History Characters / MiraculousLadybugHawkMoth

** "[[EvilLaugh Muhahahaha!!]]"

* CurbStompBattle: Deals one to Ladybug and Cat Noir in "Mayura" until [[TheCavalry Rena Rouge, Carapace and Queen Bee]] steps in and inverse the trend.

** And when the Akuma finds its mark: "[Villain's name]. I am Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch..."

* BigNo: Tends to utter "No!" whenever he comes particularly close to getting the Miraculouses, only for his efforts to be foiled at the very last second.

* EvilIsHammy: In costume, he embraces being a theatrical supervillain, a far cry from his civilian identity of the aloof, businesslike Gabriel Agreste. Made obvious by his transformation sequence when it occurs, which sees the cold and constantly-frowning Gabriel Agreste [[SlasherSmile flash an evil grin]].

* BaitTheDog: In season five, following his Catacylsm injury and learning that it is killing him, Gabriel seems to be trying be a better father to Adrien with the time he has left: Making his son breakfast as they spend time together, having heart to heart talks, giving him relationship advice and letting Adrien call him "dad". But it turns out Nathalie was extorting Gabriel into doing most of this, still being the same emotionally abusive and controlling father he has been despite his affable demeanor. The fact Gabriel is still places his self interests over Adrien's happiness and his son's gradual sadness over it just worsens things between them.

* BecomingTheMask: When he first terrorizes Paris with Stoneheart, he proclaims that he is only playing the part of supervillain so that he could procure the power of the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous so he can revive Emilie. He starts out with using the same plot every time -- akumatize someone, let them wreak havoc and try to have them take Ladybug and Cat Noir's miraculous -- before he starts upping the ante with more convoluted (and dangerous) plans in an effort to overpower them. [[spoiler:By Season 5, he has the opportunity of CuttingTheKnot using [[TimeMaster the Rabbit Miraculous]] and preventing Emilie's coma to begin with, but by then [[VillainBall he had become so intent with winning against the heroes that he ends up losing it in another attempt at taking their miraculous]]. Losing one of the most powerful miraculouses and the respect of his most loyal supporter Nathalie as result]] drives Gabriel to track down Ladybug end up slowly dying from being hit with Cat Noir's Cataclysm.

->''' Both voiced by: Antoine Tome (FR), Creator/KeithSilverstein (EN) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Hong Shi-ho (KOR), Hesham Shazli (ARA, [=S1E1=] - [=S2E16=]) and Mohammed Ashraf (ARA), Roberto Encinas (SP), Creator/DafnisFernandez (MEX), Creator/AdamFietz (SW), Ionuț Grama (ROM), Stefano Alessandroni (ITA), Jiří Valšuba (CZE), Xristo Bonin/Христо Бонин (BUL), Peter Flechtner (GER), Simen Sand (NOR), Hayato Fujii (J), Pavle Jerinić (SER), Volodymyr Tereshchuk/Володимир Терещук and Mykhaylo Zhonin/Михайло Жонін (UKR, voice-over and dubbing, respectively)'''

* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed. On one hand, [[spoiler:his time as a villain ends with him having a change of heart and giving up his life to revive Nathalie via wishing on the Miraculous]]. But on the other, [[spoiler:his LastRequest is for Marinette to not out his secret identity, which she agrees to. As such, Gabriel dies a hero, his crimes and wrongdoings as Monarch never coming to light]].

[[Characters/MiraculousLadybugHeroes Heroes]] ([[Characters/MiraculousLadybugMarinetteDupainCheng Marinette Dupain-Cheng]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAdrienAgreste Adrien Agreste]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugUnitedHeroez United HeroeZ]]) | [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugKwamis Kwamis]] | [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugSchoolCharacters School Characters]] | [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugVillains Villains]] ('''Hawk Moth''', [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugChloeBourgeois Chloé Bourgeois]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugLilaRossi Lila Rossi]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAkumatizedVillainsSeason1 Akumatized Villains – Season 1]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAkumatizedVillainsSeason2 Akumatized Villains – Season 2]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAkumatizedVillainsSeason3 Akumatized Villains – Season 3]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAkumatizedVillainsSeason4 Akumatized Villains – Season 4]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAkumatizedVillainsSeason5 Akumatized Villains - Season 5]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAmokizedSentimonsters Amokized Sentimonsters]]) | [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAssortedCivilians Assorted Civilians]]-]]]]]

* EvilIsHammy: In costume, he embraces being a theatrical supervillain, a far cry from his civilian identity of the aloof, businesslike Gabriel Agreste. Made obvious by his transformation sequence when it occurs, which sees the cold and constantly-frowning Gabriel Agreste [[SlasherSmile flash an evil grin]] that lasts until his cane appears.

* ThisCannotBe: It never occurred to him that an Akumatized victim would be able to break free of his power if given the proper motivation.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Gabriel is utterly consumed by the grief of losing his wife and wishes to bring her back to make Adrien happy, so they can live as a family again. But his methods of achieving said goal are extremely destructive and heinous.

* {{Expy}}: To [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]]: Both are emotionally distant [[ArchnemesisDad ArchnemesisDads]] who are secretly ManipulativeBastard {{Supervillain}}s [[spoiler:with [[OmnicidalManiac apocaliptic agendas]] because they are {{Yandere}}s who want to resurrect their dead wives]]. [[spoiler:Their ultimate ends where they end up TogetherInDeath with their wives]] and their fan reception are also very similar.

** Gabriel is constantly stating how much he worries over Adrien's safety, but often ends up putting his son in direct danger as Hawk Moth, with "Gorizilla", "Riposte", and ''especially'' "Cat Blanc" being the most prominent examples.
** In "Ladybug", he questions why Cat Noir and Ladybug care so much about the destruction of Senti-Ladybug. [[spoiler:At the same time, he carries deeply about his son Adrien, who was born through the magic of the Peacock Miraculous.]]
** In season 5, he takes issue with Marinette dating Adrien, believing she's not good enough for him as someone who is just the daughter of some local bakers. Gabriel comes from almost identical origins and similarly married someone who, by the standards he's setting now, was way out of his league.

** Subverted when he gains access to the Rooster Miraculous and is dismayed to learn from Orikko that he can't simply give himself whatever power he wants, the limitations of the power being so specific that he doesn't even bother trying. He is able to grant himself invisibility and flight later on, however.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:At the climax of "Re-creation", he uses his wish on the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous purely to undo the damage inflicted upon the women in his life by the Peacock Miraculous, while allowing himself to die in their place.]]

* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Zig-zagged. Marinette and Adrien can never get together as long as Gabriel is controlling his son's life. "Cat Blanc" showing that he could exploit breaking Marinette's heart to akumatize her. On the other hand, he and Tsurugi specifically want Kagami and Adrien to be a couple so the pair can carry on their legacy, so he doesn't interfere in that one. [[spoiler:Downplayed in season 5, where Gabriel is as least willing to tolerate Marinette for a while since Nathaniel encourages Adrien to see her. But Gabriel's patience wears thin when Marinette crashes an exclusive event just to talk to Adrien. After attempting to bribe Marinette into breaking things off with Adrien, Gabriel buckles down on setting his son up with Kagami and later decides to send his son to London.]]

** Zigzagged. Marinette looks up to him since he's a famous fashion designer and all, but she and many other people that know him personally are aware that he's an IceKing ControlFreak. Played straight in "Pretension" when Marinette completely loses respect in Gabriel after he bribes her into breaking things off with Adrien and then threatens to ruin any chance she has of becoming a fashion designer when she turned him down.

** His treatment of Lila in Season 3 definitely shows this side; Knowing how ruthless Lila is, he partners up with her as Gabriel allegedly to protect Adrien from bad influences, but in reality he's merely enabling her so she'll make people vulnerable to his Akumas. Then he callously fires her for failing to keep Adrien from falling in love wit Marinette.

* NeverRecycleYourSchemes: Averted. He tries the Scarlet Moth plan again in "Ladybug" and almost succeeded in akumatizing Marinette, if it weren't for Nathalie's abrupt health issues.
** There's also the fact that he reuses several supervillain ideas more than once, with Mr. Pigeon being used at least 72 times.

* EvenEvilHasStandards:

* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler: In the finale, he realizes how much harm he had done for the woman he loved and chooses to sacrifice himself to heal Nathalie and Emilie. But he still did it by taking the Miraculouses Marinette to grant the wish with their previous reality destoryed in the process, so exactly where this puts him morally is very up for debate]]

* BaitTheDog: In season five, following his Catacylsm injury and learning that it is killing him, Gabriel seems to be trying be a better father to Adrien with the time he has left: Making his son breakfast as they spend time together, having heart to heart talks, giving him relationship advice and letting Adrien call him "dad". But it turns out Nathalie was extorting Gabriel into doing most of this, still being the same emotionally abusive and controlling father he has been despite his affable demeanor. The fact Gabriel is still places his self interests over Adrien's happiness and his son's gradual saddness over it just worsens things between them.

* HypocriticalHunor: Hawk Moth is a ManipulativeBastard who will say whatever he needs to get his MoreThanMindControl to work, regardless of what he personally believes. However, on occasion he makes some genuine hypocritical remarks to himself when nobody else can hear them.

* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler: In the finale, he realizes how much harm he have done and chooses to sacrifice himself to heal Nathalie and Emilie. But he still did it by taking the Miraculouses Marinette to grant the wish with their previous reality destoryed in the process, so exactly where this puts him morally is very up for debate]]

* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler: In the finale, he realises how much harm he's done and chooses to sacrifice himself to heal Nathalie and Emilie . However, he still does this by attacking Marinette and possibly ''destroying the world'', so exactly where this puts him morally is very up for debate]]

** His issues with Marinette in the second half of the fifth season stem from "Derision" when he attempted to akumatize her during an anxiety attack, her method to preventing it causes her to reach a psychological breakthrough that allows her to overcome her demons and date Adrien.

** Season 5 really has him bring this to new heights. He plays the doting father role he previously never fulfilled, even making pancakes every morning, solely as a ploy to manipulate Adrien and make Nathalie happy. He’s willing to capitalize on Adrien’s heartbreak for the sake of akumatizing him, something he was previously unwilling to do. [[spoiler: “Pretension” shows Gabriel making Adrien obey him subsciously, with "Representation" revealing Adrien is a Sentimonster.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Hawk Moth is a ManipulativeBastard who will say whatever he needs to get his MoreThanMindControl to work, regardless of what he personally believes. However, on occasion he makes some genuine hypocritical remarks to himself when nobody else can hear them.

* ILetGwenStacyDie: A {{Downplayed}} Villanous example. He gave Emilie the Peacock Miraculous that she used to create Adrien, and his guilt over her dying years later as a result caused his StartOfDarkness.

* MotiveDecay: {{Deconstructed}}. Gabriel lost to Ladybug so many times before the fifth season that the [[RevengeMyopia vendetta he developed towards her]] overshadowed his initial goal of reviving Emilie. The result is that he loses Nathalie's loyalty when that vendetta caused him to brushed away his only chance of changing past events to prevent Emilie's demise from ever occuring.

** His issues with Marinette in the second half of the fifth season stem from "Desrision" when he attempted to akumatized her during an aniexty attack, her method to preventing it causes her to reach a psychologial breakthrough that allows her to overcome her demons and date Adrien.

* ButNotTooForeign: Implied. The last name "Agreste" indicates he is of Italian descent.

* Hazy-Feel Turn: [[spoiler: In the finale, he realises how much harm he's done and chooses to sacrifice himself to heal Nathalie and Emilie . However, he still does this by attacking Marinette and possibly ''destoying the world'', so exactly where this puts him morally is very up for debate]]

* ShippingTorpedo: Whenever Adrien hooks up with Marinette, threatening the latter. While he did so in "Cat Blanc" in [[BadFuture]] scenario to make her vulnerable to Akumatization, the fifth season has Gabriel deem Marinette a hinderance that would not take a hint that he wants her out of his son's life.