History Characters / MiraculousLadybugHawkMoth

* LogicalWeakness: His miraculous has the power to give ''other'' people superpowers. This means that most of his plans involve him having to put his faith in other people to do all of the dirty work, but this has a few inherent limitations that he is forced to put-up with.

* RagsToRiches: It's insinuated his career came like this by Audrey Bourgeois, who claims Gabriel was a nobody before she discovered him. Of course, given Audrey's inflated sense of self, [[UnreliableNarrator the story is dubious]]. "Revelation" reveals that, prior to becoming famous, Gabriel's real name was Gabi Grassette, and his family used to work in a small french fry restaurant called Friterie Grassette.

See [[SelfDemonstrating/HawkMoth this page]] if you want to be akumatized by him.

->''' 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, Show) and Fredrik Hiller (SW, Movie), 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)'''

* 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 at least willing to tolerate Marinette for a while since he's trying to be closer to his son and Nathalie 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.]]

* ButNotTooForeign: Implied. The last name "Agreste" indicates he is of Italian descent. [[spoiler: Subverted with the reveal that his real surname is Grasete, having changed it to sound more upper-class]].

* WouldHitAGirl: Hawk Moth fights Ladybug directly in "Mayura".

* DependingOnTheArtist: Throughout the first four seasons, his hair often fluctuates between ash blonde and silver, depending on who is animating the episode. In Seasons 3 and 4, silver becomes the more dominant color. In-universe, it is likely due to the stress of his highly demanding job and his constant failures to obtain Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous, as well as his despair and grief towards Emilie's coma.
** By Season 5, his hair has gone completely ''white''.

* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Lepidopterans, like butterflies and moths, as his French name translates to "Butterfly" and his English name is "Hawk Moth", the common name for a family of moths known as "Sphingidae". His Miraculous and kwami are butterfly- and moth-themed in each respective dub. He corrupts butterflies to act as his akumas, regardless of dub.

* CatchPhrase:

* PhraseCatcher: Both [[InvertedTrope inverted]] and played straight. One of his [[CatchPhrase Catch Phrases]] is some variation of "...and all I ask in return is that you bring me Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous!" In later seasons, his recurring akuma victims already know the terms of his deal and tend to cut him off right before he tells them his terms, telling him some variation of "I know, you want Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous!" before accepting.

[[Characters/MiraculousLadybugHeroes Heroes]] ([[Characters/MiraculousLadybugMarinetteDupainCheng Marinette Dupain-Cheng]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAdrienAgreste Adrien Agreste]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAlyaCesaire Alya Césaire]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugNinoLahiffe Nino Lahiffe]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAlixKubdel Alix Kubdel]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugFelixFathom Félix Fathom]], [[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]]-]]]]]

* DependingOnTheArtist: Throughout the first four seasons, his hair often fluctuates between ash blonde to silver, depending on who is animating the episode. In Seasons 3 and 4, silver becomes more dominant color. In-universe, it is likely due to the stress of his highly demanding job and his constant failures to obtain Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous, as well as his despair and grief towards Emilie's coma.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Hawk Moth" is the official English spelling, but there are some who spell it as "Hawkmoth", one word, after an art book spelled it that way.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In "Evolution", Nathalie gives him an USB-flash-drive exposing the disastrous effects using the damaged Peacock Miraculous will have on Emilie. ThePlan was to give it to his past self thanks to the Rabbit Miraculous, thus bypassing the need for the Ladybug and Chat Noir's Miraculouses. But just when he's about to leave the flash-drive, after some short internal conflict and hesitation, he willingly throws it away as Ladybug baits him in order for her to get back the Rabbit Miraculous, saying [[SkewedPriorities he will be back soon]]. Of course [[ShootTheShaggyDog he never gets the opportunity to do so]], has he loses the Rabbit Miraculous moments later. This demonstrates that his power lust, pride and thirst for revenge [[MotiveDecay have eclipsed his original good intentions]]. Nathalie is NOT pleased with this and his [[NeverMyFault lame attempt]] of putting the blame on Ladybug, [[WhatTheHellHero ''harshly'' scolding him]], recalling him that he could have saved not only Emilie, but also [[UncurableCoughOfDeath herself]]. This is the first crack into her UndyingLoyalty towards him.

[[Characters/MiraculousLadybugHeroes Heroes]] ([[Characters/MiraculousLadybugMarinetteDupainCheng Marinette Dupain-Cheng]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAdrienAgreste Adrien Agreste]], [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugFelixFathom Félix Fathom]], [[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]]-]]]]]

* OldShame: One of his first work was to design [[StandUpArtist Harry Clown]]'s first scene costume (a French fry!). It is something he'd prefer forget and indeed he only has scorn towards the comedian (though not showing it to his face). Harry begs to differ and years laters asks him another costume (a superhero one) for his project of a serious movie.

** Once he gets his hand on [[spoiler:almost all of the Miraculouses]], he rebrands himself as "Monarch". At first, this seems to break from the theme, but actually there ''is'' a species of butterfly called [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly monarch (''Danaus plexippus'')]], whose North-Eastern populations are famous for migrating to Mexico to spend the winter there into stasis.

* 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 still places his self interests over Adrien's happiness and his son's gradual sadness over it just worsens things between them.

** In "Simpleman", he gives the eponymous Akuma the ability to reduce the intelligence of everyone in Paris, making them only think the simplest possible thoughts. However, this power is spread through a wave that affects all of Paris without discrimination, meaning that Shadow Moth himself is affected by it. While this still comes closer to success than most of his plans, one has to wonder what his next move would have been if he had actually gotten hold of the Miraculous. Could he even have thought of reviving Emile in his simplified state?

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the fifth season, the injury Gabriel sustained from Cat Noir's Catacalysm is used as a stand in for living with an terminal disease with draining Kwami of their energy being treatment to lessen the pain and slow the spread of it across the body.

** 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.]]

* ShadowArchetype: He is the type of person Marinette could have ended up if she became a fashion designer, but fully consumed by her ControlFreak tendencies and obsession with a blonde love interest.

* SingleTargetSexuality: Is greatly offended by the mere suggestion that he could ever love anyone other than his wife.

* ShadowArchetype: He is the type of person Marinette could have ended up if she became a fashion designer, but fully consumed by her ControlFreak tendacies and obsession with a blonde love interest.

* 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 he's trying to be closer to his son and Nathalie 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.]]

** 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.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he does tend to be a giant jerk, [[AbusiveParents even to Adrien]], to the point he doesn't allow him to do things most normal kids should be allowed to do, he still loves his son. Also, he is quite reasonable and fair most of the time. Through underneath ''that'', he's actually...[[BigBad Hawk]] [[TheCorrupter Moth]].

* FluffyTheTerrible: In the French version, he's "Le Papillon", or the Butterfly. This is intentionally averted in the various dubs by the name change.

* LegacyCharacter: In "Timetagger", it's revealed that the Butterfly Miraculous will end up in the hands of someone else after Gabriel loses it.[[spoiler: That person is revealed in "Recreation" to be Lila.]]

* ParentalHypocrisy: In "Gorizilla", he gives Adrien a short speech about the need to be honest with each other. This apparently does not extend to telling his son that he's actually the supervillain who's been terrorizing Paris for presumably a year at the very least. Not to mention [[spoiler:what really happened to Emilie]]. He ''does'' attempt to tell Adrien he's Hawk Moth in "Félix", but storms off without finishing after Adrien accidentally hits one of his BerserkButton.