.

• Anansi is probably her akumatised name, since hers is spider-themed, where Nancy is her actual given name.
• Confirmed, but her name isn't Nancy. Anansi, yes. She is Alya's older sister

Sooner or later, Ladybug will be made Brainwashed and Crazy by an Akuma.

After it's happened to Cat Noir so many times, A role reversal seems in order. Cat Noir will have to figure out how to break it though, seeing as Ladybug will have to be the one to catch the Akuma.

• Sort of happens in "Psycomedian", however she still manages to work through it (with a bit of help from Cat Noir)in order to defeat the villain and purify his Akuma.

There will be a "What Do They Fear?" Episode.

A psychologist, possibly the school shrink, has their professional opinion ignored, is akumatized, and the resulting villain traps people with hidden issues and fears is a world of their worst nightmare. The only way out, naturally, is to Face Your Fears.

• This is a good way to reveal information about Adrien's mother, and at least hint to or at most divulge Freudian Excuses for characters like Chloé and Lila.
• They may be able to go through the different nightmares, necessitating our heroes to help their friends get through their nightmares before they can deal with the akuma victim. This might mean the only victims are Alya, Nino, and Chloé, possibly Lila as well, but Lila would refuse help.

Reflekta's powers as we saw them are not all she can do with it.

I've seen complaints that turning people into copies of herself is a pretty weak power, but for all we know, that's just the most basic use of it owing to Juleka's anger fueling her obsession. She could potentially use them to make someone look like any kind of person she can think of, making it useful for disguising and/or humiliating others. She might even be able to turn the power on herself and become a master of disguise for when she needs to infiltrate a public place without standing out. Plus, being able to disarm enemies by transforming them allows her to win in a fight without actually fighting, so Reflekta's not as useless as everybody thinks. She's less a fighter and more of a spy.

• To be fair, even if Reflekta's powers are only what we saw, she basically has to power to nullify Miraculouses, and going for the logical extreme, she should be able to nullify other kinds of magic too (Imagine if she got a direct hit on a Kwami, or if she had hit Adrien/Marinette before they transformed).
• We also know that she can fly (zooming around Paris on her transforming rampage) and is super-strong (able to lift lockers overhead and tear basketball hoops apart with her hands), which does give her some physical power in a fight. Being able to stop enemies from attacking, including those with Miraculouses, is still her bigger strength if nothing else.

Hawk Moth will use an Akuma on at least one of the protagonists.

Cat Blanc will be Cat Noir's akuma personality.

Expanding to the WMG above. This is a popular theory that's been circulating around fanon, already generated fanart. This troper didn't come up with it but added it for archive purposes.

It's also often coupled with the "Gabriel Agreste is Hawk Moth" WMG above.

Regarding revealed S2 Akuma Victims

• Style Queen could be Chloé's mother, while Malediktor and Queen Wasp are her husband and daughter, making Chloé the first to have two different akumatised forms.
  • The plot synopses of the above episodes indicate that this is indeed the case.
• Troublemaker might have power to be a Reality Warper.

We will have another Musical Episode

The cause will actually be an akuma, who is either a rejected aspiring singer, or someone rejected from a musical theatre audition.

• "The Befana" has singing in it from the villain, Ladybug, and Cat Noir, but is not a musical episode, technically.

Alya's young twin sisters will be akumatised

At the same time, as they were both holding onto the akumatized item when the akuma landed.

• Confirmed with the episode "Sapotis". They were akumatized through their hat after getting into a typical sibling spat with Alya over their pranks.

At some point, Nathalie will be akumatized.

• For some reason, either Nathalie or Gabriel will find it convenient for Nathalie to be akumatized. Perhaps she just wants to vent at some particularly annoying individual, perhaps Adrien or Marinette will come to suspect that she is Hawk Moth (after all, other than Adrien and Gabriel, she's the only one who might have access to the Miraculous spellbook when it's in the Agreste safe), perhaps Gabriel will want to put some pressure on Adrien. Whatever the reason, she will be another willing akumatization (along the lines of The Collector).
  • And we will get a scene of Nathalie smashing things with her usual bored look on her face as she "sets the scene" for her akumatization.
  • Nathalie is indeed akumatized as Catalyst in the Season 2 two-part finale.

During Season 2, one of the Season 1 victims is going to be akumatized a second time.

We have no particular reason to believe that someone who's been akumatized once can't be akumatized again by a different akuma, if they once again become sufficiently angry.

• Of course, the second akumatization may or may not carry the same powers as the first. In fact, given how context-dependent many akumas are, it is by far more likely that the second akumatization will carry totally different powers from the first.
• Two things. First, as of "The Collector", we know they can be reakumatised because Mylène and Kim nearly are. Second, a little math comes close to disproving this theory. As of the writing of this, there are a total of 23 announced akumatised villains for the season. There is also Luka, who makes a potential 24th, as well as Anansi, making for 25 provided one of the unnamed villains isn't Luka, and there's been a hint that Master Fu will be akumatised^note The icons of the fish, bee, turtle, rainbow, ice cream, and teddy bear appear to correspond to different villains, making for the full season of 26. The only possible hope for this WMG at this point is that this person is Luka, since this is the only one that could theoretically be male. Also there's Chris, who could hypothetically be one of the known but unnamed villains.
  • The plot synopsis for Style Queen indicates that Chloé is coming back for round two, confirming this.

Someone will be akumatized willingly.

Either because they're a Jerkass in general or they've just plain been pushed that far, they will basically beg for akumatization, and Hawk Moth will happily grant it. (No, Gabriel does not count.)

• It'll be Lila. She's the first de-akumatized character who doesn't feel remorse.
• CALLED IT ON ALL COUNTS!

Anansi was holding back the whole time

When Nora shows up at her home she engages in a kickboxing pose, yet as Anansi she almost exclusively uses her fists plus the occasional throw. Chance is she was holding back the whole time, and only started going all-out when fists alone weren't enough to hit Ladybug in the "match" under the Arc de Triumph.

Astruc will be low enough to add "Pregzilla" as an akumatized villain in a kids show.

And guess who would become this villain of the day.

If Robostus had made his wish to Become a Real Boy...

...he would have become human, but in exchange, Max would have become a robot.

Future Akumatiziations and Their Causes

XY will get Reformed, but Rejected

After hearing his father call him untalented, he looked visibly hurt. So, he wants to make an honest effort to improve as a musician, but his reputation was too badly damaged. This will lead to his Akumatization.

Lila's mother will find out about her daughter's bad behavior

After she gets Akumatized, this will actually lead to an Even Evil Has Loved Ones moment from Lila.

Sabine will successfully be akumatized into Verity Queen

She will have the ability to make people tell the truth, putting Ladybug and Cat Noir at risk of revealing their identities.

• If she does, it's possible this happens because she's disappointed in Marinette for lying (be it one lie or several).

If Félix is akumatized, it will be willingly

He will either take an akuma meant for someone else like Lila did in "Chameleon", or just gladly accept an akuma that was sent after him.

• Félix will become the new Cat Blanc. Someone will refer to him as "Cat Noir's evil twin"; obviously ignoring that both are cousins.
• Wrong, Félix almost gets akumatized, but he resists it.

Master Fu will get akumatized?

In an upcoming season 4 episode, Master Fu will get akumatized, since being amnesiac leaves him more open to it.

• Confirmed, he is akumatized in "Furious Fu", and it's all but confirmed that this was only possible because he has lost his memories of being a Guardian.

Ms. Bustier will want to make the city safe for her baby.

Ms. Bustier will become concerned about raising a child in a city constantly beset by supervillains and will akumatized into a villain (either as Zombizou again or in a new form) obsessed with making Paris safe. If she's still pregnant when akumatized, it'll add a wrinkle in her fight with Ladybug and Cat Noir since they'll want to avoid harming her unborn baby.

• Sort of happens in "Collusion", however she gets akumatized in order to protect the future of all of her students, not just her baby's.

Sentimonsters

Pygmalion was a former wielder of the Peacock Miraculous and Galatea was a sentimonster.

According to Classical Mythology, Pygmalion was a sculptor who carved a woman from ivory. She was said to be so beautiful that the sculptor fell in love with the statue. he made an offering to Aphrodite, who then answered his prayer and brought the statue to life. The woman (then named Galatea) married him and bore him children and they lived happily ever after.

It is likely that the statue was used as a vessel for an amok, creating a life-like replica for Pygmalion to interact with like a real human-being. In "Ladybug", Mayura was able to create a sentimonster replica of Ladybug so convincing that it developed a will of its own, so it is clear that the Peacock Miraculous is capable of making people.

While Aphrodite is not associated with peacocks - that being more Hera's thing - there are likely some versions of the story where is was Hera, and Hera is the goddess of marriage, so it is still a likely parallel.

Nathalie is a sentimonster created by Emilie.

It's revealed in "Ladybug" that sentimonsters are fully sentient beings that follow the orders of their master. Emilie may have created Nathalie and handed ownership of her to Gabriel.

• Jossed when "Miraculous Secrets: Nathalie as seen by Gabriel" reveals that she is the one who helped them find the two Miraculous in Tibet. She's also shown thinking, "I should never have taken this job" in "Stormy Weather 2".

Adrien is a sentimonster created by Emilie.

The original Adrien may have died, and Emilie used the Peacock Miraculous to create a Replacement Goldfish for him. The strain of this abuse of her Miraculous is what put her into a coma. Since Adrien has free will and doesn't always obey Gabriel, the amokitized object must be in his own possession. One possibility is the framed picture of Emilie in his room, which he treasures.

• Adrien is "perfect" according to Astruc. Perhaps a little too perfect? In the episode "Ladybug" the Sentimonster Ladybug is also called "perfect."
• He was kept home-schooled. Emilie and Gabriel wanted him to sooth their own grief and didn't trust he could be around others his own apparent age. In the Origins episode, Gabriel says that Adrien "isn't like" other kids. He follows up with "you're my son", but...
• This provides an understandable, well-intentioned reason for Emilie to push her use of the Peacock Miraculous, and for Gabriel to let her do it.
• The episode "Feast" shows that more than one Sentimonster can exist at the same time if they were created by two different Peacock wielders. One was dormant in this case, but that was due to circumstances. There was still an amok inside Feast for nearly two centuries. This is backed up by "Optigami": Mayura created a Sentimonster between seasons, which must have existed alongside every Sentimonster Shadow Moth created in the first half of season 4. However, Shadow Moth has not created two separate Sentimonsters on his own at the same time.
• Another thing: Cataclysm. This power has been shown to destroy organic matter, buildings, Shell-ter, a magical prison dimension and even Miraculous. Though we've almost never clearly seen it be used on a living thing, we've seen two (false in the first case and arguable in the second) images of Cat Noir or Copycat getting hit by his own Cataclysm and crumbling to dust. I can only think of two things that haven't been outright destroyed by an application of Cataclysm offhand: Reflekdoll (obviously a Sentimonster) and the actual Cat Noir himself (when hit by Miraculer.) Both were hurt, but neither destroyed.
  • Roads and bridges are also Sentimonsters then, because Cataclysm doesn't destroy every square inch of road when it's used on those. It only seems to do so much damage over a certain area, and it doesn't seem capable of killing. Reflekdoll's damage was no different than Cat Noir using it on a road- it only created cracks and fissures, but didn't completely destroy it. Likely because of how large it is. We also see in several episodes that Cataclysm causes technology to malfunction, which is exactly what happens to Reflekdoll. We also never see Cataclysm used on living things EXCEPT for Cat Noir.
  • Season 4 shows that Sentimonsters are not destroyed when hit by a Cataclysm. Instead they become cracked and out of control. We don't know why Cat Noir survived Miraculer's Cataclysm - maybe it's because he's a living being, maybe because he's superpowered, and maybe because Miraculer's Cataclysm isn't a "real" Cataclysm.
• Hang on. You can't tell me that Gabriel, controlling as he is, would give Adrien's Amok to anyone, even Adrien himself? Obviously Emilie can't still have it, or Gabriel would have taken it to keep Adrien safe by controlling him. It seems unlikely Emilie wouldn't tell him what it was or that he wouldn't hunt it down. As to the portrait suggestion, the Amok can't be locked up or in his room- when Bugette's Amok was just on the ground with nobody to control her, she stopped moving. Sentimonsters can't act without someone, even them, holding their Amok. Adrien obviously doesn't have this supposed Amok- the only thing he always has on him is his Miraculous, and he even takes THAT off in "Reflekdoll" to completely change his clothing. If he doesn't even put the Black Cat Miraculous in his pocket, despite its importance, why would he put an Amok in his pocket? It doesn't seem possible Adrien is a Sentimonster if you think about how the Amok seem to work. They need someone (or the Sentimonster itself) to have possession of them, physical possession, for the Sentimonster to be able to act. Moreover, Emilie creating an Adrien Sentimonster wouldn't force her to repeatedly use the Peacock, so it doesn't justify her using it enough it nearly kills her like suggested above. She just had to use it the once, because whoever has the Amok calls the shots, not the Peacock holder. They just have the ability to destroy the Sentimonster.
  • The rules are not that clear. Nobody was holding Hawk Moth's broken cane and the giant butterfly moved. So did the lollipop monster when the pacifier was dropped. Also, the extent and exact effects of a Cataclysm are normally up to the user of the power: it once broke a prison dimension of seemingly unlimited extent. It seems likely that Ladybug willed the total annihilation of Reflekdoll, but she was only able to crack it and drive it crazy. And although Gabriel is controlling, if he wants a substitute son he would not be satisfied with a puppet that required his command for every move. It is plausible that he knows the amokitized object but leaves it alone.
    • Keep in mind she doesn't know how to use Cataclysm and that Cat Noir doesn't always destroy everything he touches even if he's trying to. I mean he was trying to destroy Ladybug but when he set off the fireworks in Princess Fragrance, all he did was make the machine malfunction. Cataclysm is only able to make technology go haywire, it cannot destroy it. I would argue if this absurd idea is true, that Gabriel would not let go of the Amok, and that would not mean he has to give Adrien every single order. It would however let him keep tabs on his son and make sure his son doesn't go against his wishes. But this doesn't seem to be how Adrien functions. He has his own free will and disobeys his father often. Ergo, Adrien cannot possibly be a Sentimonster, because he has free will and his father obviously doesn't have his amok. And Gabriel would most certainly have it- there is no arguing this fact. Based on the kind of person he is, Adrien's amok would not leave his possession, and thus, Adrien would not be able to disobey him.
    • As of "Cat Blanc", the situation is... ambiguous: We see that Cataclysm does in fact cause humans to crumble to dust, even if they're currently transformed via Miraculous... well, at least, Cat Blanc's super-Cataclysm does. That still leaves the question of Cat Noir's normal Cataclysm. All the same, though every last one is frustratingly a special case, it remains true that every seeming instance of Cataclysm used on a human destroys them, except with Miraculer on Cat Noir.
• What if Emilie made Gabriel promise never to use the amok object to control Adrien? He loves her and insists on keeping his word, so that could be it.
  • Alternately, what if Emilie specifically imbued the Adrien sentimonster with true free will, so that he cannot be controlled through his amok? Either deliberately, or as a side effect of making him able to learn and grow like a human being? Again, we've seen that creating an intelligent sentimonster (Ladybug) was exhausting for Nathalie but didn't drain her to the point of coma, so whatever Emelie did would have to be a step beyond even that.
• We have seen that a complex enough sentimonster can become fully sentient if no one is holding its amok and giving it commands, and making Adrien this realistic and this resilient (surviving Cataclysm) might be what damaged the miraculous (and its user) in the first place. Gabriel wouldn't be unable to send him to school and expect him to act like a normal human. BUT... we know what a control freak Gabriel is. The real problem here is that Gabriel would never decide not to use something that would give him complete control over Adrien. Also, when he suspects Cat Noir is Adrien, he'd have an easy time confirming it. Next time he sees Cat Noir, get the amok and give him an order. Something small like "cough twice" that won't cause Adrien too much trouble if it's not him and he's somewhere else.
• One thing to consider that might point toward this theory: Nathalie used the broken Miraculous all season and though she suffers, she was pretty far from "Human Popsicle in a life support tube" status by the end. Emilie's current condition would mean she did even more with it than Nathalie has - yet there's no sign of a rash of kaiju attacks in the show's backstory. So just what did Emilie do that was so much more taxing than everything Nathalie did put together, but went unnoticed? Hmmm...
• The fact that he is exactly identical to his cousin Félix to the point where they could impersonate each other seems rather suspect, regardless if their mothers are twins or not. If Adrien is a sentimonster, it is likely that she based Adrien's appearance off of his nephew. With Adrien being a sentimonster, its possible that he has the ability to alter the memories of those around him without even knowing it, thus life will be as though he had always existed.
  • Alternately, if we go with the "the Adrien sentimonster is a Replacement Goldfish for the deceased real Adrien" angle suggested by the original poster, Emilie could have modeled "Adrien"'s appearance off of Félix, extrapolating from the fact that the boys looked similar when they were little (depending on how recently the real Adrien died). And depending on the time frame, they might not need to warp anyone's memory - just keep Adrien in seclusion for a bit near the end, make the sentimonster, then claim that he miraculously recovered (which would be true, from a certain point of view).
• This might also explain why Gabriel thinks he needs the Wish to get Emelie back. It's possible that something like Ladybug's Miracle or some lesser restoration magic might be able to cure Emelie... but at the cost of dissipating Adrien. Maybe only the Wish can restore Emelie while still leaving the sentimonster she made intact?
• One problem with this theory: Adrien has memories of his mother getting sick and weakening. So unless Emilie gave him false memories of her growing sick (which makes little sense), then he would have had to be alive before Emilie did whatever it was she did that put her into this coma.
• It's possible Emelie didn't just fall into a coma, her health could have just slowly deteriorated after making a sentimonster as complex as an actual human being, since we know making a Ladybug copy was hard on Nathalie. This would explain why Adrien would have memories of her getting sick.
• In "Mega Leech", after Gabriel scolds and gives orders to Adrien, the camera holds on him rubbing his ring. Back in "Félix", Félix stole Gabriel's ring, and Gabriel took Emilie's. Perhaps this scene is intended as a hint that Emilie's ring holds Adrien's amok.
  • It might make more sense if both of the rings were used. Suppose the amok feather was divided in two and placed in the two rings, giving each partial shared control. Then Gabriel took his wife's ring after his was stolen to retain his partial control.
  • Alternatively, suppose Emile never told Gabriel what the amokitized object was, fearing his over-controlling nature. He only took her ring for appearance sake, since not having one could lead to embarrassing questions. But now he gives an order and Adrien is unexpectedly obedient. He rubs his ring as he ponders if it could be the controlling object.
  • Another possible explanation: if both Adrien and Félix are sentimonsters and each ring controls one, Gabriel would of course want to wear the one that controlled Adrien most of the time. But with the devious Félix due to arrive, he might choose to wear the other ring that day, just in case. We see him handling the rings that morning, supposedly just polishing them, but what if he swapped rings? He didn't end up using the power on Félix, since his nephew directed his malice at Adrien's friends and caused akumas. Félix cleverly anticipated this and stole the ring with his own amok off of his uncle's finger. Gabriel then went back to Emile's pod and took back his own ring so that he could control Adrien again. Gabriel always speaks of either ring as "Emilie's ring" — both came from her family. Possibly they swapped rings from time to time as Adrien was growing up, depending on who was free to supervise him.
• More evidence piles on in "Optigami". It's confirmed that Sentimonsters can become Miraculous holders, as SentiNino acted the exact same way and transformed into Carapace just as the real Nino.
  • The Turtle Miraculous applied perfect "quantum masking" to Senti-Carapace, or Ladybug and Rena Rouge would have noticed he looked different. One thing people have used to dispute the theory is that Nathalie can detect sentimonsters when they are close by (like Feast). But if quantum masking distorts all senses, she might detect Adrien as a sentimonster (a fact we can assume she already knows) but not detect him while he is transformed to Cat.
• In "Wishmaker", Adrien doesn't recall his childhood dream at all. When hit by Wishmaker, Adrien realizes his dream was to be exactly what his parents wanted him to be. Which sounds really appropriate for a Sentimonster, does it not?
• Some have claimed that since Uncanny Valley could see Adrien in the New York special, that he cannot be a sentimonster. She must see through something like a video camera; kwamis cannot be seen that way. But sentimonsters are different. In "Ladybug", Nadia Chamack showed video footage of Mayura fighting with Senti-Ladybug, who was fully visible.
• Well, I'm still in favor of this theory, and if you've seen Loveater/Heart Hunter, you might understand why I think that it could also be the case that (see next entry)...
• Alternatively, Emilie was never able to have children. Adrien was created as an infant not too long after the birth of Félix. Emilie, wearing her Amok-infused ring, couldn't help subconsciously comparing herself to her sister, causing Adrien to mimic Félix's appearance as the two of them grew up.
• In "Risk", after spending most of the season rubbing Emilie's ring when giving Adrien orders, Gabriel gives an order to Félix (disguised as Adrien) and, when Félix refuses, he reaches for the ring only to realize he's not wearing it, as he had just given it to Nathalie. Nathalie then gives Félix the exact same order and he immediately obeys, in the exact same resigned deadpan tone Adrien usually takes when obeying his father. Félix does have an eye for detail; did he notice that Nathalie had the ring and was playing along, or are both Adrien and Félix controlled by the same ring? Either way, the hints that the ring controls Adrien are too strong to deny at this point.
• In "Protection":
  • In trying to fix up their children, Gabriel and Tomoe make it clear that they were "made for each other, exactly as planned."
  • Gabriel tells Adrien to end his relationship with Marinette, again rubbing his ring (which is actually his; Félix had given it back at this point), and Adrien sadly cancels his planned date. When he complains about this to Nathalie, who is still wearing Emilie's ring, she tells him to ignore that order and all future outside orders regarding his love life, and Adrien puts the date back on — implying that both rings can control Adrien. When Gabriel figures out what happened, he confronts Nathalie about giving Adrien a "counter-order" and looks at her ring, and in defending Adrien, Nathalie lets slip that Gabriel has "power" over him.
• In "Emotion", Adrien doesn't tell Marinette about the Diamond Dance simply because Gabriel told him not to, and Gabriel still does the ring rubbing thing at the end of the episode. To say nothing of the fact that Félix, who has himself been hinted at being a sentimonster multiple times, poofs away everyone except four people (or so he thinks) in Paris, specifically for the sake of his, Adrien's, and Kagami's freedom, leaving Marinette (who probably isn't a sentimonster) only because Adrien loves her. He also calls the Red Moon sentimonster his "sister" and he he feels terrible about dismissing her.
• This is as outright confirmed as it's probably going to be for now in "Representation", given that it directly confirms that Félix is a sentimoster, after having already used peacock imagery for Emilie's pregnancy (after she'd had difficulty conceiving), and reveals that Gabriel was the one who gave Félix's father the Miraculous.

Kagami is a Sentimonster.

Based on Heart Hunter/Miracle Queen, consider all the "made for each other" talk taken literally. And Mayura knows it, and that she's Ryuko, and she has the right Miraculous to destroy Sentimonsters without a fight...

• I wrote this one based on a single line, and half as a joke. I actually didn't believe it going through season 4 episodes. And although I was wrong about my assumption that Mayura would poof her out of existence, the episodes "Protection" and "Emotion" actually appear to back up the general idea of Kagami being a sentimonster along with Adrien and Félix. Not confirmed as of time of writing, though.
• There is additional evidence in "Perfection". Gabriel got an angry reaction from Tomoe in when he used Kagami's ring as an akumatized object. "Why did you send a megakuma into my daughter's ring? You endangered her!" The same thing was done in "Riposte" and the object was even broken, unlike in "Perfection" where Kagami rejected the akuma. There is no reference to Tomoe being angry about that. The ring colors show the ring in "Riposte" was not the same one. The logo was red and the ring itself was black. If the silver one with a black logo is in fact Kagami's amok object (as the reaction by Félix in "Emotion" seems to indicate) then her mother's anger makes sense. Ladybug might have found a way to break the ring (or whatever it turned into) to release the akuma, but that would also release the amok and destroy Kagami.
• It's not technically confirmed in "Representation", but Félix does refer to Kagami as a girl who is "like him" after his own sentimonster status is confirmed.

Adrien's Bodyguard is a sentimonster created by Emilie.

Adrien's bodyguard is hyper fixated on protecting Adrien. He doesn't have a name and while he is sentient he doesn't speak. In "Simon Says", he manages to restrain Cat Noir, who has super strength.

• Jossed. The bodyguard is a former employee of Colt Fathom who was moved to Paris as part of the deal where Colt would temporarily receive the Peacock Miraculous.

Sentimonsters made to look like people are human, including when it comes to the effects of the miraculous powers (save for the peacock miraculous, of course).

While the effects of most miraculous powers aren't shown on sentimonsters besides maybe Adrien, the cataclysm is, and the affect is that the sentimonster doesn't seem to be injured, but they get cracks on their body, lose their connection to their amok, at least in that they can't be controlled anymore, and they go agro. With one known exception.

In the episode Miraculer, Cat Noir gets cataclysmed, and his body's response (injured, weakened, seemingly in pain, not agro) is much closer to Monarch getting cataclysmed than any other sentimonster.

And ignoring the effects of the miraculous powers and just the human part, it also explains how a sentimonster can be allergic to pigeons.

This would also apply is a sentimonster looked like an animal, like a cat or a dog.

Season 4

Adrien will become Cat Blanc again, under different circumstances

Alya at the start of Season 4 seems to be becoming Ladybuy's confidante and second in command, and in "Optigami" becomes a permanent Miraculous holder. Cat Noir might become threatened by this and angry at being locked out of the loop yet again, leading to his ring being akumatised by Hawk Moth, who promises him all the answers if he sides with him and defeats Ladybug. When he claims that he would never hurt his Lady, Hawk Moth reminds him that she doesn't trust him enough to tell him things about the Miracle Box, and yet trusts Rena Rouge enough to do that; how can he love someone who doesn't trust him like that.

This would lead him to becoming Cat Blanc again, only with the akuma in his ring, there is no way to deakumatise him outside of him willingly giving up the power. Ladybug will promise to fill him in on everything if he gives up the akuma, and Hawk Moth will counter that if she was being honest from the start she wouldn't have to be asking now.

Adrien will reveal himself to Nino

As a parallel to Marinette and Alya, Adrien will want to talk about his feelings with someone, and since he knows Nino was at Miracle Queen's gathering, he knows Nino is Carapace. He will tell Nino about everything he knows at the moment in an attempt to identify Ladybug, revealing himself as Cat Noir in the process. Nino and Alya will accidentally slip that they know Ladybug and Cat Noir's identities respectively, and promise to protect them both.

• In "Rocketear" we witness the reverse happening: Nino reveals himself (and Alya's secret identity) to Adrien. Adrien, however, does not mention that he's Cat Noir.

Future Hawk Moth

Future Hawk Moth will either be Lila, Chloé or Félix.

It honestly just make sense to make the final villain be one of Marinette and Adrien old rivals from their teenage years to grow up to be their arch enemy and the Big Bad.

• The Stinger of "Revelation" reveals that Lila is planning to have the Butterfly Miraculous. Make of that what you will.
• Confirmed. In "Re-creation" Lila ends up stealing the Butterfly Miraculous from Gabriel's basement.

The Supreme

The Supreme is an alternate Master Fu

The Supreme is a version of Fu who was corrupted by the power of the miraculous, possibly using the ladybug and cat miraculous to wish himself into an all-powerful being.

The Supreme may become a Season 6 antagonist

It is possible that prime universe Ladybug and Cat Noir may have influenced events to enable Betterfly's resistance to take back their world from the Supreme, forcing them to retreat to the prime universe in the closing scene of season 5. If that is the case, Cerise may end up in a partnership with the Supreme with the latter deciding to conquer the prime universe.

The Supreme is alternate version of the Mage who created Miraculouses

The Supreme has enough knowelge and power to put silence spell on Kwamis and bind them so Tikki and Plagg are unable to combine into Gimmi, with both locks being active even in another universe. We have never seen somebody have this kind of power over Miraculoses before, even less from somebody who dosen’t posses jewels anymore, but Miracolouses of Shaybug and Clan Noir’s world just being created that way would be apropriate explanation for how much control the Supreme has over them. Of course this does beg guestion why they are able to be used against the Supreme in first place, but as show’s Alternate Character Interpretation page posits, the Mage may not have been a person to consider all posibilities when deciding on which rules and limitations Miraculouses would work.

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