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* BittersweetEnding: Adrien's stabbing in the face does leave a permenent scar, which took a massive negative hit on his modeling career. However, Adrien and Marinette now know of each other's secret identities (as well as Marinette’s family being in the loop), they start dating each other, and many years later Hawk Moth is unmasked and defeated, restoring peace to Paris.
* CryingWolf: When Lila shows her true colors by trying to expose Ladybug’s secret identity, everyone realizes that she’s a BitchInSheepsClothing and stops trusting her. When she insists that Marinette is Ladybug and tries to transform with the earrings she stole, no one believes her. It doesn’t help that the transformation doesn’t work.
* CryingWolf: When Lila shows her true colors by trying to expose Ladybug’s secret identity, everyone realizes that she’s a BitchInSheepsClothing and stops trusting her. When she insists that Marinette is Ladybug and tries to transform with the earrings she stole, no one believes her. It doesn’t help that the transformation doesn’t work.
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* BittersweetEnding: Adrien's stabbing in the face does leave a permenent permanent scar, which took takes a massive negative hit toll on his modeling modelling career. However, Adrien and Marinette now know of each other's secret identities (as well as Marinette’s family being in the loop), they start dating each other, and many years later Hawk Moth is unmasked and defeated, restoring peace to Paris.
* CryingWolf: When Lila shows her true colors by trying to expose Ladybug’s secret identity, everyone realizes that she’s a BitchInSheepsClothing and stops trusting her. When she insists that Marinette is Ladybug and tries to transform with the earrings she stole, no one believes her. It doesn’t help that the transformation doesn’twork.work due to both the [[BatmanGambit decoy earrings]] and [[ILied Marinette not telling her the real phrase]].
* CryingWolf: When Lila shows her true colors by trying to expose Ladybug’s secret identity, everyone realizes that she’s a BitchInSheepsClothing and stops trusting her. When she insists that Marinette is Ladybug and tries to transform with the earrings she stole, no one believes her. It doesn’t help that the transformation doesn’t
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: After Lila snaps she tries to kill shank Marinette with a broken glass bottle, but slices Adrien's face open instead when he pushes her out of the way.
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* BatmanGambit: Max pretendes to submit to Lila's demands while setting her up by using a font that he made, as such, only his computer have it, it would rise questions of why Lila's homework would have them, and when Ms. Bustier asks Lila why, the lier would claim she borrowed Max's computer, when asked for cofirmation, Max would strike
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* BittersweetEnding: Adrien's stabbing in the face does leave a permenent scar, which took a massive negative hit on his modeling career. However, Adrien and Marientte now know of each other's secret identities (as well as Marientte's family being in the loop), they start dating each other, and many years later Hawk Moth is unmasked and defeated, restoring peace to Paris.
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* BittersweetEnding: Adrien's stabbing in the face does leave a permenent scar, which took a massive negative hit on his modeling career. However, Adrien and Marientte Marinette now know of each other's secret identities (as well as Marientte's Marinette’s family being in the loop), they start dating each other, and many years later Hawk Moth is unmasked and defeated, restoring peace to Paris.
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* OutOfCharcterIsSeriousBusiness: After reading Lila's worksheets, Ms. Bustier actually snaps at her in a steely voice, as opposed to talking in a warm motherly tone.
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* OutOfCharcterIsSeriousBusiness: OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: After reading Lila's worksheets, Ms. Bustier actually snaps at her in a steely voice, as opposed to talking in a warm motherly tone.
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* BullyingADragon: Lila learns the hard way that it's not a good idea to threaten someone who's smart enough to build a sentient A.I.
* CallBack: Max mentions the events of "Chameleon" when threatened by Lila.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Max doesn't mind ''helping'' people with their schoolwork, but he draws the line at actually ''doing'' it for them.
* OutOfCharcterIsSeriousBusiness: After reading Lila's worksheets, Ms. Bustier actually snaps at her in a steely voice, as opposed to talking in a warm motherly tone.
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So far, there are eleven stories in the series:
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* EpicFlail / ExoticWeaponSupremacy: The Inquisitor makes use of a meteor hammer when fighting Ladybug and Cat Noir and manages to take the fight early on, with it being noted that Cat Noir's fencing skills and weapon are finding it difficult to counter such a tricky weapon. That said, he does manage to get The Inquisitor to fall victim to the weapon's drawbacks as well, namely the risk of getting tangled up in the chain if not careful.
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* EpicFlail / ExoticWeaponSupremacy: The Inquisitor makes use of a meteor hammer when fighting Ladybug and Cat Noir and manages to take the fight early on, with it being noted that Cat Noir's fencing skills and weapon are finding it difficult to counter such a tricky weapon. That said, he does manage to get The Inquisitor to fall victim to the weapon's drawbacks as well, namely the risk of getting tangled up in the chain if not careful.careful, forcing him to switch it out for a sword.
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Like many fans of the show, [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/OminousPredictions/pseuds/OminousPredictions OminuousPredictions]] craved some LaserGuidedKarma for Lila, and created a series of stories where her KarmaHoudiniWarranty finally expires. Most of the stories are titled after one of her crimes, and shows how that particular crime leads to her swift and brutal downfall.
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Like many fans of the show, [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/OminousPredictions/pseuds/OminousPredictions OminuousPredictions]] craved some LaserGuidedKarma for Lila, and created a series of stories where her KarmaHoudiniWarranty finally expires. Most of the stories are titled after one of her crimes, and shows how that particular crime leads to [[CatharsisFactor her swift and brutal downfall.
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Like many fans of the show, [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/OminousPredictions/pseuds/OminousPredictions OminuousPredictions]] craved some LaserGuidedKarma for Lila, and created a series of stories where her KarmaHoudiniWarranty finally expires. Most of the stories are titled after one of her crimes, and shows how that certain crime leads to her downfall.
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Like many fans of the show, [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/OminousPredictions/pseuds/OminousPredictions OminuousPredictions]] craved some LaserGuidedKarma for Lila, and created a series of stories where her KarmaHoudiniWarranty finally expires. Most of the stories are titled after one of her crimes, and shows how that certain particular crime leads to her swift and brutal downfall.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: What always happens to Lila in the end. Her various forms of karma include but are not limited to: [[spoiler:getting deported back to Italy; being put in prison and/or a juvenile center; fired as a Gabriel model; ostracized by her former worshippers; listed as a sex offender; and/or put on academic probation at school]]. In one story, she even ends up causing her own (temporary) death.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: What always happens to Lila in the end. Her various forms of karma include but are not limited to: [[spoiler:getting deported back to Italy; being put in prison and/or a juvenile center; fired as a Gabriel model; ostracized by her former worshippers; being disowned by her family; listed as a sex offender; and/or put on academic probation at school]]. In one story, she even ends up causing her own (temporary) death.
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* ToThePain: As he's torturing her, Inquisitor reveals to Lila the true nature of [[CruelAndUnusualDeath what he intends to do to her]] -- namely, [[SquashedFlat slowly crushing her to death over the course of days]] after forcing her to confess everything she did to him -- in a completely casual fashion. He's only narrowly stopped when Ladybug and Chat Noir free themselves, [[EveryoneHasStandards proclaiming him to have gone too far despite them]] ''[[EveryoneHasStandards also]]'' [[EveryoneHasStandards being thoroughly disgusted with her]].
-->'''Inquisitor:''' [[EvenEvilHasStandards Pathetic. Truly pathetic]]. You hurt me and all those people, told all those lies, ruined all those lives... for things like [[DisappointedByTheMotive free lunches and popularity in school?]] You utterly disgust me.
-->'''Lila:''' (''sneering'') [[IRegretNothing Like I care]]. I played your little game, confessed, so let me go.
-->'''Inquisitor:''' Let you go? I’m afraid that’s not possible.
-->'''Lila:''' (''reduced to cowardly whimpering'') [[OhCrap But... you said you’d let me go if I confessed!]]
-->'''Inquisitor:''' Guess what, Lila? ILied. (''drops a fourth slab'') You know, this wasn’t just a method of interrogation. It was used as a method of execution as well. They would place increasingly heavy stones on top of the victim until they confessed... ''or died''. They did it to Giles Corey during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials Salem Witch Trials,]] you know. Each time they asked him to confess, he would reply “More weight!”. It took him three days to die, you know. I wonder how long you’ll take? (''drops a fifth slab'') [[ColdBloodedTorture It won’t be a quick or painless death]]. As the pressure on your torso increases, your vital organs will begin to shut down. Your ribs will begin to crack and then collapse in on themselves. You’ll suffer internal bleeding, slowly and painfully. Perhaps, if you’re lucky, your brain will shut down from the lack of oxygen flow it's getting, and you’ll be unconscious at the end of it. Or, ''maybe not''.
-->'''Inquisitor:''' [[EvenEvilHasStandards Pathetic. Truly pathetic]]. You hurt me and all those people, told all those lies, ruined all those lives... for things like [[DisappointedByTheMotive free lunches and popularity in school?]] You utterly disgust me.
-->'''Lila:''' (''sneering'') [[IRegretNothing Like I care]]. I played your little game, confessed, so let me go.
-->'''Inquisitor:''' Let you go? I’m afraid that’s not possible.
-->'''Lila:''' (''reduced to cowardly whimpering'') [[OhCrap But... you said you’d let me go if I confessed!]]
-->'''Inquisitor:''' Guess what, Lila? ILied. (''drops a fourth slab'') You know, this wasn’t just a method of interrogation. It was used as a method of execution as well. They would place increasingly heavy stones on top of the victim until they confessed... ''or died''. They did it to Giles Corey during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials Salem Witch Trials,]] you know. Each time they asked him to confess, he would reply “More weight!”. It took him three days to die, you know. I wonder how long you’ll take? (''drops a fifth slab'') [[ColdBloodedTorture It won’t be a quick or painless death]]. As the pressure on your torso increases, your vital organs will begin to shut down. Your ribs will begin to crack and then collapse in on themselves. You’ll suffer internal bleeding, slowly and painfully. Perhaps, if you’re lucky, your brain will shut down from the lack of oxygen flow it's getting, and you’ll be unconscious at the end of it. Or, ''maybe not''.
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* IHaveNoSon: Mrs. Rossi's announcement of Lila's punishment reveals she has disowned her for all the crimes she has committed,and for being truly irredeemable as a person.
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* IHaveNoSon: Mrs. Rossi's announcement of Lila's punishment reveals she has disowned her for all the crimes she has committed,and committed -- including being a willing ally of Hawk Moth, which she admitted on live television to stop the Inquisitor from punishing her -- and for being truly irredeemable as a person.
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* WitchHunt: The Inquisitor is based both visually and character-wise on a 15th Century witch hunter, and tortures Lila with a method infamously used on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey Giles Corey]] in 1692; namely, pinning her beneath a wooden board and slowly crushing her with [[LivingLieDetector heavy boulders that spontaneously appear every time she lies]].
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* DirtyCoward: Lila, once again. When the Inquisitor makes himself known and approaches to seize her with intent to make her pay for her crimes, she immediately responds by [[HumanShield shoving Nathaniel into his path to be grabbed instead]] before fleeing. Fortunately, [[YouWillNotEvadeMe it doesn't work]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: Frederick, just like in the last installment. After Lila poisoned all his friends against him and manipulated them into bullying him mercilessly, Frederick tried to slit his wrists, and was only saved by his favorite cousin Hugo finding him in the nick of time.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Frederick, just like in the last installment. After Lila poisoned all his friends against him and manipulated them into bullying him mercilessly, Frederick tried to slit his wrists, and was [[InterruptedSuicide only saved by his favorite cousin Hugo finding him him]] in the nick of time.
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* IHaveNoSon: Mrs. Rossi's announcement of Lila's punishment reveals she has disowned her for what all the crimes she did.has committed,and for being truly irredeemable as a person.
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* YouWillNotEvadeMe: When the Inquisitor initially approaches Lila and attempts to grab her, she responds by [[HumanShield shoving Nathaniel into his path]] before [[DirtyCoward running and abandoning the class to their fate]]. It ultimately amounts to nothing when Inquisitor [[AffablyEvil lets him go and politely apologizes]], before stopping Lila fleeing by smashing through the wall with his [[EpicFlail Meteor Hammer]] and going through it to cut off her route to the front doors. [[/folder]]
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* EnemyMine: Chloe gives Kagami a video she fortuitously took of Lila engineering Tomoe's accident, only because she hates Lila more than she dislikes Kagami. She even justifies doing so using the old ''"the enemy of my enemy is my ally"'' proverb.
* EvilIsPetty: When confronting Kagami alone in the bathroom, Lila throws a glass of red wine down the front of the dress she had commissioned from Marinette, [[EvilGloating gleefully gloating about how she'll have to change and miss the rest of the Ball]]. It's then that Kagami reveals, without missing a beat, that [[CrazyPrepared she and Marinette planned ahead]] and made the dress stain-proof through a special hydrophobic (liquid-repelling) nanotechnology-based fabric, with a secondary defence layer of Scotchgard applied beforehand.
* EvilIsPetty: When confronting Kagami alone in the bathroom, Lila throws a glass of red wine down the front of the dress she had commissioned from Marinette, [[EvilGloating gleefully gloating about how she'll have to change and miss the rest of the Ball]]. It's then that Kagami reveals, without missing a beat, that [[CrazyPrepared she and Marinette planned ahead]] and made the dress stain-proof through a special hydrophobic (liquid-repelling) nanotechnology-based fabric, with a secondary defence layer of Scotchgard applied beforehand.
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* EnemyMine: Chloe gives Kagami a video she fortuitously took of Lila engineering Tomoe's accident, only because she hates Lila more than she dislikes Kagami. She even justifies doing so using the old ''"the enemy of my enemy is my ally"'' friend"'' proverb.
* EvilGloating: In a serious case of StupidEvil, Lila goes out of her way to gloat to Kagami that ''she'' was the one who caused Tomoe's fall -- the latter having believed up until then that it was just a terrible accident -- under the belief that even if Kagami told anyone, she'd still easily get out of it. Lila even [[KickTheDog flat-out tells her that it was her own fault for standing up to her]] and not giving her what she wanted.
* EvilIsPetty: When confronting Kagami alone in the bathroom, Lila throws a glass of red wine down the front of the dress she had commissioned from Marinette, [[EvilGloating gleefully gloating about how she'll have to change and miss the rest of the Ball]]. It's then that Kagami reveals, without missing a beat, that [[CrazyPrepared she and Marinette planned ahead]] and made the dress stain-proof through a special hydrophobic (liquid-repelling) nanotechnology-based fabric, with a secondary defence layer of Scotchgard applied beforehand. Even better, it leads to the wine dripping onto the floor and [[HoistByHerOwnPetard soaking into Lila's own trailing dress to ruin it]].
* EvilGloating: In a serious case of StupidEvil, Lila goes out of her way to gloat to Kagami that ''she'' was the one who caused Tomoe's fall -- the latter having believed up until then that it was just a terrible accident -- under the belief that even if Kagami told anyone, she'd still easily get out of it. Lila even [[KickTheDog flat-out tells her that it was her own fault for standing up to her]] and not giving her what she wanted.
* EvilIsPetty: When confronting Kagami alone in the bathroom, Lila throws a glass of red wine down the front of the dress she had commissioned from Marinette, [[EvilGloating gleefully gloating about how she'll have to change and miss the rest of the Ball]]. It's then that Kagami reveals, without missing a beat, that [[CrazyPrepared she and Marinette planned ahead]] and made the dress stain-proof through a special hydrophobic (liquid-repelling) nanotechnology-based fabric, with a secondary defence layer of Scotchgard applied beforehand. Even better, it leads to the wine dripping onto the floor and [[HoistByHerOwnPetard soaking into Lila's own trailing dress to ruin it]].
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* EnemyMine: Chloe gives Kagami a video she fortuitously took of Lila engineering Tomoe's accident only because she hates Lila more than she dislikes Kagami. She even uses the old "enemy of my enemy is my friend" saying.
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* EnemyMine: Chloe gives Kagami a video she fortuitously took of Lila engineering Tomoe's accident accident, only because she hates Lila more than she dislikes Kagami. She even uses justifies doing so using the old "enemy ''"the enemy of my enemy is my friend" saying.ally"'' proverb.
* EvilIsPetty: When confronting Kagami alone in the bathroom, Lila throws a glass of red wine down the front of the dress she had commissioned from Marinette, [[EvilGloating gleefully gloating about how she'll have to change and miss the rest of the Ball]]. It's then that Kagami reveals, without missing a beat, that [[CrazyPrepared she and Marinette planned ahead]] and made the dress stain-proof through a special hydrophobic (liquid-repelling) nanotechnology-based fabric, with a secondary defence layer of Scotchgard applied beforehand.
-->'''Kagami:''' (''quietly'') That girl may not take things like threats from [[{{Jerkass}} you]] seriously, but [[LampshadeHanging when it comes to her commissions, she does not skimp]]. Now, please, do not bother me again, or you will sorely regret it.
* EvilIsPetty: When confronting Kagami alone in the bathroom, Lila throws a glass of red wine down the front of the dress she had commissioned from Marinette, [[EvilGloating gleefully gloating about how she'll have to change and miss the rest of the Ball]]. It's then that Kagami reveals, without missing a beat, that [[CrazyPrepared she and Marinette planned ahead]] and made the dress stain-proof through a special hydrophobic (liquid-repelling) nanotechnology-based fabric, with a secondary defence layer of Scotchgard applied beforehand.
-->'''Kagami:''' (''quietly'') That girl may not take things like threats from [[{{Jerkass}} you]] seriously, but [[LampshadeHanging when it comes to her commissions, she does not skimp]]. Now, please, do not bother me again, or you will sorely regret it.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Lila shows a ''very'' noticeable racist streak, here. Among other things, she refers to both Kagami and Marinette as "Oriental eyesores" and the former as a "slant-eyed fish-eater", and when [[WoundedGazelleGambit faking being attacked by Kagami]] -- who is away with her mother on business in London -- she immediately deflects the blame to Marinette, on the basis that her attacker [[InterchangeableAsianCultures "looked Japanese"]]. Nobody buys the act for a second, and Marinette (who is actually half-Chinese) immediately calls Lila out on it.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Lila shows a ''very'' noticeable racist bigoted streak, here. Among other things, she refers to both Kagami and Marinette as "Oriental eyesores" and the former as a "slant-eyed fish-eater", fish-eater" and "harlot", and when [[WoundedGazelleGambit faking being attacked by Kagami]] -- who is away with her mother on business in London -- she immediately deflects the blame to Marinette, on the basis that her attacker [[InterchangeableAsianCultures "looked Japanese"]]. Nobody Needless to say; nobody buys the act for a second, second thanks to Lila being caught in the middle of a lie, and Marinette (who is actually half-Chinese) immediately calls Lila her out on it.
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* WouldHarmASenior: Out of petty spite toward Kagami, Lila directly causes Tomoe -- Kagami's blind and elderly mother -- to have an accident by deliberately spilling water in her path; causing her to fall and hit her head hard enough to put her in a coma, as well as break her hip.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Lila shows a ''very'' noticeable racist streak, here. Among other things, she refers to both Kagami and Marinette as "Oriental eyesores" and the former as a "slant-eyed fish-eater", and when [[WoundedGazelleGambit faking being attacked by Kagami]] -- who is away with her mother on business in London -- she immediately deflects the blame to Marinette, on the basis that her attacker [[InterchangeableAsianCultures "looked Japanese"]]. Nobody buys the act for a second, and Marinette (who is actually half-Chinese) immediately calls Lila out on it.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When Lila [[spoiler:forces herself on Adrien and starts touching him]], he begs her to stop, to which she simply replies that [[AManIsAlwaysEager he should be enjoying himself since he's a boy]]. She even tries to claim that he assaulted her, although this is not believed by Gabriel, and disproven by him to her mother. Lila's successful conviction in [[spoiler:her assault on Adrien]] is heralded as a landmark ruling for sexual assault and harassment against males.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When Lila [[spoiler:forces herself on Adrien and starts touching him]], he begs her to stop, to which she simply replies that [[AManIsAlwaysEager he should be enjoying himself since he's a boy]]. She even tries to [[FalseRapeAccusation claim that he that]] ''[[FalseRapeAccusation he]]'' [[FalseRapeAccusation assaulted her, her]], although this is not believed by Gabriel, and disproven by him to her mother. Lila's successful conviction in [[spoiler:her assault on Adrien]] is heralded as a landmark ruling for sexual assault and harassment against males.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When Lila [[spoiler:forces herself on Adrien and starts touching him]], he begs her to stop, to which she simply replies that he should be enjoying himself since he's a boy. She even tries to claim that he assaulted her, although this is not believed by Gabriel, and disproven by him to her mother. Lila's successful conviction in [[spoiler:her assault on Adrien]] is heralded as a landmark ruling for sexual assault and harassment against males.
* DrivenToSuicide: Another victim of Lila's sexual ambitions and manipulations. While searching about Lila online to get dirt, Gabriel comes across a foundation set up in honor of a boy in Italy who killed himself after Lila framed him for sexually assaulting her as revenge for rejecting her.
* DrivenToSuicide: Another victim of Lila's sexual ambitions and manipulations. While searching about Lila online to get dirt, Gabriel comes across a foundation set up in honor of a boy in Italy who killed himself after Lila framed him for sexually assaulting her as revenge for rejecting her.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When Lila [[spoiler:forces herself on Adrien and starts touching him]], he begs her to stop, to which she simply replies that [[AManIsAlwaysEager he should be enjoying himself since he's a boy.boy]]. She even tries to claim that he assaulted her, although this is not believed by Gabriel, and disproven by him to her mother. Lila's successful conviction in [[spoiler:her assault on Adrien]] is heralded as a landmark ruling for sexual assault and harassment against males.
* DrivenToSuicide: Another victim of Lila's sexual ambitions and manipulations. While searching about Lila online to get dirt, Gabriel comes across a foundation set up in honor of a boy in Italy who killed himself after [[FalseRapeAccusation Lila framed him for sexually assaulting her as revenge for rejectingher.her]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Another victim of Lila's sexual ambitions and manipulations. While searching about Lila online to get dirt, Gabriel comes across a foundation set up in honor of a boy in Italy who killed himself after [[FalseRapeAccusation Lila framed him for sexually assaulting her as revenge for rejecting
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* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: A decidedly negative example for Senti-Bird, though somewhat downplayed. Due to how she resembles Lila, Ms. Bustier’s class find her presence upsetting; they don't hate or blame her but [[RealityEnsues emotions are complicated]].
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* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: A decidedly negative example for Senti-Bird, though somewhat downplayed. Due to how she resembles Lila, Ms. Bustier’s class find her presence upsetting; they don't hate or blame her but [[RealityEnsues [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome emotions are complicated]].
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In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', Lila Rossi is [[TheBully a bully]], [[TheNarcissist a narcissist]], a ConsummateLiar, a BitchInSheepsClothing, a ManipulativeBitch, a JerkassAtYourDiscretion, a willing accomplice for the BigBad...the list goes on and on. It's really no wonder she's a HateSink for the fandom.
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In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', Lila Rossi is [[TheBully a bully]], [[TheNarcissist a narcissist]], a ConsummateLiar, a BitchInSheepsClothing, a ManipulativeBitch, a JerkassAtYourDiscretion, a willing accomplice for the BigBad... the list goes on and on. It's really no wonder she's a HateSink for the fandom.
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* HateSink: Lila, Lila, Lila. She is a [[TheNarcissist narcissistic]] and [[ManipulativeBitch manipulative]] liar and {{Jerkass}} doing everything to ruin Marinette's reputation.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Lila's downfall always happens because she overestimated her KarmaHoudiniWarranty and did something bad to smear Marinette's reputation, get ahead of Marinette or her peers or make Adrien hers. Of course, when she does it this time, she inadvertently ends up [[BullyingADragon angering the wrong person]], revealing impure actions of her own, and/or getting caught in the act of something cruel and vicious.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Lila's downfall always happens because she overestimated her KarmaHoudiniWarranty and did something bad to smear Marinette's reputation, get ahead of Marinette or her peers or make Adrien hers. Of course, when she does it this time, she inadvertently ends up [[BullyingADragon angering the wrong person]], revealing impure actions of her own, and/or getting caught in the act of something cruel and vicious.
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* HateSink: Lila, Lila, Lila. She is a [[TheNarcissist narcissistic]] and [[ManipulativeBitch manipulative]] liar and {{Jerkass}} doing everything to ruin Marinette's reputation.
reputation. She can be best summed up as [[ItsAllAboutMe utterly and monstrously selfish]]; being only concerned with getting ''her'' way, no matter the cost.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Lila's downfall always happens because she overestimated her KarmaHoudiniWarranty and did somethingbad reprehensible to smear Marinette's reputation, get ahead of Marinette or her peers peers, or make Adrien hers. Of course, when she does it this time, ''here'', she inadvertently ends up [[BullyingADragon angering the wrong person]], revealing impure actions of her own, and/or getting caught in the act of something cruel and vicious.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Lila's downfall always happens because she overestimated her KarmaHoudiniWarranty and did something
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* StupidEvil: Once again, Lila. How else can you describe someone who flat-out admits [[RevengeBeforeReason they don't care how much damage they do to everything and everyone]] as long as they [[DisproportionateRetribution get back at someone for an extremely minor slight]], and almost always [[SelfDisposingVillain ends up defeating themselves]] through their own ego and petty spite?
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Adrien points out to his father that, if he had asked for help to heal Emilie, he could have averted most of his problems - as well as the karmic backlash for his misuse of the Butterfly Miraculous.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Gabriel is shocked when Lila slaps Duusu - he admits to not being kind to Nooroo, but he has never used physical violence on him.
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** And the above point happened because Hawk Moth, against Nathalie's advice, insisted on giving one of his two Miraculous to an obviously unreliable girl that's in way over her head, just to make sure it was indeed repaired.
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* OnlySaneWoman: Nadja Chamack sabotages the broadcast when she realises it's about to air the video of Ladybug de-transforming, defending herself by stating that not only would it be exceptionally foolish to expose her identity but the video's authenticity hasn't been verified so the studio could open itself up to a case of fraudulent newscasting.
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In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', Lila Rossi is [[TheBully a bully]], [[TheNarcissist a narcissist]], a ConsummateLiar, a BitchInSheepsClothing, a ManipulativeBitch, a JerkassAtYourDiscretion, a willing accomplice for the BigBad...the list goes on and on. It's really no wonder she's a HateSink for the fandom.
Like many fans of the show, [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/OminousPredictions/pseuds/OminousPredictions OminuousPredictions]] craved some LaserGuidedKarma for Lila, and created a series of stories where her KarmaHoudiniWarranty finally expires. Most of the stories are titled after one of her crimes, and shows how that certain crime leads to her downfall.
So far, there are eleven stories in the series:
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25269391 STALKING]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25290628 BREAKING AND ENTERING]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25542772 SEXUAL HARASSMENT]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27108337 THREATENING A TSURUGI]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27259528 CHAT BLANC]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27569779 MARC AND NATHANIEL]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27702113 BULLYING]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29956389 SINS OF THE PAST]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30211596 MAMA BEAR]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30338388 RUNNING AMOK]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30481101 EXPOSED]]''
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[[folder:Tropes: All Stories]]
These tropes are found in almost every installment.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Shows up in nearly every story, with characters established to be nice or kind turning scarily dangerous towards Lila when her true character is revealed.
* {{Demonization}}: Subverted. Only Lila is treated in a consistently negative way and everyone retains their canon personalities for the most part.
* DiplomaticImpunity: Lila has diplomatic immunity thanks to her diplomat mother (or always ''thinks'' she does); however, her actions always lead to it being revoked and faces the worst punishments. And even in stories where Lila's mother reveals that her diplomatic immunity doesn't extend to her family because she's a ''junior'' diplomat, she makes it clear that she wouldn't let it protect Lila from punishment.
* HateSink: Lila, Lila, Lila. She is a [[TheNarcissist narcissistic]] and [[ManipulativeBitch manipulative]] liar and {{Jerkass}} doing everything to ruin Marinette's reputation.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Lila's downfall always happens because she overestimated her KarmaHoudiniWarranty and did something bad to smear Marinette's reputation, get ahead of Marinette or her peers or make Adrien hers. Of course, when she does it this time, she inadvertently ends up [[BullyingADragon angering the wrong person]], revealing impure actions of her own, and/or getting caught in the act of something cruel and vicious.
* LaserGuidedKarma: What always happens to Lila in the end. Her various forms of karma include but are not limited to: [[spoiler:getting deported back to Italy; being put in prison and/or a juvenile center; fired as a Gabriel model; ostracized by her former worshippers; listed as a sex offender; and/or put on academic probation at school]]. In one story, she even ends up causing her own (temporary) death.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Usually, when Lila's crimes lead to her exposure, her true colors being exposed often fix things for Marinette, or even make life better for her, like [[spoiler:her friends apologizing and reconciling with her, or getting her closer to Adrien]].
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: This always comes back to bite Lila in the end, as her KarmaHoudiniWarranty finally expires and she is left to face the fallout of her actions, which overall destroy her life.
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The following has the tropes listed for each story individually.
[[folder:STALKING]]
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Even though she said nothing out loud, Lila did show the class photos of Marinette's room, meaning she had to have gotten them somehow. And since everyone knows Marinette hates Lila and would never allow her within her breathing space, let alone her private bedroom, well...
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Lila asks Marinette to explain the multitude of photos of Adrien she has in her room along with his schedule, Marinette fires back that those were in her bedroom which she has never let Lila into, so how could she have photos of them?
* BigSisterInstinct: Lila breaches her restraining order from Marinette and tries to attack her with a knife while she's at the movies with Alya's sisters, including Nora, a champion boxer who's already proven to be overprotective of her younger siblings. When Lila comes close to the twins with a weapon in hand, Nora immediately snaps her wrist and slams her against a car, knocking the liar out cold.
* CrazyPrepared: Marinette has not only Adrien's schedule in her room but those of all her classmates so she can keep track of their various appointments and let them know in advance. She mentions that their parents pay her for this as they're usually too busy to remind their kids themselves.
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[[folder:BREAKING AND ENTERING]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: When Lila asks Sabine if she can remove the box clamped shut on her wrist, Sabine cheerfully offers to remove her whole arm whilst holding a meat cleaver. Lila wisely shuts up.
* CrazyPrepared: Even more so than the beginning example in "Darkblade", when the box made its debut. In that episode, Marinette put her diary in the box to ensure it and the secrets it contained were safe from any thieves and it still got stolen. As such, she ups the ante by putting a blank decoy in the box this time around.
* MamaBear: Sabine rips into Lila when she catches the liar breaking into her home and trying to steal Marinette's private diary. She even threatens to "take the law into her own hands" if the police don't come, and hints that her and her husband's family in China and Italy "know people in the underworld" in case the French justice system fails.
* TooDumbToLive: Lila still tries to use Marinette's diary against her after Marinette releases her from the trap-box, namely by hitting her in the nose and grabbing the book... right in front of the police she's been trying to convince she's innocent.
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[[folder:SEXUAL HARRASSMENT]]
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* AdultFear: You meet a girl your son’s age, trust her to look after him and keep him away from bad influences. Then, one day, you walk in on that same girl [[spoiler: trying to rape your only child]]. The worst part is knowing that you were the one who let her get close enough to him to do such a thing in the first place.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When Lila [[spoiler:forces herself on Adrien and starts touching him]], he begs her to stop, to which she simply replies that he should be enjoying himself since he's a boy. She even tries to claim that he assaulted her, although this is not believed by Gabriel, and disproven by him to her mother. Lila's successful conviction in [[spoiler:her assault on Adrien]] is heralded as a landmark ruling for sexual assault and harassment against males.
* DrivenToSuicide: Another victim of Lila's sexual ambitions and manipulations. While searching about Lila online to get dirt, Gabriel comes across a foundation set up in honor of a boy in Italy who killed himself after Lila framed him for sexually assaulting her as revenge for rejecting her.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Gabriel arranges this by alerting Nadja Chamack and her news crew that an akuma was spotted heading for Francoise Dupont school, with them arriving just in time to catch Lila assaulting both her mother and Principal Damocles to grab it.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Lila's attitude towards Adrien. She seems to firmly believe that Adrien is hers, and his permission or consent, or lack of, does not change this matter in the slightest.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Gabriel immediately cuts ties with Lila and publicly ruins her after he catches her [[spoiler:forcing herself on Adrien]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gabriel regrets that he ever let Lila anywhere near Adrien after she is caught [[spoiler:sexually assaulting him]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mrs. Rossi shows herself to be one. When Lila spins a story to her that she was coerced into working as a model and sexually harassed by Adrien, she shows up at the mansion to protest and threaten a lawsuit. When Gabriel presents her with evidence that not only is that not true but that her daughter has been deceiving her about a lot more besides, however, she realises that she's been misled and apologises for her abrupt actions, as well as to Adrien for what Lila did to him, before turning her fury on her daughter.
* PapaWolf: After catching Lila [[spoiler: forcing herself on his son]], Gabriel fires her on the spot. He then sues her for her assault of Adrien, and unravels all her lies to her mother, including the school being closed and Marinette "bullying" her. This even carries over into his Hawk Moth alter-ego, as he sends an akuma to Lila for the specific intent of her getting caught going for it and deliberately hobbles her during the battle so Ladybug and Cat Noir can beat her up unhindered.
* TranquilFury: Mrs. Rossi slips into a state of this as the full extent of Lila's lies and actions are revealed to her, with Gabriel noting that she's positively blazing with anger on the inside but displaying no outward signs of it.
* TraumaButton: Gabriel doesn't undress Adrien when he puts him to bed because doing so might cause him to freak out, as Lila had been trying to forcefully undress him when she was caught.
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[[folder:THREATENING A TSURUGI]]
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* BullyingADragon: Lila clearly underestimated Kagami when she declared her an enemy. After all her petty tricks fail, Lila sets up Tomoe Tsurgi, Kagami's mother, a blind, aging woman, to have an accident, spilling water in her path. Tomoe, being blind, doesn't see the puddle until she sets her foot on it. She slips, hits her head hard, and falls into a coma. After finding out Lila was responsible, Kagami pulls out all the stops to bring her down, recruiting Adrien and Marinette, tattling on Lila to her mother, and even teaming up briefly with Chloé, who owns a video of Lila setting up the accident. Bonus points for Kagami having actually used the Dragon Miraculous in the past.
* EnemyMine: Chloe gives Kagami a video she fortuitously took of Lila engineering Tomoe's accident only because she hates Lila more than she dislikes Kagami. She even uses the old "enemy of my enemy is my friend" saying.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: A minor example. Kagami is fully aware of how nasty Lila can be towards people she targets, but assumes that she will go after her alone and leave others out of it. She does not even dream of the idea that Lila would hurt her aging, blind mother just to get to her and is briefly left numb with shock when Lila gloats to her about it.
* IronicEcho: After Tomoe Tsurugi is sent to the hospital in a coma, Lila reveals to Kagami that SHE is the one who caused her accident, stating that "there are no innocents in war" before threatening to do worse unless Kagami give up Adrien. Of course, this only motivates Kagami to bring Lila down once and for all. When Lila finds out Kagami went and tattled to Lila's own mother, Kagami simply repeats the same words Lila said to her.
* MamaBear: Despite lying in the hospital with a broken hip, Tomoe tries to rise and get out of bed when she hears that Lila tried to physically assault her daughter.
* MoralMyopia: Lila sees nothing wrong with going after Kagami's family and friends in her delusional war against her, but reacts with stunned disbelief when Kagami does the same by telling Lila's mother exactly what's been going on.
* PrecisionFStrike: Tomoe, a very disciplined woman, calls Lila something quite profane in Japanese that both Kagami and Adrien (who speak Japanese) are stunned to hear from her.
* SilkHidingSteel: Kagami radiates this trope throughout the whole story. She brushes off all of Lila's threats and dirty tricks with grace and dignity, and when Lila hurts her mother, she goes straight for the kill.
* SoProudOfYou: Tomoe confesses this to Kagami when she visits her in the hospital, affirming that she has always been proud of her but rarely told her so that the praise doesn't go to her daughter's head. Kagami's calm collectedness in dealing with Lila only increases this.
* TooDumbToLive: Lila tries to attack Kagami when she's exposed despite knowing that she's an expert fencer and no stranger to violence. Kagami merely sidesteps her before painfully dislocating the girl's wrist.
* TranquilFury: Kagami slips into a near-permanent state of this when Lila admits she caused Tomoe's accident. She even fights off Hawk Moth's influence when her inner rage attracts an akuma and warns him not to interfere or she'll come after him next. He takes it seriously.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Kagami does not give in to Hawk Moth's influence because she knows that Lila would simply play the victim if Kagami attacked her as an akumatised villain, claiming that Kagami was irrationally blaming her or taking her anger at her mother's accident out on her.
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[[folder:CHAT BLANC]]
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* AdultFear: Once she's had Lila's true nature confirmed for her, Alya immediately regrets having trusted her enough to let her look after her little sisters.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: While attempting to choke Ladybug to death, Lila declares that after she takes her life and her Miraculous, she's going to go after her family, friends, and everyone else she holds dear, purely because she can.
* BrutalHonesty: Alya questions the heroes' willingness to trust her with the Fox Necklace after she fell so hard for Lila's claims. Ladybug reassures her that everybody makes mistakes, and that what matters more is how they address them. Cat Noir adds that they need the Fox for their plan to work, much to Ladybug's annoyance.
* DeathOfAChild: All the members of Ms. Bustier's class, who are at most sixteen, are killed at the start.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: It takes seeing the angst nuke his son has become the center of coming straight at him for Hawk Moth to consider the notion that he might have made a mistake.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Lila claims that nothing she did while interacting with Rena Rouge's illusions is usable in court since she didn't know who she was ''really'' dealing with. Officer Raincomprix uses this to confirm that she believed she was talking to the ''real'' Hawk Moth and Mayura.
* DownerBeginning: It follows the plot of "Cat Blanc" so this is a given, but the story ramps it up by having the entire class killed onscreen.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Ladybug and Cat Noir arrange this with the help of Rena Rouge, who uses her illusion powers to disguise the former two as Hawk Moth and Mayura, respectively. Lila assumes they're the real deal and eagerly accepts "Hawk Moth's" offer of help... not realising that several members of the Paris police force were listening in.
* EverybodysDeadDave: The entire class and everyone in Paris save for Cat Blanc are killed by the latter's Mega-Cataclysm explosion. Whilst this presumably occurred in the canon episode, it did so offscreen.
* EvilGloating: Both Lila and Hawk Moth indulge in this when they believe they're on the verge of victory; when Nino declares that he's "worse than Adrien's old man," he reveals his own SecretIdentity.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When it becomes apparent that they can't escape the blast zone, all of the class simply hold their friend or romantic partner close and await the end. Subverted by Lila who abandons them and tries to make a run for it, only to die in agony after making it a few steps.
* ForWantOfANail: The whole class is present for Hawk Moth's confrontation with the heroes, and Lila exposes her true self by running out to hinder Ladybug.
* HopeSpot: Despite their best efforts to intervene, the class is ultimately [[InSpiteOfANail unable to prevent Cat Noir's akumatisation]] and are wiped out.
* KarmicDeath: While everyone is killed by the enhanced Cataclysm detonating, Lila is specifically noted to have gotten ''just'' far away enough from the blast zone to ensure she felt the moment of her death, while everyone else was flash-fossilized without feeling anything.
* NeverMyFault: Lila lashes out at Hawk Moth for akumatising Cat Noir into Cat Blanc and Ladybug for failing to stop him from doing so, ignoring the fact that Hawk Moth was only able to do so because Lila attacked Ladybug to keep her from intervening.
* PrecisionFStrike: Ladybug curses at Lila to "Get the FUCK OFF ME!" before kicking her in the face, busting her nose.
* PullingTheThread: Alix questions how Marinette is supposedly managing to bully Lila all the time when she never willingly spends any more time around her than she absolutely ''has'' to.
* SayingTooMuch: Cat Noir notes the karmic potential of Lila being brought down by the very Miraculous she lied about having... much to Ladybug's confusion, as she'd never told him that particular detail. He covers for himself by claiming Adrien told him.
* SkewedPriorities: When the group witnesses Hawk Moth revealing that he is Cat Noir's father, Nathaniel mutters that it's "Kind of a cliche."
* SympathyForTheDevil: When she discovers Lila's body, the present-day Ladybug's anger is slightly tempered by how she clearly died in utter agony.
* TogetherInDeath: All of the class members save for Lila die holding or trying to protect each other, even Chloe.
* TooDumbToLive:
** Even if she didn't know they were illusions, Lila really should have known better than to willingly accept an akuma from Hawk Moth in broad daylight in the middle of Paris.
** In Cat Blanc's timeline, Lila saw nothing wrong with attacking Ladybug in clear view of her whole class. Even Hawk Moth was taken aback by that move.
* WhatTheHellHero: When she's finally informed that Lila lied about being Ladybug's friend, Alya immediately demands to know why Ladybug didn't tell her sooner. Cat responds that they'd hoped she'd figure it out on her own, preventing her from deflecting all the blame onto Ladybug.
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[[folder:MARC AND NATHANIEL]]
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* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Nathaniel has known Lila was lying for a while now, but has let sleeping dogs lie to see how over the top she can get. However, when Nathaniel announces that he and Marc got into honor spots at the upcoming sci-fi convention, Lila declares that she used one of her connections to get them in. Recognizing that she is trying to leech off their success to look good, Nathaniel calls her out in private. When she escalates it by stealing the comic pages and claiming them as her own work, Nathaniel retorts by calling in an aunt of his who was a very skilled and dangerous lawyer back in her day.
* BadassBoast: When Lila tries to use her supposed diplomatic immunity to get out of trouble for her attempted plagiarism, Aunt Rosalie doesn't show any fear:
-->'''Rosalie:''' Is that so? Good, I like a challenge.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Nathaniel's Aunt Rosalie dresses like a mad fortune teller and speaks like she's gone senile, but this hides the fact that she used to be a lawyer in her prime and had a reputation as TheDreaded which still endures today.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Downplayed somewhat. Lila stole the comic pages and claimed them as her own creation stolen by Marc and Nathaniel despite possessing no artistic talent whatsoever, but planned on announcing that the trauma of the ordeal made her decide to halt the comic and brought along her lawyer, thinking that Marc and Nathaniel would be too intimidated to fight back. What she didn't bank on, however, was Marc and Nathaniel challenging her to replicate the work (which she can't but they can, naturally) on the spot, thereby exposing her as a fraud. She also didn't bank on Marc and Nathaniel bringing along Nathaniel's aunt, who is a retired lawyer with a reputation for being the most feared one in all of Europe in her prime.
** Goes double when she destroys the comic pages out of spite for being exposed. Turns out that the comic is an official publication that Marc and Nathaniel earn money from and this gives them the right to sue her for loss of earnings and destruction of personal property, and with Lila having done this in front of her own lawyer means she has no defence.
* GettingSuspendedIsAwesome: {{Defied|Trope}} at the end of the story when the school punished Lila for her lies and truancy. The school initially considered suspending her but they realized that she'd just treat that as a holiday, so instead they gave her six months of detention with Mrs. Mendeleiev and a boatload of make-up homework.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: After Lila's scheme to plagarize the Ladybug comic blows up in her face, she rips up the comic pages she stole out of spite. Aunt Rosalie uses the incident to add property destruction to the list of charges her nephew and his boyfriend have against Lila since the two boys earn money from their copywrited work. After a settlement is worked out, Lila loses her trust fund and six month's of her allowance to compensate Marc and Nathaniel for the ruined pages and the time it will take to redo them.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: After Lila's mother finds out what Lila attempted to do, she furiously responds with this:
-->'''Mrs. Rossi:''' So let me get this straight, Lila. You stole published works from one of your classmates and passed it off as your own simply because he called you out for trying to steal credit for his own accomplishment, roped the family lawyer into your silly little plot and then destroyed said works once you were exposed simply out of petty spite?\\
'''Lila:''' I-\\
'''Mrs. Rossi:''' Cannot be trusted to speak the truth, evidently.
* OhCrap: Lila's lawyer has this reaction when he finds out that Nathaniel's seemingly loopy aunt is in fact a very famous and cutthroat retired lawyer more than willing to step back into the courtroom on her nephew's behalf.
* PassThePopcorn: When Nathaniel and Lila are challenged to replicate the work to prove which one is lying, Nathaniel really wishes he had popcorn to eat while watching Lila draw her pathetic excuse for a drawing.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When Nathaniel is telling off Lila for claiming that she got him and Marc guest spots in the upcoming sci-fi convention, she mocks the two of them by calling them "fairy boys". Nathaniel barely restrains himself from lashing out at that. Then after Lila's mother, Marc, Nathaniel, and the two lawyers work out a settlement where Lila gives Marc and Nathaniel the 3,000 Euros in Lila's trust fund and her allowance for the next six months to pay off the damages, Lila calls Nathaniel a faggot, much to everybody else's anger.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Lisette Lefour, the editor of the Ladybug comic, isn't pleased with Marc or Nathaniel after Lila claims that the Ladybug comic is actually hers. However, she's willing to give Marc and Nathaniel a chance to prove that they are the true creators and after Lila's lies are exposed Lisette is pissed off at Lila for lying to her.
** After Lila's lawyer realizes that he got dragged into a [[DidntThinkThisThrough poorly-thought-out scheme]] of Lila's that could result in her getting sued, he's furious with her and truthfully tells Mrs. Rossi what happened so they can work out a settlement.
* TerribleArtist: Unlike Nathaniel, Lila is horrible at drawing, which exposes her lies after she's asked to replicate the comic in front of the publisher.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Lila's lawyer and mother react this way when Lila's lies are exposed, anticipating a brutal lawsuit. Subverted, however, as Nathaniel and Marc bear them no ill will for getting dragged into the whole mess and settle things in a way that ensures only Lila gets punished.
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[[folder:BULLYING]]
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* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: The whole class to Lila. When they figure out that Lila is indeed a liar, instead of confronting her straight away, they form a plan to expose her for everyone. They pretend to be on her side and antagonize Marinette, even faking injuries and cruel behavior towards her. Then, they lure her to an assembly and [[EngineeredPublicConfession trick her into confessing her true colors and intentions with her mother and the school staff hiding nearby and listening in]].
* TheChessmaster: What seemed like the class siding with Lila and bullying Marinette was all a hoax to gather evidence against Lila. After figuring out Lila's lying ways, the class does not confront her right away, but rather pretends to still trust her. They notice how Lila always accuses Marinette of bullying her and expresses desires for her to "know how it feels". So they pretend to bully Marinette, like applying fake injuries on her with makeup to look like they hurt her, and ripping up a decoy sketchbook which they passed off as her main one. When Lila is at her most confident, Alya lures Lila to an assembly where she claims the class set up "a little something", implying they plan to publicly humiliate Marinette. Once the assembly begins, however, they turn the tables and announce LILA as the bully. Lila is so confident that she will get away with it, because she never actually did anything to Marinette, the class did it for her, that she admits gloats about her plan, only for the class to reveal their parlor tricks to her, and reveal that the whole assembly was an EngineeredPublicConfession with her mother and the school staff hiding, having heard the whole thing.
* DeconstructionFic: Many salt fanfictions have the class siding with Lila over Marinette and bullying her on Lila's false accusations without question. They do things like hurt her physically, ostracize her, and rip her beloved sketchbook to shreds. And they do this without guilt or remorse. In this story, this seems to be happening, even the beatings and the destroyed sketchbook...until it's revealed that it was all a hoax by the class to lure Lila into false confidence and get her to publicly confess her crimes and intentions. The injuries on Marinette were faked, and the sketchbook they ruined was actually a decoy.
* DrivenToSuicide: Frederick, a boy Lila met while in Germany. Like Marinette, he had seen through Lila, and she responded by manipulating all his friends to turn against him and bully him. After months of torment, he tried to slit his wrists, and was only saved by the fortunate timing of his cousin. Believe it or not, Lila got a thrill from hearing that she hurt him to that extent.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: The class lures Lila to an assembly with the implication that they will publicly humiliate Marinette, where she is goaded into smugly revealing that she sought to make all her peers bully Marinette, hopefully even driving her to suicide. Then, after she's confessed her malicious intentions, the class shows her her mother and the school staff hiding nearby, who have been listening to her all along.
* GoneHorriblyRight: As part of the class's ploy against Lila, they faked multiple incidents of physical bullying; however, on one occasion, Alix misjudged her momentum and ''actually'' slammed Marinette into a wall, which hurt quite a bit. Alix was horrified and even long after Marinette's bruises have healed, is very apologetic.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: When Lila questions the class why they went through with the hoax of pretending to bully Marinette to lure Lila into confessing her lies, they point out that if they didn't do it, Lila would have genuinely bullied and physically harmed Marinette.
* SeriousBusiness: When Lila has no idea what being called [[Series/GameOfThrones "Florent"]] means, the entire class sniffs disdainfully in disgust.
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[[folder:SINS OF THE PAST]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Every time Lila tries to lie or defend herself, the Inquisitor drops boulders on her, crushing her underneath. Although, considering that he got akumatized because of wanting justice for how she turned all his friends against him, manipulated them into bullying, and [[DrivenToSuicide pushed him to the point where he tried to commit suicide]], this could be more of PayEvilUntoEvil.
* DrivenToSuicide: Frederick, just like in the last installment. After Lila poisoned all his friends against him and manipulated them into bullying him mercilessly, Frederick tried to slit his wrists, and was only saved by his favorite cousin Hugo finding him in the nick of time.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After Lila is exposed and sent away, Frederick gains new friends who are loyal to him and also becomes romantically involved with Jean Duparc, a far cry from what his life was like after Lila had finished with him.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: The Inquisitor kidnaps Lila and takes her to the TV studio, where he forces her to confess her misdeeds on live TV, piling boulders on her if she lies.
* EpicFlail / ExoticWeaponSupremacy: The Inquisitor makes use of a meteor hammer when fighting Ladybug and Cat Noir and manages to take the fight early on, with it being noted that Cat Noir's fencing skills and weapon are finding it difficult to counter such a tricky weapon. That said, he does manage to get The Inquisitor to fall victim to the weapon's drawbacks as well, namely the risk of getting tangled up in the chain if not careful.
* IHaveNoSon: Mrs. Rossi's announcement of Lila's punishment reveals she has disowned her for what she did.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Frederick is deliberately kept oblivious to what he did as an akuma, namely almost crushing Lila to death with heavy rocks, because he would feel horrible about it despite his hatred for Lila over what she did to him.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Frederick uses his powers as an akuma to get back at Lila for ruining his life, turning all his friends against him, and [[DrivenToSuicide pushing him to the brink of suicide]].
* TraumaButton: Lila herself is one for Frederick, as seeing her in his new classroom drives him into a breakdown that culminates in him being akumatized into The Inquisitor.
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[[folder:MAMA BEAR]]
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: After Lila’s crimes are revealed to the class, each takes their turns repeating which one they are most upset by, with Kim’s last comment being a little out of place.
-->'''Nino:''' You’re working with Hawkmoth?!\\
'''Alya:''' You were going to set up Marinette?!\\
'''Mylene:''' You we’re going to let us all get akumatized?!\\
'''Kim:''' You stole my lucky gold plastic ring?!
* EveryoneHasStandards: When Cat Noir accidentally reveals to Nadja that he sometimes visits Marinette at the bakery to have somebody to talk to, the reporter promises to not tell anybody that piece of information to protect Marinette's privacy.
-->'''Nadja:''' ''(After Ladybug and Cat Noir look surprised at that)'' What? I do have some integrity!
* EvilIsPetty: Petty enough to tear apart the doll of a girl she's never met before simply because Marinette made it for her.
* ForWantOfANail: Lila bullies a random little girl in the park and rips up her Ladybug doll out of pettiness. Thing is, that random girl is Manon, who goes crying to her IntrepidReporter mother Nadja. When Nadja goes to Marinette to get the doll fixed, she describes the girl Manon accused of ruining the doll, and Marinette confirms it was Lila Rossi. Nadja goes to Lila’s address to confront her, only to catch her plotting with Hawkmoth. She records it and goes digging through Lila, getting testimonies from Marinette and Ladybug and Chat Noir, plus Lila’s past victims, of which there are no shortage. In the end, she releases all this on TV, exposes Lila, and gets her arrested and put in solitude for at least forty years. Leaving her trial, Lila officially meets Nadja, who reveals that it was HER daughter Lila bullied in the park that fateful afternoon. Lila is taken away from Paris, reflecting on how that single badly-thought-out act of cruelty had set in motion her demise.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Nadja winds up using her microphone to defend herself when Lila attacks in a fit of blind rage.
* IntrepidReporter: After Nadja comes across evidence that Lila is a willing accomplice of Hawk Moth, she starts searching and gathering for more evidence in order to bring her down and make sure Lila can't ever hurt anybody ever again.
* KangarooCourt: {{Defied|Trope}}; during Lila's criminal trial, the International Court of Justice sends representatives to Paris in order to run it because the French Judical system can't run her trial unbiased due to several of their judges and lawyers being akumatized in the past.
* MamaBear: After Lila rips up Manon's doll, Nadja is completely furious with her for it. It's also what leads her to release her story exposing Lila as a willing collaborator of Hawk Moth and as a chronic bullier.
* OhCrap: Lila has a minor one when she sees Nadja yelling at her in the park and realizes she must be Manon's mother. She has a larger moment later once she learns just ''what'' that set in motion.
* ResignedInDisgrace: Mrs. Rossi decides to resign from the Italian embassy in Paris and apply for a transfer back to Italy so Lila can be punished for her crimes.
* SkewedPriorities: Among all the crimes Lila has been proven to commit, working with the BigBad, trying to frame Marinette, deliberately targeting her classmates to get akumatized... Kim seems most offended by the fact that she stole his lucky ring above all else, cueing this Lampshade via Alix.
-->'''Alix:''' Good to see you’ve got your priorities in order, Meathead.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After her exposure, Hawk Moth sends several akumas after Lila in hopes of tying off that loose end. The first akuma gives her a short TheReasonYouSuckSpeech explaining why:
-->'''Akuma:''' Because in the words of Hawk Moth, you’ve outlived your usefulness, exposed yourself as a willing agent and generally been a self-important, egotistical pain in the ass.
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[[folder:RUNNING AMOK]]
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* ClonesArePeopleToo: Ladybug and Chat both treat Senti-Bird as her own person and whenever the destruction of Senti-Bug is mentioned, it's explicitly called a murder.
* CoolButInefficient: Pavona's costume is flashy and visually stunning, reflecting Lila's own ego, but also highly impractical: the huge feathered hat hampers her vision, and the floor-length dress and stiletto heels greatly reduce her mobility.
* CurbStompBattle: Pavona gets her ass well and truly handed to her by Ladybug and Cat Noir. Aside from her ridiculously impractical outfit, her fighting skills are subpar compared to theirs and her obsessive need to take down Ladybug herself leads her to make several blunders that all result in her swift and humiliating defeat.
* DefiantCaptive: Duusu might be compelled to obey an evil and horrible master like Nooroo, but unlike Nooroo he doesn't take it meekly. Despite Lila silencing him and making him stay close, Duusu points out that she can't actually stop him from acting defiant in other ways such as pinching and biting her.
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: A decidedly negative example for Senti-Bird, though somewhat downplayed. Due to how she resembles Lila, Ms. Bustier’s class find her presence upsetting; they don't hate or blame her but [[RealityEnsues emotions are complicated]].
* GoodCounterpart: A sentimonster is created resembling Lila as Pavona, only she is on the heroes’ side and tricks Hawkmoth into getting them close to him and bringing him down. After his defeat, she teams up with Prince Ali and uses her powers to help his charitable causes by creating pets to give to sick children or to sell for charity funds.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted. Gabriel insists that his love for Emilie and desire to bring her back trumps everything else. But Adrien, angry and betrayed, rejects his explanations, telling him that his love for Emilie has become twisted and selfish out of his refusal to accept her death and move on with his life, instead choosing to hurt innocent people and risk sacrificing her only child or someone else to bring her back, something she would have never wanted and would hate Gabriel for doing.
* LetsGetDangerous: When Pavona almost gets a lucky blow on Ladybug that still draws blood, the heroine replies that if she wants to play rough then that's how it'll go and she and Cat Noir stop holding back.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Times two:
** As seen in TooDumbToLive below, Lila ignoring all the rules Hawk Moth laid for her (such as staying away from the fights and limiting herself to create Sentimonsters) ends in her defeat and the heroes claiming the Peacock Miraculous that Hawk Moth had just repaired. This in turn, thanks to Duusu's information, leads to the heroes finding out about Hawk Moth being Gabriel Agreste, and thus his definitive defeat and arrest.
** And the above point happened because Hawk Moth, against Nathalie's advice, insisted on giving one of his two Miraculous to an obviously unreliable girl that's in way over her head, just to make sure it was indeed repaired.
* PunBasedTitle: Since the magical feathers that create Sentimonsters are called Amoks.
* SupportPartyMember: The Peacock and Butterfly Miraculous are this, conjuring allies for the other users. As such, they are poorly suited to frontline combat. Lila ignores this and decides to attack Ladybug and Cat Noir directly, with predictable results.
* TheStarscream: Upon learning from Duusu that Ladybug and Chat Noir's Miraculous can grant a wish when used together, Lila decides to betray Hawkmoth and keep the Miraculous herself.
* TooDumbToLive: Lila blatantly ignores all of the rules Gabriel gave her to possess the Peacock brooch, from proudly showing it off to her classmates for attention and risking her identity to trying to directly fight the heroes instead of working from the shadows to protect herself.
* UnskilledButStrong: Not so much Pavona as the Peacock Miraculous itself. Its powers are highly formidable and versatile, able to create fully sentient beings if the user wishes, but as such it is not very strong in direct combat. Hawk Moth explicitly warns Lila when he gives her the Miraculous that she is to stay off the front lines and not engage Ladybug and Cat Noir directly as they are more skilled and able fighters, ordering her to restrict herself only to creating sentimonsters and commanding them from afar, but she disobeys and finds herself severely outclassed.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Duusu's opinion on Nathalie being so in love with Gabriel to the point of helping him with his villanous schemes.
-->'''Duusu''': And honestly, her motivation is ridiculous! He’s still technically a married man, for starters. And he’s not even attractive in terms of either physical appearance or personality! She could do ''so'' much better.
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[[folder: EXPOSED]]
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* BatmanGambit: Marinette suspects that Lila will attempt to steal the Ladybug earrings off of her, so she wears regular black stud earrings while entrusting Adrien with the real earrings when she goes into the locker room. Sure enough, that is exactly what happens.
* BerserkButton: Lila’s already on the verge of insanity due to her HumiliationConga. When Adrien kisses Marinette, it’s the final straw, and Lila tries to attack Marinette with a broken bottle.
** The Button gets set off again years later when she sees an interview of Ladybug saying Lila did her a favor by trying to out her, which led to Chat Noir having to throw the public off her scent and removed any lingering suspicion of her being Marinette. The idea that she actually helped her greatest enemy leads to a breakdown and another failed escape attempt.
* BittersweetEnding: Adrien's stabbing in the face does leave a permenent scar, which took a massive negative hit on his modeling career. However, Adrien and Marientte now know of each other's secret identities (as well as Marientte's family being in the loop), they start dating each other, and many years later Hawk Moth is unmasked and defeated, restoring peace to Paris.
* CryingWolf: When Lila shows her true colors by trying to expose Ladybug’s secret identity, everyone realizes that she’s a BitchInSheepsClothing and stops trusting her. When she insists that Marinette is Ladybug and tries to transform with the earrings she stole, no one believes her. It doesn’t help that the transformation doesn’t work.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Somehow, it never occurred to Lila that exposing the secrets of Paris’s beloved heroine and putting her in danger via Hawkmoth, and by extension everyone else, would make her hated by everyone in the city, and get her in trouble with the law and her mom. On the other hand, Lila admits that [[RevengeBeforeReason she doesn’t care what happens to anyone as long as she can have her revenge on Ladybug]].
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Even after Lila has fallen from grace and has been fired, grounded, sued, humiliated and outcasted in school, she just won’t quit. She attacks Marinette, steals her earrings, and tries to win back everyone’s respect by transforming into Ladybug. However, the fake earrings and catchphrase make her efforts null and void, and she just ends up looking like an utter fool.
* EyeScream: When Lila goes at Marinette with a broken bottle, Marc blasts her in the face with pepper-spray, sending her to the floor in agony.
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: In the locker room scene, Marinette tells Lila the difference between [[EasilyForgiven easily forgiving]] somebody for something bad and this trope:
--> '''Lila:''' You really don’t know me all that well, do you? I never forget or forgive a slight, not ever.\\
'''Marinette:''' Then you're stupider than I thought. The foolish neither forgive nor forget, as you'll find out.\\
'''Lila:''' Oh, and what? Like your [[EasilyForgiven forgive and forget]] is any better?\\
'''Marinette:''' Actually, no. I ''forgive'', yes, but I don't ''forget''. Especially not your selfish attempt to expose Ladybug.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: After Lila snaps she tries to kill Marinette with a broken bottle, but slices Adrien's face open instead when he pushes her out of the way.
* HumiliationConga: After she releases footage of Marinette transforming, Lila’s whole life falls apart. Chat Noir uses the Fox Miraculous to save his Lady’s secret, rendering Lila’s efforts meaningless. After that, she faces lawsuits for defamation and slander, is grounded by her mother, and loses her modeling job. When she comes back to school, she discovers that she’s destroyed her own reputation and is now about as popular as a fungus. Even then, she just keeps [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digging herself deeper. She steals Marinette’s earrings, thinking them to be the Miraculous, and tries to transform with the fake catchphrase. Of course, since that and the earrings are fakes, it doesn’t work, and she is further embarrassed]]. Finally, seeing Adrien kiss Marinette sets off her BerserkButton, and she tries to attack Marinette with a broken bottle, only to miss and hurt Adrien instead, and get pepper-sprayed by Marc. After that episode, she is decided to be mentally unstable and locked away, possibly forever. The cherry on top? Years later, an interview post-Hawkmoth’s defeat has Ladybug saying Lila actually helped protect her secret identity by trying to expose her, leading Chat Noir to have to throw people off the trail and absolving any future suspicion. Seeing this, Lila has a nervous breakdown and tries to escape for revenge, only to fail miserably again.
* IncompatibleOrientation: PlayedForLaughs; When paramedics arrive to help Adrien get to the hospital after his stabbing, one of the female paramedics recognizes him, leading to this exchange:
--> '''Paramedic:''' Wait a second, aren't you that teen model everyone's always gushing about?\\
'''Adrien:''' If I say yes, are you going to want an autographed selfie?\\
'''Paramedic:''' I'm a lesbian and you're way too young, so no.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Sweet, shy, quiet Marc loudly swears when he finds out Lila attacked Marinette, expresses pleasure at the thought of her being humiliated, and pepper-sprays her in the end. The last one is justified because his parents want him to have physical protection, with him being a boy who wears makeup and rainbow clothes.
** Adrien is not always the most assertive when it comes to his father, but when Gabriel tries to pin the blame for his accident on Marinette, Adrien calls him out for his SkewedPriorities in trying to blame her instead of Lila for getting him scarred.
* ProperlyParanoid: Because Marc is [[CampGay openly gay and wears make-up and rainbow clothes]], his parents make him carry around pepper spray in case he gets attacked by bigots. While that doesn’t happen, the pepper spray does help subdue Lila when she attempts to stab Marinette and does stab Adrien.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Lila reflects that she doesn’t care what happens to the city, so long as she could take down Ladybug once and for all.
* SkewedPriorities: When Gabriel catches wind of Adrien being injured and scarred in the face, he at first thinks it’s Marinette’s fault since Adrien shoved her out of the way before she was the one who got stabbed. Adrien is quick to set him straight, telling him he should be blaming Lila, the one who actually stabbed him.
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Like many fans of the show, [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/OminousPredictions/pseuds/OminousPredictions OminuousPredictions]] craved some LaserGuidedKarma for Lila, and created a series of stories where her KarmaHoudiniWarranty finally expires. Most of the stories are titled after one of her crimes, and shows how that certain crime leads to her downfall.
So far, there are eleven stories in the series:
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25269391 STALKING]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25290628 BREAKING AND ENTERING]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25542772 SEXUAL HARASSMENT]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27108337 THREATENING A TSURUGI]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27259528 CHAT BLANC]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27569779 MARC AND NATHANIEL]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27702113 BULLYING]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29956389 SINS OF THE PAST]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30211596 MAMA BEAR]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30338388 RUNNING AMOK]]''
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30481101 EXPOSED]]''
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[[folder:Tropes: All Stories]]
These tropes are found in almost every installment.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Shows up in nearly every story, with characters established to be nice or kind turning scarily dangerous towards Lila when her true character is revealed.
* {{Demonization}}: Subverted. Only Lila is treated in a consistently negative way and everyone retains their canon personalities for the most part.
* DiplomaticImpunity: Lila has diplomatic immunity thanks to her diplomat mother (or always ''thinks'' she does); however, her actions always lead to it being revoked and faces the worst punishments. And even in stories where Lila's mother reveals that her diplomatic immunity doesn't extend to her family because she's a ''junior'' diplomat, she makes it clear that she wouldn't let it protect Lila from punishment.
* HateSink: Lila, Lila, Lila. She is a [[TheNarcissist narcissistic]] and [[ManipulativeBitch manipulative]] liar and {{Jerkass}} doing everything to ruin Marinette's reputation.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Lila's downfall always happens because she overestimated her KarmaHoudiniWarranty and did something bad to smear Marinette's reputation, get ahead of Marinette or her peers or make Adrien hers. Of course, when she does it this time, she inadvertently ends up [[BullyingADragon angering the wrong person]], revealing impure actions of her own, and/or getting caught in the act of something cruel and vicious.
* LaserGuidedKarma: What always happens to Lila in the end. Her various forms of karma include but are not limited to: [[spoiler:getting deported back to Italy; being put in prison and/or a juvenile center; fired as a Gabriel model; ostracized by her former worshippers; listed as a sex offender; and/or put on academic probation at school]]. In one story, she even ends up causing her own (temporary) death.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Usually, when Lila's crimes lead to her exposure, her true colors being exposed often fix things for Marinette, or even make life better for her, like [[spoiler:her friends apologizing and reconciling with her, or getting her closer to Adrien]].
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: This always comes back to bite Lila in the end, as her KarmaHoudiniWarranty finally expires and she is left to face the fallout of her actions, which overall destroy her life.
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The following has the tropes listed for each story individually.
[[folder:STALKING]]
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Even though she said nothing out loud, Lila did show the class photos of Marinette's room, meaning she had to have gotten them somehow. And since everyone knows Marinette hates Lila and would never allow her within her breathing space, let alone her private bedroom, well...
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Lila asks Marinette to explain the multitude of photos of Adrien she has in her room along with his schedule, Marinette fires back that those were in her bedroom which she has never let Lila into, so how could she have photos of them?
* BigSisterInstinct: Lila breaches her restraining order from Marinette and tries to attack her with a knife while she's at the movies with Alya's sisters, including Nora, a champion boxer who's already proven to be overprotective of her younger siblings. When Lila comes close to the twins with a weapon in hand, Nora immediately snaps her wrist and slams her against a car, knocking the liar out cold.
* CrazyPrepared: Marinette has not only Adrien's schedule in her room but those of all her classmates so she can keep track of their various appointments and let them know in advance. She mentions that their parents pay her for this as they're usually too busy to remind their kids themselves.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:BREAKING AND ENTERING]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: When Lila asks Sabine if she can remove the box clamped shut on her wrist, Sabine cheerfully offers to remove her whole arm whilst holding a meat cleaver. Lila wisely shuts up.
* CrazyPrepared: Even more so than the beginning example in "Darkblade", when the box made its debut. In that episode, Marinette put her diary in the box to ensure it and the secrets it contained were safe from any thieves and it still got stolen. As such, she ups the ante by putting a blank decoy in the box this time around.
* MamaBear: Sabine rips into Lila when she catches the liar breaking into her home and trying to steal Marinette's private diary. She even threatens to "take the law into her own hands" if the police don't come, and hints that her and her husband's family in China and Italy "know people in the underworld" in case the French justice system fails.
* TooDumbToLive: Lila still tries to use Marinette's diary against her after Marinette releases her from the trap-box, namely by hitting her in the nose and grabbing the book... right in front of the police she's been trying to convince she's innocent.
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[[folder:SEXUAL HARRASSMENT]]
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* AdultFear: You meet a girl your son’s age, trust her to look after him and keep him away from bad influences. Then, one day, you walk in on that same girl [[spoiler: trying to rape your only child]]. The worst part is knowing that you were the one who let her get close enough to him to do such a thing in the first place.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When Lila [[spoiler:forces herself on Adrien and starts touching him]], he begs her to stop, to which she simply replies that he should be enjoying himself since he's a boy. She even tries to claim that he assaulted her, although this is not believed by Gabriel, and disproven by him to her mother. Lila's successful conviction in [[spoiler:her assault on Adrien]] is heralded as a landmark ruling for sexual assault and harassment against males.
* DrivenToSuicide: Another victim of Lila's sexual ambitions and manipulations. While searching about Lila online to get dirt, Gabriel comes across a foundation set up in honor of a boy in Italy who killed himself after Lila framed him for sexually assaulting her as revenge for rejecting her.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Gabriel arranges this by alerting Nadja Chamack and her news crew that an akuma was spotted heading for Francoise Dupont school, with them arriving just in time to catch Lila assaulting both her mother and Principal Damocles to grab it.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Lila's attitude towards Adrien. She seems to firmly believe that Adrien is hers, and his permission or consent, or lack of, does not change this matter in the slightest.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Gabriel immediately cuts ties with Lila and publicly ruins her after he catches her [[spoiler:forcing herself on Adrien]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gabriel regrets that he ever let Lila anywhere near Adrien after she is caught [[spoiler:sexually assaulting him]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mrs. Rossi shows herself to be one. When Lila spins a story to her that she was coerced into working as a model and sexually harassed by Adrien, she shows up at the mansion to protest and threaten a lawsuit. When Gabriel presents her with evidence that not only is that not true but that her daughter has been deceiving her about a lot more besides, however, she realises that she's been misled and apologises for her abrupt actions, as well as to Adrien for what Lila did to him, before turning her fury on her daughter.
* PapaWolf: After catching Lila [[spoiler: forcing herself on his son]], Gabriel fires her on the spot. He then sues her for her assault of Adrien, and unravels all her lies to her mother, including the school being closed and Marinette "bullying" her. This even carries over into his Hawk Moth alter-ego, as he sends an akuma to Lila for the specific intent of her getting caught going for it and deliberately hobbles her during the battle so Ladybug and Cat Noir can beat her up unhindered.
* TranquilFury: Mrs. Rossi slips into a state of this as the full extent of Lila's lies and actions are revealed to her, with Gabriel noting that she's positively blazing with anger on the inside but displaying no outward signs of it.
* TraumaButton: Gabriel doesn't undress Adrien when he puts him to bed because doing so might cause him to freak out, as Lila had been trying to forcefully undress him when she was caught.
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[[folder:THREATENING A TSURUGI]]
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* BullyingADragon: Lila clearly underestimated Kagami when she declared her an enemy. After all her petty tricks fail, Lila sets up Tomoe Tsurgi, Kagami's mother, a blind, aging woman, to have an accident, spilling water in her path. Tomoe, being blind, doesn't see the puddle until she sets her foot on it. She slips, hits her head hard, and falls into a coma. After finding out Lila was responsible, Kagami pulls out all the stops to bring her down, recruiting Adrien and Marinette, tattling on Lila to her mother, and even teaming up briefly with Chloé, who owns a video of Lila setting up the accident. Bonus points for Kagami having actually used the Dragon Miraculous in the past.
* EnemyMine: Chloe gives Kagami a video she fortuitously took of Lila engineering Tomoe's accident only because she hates Lila more than she dislikes Kagami. She even uses the old "enemy of my enemy is my friend" saying.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: A minor example. Kagami is fully aware of how nasty Lila can be towards people she targets, but assumes that she will go after her alone and leave others out of it. She does not even dream of the idea that Lila would hurt her aging, blind mother just to get to her and is briefly left numb with shock when Lila gloats to her about it.
* IronicEcho: After Tomoe Tsurugi is sent to the hospital in a coma, Lila reveals to Kagami that SHE is the one who caused her accident, stating that "there are no innocents in war" before threatening to do worse unless Kagami give up Adrien. Of course, this only motivates Kagami to bring Lila down once and for all. When Lila finds out Kagami went and tattled to Lila's own mother, Kagami simply repeats the same words Lila said to her.
* MamaBear: Despite lying in the hospital with a broken hip, Tomoe tries to rise and get out of bed when she hears that Lila tried to physically assault her daughter.
* MoralMyopia: Lila sees nothing wrong with going after Kagami's family and friends in her delusional war against her, but reacts with stunned disbelief when Kagami does the same by telling Lila's mother exactly what's been going on.
* PrecisionFStrike: Tomoe, a very disciplined woman, calls Lila something quite profane in Japanese that both Kagami and Adrien (who speak Japanese) are stunned to hear from her.
* SilkHidingSteel: Kagami radiates this trope throughout the whole story. She brushes off all of Lila's threats and dirty tricks with grace and dignity, and when Lila hurts her mother, she goes straight for the kill.
* SoProudOfYou: Tomoe confesses this to Kagami when she visits her in the hospital, affirming that she has always been proud of her but rarely told her so that the praise doesn't go to her daughter's head. Kagami's calm collectedness in dealing with Lila only increases this.
* TooDumbToLive: Lila tries to attack Kagami when she's exposed despite knowing that she's an expert fencer and no stranger to violence. Kagami merely sidesteps her before painfully dislocating the girl's wrist.
* TranquilFury: Kagami slips into a near-permanent state of this when Lila admits she caused Tomoe's accident. She even fights off Hawk Moth's influence when her inner rage attracts an akuma and warns him not to interfere or she'll come after him next. He takes it seriously.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Kagami does not give in to Hawk Moth's influence because she knows that Lila would simply play the victim if Kagami attacked her as an akumatised villain, claiming that Kagami was irrationally blaming her or taking her anger at her mother's accident out on her.
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[[folder:CHAT BLANC]]
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* AdultFear: Once she's had Lila's true nature confirmed for her, Alya immediately regrets having trusted her enough to let her look after her little sisters.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: While attempting to choke Ladybug to death, Lila declares that after she takes her life and her Miraculous, she's going to go after her family, friends, and everyone else she holds dear, purely because she can.
* BrutalHonesty: Alya questions the heroes' willingness to trust her with the Fox Necklace after she fell so hard for Lila's claims. Ladybug reassures her that everybody makes mistakes, and that what matters more is how they address them. Cat Noir adds that they need the Fox for their plan to work, much to Ladybug's annoyance.
* DeathOfAChild: All the members of Ms. Bustier's class, who are at most sixteen, are killed at the start.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: It takes seeing the angst nuke his son has become the center of coming straight at him for Hawk Moth to consider the notion that he might have made a mistake.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Lila claims that nothing she did while interacting with Rena Rouge's illusions is usable in court since she didn't know who she was ''really'' dealing with. Officer Raincomprix uses this to confirm that she believed she was talking to the ''real'' Hawk Moth and Mayura.
* DownerBeginning: It follows the plot of "Cat Blanc" so this is a given, but the story ramps it up by having the entire class killed onscreen.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Ladybug and Cat Noir arrange this with the help of Rena Rouge, who uses her illusion powers to disguise the former two as Hawk Moth and Mayura, respectively. Lila assumes they're the real deal and eagerly accepts "Hawk Moth's" offer of help... not realising that several members of the Paris police force were listening in.
* EverybodysDeadDave: The entire class and everyone in Paris save for Cat Blanc are killed by the latter's Mega-Cataclysm explosion. Whilst this presumably occurred in the canon episode, it did so offscreen.
* EvilGloating: Both Lila and Hawk Moth indulge in this when they believe they're on the verge of victory; when Nino declares that he's "worse than Adrien's old man," he reveals his own SecretIdentity.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When it becomes apparent that they can't escape the blast zone, all of the class simply hold their friend or romantic partner close and await the end. Subverted by Lila who abandons them and tries to make a run for it, only to die in agony after making it a few steps.
* ForWantOfANail: The whole class is present for Hawk Moth's confrontation with the heroes, and Lila exposes her true self by running out to hinder Ladybug.
* HopeSpot: Despite their best efforts to intervene, the class is ultimately [[InSpiteOfANail unable to prevent Cat Noir's akumatisation]] and are wiped out.
* KarmicDeath: While everyone is killed by the enhanced Cataclysm detonating, Lila is specifically noted to have gotten ''just'' far away enough from the blast zone to ensure she felt the moment of her death, while everyone else was flash-fossilized without feeling anything.
* NeverMyFault: Lila lashes out at Hawk Moth for akumatising Cat Noir into Cat Blanc and Ladybug for failing to stop him from doing so, ignoring the fact that Hawk Moth was only able to do so because Lila attacked Ladybug to keep her from intervening.
* PrecisionFStrike: Ladybug curses at Lila to "Get the FUCK OFF ME!" before kicking her in the face, busting her nose.
* PullingTheThread: Alix questions how Marinette is supposedly managing to bully Lila all the time when she never willingly spends any more time around her than she absolutely ''has'' to.
* SayingTooMuch: Cat Noir notes the karmic potential of Lila being brought down by the very Miraculous she lied about having... much to Ladybug's confusion, as she'd never told him that particular detail. He covers for himself by claiming Adrien told him.
* SkewedPriorities: When the group witnesses Hawk Moth revealing that he is Cat Noir's father, Nathaniel mutters that it's "Kind of a cliche."
* SympathyForTheDevil: When she discovers Lila's body, the present-day Ladybug's anger is slightly tempered by how she clearly died in utter agony.
* TogetherInDeath: All of the class members save for Lila die holding or trying to protect each other, even Chloe.
* TooDumbToLive:
** Even if she didn't know they were illusions, Lila really should have known better than to willingly accept an akuma from Hawk Moth in broad daylight in the middle of Paris.
** In Cat Blanc's timeline, Lila saw nothing wrong with attacking Ladybug in clear view of her whole class. Even Hawk Moth was taken aback by that move.
* WhatTheHellHero: When she's finally informed that Lila lied about being Ladybug's friend, Alya immediately demands to know why Ladybug didn't tell her sooner. Cat responds that they'd hoped she'd figure it out on her own, preventing her from deflecting all the blame onto Ladybug.
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[[folder:MARC AND NATHANIEL]]
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* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Nathaniel has known Lila was lying for a while now, but has let sleeping dogs lie to see how over the top she can get. However, when Nathaniel announces that he and Marc got into honor spots at the upcoming sci-fi convention, Lila declares that she used one of her connections to get them in. Recognizing that she is trying to leech off their success to look good, Nathaniel calls her out in private. When she escalates it by stealing the comic pages and claiming them as her own work, Nathaniel retorts by calling in an aunt of his who was a very skilled and dangerous lawyer back in her day.
* BadassBoast: When Lila tries to use her supposed diplomatic immunity to get out of trouble for her attempted plagiarism, Aunt Rosalie doesn't show any fear:
-->'''Rosalie:''' Is that so? Good, I like a challenge.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Nathaniel's Aunt Rosalie dresses like a mad fortune teller and speaks like she's gone senile, but this hides the fact that she used to be a lawyer in her prime and had a reputation as TheDreaded which still endures today.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Downplayed somewhat. Lila stole the comic pages and claimed them as her own creation stolen by Marc and Nathaniel despite possessing no artistic talent whatsoever, but planned on announcing that the trauma of the ordeal made her decide to halt the comic and brought along her lawyer, thinking that Marc and Nathaniel would be too intimidated to fight back. What she didn't bank on, however, was Marc and Nathaniel challenging her to replicate the work (which she can't but they can, naturally) on the spot, thereby exposing her as a fraud. She also didn't bank on Marc and Nathaniel bringing along Nathaniel's aunt, who is a retired lawyer with a reputation for being the most feared one in all of Europe in her prime.
** Goes double when she destroys the comic pages out of spite for being exposed. Turns out that the comic is an official publication that Marc and Nathaniel earn money from and this gives them the right to sue her for loss of earnings and destruction of personal property, and with Lila having done this in front of her own lawyer means she has no defence.
* GettingSuspendedIsAwesome: {{Defied|Trope}} at the end of the story when the school punished Lila for her lies and truancy. The school initially considered suspending her but they realized that she'd just treat that as a holiday, so instead they gave her six months of detention with Mrs. Mendeleiev and a boatload of make-up homework.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: After Lila's scheme to plagarize the Ladybug comic blows up in her face, she rips up the comic pages she stole out of spite. Aunt Rosalie uses the incident to add property destruction to the list of charges her nephew and his boyfriend have against Lila since the two boys earn money from their copywrited work. After a settlement is worked out, Lila loses her trust fund and six month's of her allowance to compensate Marc and Nathaniel for the ruined pages and the time it will take to redo them.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: After Lila's mother finds out what Lila attempted to do, she furiously responds with this:
-->'''Mrs. Rossi:''' So let me get this straight, Lila. You stole published works from one of your classmates and passed it off as your own simply because he called you out for trying to steal credit for his own accomplishment, roped the family lawyer into your silly little plot and then destroyed said works once you were exposed simply out of petty spite?\\
'''Lila:''' I-\\
'''Mrs. Rossi:''' Cannot be trusted to speak the truth, evidently.
* OhCrap: Lila's lawyer has this reaction when he finds out that Nathaniel's seemingly loopy aunt is in fact a very famous and cutthroat retired lawyer more than willing to step back into the courtroom on her nephew's behalf.
* PassThePopcorn: When Nathaniel and Lila are challenged to replicate the work to prove which one is lying, Nathaniel really wishes he had popcorn to eat while watching Lila draw her pathetic excuse for a drawing.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When Nathaniel is telling off Lila for claiming that she got him and Marc guest spots in the upcoming sci-fi convention, she mocks the two of them by calling them "fairy boys". Nathaniel barely restrains himself from lashing out at that. Then after Lila's mother, Marc, Nathaniel, and the two lawyers work out a settlement where Lila gives Marc and Nathaniel the 3,000 Euros in Lila's trust fund and her allowance for the next six months to pay off the damages, Lila calls Nathaniel a faggot, much to everybody else's anger.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Lisette Lefour, the editor of the Ladybug comic, isn't pleased with Marc or Nathaniel after Lila claims that the Ladybug comic is actually hers. However, she's willing to give Marc and Nathaniel a chance to prove that they are the true creators and after Lila's lies are exposed Lisette is pissed off at Lila for lying to her.
** After Lila's lawyer realizes that he got dragged into a [[DidntThinkThisThrough poorly-thought-out scheme]] of Lila's that could result in her getting sued, he's furious with her and truthfully tells Mrs. Rossi what happened so they can work out a settlement.
* TerribleArtist: Unlike Nathaniel, Lila is horrible at drawing, which exposes her lies after she's asked to replicate the comic in front of the publisher.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Lila's lawyer and mother react this way when Lila's lies are exposed, anticipating a brutal lawsuit. Subverted, however, as Nathaniel and Marc bear them no ill will for getting dragged into the whole mess and settle things in a way that ensures only Lila gets punished.
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[[folder:BULLYING]]
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* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: The whole class to Lila. When they figure out that Lila is indeed a liar, instead of confronting her straight away, they form a plan to expose her for everyone. They pretend to be on her side and antagonize Marinette, even faking injuries and cruel behavior towards her. Then, they lure her to an assembly and [[EngineeredPublicConfession trick her into confessing her true colors and intentions with her mother and the school staff hiding nearby and listening in]].
* TheChessmaster: What seemed like the class siding with Lila and bullying Marinette was all a hoax to gather evidence against Lila. After figuring out Lila's lying ways, the class does not confront her right away, but rather pretends to still trust her. They notice how Lila always accuses Marinette of bullying her and expresses desires for her to "know how it feels". So they pretend to bully Marinette, like applying fake injuries on her with makeup to look like they hurt her, and ripping up a decoy sketchbook which they passed off as her main one. When Lila is at her most confident, Alya lures Lila to an assembly where she claims the class set up "a little something", implying they plan to publicly humiliate Marinette. Once the assembly begins, however, they turn the tables and announce LILA as the bully. Lila is so confident that she will get away with it, because she never actually did anything to Marinette, the class did it for her, that she admits gloats about her plan, only for the class to reveal their parlor tricks to her, and reveal that the whole assembly was an EngineeredPublicConfession with her mother and the school staff hiding, having heard the whole thing.
* DeconstructionFic: Many salt fanfictions have the class siding with Lila over Marinette and bullying her on Lila's false accusations without question. They do things like hurt her physically, ostracize her, and rip her beloved sketchbook to shreds. And they do this without guilt or remorse. In this story, this seems to be happening, even the beatings and the destroyed sketchbook...until it's revealed that it was all a hoax by the class to lure Lila into false confidence and get her to publicly confess her crimes and intentions. The injuries on Marinette were faked, and the sketchbook they ruined was actually a decoy.
* DrivenToSuicide: Frederick, a boy Lila met while in Germany. Like Marinette, he had seen through Lila, and she responded by manipulating all his friends to turn against him and bully him. After months of torment, he tried to slit his wrists, and was only saved by the fortunate timing of his cousin. Believe it or not, Lila got a thrill from hearing that she hurt him to that extent.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: The class lures Lila to an assembly with the implication that they will publicly humiliate Marinette, where she is goaded into smugly revealing that she sought to make all her peers bully Marinette, hopefully even driving her to suicide. Then, after she's confessed her malicious intentions, the class shows her her mother and the school staff hiding nearby, who have been listening to her all along.
* GoneHorriblyRight: As part of the class's ploy against Lila, they faked multiple incidents of physical bullying; however, on one occasion, Alix misjudged her momentum and ''actually'' slammed Marinette into a wall, which hurt quite a bit. Alix was horrified and even long after Marinette's bruises have healed, is very apologetic.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: When Lila questions the class why they went through with the hoax of pretending to bully Marinette to lure Lila into confessing her lies, they point out that if they didn't do it, Lila would have genuinely bullied and physically harmed Marinette.
* SeriousBusiness: When Lila has no idea what being called [[Series/GameOfThrones "Florent"]] means, the entire class sniffs disdainfully in disgust.
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[[folder:SINS OF THE PAST]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Every time Lila tries to lie or defend herself, the Inquisitor drops boulders on her, crushing her underneath. Although, considering that he got akumatized because of wanting justice for how she turned all his friends against him, manipulated them into bullying, and [[DrivenToSuicide pushed him to the point where he tried to commit suicide]], this could be more of PayEvilUntoEvil.
* DrivenToSuicide: Frederick, just like in the last installment. After Lila poisoned all his friends against him and manipulated them into bullying him mercilessly, Frederick tried to slit his wrists, and was only saved by his favorite cousin Hugo finding him in the nick of time.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After Lila is exposed and sent away, Frederick gains new friends who are loyal to him and also becomes romantically involved with Jean Duparc, a far cry from what his life was like after Lila had finished with him.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: The Inquisitor kidnaps Lila and takes her to the TV studio, where he forces her to confess her misdeeds on live TV, piling boulders on her if she lies.
* EpicFlail / ExoticWeaponSupremacy: The Inquisitor makes use of a meteor hammer when fighting Ladybug and Cat Noir and manages to take the fight early on, with it being noted that Cat Noir's fencing skills and weapon are finding it difficult to counter such a tricky weapon. That said, he does manage to get The Inquisitor to fall victim to the weapon's drawbacks as well, namely the risk of getting tangled up in the chain if not careful.
* IHaveNoSon: Mrs. Rossi's announcement of Lila's punishment reveals she has disowned her for what she did.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Frederick is deliberately kept oblivious to what he did as an akuma, namely almost crushing Lila to death with heavy rocks, because he would feel horrible about it despite his hatred for Lila over what she did to him.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Frederick uses his powers as an akuma to get back at Lila for ruining his life, turning all his friends against him, and [[DrivenToSuicide pushing him to the brink of suicide]].
* TraumaButton: Lila herself is one for Frederick, as seeing her in his new classroom drives him into a breakdown that culminates in him being akumatized into The Inquisitor.
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[[folder:MAMA BEAR]]
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: After Lila’s crimes are revealed to the class, each takes their turns repeating which one they are most upset by, with Kim’s last comment being a little out of place.
-->'''Nino:''' You’re working with Hawkmoth?!\\
'''Alya:''' You were going to set up Marinette?!\\
'''Mylene:''' You we’re going to let us all get akumatized?!\\
'''Kim:''' You stole my lucky gold plastic ring?!
* EveryoneHasStandards: When Cat Noir accidentally reveals to Nadja that he sometimes visits Marinette at the bakery to have somebody to talk to, the reporter promises to not tell anybody that piece of information to protect Marinette's privacy.
-->'''Nadja:''' ''(After Ladybug and Cat Noir look surprised at that)'' What? I do have some integrity!
* EvilIsPetty: Petty enough to tear apart the doll of a girl she's never met before simply because Marinette made it for her.
* ForWantOfANail: Lila bullies a random little girl in the park and rips up her Ladybug doll out of pettiness. Thing is, that random girl is Manon, who goes crying to her IntrepidReporter mother Nadja. When Nadja goes to Marinette to get the doll fixed, she describes the girl Manon accused of ruining the doll, and Marinette confirms it was Lila Rossi. Nadja goes to Lila’s address to confront her, only to catch her plotting with Hawkmoth. She records it and goes digging through Lila, getting testimonies from Marinette and Ladybug and Chat Noir, plus Lila’s past victims, of which there are no shortage. In the end, she releases all this on TV, exposes Lila, and gets her arrested and put in solitude for at least forty years. Leaving her trial, Lila officially meets Nadja, who reveals that it was HER daughter Lila bullied in the park that fateful afternoon. Lila is taken away from Paris, reflecting on how that single badly-thought-out act of cruelty had set in motion her demise.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Nadja winds up using her microphone to defend herself when Lila attacks in a fit of blind rage.
* IntrepidReporter: After Nadja comes across evidence that Lila is a willing accomplice of Hawk Moth, she starts searching and gathering for more evidence in order to bring her down and make sure Lila can't ever hurt anybody ever again.
* KangarooCourt: {{Defied|Trope}}; during Lila's criminal trial, the International Court of Justice sends representatives to Paris in order to run it because the French Judical system can't run her trial unbiased due to several of their judges and lawyers being akumatized in the past.
* MamaBear: After Lila rips up Manon's doll, Nadja is completely furious with her for it. It's also what leads her to release her story exposing Lila as a willing collaborator of Hawk Moth and as a chronic bullier.
* OhCrap: Lila has a minor one when she sees Nadja yelling at her in the park and realizes she must be Manon's mother. She has a larger moment later once she learns just ''what'' that set in motion.
* ResignedInDisgrace: Mrs. Rossi decides to resign from the Italian embassy in Paris and apply for a transfer back to Italy so Lila can be punished for her crimes.
* SkewedPriorities: Among all the crimes Lila has been proven to commit, working with the BigBad, trying to frame Marinette, deliberately targeting her classmates to get akumatized... Kim seems most offended by the fact that she stole his lucky ring above all else, cueing this Lampshade via Alix.
-->'''Alix:''' Good to see you’ve got your priorities in order, Meathead.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After her exposure, Hawk Moth sends several akumas after Lila in hopes of tying off that loose end. The first akuma gives her a short TheReasonYouSuckSpeech explaining why:
-->'''Akuma:''' Because in the words of Hawk Moth, you’ve outlived your usefulness, exposed yourself as a willing agent and generally been a self-important, egotistical pain in the ass.
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[[folder:RUNNING AMOK]]
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* ClonesArePeopleToo: Ladybug and Chat both treat Senti-Bird as her own person and whenever the destruction of Senti-Bug is mentioned, it's explicitly called a murder.
* CoolButInefficient: Pavona's costume is flashy and visually stunning, reflecting Lila's own ego, but also highly impractical: the huge feathered hat hampers her vision, and the floor-length dress and stiletto heels greatly reduce her mobility.
* CurbStompBattle: Pavona gets her ass well and truly handed to her by Ladybug and Cat Noir. Aside from her ridiculously impractical outfit, her fighting skills are subpar compared to theirs and her obsessive need to take down Ladybug herself leads her to make several blunders that all result in her swift and humiliating defeat.
* DefiantCaptive: Duusu might be compelled to obey an evil and horrible master like Nooroo, but unlike Nooroo he doesn't take it meekly. Despite Lila silencing him and making him stay close, Duusu points out that she can't actually stop him from acting defiant in other ways such as pinching and biting her.
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: A decidedly negative example for Senti-Bird, though somewhat downplayed. Due to how she resembles Lila, Ms. Bustier’s class find her presence upsetting; they don't hate or blame her but [[RealityEnsues emotions are complicated]].
* GoodCounterpart: A sentimonster is created resembling Lila as Pavona, only she is on the heroes’ side and tricks Hawkmoth into getting them close to him and bringing him down. After his defeat, she teams up with Prince Ali and uses her powers to help his charitable causes by creating pets to give to sick children or to sell for charity funds.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted. Gabriel insists that his love for Emilie and desire to bring her back trumps everything else. But Adrien, angry and betrayed, rejects his explanations, telling him that his love for Emilie has become twisted and selfish out of his refusal to accept her death and move on with his life, instead choosing to hurt innocent people and risk sacrificing her only child or someone else to bring her back, something she would have never wanted and would hate Gabriel for doing.
* LetsGetDangerous: When Pavona almost gets a lucky blow on Ladybug that still draws blood, the heroine replies that if she wants to play rough then that's how it'll go and she and Cat Noir stop holding back.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Times two:
** As seen in TooDumbToLive below, Lila ignoring all the rules Hawk Moth laid for her (such as staying away from the fights and limiting herself to create Sentimonsters) ends in her defeat and the heroes claiming the Peacock Miraculous that Hawk Moth had just repaired. This in turn, thanks to Duusu's information, leads to the heroes finding out about Hawk Moth being Gabriel Agreste, and thus his definitive defeat and arrest.
** And the above point happened because Hawk Moth, against Nathalie's advice, insisted on giving one of his two Miraculous to an obviously unreliable girl that's in way over her head, just to make sure it was indeed repaired.
* PunBasedTitle: Since the magical feathers that create Sentimonsters are called Amoks.
* SupportPartyMember: The Peacock and Butterfly Miraculous are this, conjuring allies for the other users. As such, they are poorly suited to frontline combat. Lila ignores this and decides to attack Ladybug and Cat Noir directly, with predictable results.
* TheStarscream: Upon learning from Duusu that Ladybug and Chat Noir's Miraculous can grant a wish when used together, Lila decides to betray Hawkmoth and keep the Miraculous herself.
* TooDumbToLive: Lila blatantly ignores all of the rules Gabriel gave her to possess the Peacock brooch, from proudly showing it off to her classmates for attention and risking her identity to trying to directly fight the heroes instead of working from the shadows to protect herself.
* UnskilledButStrong: Not so much Pavona as the Peacock Miraculous itself. Its powers are highly formidable and versatile, able to create fully sentient beings if the user wishes, but as such it is not very strong in direct combat. Hawk Moth explicitly warns Lila when he gives her the Miraculous that she is to stay off the front lines and not engage Ladybug and Cat Noir directly as they are more skilled and able fighters, ordering her to restrict herself only to creating sentimonsters and commanding them from afar, but she disobeys and finds herself severely outclassed.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Duusu's opinion on Nathalie being so in love with Gabriel to the point of helping him with his villanous schemes.
-->'''Duusu''': And honestly, her motivation is ridiculous! He’s still technically a married man, for starters. And he’s not even attractive in terms of either physical appearance or personality! She could do ''so'' much better.
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[[folder: EXPOSED]]
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* BatmanGambit: Marinette suspects that Lila will attempt to steal the Ladybug earrings off of her, so she wears regular black stud earrings while entrusting Adrien with the real earrings when she goes into the locker room. Sure enough, that is exactly what happens.
* BerserkButton: Lila’s already on the verge of insanity due to her HumiliationConga. When Adrien kisses Marinette, it’s the final straw, and Lila tries to attack Marinette with a broken bottle.
** The Button gets set off again years later when she sees an interview of Ladybug saying Lila did her a favor by trying to out her, which led to Chat Noir having to throw the public off her scent and removed any lingering suspicion of her being Marinette. The idea that she actually helped her greatest enemy leads to a breakdown and another failed escape attempt.
* BittersweetEnding: Adrien's stabbing in the face does leave a permenent scar, which took a massive negative hit on his modeling career. However, Adrien and Marientte now know of each other's secret identities (as well as Marientte's family being in the loop), they start dating each other, and many years later Hawk Moth is unmasked and defeated, restoring peace to Paris.
* CryingWolf: When Lila shows her true colors by trying to expose Ladybug’s secret identity, everyone realizes that she’s a BitchInSheepsClothing and stops trusting her. When she insists that Marinette is Ladybug and tries to transform with the earrings she stole, no one believes her. It doesn’t help that the transformation doesn’t work.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Somehow, it never occurred to Lila that exposing the secrets of Paris’s beloved heroine and putting her in danger via Hawkmoth, and by extension everyone else, would make her hated by everyone in the city, and get her in trouble with the law and her mom. On the other hand, Lila admits that [[RevengeBeforeReason she doesn’t care what happens to anyone as long as she can have her revenge on Ladybug]].
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Even after Lila has fallen from grace and has been fired, grounded, sued, humiliated and outcasted in school, she just won’t quit. She attacks Marinette, steals her earrings, and tries to win back everyone’s respect by transforming into Ladybug. However, the fake earrings and catchphrase make her efforts null and void, and she just ends up looking like an utter fool.
* EyeScream: When Lila goes at Marinette with a broken bottle, Marc blasts her in the face with pepper-spray, sending her to the floor in agony.
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: In the locker room scene, Marinette tells Lila the difference between [[EasilyForgiven easily forgiving]] somebody for something bad and this trope:
--> '''Lila:''' You really don’t know me all that well, do you? I never forget or forgive a slight, not ever.\\
'''Marinette:''' Then you're stupider than I thought. The foolish neither forgive nor forget, as you'll find out.\\
'''Lila:''' Oh, and what? Like your [[EasilyForgiven forgive and forget]] is any better?\\
'''Marinette:''' Actually, no. I ''forgive'', yes, but I don't ''forget''. Especially not your selfish attempt to expose Ladybug.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: After Lila snaps she tries to kill Marinette with a broken bottle, but slices Adrien's face open instead when he pushes her out of the way.
* HumiliationConga: After she releases footage of Marinette transforming, Lila’s whole life falls apart. Chat Noir uses the Fox Miraculous to save his Lady’s secret, rendering Lila’s efforts meaningless. After that, she faces lawsuits for defamation and slander, is grounded by her mother, and loses her modeling job. When she comes back to school, she discovers that she’s destroyed her own reputation and is now about as popular as a fungus. Even then, she just keeps [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digging herself deeper. She steals Marinette’s earrings, thinking them to be the Miraculous, and tries to transform with the fake catchphrase. Of course, since that and the earrings are fakes, it doesn’t work, and she is further embarrassed]]. Finally, seeing Adrien kiss Marinette sets off her BerserkButton, and she tries to attack Marinette with a broken bottle, only to miss and hurt Adrien instead, and get pepper-sprayed by Marc. After that episode, she is decided to be mentally unstable and locked away, possibly forever. The cherry on top? Years later, an interview post-Hawkmoth’s defeat has Ladybug saying Lila actually helped protect her secret identity by trying to expose her, leading Chat Noir to have to throw people off the trail and absolving any future suspicion. Seeing this, Lila has a nervous breakdown and tries to escape for revenge, only to fail miserably again.
* IncompatibleOrientation: PlayedForLaughs; When paramedics arrive to help Adrien get to the hospital after his stabbing, one of the female paramedics recognizes him, leading to this exchange:
--> '''Paramedic:''' Wait a second, aren't you that teen model everyone's always gushing about?\\
'''Adrien:''' If I say yes, are you going to want an autographed selfie?\\
'''Paramedic:''' I'm a lesbian and you're way too young, so no.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Sweet, shy, quiet Marc loudly swears when he finds out Lila attacked Marinette, expresses pleasure at the thought of her being humiliated, and pepper-sprays her in the end. The last one is justified because his parents want him to have physical protection, with him being a boy who wears makeup and rainbow clothes.
** Adrien is not always the most assertive when it comes to his father, but when Gabriel tries to pin the blame for his accident on Marinette, Adrien calls him out for his SkewedPriorities in trying to blame her instead of Lila for getting him scarred.
* ProperlyParanoid: Because Marc is [[CampGay openly gay and wears make-up and rainbow clothes]], his parents make him carry around pepper spray in case he gets attacked by bigots. While that doesn’t happen, the pepper spray does help subdue Lila when she attempts to stab Marinette and does stab Adrien.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Lila reflects that she doesn’t care what happens to the city, so long as she could take down Ladybug once and for all.
* SkewedPriorities: When Gabriel catches wind of Adrien being injured and scarred in the face, he at first thinks it’s Marinette’s fault since Adrien shoved her out of the way before she was the one who got stabbed. Adrien is quick to set him straight, telling him he should be blaming Lila, the one who actually stabbed him.
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