History Recap / MiraculousLadybugS03E16Gamer2

* TheBadGuyWins: Sort of; Gamer 2.0 was created because Max was frustrated that no one was available to play with him. Even though he loses, Gamer still got to play video games with someone, so he got what he wanted as Max too.

* IntangibleMan: For the final round, Ladybug uses Troublemaker's pen to become intangible and avoid all of Gamer's attacks.
* InUniverseCatharsis: Cat Noir and Ladybug playing as akumas who gave them so much trouble in the past, to defeat other akumas who ''also'' gave them nasty times. The overworked and stressed Ladybug in particular really enjoys letting off steam.

* LeeroyJenkins: Ladybug employs strategy and caution in her first fight, but after losing, she blindly picks Copycat and Gorizilla and suffers a humiliating defeat each time. Later, Gamer makes the same mistake when he charges at Troublemaker and ends up falling off the stage.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Cat Noir's first chosen character is Mr. Pigeon. He manages to obliterate his opponent with just one pigeon.

* ShowdownAtHighNoon: The fight between Reflekta and Rogercop is one (it even has appropriate western BGM).

* CurbStompBattle: Some of the fights, especially Copycat vs Puppeteer, Gorizilla vs Stoneheart and Darkblade vs Troublemaker.

** Ladybug, using Princess Fragrance, defeats Prime Queen by using the same submission move she used the last time she faced her.

* GracefulLoser: After Ladybug beats Gamer, he gives her a "well played" and surrenders his akuma voluntarily.

** Horrificator feeds on fear, so a fight against Zombizou, who's only motivation was to spread love, leaves her less than powerless.

* ContinuityNod:
** Marc and Nathaniel are shown working on their Ladybug comic. They must have gotten a publishing deal since "Reverser", as there's a finished comic in front of them and Marc mentions that they have a meeting with an editor.

* AnAesop: It's important to keep a balance between working and playing so you don't get over stressed. Cat Noir delivers the said aesop, since the situation Marinette experiences in the episode is basically Adrien's daily routine.

** Cat Noir uses Reflekta, who previously turned Cat into a copy of herself. And since he already has experience walking around in Reflekta's platform shoes, Cat easily gains the advantage when he turns Gamer-as-Rogercop into a Reflekta copy, who is left helpless as he can barely even stand up.

** Vanisher has the obvious weakness that her main advantage can easily be taken away simply by coating her in a layer of aomething not invisible, like say, glitter. So it's easy to see how she lost to the villain Style Queen, who's primary power is literally glitter.

* LogicalWeakness: When Mime speaks, his powers stop working.

* TheGroundIsLava: Marinette and Cat Noir are challenged by the Gamer to play a game where they fight against him on a platform, but whoever falls off and touches the floor loses. Eventually, Marinette is forced to battle alone for the final level, but is allowed to use the powers of several villains. The platform gets destroyed and she appears to fall, but doesn't disappear upon touching the ground and says that the game is glitching. The Gamer then touches the ground only to immediately lose the game because Marinette actually used Vulpina's powers to create an illusion of her touching the floor.

* BattleDiscretionShot: Ladybug and Cat Noir go through every single character in the roster, but Bakerix, Pharaoh and Bubbler don't show off their moves. And it's implied there is even more characters: [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E06Robostus Markov]] is seen among the kidnapped, Vanisher is used despite the fact that she wasn't on the character roster ([[InvisibleMan uh, probably]]) and Gamer takes on the form of Reverser even though he also wasn't seen on the roster. Then again, what's a FightingGame without plenty of hidden unlockable characters?

* OffModel:
** Weredad's character select icon has white hair.
** Antibug lacks her mask.
** Pharaoh isn't wearing his scarab pendant.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Series/{{LazyTown}} In my cyberspace, I feeling happy...]]'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:Who would win?]]

* INeedToIronMyDog: Marinette accidentally invokes this trope by being so stressed that she mixes up her already compacted commitments, and tries to correct herself. Chloe claims that she's blatantly lying (she is not) and no one wants to help Max on his video game.

* KickTheDog: Unsurprisingly, Chloe twists the knife on Marinette trying to politely decline Max's request by stating how no one wants to be with Max.