History Recap / MiraculousLadybugS03E11Desperada

* InMediasRes: The episode starts with Desperada having already been akumatized offscreen.

* TragicTimeTraveler: Adrien is briefly gifted the Snake Miraculous by Ladybug in order to become the time-rewinding hero Aspik. However, no matter what he does, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Ladybug falls and he's forced to reset the timeline]], a process that goes on for so long that by the he decides to quit, Sass, the Kwami of the Snake Miraculous, suffers from a brief bout of TimeLoopFatigue.

->''"Jagged Stone! So you fire me, and now you want to replace me with -- what, a schoolkid?"''

* AmnesiacResonance: Subverted. Adrien as Aspik jokes that he wishes Ladybug's Lucky Charm was a lucky horseshoe rather than a saddle, which she [[DistractedByTheSexy laughs and swoons at]], complimenting his sense of humour. Later, when Luka joins the team as Viperion, Adrien as Cat Noir tells the same joke, hoping to get the same reaction. Sadly for him, she's not impressed this time.

** Similarly, Adrien picks up on the fact that Ladybug is more receptive to his advances when he's not Cat Noir, and uses the opportunity to flirt with her. One of their (many) defeats was because he stopped to give her a rose.

** Desperada is able to pull out musical-themed weapons out of her guitar case. Most prominently, she use a trombone-like instrument as a sniper rifle, two smaller horns as pistols, and her guitar like an axe.
* IncrediblyLamePun: An aspic is a savory gelatin usually with cooked meat in it (like say [[StealthPun a goose]]). That Adrien picked this as a name and Marinette ''liked it'' shows just how off the match is.

** Adrien, meanwhile, gladly accepts his role as Aspik to impress Ladybug, even as Plagg pleads that he should refuse so he can be Cat Noir, and tries for ''tens of thousands of times'' to keep Ladybug safe before finally giving up and telling Ladybug to give the Miraculous to Luka instead.

* ShoutOut: Desperada pulls "guns" (actually music instruments she uses as guns) from her guitar case, much like [[Film/{{Desperado}} another gun-totting guitarist.]]

* YearInsideHourOutside: The Snake Miraculous's ability, Second Chance, allows the wearer to rewind time back to the point of activation, so long as it's within a 5 minute window. This ability can be used as many times as necessary, so long as that time limit doesn't expire. Adrien says he'd been trying for months to succeed, '''25,913 times''', but could never manage. It's unclear how often Viperion rewound, but it was likely not as many.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Marinette trying to get Adrien to be Jagged Stone's guitarist, despite Luka clearly being the better choice, foreshadows both how Marinette's judgement is clouded by her crush on Adrien and how Luka, not Adrien, is a better fit to wield the Snake Miraculous.
** Jagged and Anarka argue LikeAnOldMarriedCouple. As "Truth" reveals, their relationship is...''complicated''.

* TheUnreveal: When Ladybug presents the Snake Miraculous to both Adrien and Luka she doesn't refer to it the usual way she does when giving out a Miraculous. When presenting a Miraculous she will say "Here is the Miraculous of the [animal] which grants you the power of [concept the kwami is the embodiment of]". Instead she says the Snake Miraculous grants the power of Second Chance, the superpower of the Snake not the ''concept''. What Sass is the kwami of remains unknown.[note]WordOfGod states that it is ‘intuition’[/note]