History Recap / MiraculousLadybugS04E18Wishmaker

* {{Irony}}:
** Jagged wanted to be a crocodile when he was younger, and jumps into the Seine with glee when he is transformed. He also cannot swim, necessitating a rescue by Luka.
** Ladybug recruits Viperion as 'insurance' against Wishmaker, so that her identity and Cat Noir's remain a secret. It ends up revealing their identities to Luka, although he keeps it to himself.

** This marks the second time that an akumatized villain uses a microphone as a baton, after "Frightningale".
** Luka returns as Viperion since his last appearance in "Battle of the Miraculous".

** Alec's new TV personality at the end is reminiscent of Creator/{{RuPaul}}, including the wig. He even uses a similar line to his CatchPhrase. [[note]][=RuPaul=] - "If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you going to love somebody else?" Alec - "Because how are you going to love other people, if you don't love yourself?"[[/note]]

* ThisCannotBe: Shadow Moth is [[StunnedSilence speechless]] when he realizes his own son is Cat Noir, in contrast to the same reveal in "Cat Blanc" last season.

* TheChainOfHarm: It's revealed that Alec was bullied for being himself when he was a kid, so he grew up mocking other people the way he had been mocked. It takes Ladybug, Chat Noir, and Viperion helping him see that it's not too late to do what he wanted all along: to help make people happy.

** Luka normally values honesty above all else, even at the risk of losing his crush or his miraculous. However, learning that his crush Marinette is Ladybug and her love Adrien is Chat Noir is so earth-shattering to him that he outright lies to Ladybug that he didn't discover either of their secret identities. How this will affect his relationship with them going forward (both as a civilian and fellow superhero) has yet to be seen.

** It also gives Luka a sense of clarity, because he finally understands why him and Marinette were never able to be together as a couple and the secrets she was hiding from him.
** This episode really divuldges how much Gabriel's parenting has affected Adrien, because he is unable to think for himself and understand what he wants to do with his life because the former decides everything for him.

** Alec’s new TV personality at the end is reminiscent of Creator/{{RuPaul}}, including the wig. He even uses a similar line to his CatchPhrase. [[note]][=RuPaul=] - "If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you going to love somebody else?" Alec - "Because how are you going to love other people, if you don't love yourself?"[[/note]]

* ThisCannotBe: Shadow Moth is [[StunnedSilence speechless]] when he realises his own son is Cat Noir, in contrast to the same reveal in "Cat Blanc" last season.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Wishmaker is one of the few Akuma victims who doesn’t want revenge on anyone, or even have remotely malicious intentions. The only problem is really that he’s using his powers on people against their will, and the dreams are hopelessly immature and outdated.

** While defending Cat Noir, Viperion deflects one of Wishmaker's projectiles, which ends up hitting Ladybug, revealing her true identity to him and to Shadow Moth. Thankfully, Viperion immediately resets the timeline.

* CharacterDevelopment: This episode sees Alec going from mocking people's dreams to making a TV show called "Live Your Childhood Dream" to support people.

* AudienceSurrogate: Luka definitely becomes this when he discovers the true identities of Ladybug and Cat Noir.

** Alec’s new TV personality at the end is reminiscent of Creator/{{RuPaul}}, including the wig. He even uses a similar line to his CatchPhrase. [[note]][=RuPaul=] - "If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you going love somebody else?" Alec - "Because how are you going to love other people, if you don't love yourself?"[[/note]]

** Luka returns as Viperion since his appearance in "Battle of the Miraculous".

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Fire Captain Hessenpy's childhood dream is to become a firefighter and a cowboy at the same time.

* OhCrap: After reclaiming the Snake Miraculous, Ladybug is about to depart when she realizes that tasking Luka with guarding their secret identities means there's a good chance he now knows who she is, since he clearly reset at least once during the battle. Luka tells a half truth to not worry her. He lies that he discovered who they are, but he's telling the truth that her and Cat Noir's secrets are safe.

** Cat Noir is off his game while battling Wishmaker, who has the power to make people live out their greatest childhood wish, because he doesn't remember ''having'' any wishes as a child. Wishmaker's taunts eventually [[BreakThemByTalking get to him]], leading him to lower his guard at a critical moment. He also doesn't crack a single remark, pun or joke during the fight despite all the weird and zany things occuring around him to have a go at. Making this a whole lot more serious.

* OhCrap: After reclaiming the Snake Miraculous, Ladybug is about to depart when she realizes that tasking Luka with guarding their secret identities means there's a good chance he now knows who she is, since he clearly reset at least once during the battle. Luka lies and assures her that her secret's still safe.

** Cat Noir is off his game while battling Wishmaker, who has the power to make people live out their greatest childhood wish, because he doesn't remember ''having'' any wishes as a child. Wishmaker's taunts eventually [[BreakThemByTalking get to him]], leading him to lower his guard at a critical moment.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Fire Captain Hessenpy's childhood dream is a being a firefighter and a cowboy at the same time.

** Dino plushie that the man in red beret turns into resembles [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur.]]

** Alec’s new TV personality at the end is reminiscent of Creator/{{RuPaul}}, including the wig.

* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Ladybug sensibly recruits Viperion because the risk of their identities being exposed by Wishmaker is too great to leave to chance. Only after the battle is over does she realize that Luka, by necessity, would learn her identity if the situation forced him to reset, and she knows from his behavior that he did so at least once. Luka does learn her identity, but allows her to think he didn't, knowing she would overthink and worry if he did tell her.
** Viperion tells Cat Noir to duck on his second attempt with Second Chance so he can keep Ladybug safe. However, since he wasn't around for Cat Noir and Wishmaker's conversation, he didn't think Cat Noir would let himself get hit, so Viperion has to reset the timeline to fix that.

* CollateralDamage: Viperion deflects one of Wishmaker's blasts with his lyre, but the deflected blast ends up hitting Ladybug, causing her to transform into her childhood dream and exposing her identity, forcing Viperion to reset time.

* SympatheticVillain: Wishmaker is one of the few Akuma victims who doesn’t want revenge on anyone, or even have remotely malicious intentions. The only problem is really that he’s using his powers on people against their will, and the dreams are hopelessly immature and outdated.

* ShoutOut: Mr. Banana's dream is to [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E3PickleRick turn into a cucumber]].

** Alec’s new tv personality at the end is reminiscent of RuPaul, including the wig.