History MiraculousLadybug / TropesAToD

** [[https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Miraculous_Secrets_(card_game) The Miraculous Secrets trading card game]] includes character facts that haven't come up in the show yet, such as Adrien's bodyguard's name being [[spoiler: Placide I.T.]] and Zoe's friend in New York being [[spoiler: Jessica Keynes]]. These facts include things that have since been confirmed in the show proper, like [[spoiler: Gabriel's real name being Gabi Grassette]] and [[spoiler: Lila's real name not being Lila]].

* BefriendingTheBullied: "Origins" reveals that Marinette, who had been bullied by Chloe for years, was defended by new student Alya on the first day of 9th grade. The two became fast friends, and Alya ends up being the reason Marinette took up the Ladybug mantle in the first place.

** In "Oblivio", the MonsterOfTheWeek is actually Nino and Alya, who desired to make everyone forget after getting caught by their teacher sneaking away from a field trip to... play "Super Penguino", which is apparently a very fun game that just happens to require two people who are in synch with each other. Rose mentions that she and Juleka play it ''a lot''. Sabrina also blurts that she and Chloe like to play it, but Chloe shushes her. Given that a flashback shows that Alya and Nino were found in a closet together, it's not hard to think that "Super Penguino" is code for something much more mature.

** In "Oblivio", the MonsterOfTheWeek is actually Nino and Alya, who desired to make everyone forget after getting caught by their teacher sneaking away from a field trip to... play "Super Penguino", which is apparently a very fun game that just happens to require two people who are in synch with each other. Rose mentions that she and Juleka play it ''a lot''. Sabrina also blurts that she and Chloe like to play it, but Chloe shushes her. Given that a flashback shows that Alya and Nino were found in a closet together, wel...

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "Perfection", Kagami believes she has no friends left at all, and upon receiving an offer from Monarch to "end [her] suffering", transforms into a ghostly cloud giant to cut off all interaction with everyone she knows, actively shunning their various attempts to communicate with her, and is only stopped from dissolving herself into thin air when all her friends gather to send her a sign in no uncertain terms that they all care about her. This all can be read as a group of friends staging an intervention to help someone with suicidal depression.

* BrokenAesop:
** In "Copycat", Marinette bluntly tells the villain that liars are the real losers. In the slice of life half of the episode, she breaks into Adrien's locker, steals his phone, never owns up to it, and her grand plan to wrap this deceit up (''after'' giving the villain a telling-off, mind you) is to feed him the classic fib that she simply found his missing phone by happy circumstance.
** The episode "Rogercop" is supposed to be conveying the message "don't be quick to point fingers," but the way it does it is flawed. When Chloé accuses Marinette of stealing her bracelet, Marinette starts pointing out evidence connecting some of her classmates to the bracelet, to which Marinette's father tells her she shouldn't be making accusations like Chloé is doing. However, that's not what Marinette was doing. Rather, Marinette was pointing out that in the absence of solid evidence, EveryoneIsASuspect, and she thus deserves to be treated the same as everyone else instead of singled out. Even her agreeing to having her bag searched along with everyone else's and innocuously stating that the thief must be someone in the room is treated as her making kneejerk accusations that are no different than Chloé's. Then, when the titular MonsterOfTheWeek tries to arrest the mayor for abuse of power, Ladybug gives a MeaningfulEcho by saying Rogercop shouldn't be making accusations, [[DesignatedVillain except he wasn't doing that, either]]; the mayor was clearly abusing his powers (and some that he doesn't even have) by having Roger fired for not arresting Marinette without sufficient evidence, something that took place in full view of a classroom filled with students, their parents, and the teacher.
** When Marinette expresses interest in trying out for in a video game tournament to spend time with Adrien in "The Gamer," she gets called out on it by Alya, who stresses how the tryouts are meant to select the two best students to represent the school in the tournament. Marinette then proves she ''is'' the best video game player by getting the highest score of everyone who tried out and thus securing one of the two tournament spots. However, she then gets called out for this as well, this time for being selfish and not thinking about how her friend Max cares about the tournament so much more than she does. Her later offering to drop out and let Max take her place in the tournament is portrayed as her doing the right thing, even though it goes against the earlier emphasis of how the tryouts are meant to select the ''best'' students to represent the school since Max only came in third behind both Marinette ''and'' Adrien.

* BigGood: The role the holder of the Butterfly Miraculous is supposed to play, giving powers to make heroes and using their mind link as their MissionControl. It's only Hawk Moth ([[spoiler:Gabriel]]) twisting the powers, as Nooroo pointed out, that necessitates using Miraculous against Miraculous.

* BerserkButton: Cat [[BrainwashedAndCrazy gets mind-controlled by akumas with worrying frequency]], but he rarely suffers any physical harm. Any time he does, the offending akuma ends up on the receiving end of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, courtesy of Ladybug.

* DiedInIgnorance: [[spoiler:Gabriel/Hawk Moth/Monarch dies to the EquivalentExchange of his wish without learning that his son Adrien was one of the superheroes who opposed him. (He had previously learned this two different times, but both times led to the destruction of the world followed by a CosmicRecon to undo the events that led to this discovery.) Also, he had no idea that Lila was plotting against him to get his Miraculous for herself and suceeded.]]

* DiedInIgnorance: [[spoiler:Gabriel/Hawk Moth dies to the EquivalentExchange of his wish without learning that his son Adrien was one of the superheroes who opposed him. (He had previously learned this two different times, but both times this led to the destruction of the world, leading to time travel being used to undo the events that led to this discovery.)]]

** Mouse: "Mullo, get squeaky!"/???

** Lila is a worse case even when not a Akumatized villian as she responds to Marinette refusing her offer of friendship by turning her friends against her at times with her scheme of keeping her expelled by faking an injury being among the highlights.

** Many of the villians are created as a result of Chloé's actions. The most noted are Lady Wifi as result of Chloé demanding Alya to be suspended for taking a picture of her open locker, Evillustrator when she hurt Nathaniel's feelings while insulting his artwork, Frightningale by having her father shut down a music video shoot simply because she didn't her ideal part in Clara Nightinggale's music video, and Kung Food when Chloé sabotaged Master Wang Cheng's soup in competition for being insulted by his niece (and not liking soup).

* ClingyCostume: When Lady Wifi attempts to unmask Ladybug, she finds that her mask is fused to her face.