History Fridge / MiraculousLadybug

** Hawk Moth might not be one hundred percent responsible for the costume designs (though he probably has some degree of influence). The Miraculous costumes are a base design influenced by the wearer's subconscious ideas of what they should look like. It's possible that extends to the Butterfly Miraculous's abilities. Nathalie is not only a no-nonsense business woman in general, but she willingly undertook the Akumatization and had time to prepare, so her outfit would reflect that; Nino is a fun-loving teenager who was caught while he was obsessing over A. throwing a party for his friend and B. rebelling against authority, so a loud, obnoxious costume reflects his desire to not be ignored and create a fun atmosphere. Nathaniel's Evilustrator costume even matches his pre-existing superhero persona.

** Heracles' weapon in most stories is a heavy club. If he gained a TelescopingStaff like Cat Noir, then, again, a casual onlooker would take some ArtisticLicense when retelling one of Heracles' battles, and change the apparently simple staff for a more impressive-sounding club.

* The fact that it's apparently been less than a year since Mrs. Agreste disappeared helps explain Adrien's behavior and personality. All indications are that Mrs. Agreste was a stay-at-home mom for much of Adrien's childhood, and even Mr. Agreste is implied to have been much less distant before his wife disappeared. So up until shortly before the show started, Adrien would have had a close relationship with one parent and a somewhat less distant relationship with the other, which would massively blunt the loneliness from being homeschooled and having few friends. Adrien might have still wished for more opportunities to interact with other kids but he'd have been much more content with his life. And then his mother disappears and his father becomes even more distant than before. All of a sudden, the few people Adrien is used to interacting with are gone or the next best thing to it. A few months of that, and it's no wonder Adrien is willing to go to extreme measures to get some time with people.

* In the extended theme song, Marinette says in the daytime, she's Ladybug, and Adrien says Cat Noir is the hero of the night. Seems a bit odd, until you watch how they act when it's dark. Cat Noir is typically the more mobile one, while Ladybug sits and waits. And what time does Cat Noir do his biggest distractions? At night. Ladybug probably can't see that well in the dark, while Cat Noir not only has night vision, but a lot of other senses to compliment them. So Cat Noir is more suited to night time hero work, when he can see a lot better than anyone else, and Ladybug is best in the daytime, when she has enough light to see properly.

* Adrien's habit of throwing himself in front of attacks to protect Ladybug may not be ''just'' his love for Ladybug, but also a reasoned tactical decision. Remember, only Ladybug can purify the Akumas or cast Miraculous Ladybug to undo their damage. If Cat Noir is taken out, Ladybug can still win the day, but if Ladybug goes down, Cat Noir has no hope of ultimate victory. Moreover, even if Cat Noir is killed or erased or whatever, as long as Ladybug comes out victorious she can bring him back with her Miraculous. Combined, these two facts mean that Cat Noir is ''expendable'' in a way that Ladybug is not, and Adrien is more than smart enough to have figured that out. So he takes the bullet because he knows that he can afford to die where his Lady can't.

* Fridge with a bit of WMG: Throughout the series, there have been times Marinette/Ladybug and Adrien/Cat Noir came close to figuring out the other's identity, or in some episodes it was revealed to them but they either forgot or was directed away. Notice that in each episode where they come close to discovery, one or two of the four ships (Adrinette/Lady-Noir/Mari-Chat/Ladrien) was referenced. In the two episodes where they did learn the other's identity ("Oblivio" and "Cat Blanc"), three of the four were referenced. In "Oblivio", there was no reference to Marichat and in "Cat Blanc" there was no reference to Ladrien. In order for the reveal to stick, all four ships will need to be referenced because both Adrien and Marinette will need to love both sides of the other, not just their idealized side.

** There's a common theme within some of these akumatized villains as well; a ''punk'' motif (Ex: Troublemaker, Reverser, Wishmaker, Princess Fragrance, Zombizou, etc.) That perfectly reflects a FormerTeenRebel

* Mr. Pigeon could actually be a very dangerous Akuma if played strategically. He can ''talk to Pigeons''. While they sounds dumb, think of how many of the birds in Paris there are? AnimalEyeSpy anyone, and others with this power, such as ''ComicBook/TheFalcon'', are able to use this power as an incredibly dangerous spy network because in cities the birds are everywhere. He could probably find out Ladybug and Cat Noir's identities, or even find Master Fu. However the very manner of akumitization neuters this threat: because Akumas are driven by negative emotions and are chaotic as a result they don't always think that straight forward. Mr. Pigeon is motivated by his pigeons, not by his potential as a super villain. This limitation, among others, is one of Hawk Moth's greatest weaknesses, and is noticeable in akuma villains who are either willing participants (like Volpina or Miracle Queen) or are genuinely motivated in the general direction of defeating heroes (like the first Puppeteer).

* Mireille Caquet is important. No, seriously. She's actually a very serious cover for Marinette. If Gabriel can tell ''anything'' about Ladybug's appearance, Mireille's similar ethnicity, hair, and age to Marinette. Gabriel probably noticed Ladybug is attracted to his son and seems to have a ''very'' quick response to akumas in his son's school, but both Marinette and Mireille have crushes on him and go to the same school. The main difference is eye color, but several heroes like Cat Noir get different eyes when transformed. Its another layer of protection and disguise that Marinette doesn't even need to keep up, she just needs Mireille to not be akumatized to reveal she doesn't have the miraculous (which is of itself an additional layer of this shield).

* After "Gorizilla" some have noted there were plenty of chances for Hawk Moth and Mayura to put two and two together about Adrien as Cat Noir but they haven't done so. To put it simply they aren't going to look for it because neither of them ''wants'' that. Hawk Moth was happy to have Adrien 'cleared' of that suspicion and outside of a really serious incident they are not going to go back to suspecting it willingly.

* Miss Mendeliev's comment about quizzing the kids on lab safety, ''again'' is a decidely uncomfortable implication that the class has a history of ignoring the lab's safety instructions.

** Marinette has ice cream with colors to match Adrien's lips and eyes. Cat Noir might have both, but unless she looks past all the false bravado(and terrible cat puns) she'll be oblivious to it.

** Marinette is a StalkerWithACrush (thankfully with no {{Yandere}} qualities unless someone hits on him). She admires Adrien from afar but is too shy, she might even view him as so above her she's lucky he notices her. That kind of blind affection that can lead you to think he can do no wrong(though it's somewhat justified by his personality)is also the one that might confine you to thinking you have no chance with someone.
** Although Adrien is also shy, he is courageous enough to try. He has grown up alone for just about his entire life, but he held on to a hope that he would one day make friends. He's now living that dream, and he probably thought since he had successfully made friends that he would work up the courage to get with the girl of his dreams. She might be a super hero, but he always believes and he said it himself: "I think you have to ''believe''."
*** And as Cat Noir, he puts on a tough act that while typical CasanovaWannabe is a common technique in TV-land to get the girl. And as someone previously homeschooled he probably had lots of time to watch these kinds of shows. This episode was the first time he let down his act and opened up to Ladybug about how he felt.

* As we see the real Fox Miraculous in action, something comes to mind in comparison to Volpina. While Volpina is able to create many illusions without tiring, it's made clear she's so reliant on them once she's finally cornered, she's easily defeated. Rena Rouge, while only being able to create one illusion however, appears to be able to handle hand to hand combat just fine despite the fact it's the first time she's used said Miraculous. It's a testimony to the real Fox Miraculous still being stronger than the fake because of not having to rely on the illusions.

* Why Crocoduel? Because when Jagged and Anarka were a duo they were called Crocoduo. But now that they are against each other, it would make sense that the duo would engage in a ''duel''.

* Ladybug plants the Magical Charm on Audrey's hat instead of giving it to her directly. Along with knowing how cattily the diva would react to the piece of jewelry, Ladybug is also aware that she and Zoé tricked Chloé into taking her Magical Charm in "Queen Banana". If Audrey learned of its existence or what it represents, then she would no doubt mention it to her daughter(s) which would lead Chloé to getting rid of hers out of spite thus exposing herself to Shadow Moth's influence. Also the protective charms are something that Audrey would likely consider tacky and unfashionable, and she'd probably not keep it on her like others do.

** To be fair, she doesn't know what happened in the alternate timeline or the exact cause of Cat Noir's akumatization. So from her perspective, the fact that he discovered her secret identity was the 'only cause' of him becoming Cat Blanc. Now she thinks that entrusting her secret identity to him isn't only risky, but '''very dangerous'''. She's not too far off the mark about why it's such a risk, [[RightForTheWrongReasons even if her assumption isn't completely correct]].

* The only people we see get declared 'the most important thing' were Nathaniel and Marinette. We see couples like Ivan and Mylène, Sabine and Tom, and Juleka and Rose, together under Robustus's control. It's likely that, instead of say, Juleka valuing her guitar more than Rose, that Robustus had his thralls set to not scan their fellow thralls. He'd only lose tools without that safeguard.

** As seen in "Ephemeral", for Marinette and Adrien to truly be together, in addition to defeating Gabriel, Marinette must let go of her perfect idealization of Adrien and see him for what he really is; in the middle between Adrien and Cat Noir.

* Sabrina is shown to be a very loyal person and in this episode it's revealed she really likes soccer. A perfect fit for the Dog Miraculous.

* As noted by Shadow Moth, Chloé's hatred is never ending, making her the perfect target for akumatization. And she's willing to be akumatized as well. So for her to not be targeted by Shadow Moth, she has to grow tired of the akumatization. Like in this episode. Surely, Shadow Moth would be more reluctant to target her considering she started to hate her akumatized form.

* It would not be unreasonable to assume that despite her [[FaceHeelTurn Face–Heel Turn]], Chloé would continue to care about [[MoralityChain Miss Bustier]], who we remember is the ''only person'' [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E13Zombizou with she apologized]]. What could Miss Bustier have done to become a target of Chloé's wrath? It is simple, Miss Bustier is [[BabiesEverAfter pregnant]]. Let's remember that this season has been a constant [[BreakTheHaughty Break the Haughty]] for Chloé. Her father doesn't let her get away with it anymore when her sister Zoé is involved and Ladybug replaced her with Vesperia. So from Chloé's point of view, [[InfantSiblingJealousy she too has been replaced]] by the person whom she probably came to think of as a [[ParentalSubstitute mother figure]].

* Literally '''nobody''' seem to even notice that Risk is an akumatized villain. Well, a singing kid wearing a frog hoodie and riding a frog-themed bicycle doesn't exactly scream "Akuma" after all...

** Here is a fun question to ponder: lets say that did happen. Hawk Moth would ''freak out'' and probably go on an absolute rampage. Everything we've seen him do is, more or less, motivated by restoring his wife. Imagine him wanting ''revenge'' on someone specifically.

** It gets worse. Not only could Hawk Moth not control Startrain, her goals continued to escalate as time went on. First she just wanted to go to space; then she wanted to explore the galaxy, ''then'' she wanted to conquer the universe. Between this and the disturbing rate at which Robostus devolved into an OmnicidalManiac, it's very likely Hawk Moth's influence is just about the only thing that keeps Akumatized villains ''sane''.

* It is becoming ''very'' clear that Marinette's mental state is still far from healthy, even with Alya as a outlet. Shadow Moth has been assured he can win as soon as she makes a mistake, and as it was only Sentibubbler that kept her from making '''a huge''' he isn't wrong. Marinette is holding as best she can, but she's not far from a fatal mistake and really needs help.

* The premise of the episode is simple enough, contemplate your future careers; but the revelation that Adrien ''has'' no ambitions and no idea what he wants to be outside of his father's fashion model is outright demoralising. This 14 year old has essentially been groomed to be '''exactly''' what his family want him to be and want him to do, with no independence of his own. When Cat Noir is affected by Wishmaker and does his ImagineSpot like the other characters in the episode, rather than show something silly or fantastical, it shows an infant Adrien looking up at Emilie and Gabriel. This wasn't a spur of the moment decision as a preteen, this was a design choice from the cradle. Hearing him say this makes Shadow Moth freeze on the spot, possibly having a [[HeelRealization revelation]] that he has neglected his son to the point he has robbed him of a life for 14 years. It doesn't stick due to the Second Chance manipulation, but it is still a horrific reveal.

* With Luka now knowing the secret identities of both Marinette and Adrien, and having never had received an anti-akuma charm of his own, or been able to free himself from akumaization, he's still vulnerable to akumaization and Shadow Moth learning both identities for good.

* Alim Kubdel openly informs his daughter's class on how she won't be available because of her new duty as the Time Jumping Hero: Bunnyx. While it was "responsible" of him to inform the school faculty, casually revealing Alix's hero identity to her classmates places both of them at risk if in the event someone from the class unveils such information to Monarch (cough [[EvilIsPetty Chloé]] cough [[DragonWithAnAgenda Lila]] cough cough) and decides to threaten the Kubdel family to lure out Bunnyx.

** Plus unlike Gabriel with Emilie, Amelie was perfectly happy and cheerful after Colt died.

* Following Gimmi's explaination of how their wish granting works, it adds a harsher context to "Cat Blanc" and "Ephemeral": The former if Cat Blanc got the Ladybug Miraclous and sacrificed a certain number to bring back the 2.1 million people he accidently killed with his Cataclysm. And since Gabriel did summon Gimmi offscreen in a BadFuture where he never got his HeelRealization and is not dying, he could have possibly sacrificed Marinette to revive Emilie.

** Second of all is Adrien, who's essentially being ''lied to'' about his father in order to keep him happy, which would be harsh enough, but remember that both times he got akumatized-which lead to an instant game over situation-were related to him discovering his father's identity as Hawk Moth. That was bad enough when he didn't have any delusion of his father being a good person, but now that he's being fed the idea that he was a hero, learning the truth might hurt him even more than before, if not set him up to be akumatized ''into an even worse being than Cat Blanc or Ephemeral''.

* Marinette's decision to give the Miraculous to their original holders on a permanent basis has some pretty big problems. While she makes this decision because Monarch was able to steal them all from her yo-yo in one go, that only happened because ''one of them'' ran off with a Miraculous to begin with. So she's placing the Miraculous at risk once again by giving them to her friends[=/=]classmates to be responsible for them rather than keeping them in a more secure location.

* This episode reveals that Ladybug's WorldHealingWave can only undo damage relating to a specific villain that the Lucky Charm was summoned for. Ladybug has used Lucky Charm after defeating villains and still been able to undo the damage before, but that was because ''she'' de-Akumatized them rather than Hawk Moth. So what would have happened if she hadn't summoned a Lucky Charm before he recalled Heart Hunter's Akuma? Would the people who got eaten be gone forever? Especially if he never created that particular villain again?

* It is possible that André having Chloé deported as his final mayoral act could be seen as a mercy for his disowned daughter, considering that Chloé is old enough per French law dictating that the Age of Criminal Responsibility begins at age 13 and that her actions from taking over Paris to her hypocritical conduct as Queen Mayor would all subject her to being trialed as an adult.

*** Despite this, Hawk Moth CAN force his victims to do what he wants if he really wants to. The best examples of this are in "Pixelator", when Pixelator's obsession of taking Jagged Stone's photograph outclasses Hawk Moth's order to get the Miraculous, he causes Pixelator pain until the villain agrees to focus on the Miraculous and "Evillustrator", when he takes control of Evillustrator's hand for wanting Marinette to fall in love with him.

*** Despite this, Hawk Moth CAN force his victims to do what he wants if he really wants to. The best examples of this are in "Pixelator", when Pixelator's obsession of taking Jagged Stone's photograph outclasses Hawk Moth's order to get the Miraculous, he causes Pixelator pain until the villain agrees to focus on the Miraculous and ''Evillustrator'', when he takes control of Evillustrator's hand for wanting Marinette to fall in love with him.