History Recap / MiraculousLadybugS03E16Gamer2

* VocalDissonance: All game characters are voiced by their players leading to such oddities like Kung Food with the voice of Ladybug.
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* VoicesAreMental: See above.

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

** Possibly Hawk Moth, since he previously akumatized his civilian identity, and noticeably does not have any scenes between Max's akumatization and Ladybug freeing everyone with the Miraculous cure, not even a reaction to Gamer surrendering when Ladybug beats him. While the Collector doesn't appear on the roster, several other villains also do not appear on there but are still used in the game.

** Marc and Nathan 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.

** Possibly Hawk Moth, since he previously akumatized his civilian identity, and noticeably does not have any scenes between Max's akumatization and Ladybug freeing everyone with the Miraculous cure, not even to Gamer surrendering when Ladybug beats him. While the Collector doesn't appear on the roster, several other villains also do not appear on there but are still used in the game.

* 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. Then again, what's a FightingGame without plenty of hidden unlockable characters?

* IHaveToIronMyDog: 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.

** In the end Volpina's superpower is the key to Ladybugs victory.

* {{Irony}}: Ladybug yells at Cat Noir that he should select Copycat and end a battle quickly with a Cataclysm. When she uses Copycat herself against Puppeteer, he is taken over using one of her action figures and is instantly defeated.

** Cat Noir once again becomes a copy of Reflekta, only this time he has her powers, which he uses to transform Rogercop. And since he has more experience walking on heels, Cat easily moves to push Rogercop off the edge.
** Cat uses Lady [=WiFi=] to defeat Timebreaker, who almost killed him, and also uses Weredad, who gave him a vicious beatdown, to defeat Frightningale, and also used Desperada, [[spoiler:who he tried and failed to defeat over 25,000 times as [[SaveScumming Aspik]],]] to defeat Pixelator, the first villain to incapacitate him as Adrien.

** Ladybug defeats Antibug, whose civilian self is Chloé, with Kung Food, who Chloé was responsible for getting akumatized.

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Ladybug fights Gamer by creating a smokescreen with a flour, similarly to how he first beat her with Dark Owl's smoke grenade.

** Cat uses Lady [=WiFi=] to defeat Timebreaker, who almost killed him, and also uses Weredad, who gave him a vicious beatdown, to defeat Frightningale.

* 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.

** Cat uses Alya's Lady Wi Fi to defeat Timebreaker, who almost killed him, and also uses Weredad, who gave him a vicious beatdown, to defeat Frightningale.
** Ladybug uses Evilustrator, a villain who loved Marinette, to defeat Volpina, whose civilian self hates Ladybug.
** Ladybug defeats Chloe's first Akuma, Antibug, with Kung Food, a villain created by Chloe tampering with her Uncle Cheng's soup.

* GuileHero: Ladybug wins by a trick: having one of her illusionary copies "knocked to the ground" without vanishing. When Gamer checks out the situation by touching the ground himself, he fulfills the defeat condition.

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

* StopHavingFunGuys: InUniverse, Ladybug's has this attitude through most of episode until she mellows down.

* IHaveToIronMyDog: Marinette accidentally invokes this trope by being so stressed that she mixes up her already compacted commitments, and tries to correct herself. Chloe points out that she's blatantly lying and no one wants to help Max on his video game.

* AllYourPowersCombined: By the final round, both Gamer and Ladybug can use the powers of the defeated opponents. While Gamer can become the akumas he used in the previous rounds, Ladybug can use the items of her used akumas plus Cat Noir's cataclysm.

** Gamer abducts everyone who was previously akumatized and puts them into a giant game. He and the heroes face off using different villains, the winner getting the losing villain's powers to use for the final round. He didn't anticipate that Ladybug and Cat Noir, who previously beat all these villains, would have a significant advantage in knowing how to use and counter all their powers, so Gamer ends up with a comparatively small selection of mostly offense oriented powers.

* 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.

* AnAesop: It's important to keep a balance between working and playing so you don't get over stressed.

* 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, so as Max.
* BattleDiscretionShot: Ladybug and Cat Noir go trough every single character in the roster, but Bakerix, Pharaoh and Bubbler don't show off. And it's implied there is even more characters: [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E06Robostus Markov]] is seen among kidnapped, Vanisher is used despite that she wasn't on character roster ([[InvisibleMan uh, probably]]) and Gamer takes on form of Reverser.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Ladybug fights Gamer by creating smokescreen with a flour, similarly how he first beat her with Dark Owl's smoke grenade.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Gamer abducts everyone who was previously akumatized and puts them into a giant game. He and the heroes face off using different villains, the winner getting the losing villain's powers to use for the final round. He didn't anticipate that Ladybug and Cat Noir, who previously beat all these villains, would have a significant advantage in knowing how to use and counter all their powers, so Gamer ends up with a comparatively small selection of mostly offense oriented powers.
** Ladybug, due to her stress from civilian obligations, tries to rush through the matches and chooses the wrong characters for the match-ups. For example, she picks Gorizilla to fight Stoneheart. At first, it seems even, but Stoneheart can grow larger, and Gorizilla can't. Luckily, Cat Noir is able to calm her down and she fights more effectively.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Gamer broadcasts trough television, computers, jumbotrons and even advertising screens on bus stops.
* CallBack / DramaticIrony: Some of the match-ups;
** Cat Noir uses Mr. Pigeon, one of the more sillier villains, to defeat Dark Cupid, who made Cat BrainwashedAndCrazy.
** Ladybug using Copycat against Puppeteer makes a blunder worth of the real Cat, activating Cataclysm just to have Puppeteer using it against her.

** Cat using Alya's Lady Wi Fi to defeat Timebreaker, who almost killed him, and also using Weredad, who gave him a vicious beatdown, to defeat Frightningale.

** Ladybug defeats Gamer 2.0 by using Volpinas power of illusions.
* DiscardAndDraw: Gamer 2.0 is less of a new villain form and more original Gamer but with his own video game tournament instead of giant robot.

* FreezeframeBonus: Look closely when Manon is shown before being abducted by Gamer- she's playing with the same Ladybug and Cat Noir action figures Adrien had in "Syren".

* 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. Especially the overworked and stressed Ladybug really enjoys letting of steam.

* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Ladybug is clearly overjoyed when Evilustrator knocks off Volpina, aka Lila, with a giant boxing glove.

* LeeroyJenkins: Ladybug employs strategy and caution in her first fight, but after losing, she blindly picks Copycat and Gorizilla and suffers humililating defeat each time. Later, Gamer makes the same mistake when he charges at Troublemaker and ends up falling of the stage.

* StopHavingFunGuys: InUniverse, Ladybug's has this attitude trough most of episode until she mellows down.

* {{Workaholic}}: Marinette being too stressed about her tasks and obligations was one of the factors that caused Max's second akumatization and disturbed her performance at the beginning of Gamer's trial.

* IntangibleMan: For the final round, Ladybug uses Troublemaker's pen to become intangible and avoid most of Gamer's attacks.

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Ladybug defeats Gamer by creating smokescreen with a flour, similarly how he first beat her with Dark Owl's smoke grenade.

* LaserGuidedKarma: 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? Some akumas deserved more than others.

* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Ladybug is clearly overjoyed when Evilustrator knock off Volpina, aka Lila, with a giant boxing glove.

** Cat using Alya's Lady Wi Fi to defeat Timebreaker, who almost killed him, and also using Weredad, who gave him a vicious beatdown, to defeat Frightindale.

* {{Workaholic}}: Marinette being too stressed about her tasks and obligations was one of the factors that caused Max's second akumatization and disturbed her performance at the begining of Gamer's trial.