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!!Episode 22 - Riposte - Tales of Kagami the Fencer
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Plagg and Tikki watch a news video about Paris' new heroine, remarking on how Pollen has been let out of the Miracle Box. When Tikki proclaims her faith in Pollen's ability to maintain a low profile, said Kwami promptly appears and greets them.
After recovering from the shock, Tikki quickly warns her that she needs to be more careful: if anyone ever saw her, she might expose Marigold's secret identity! Plagg notes that it would be difficult, as Kwami can't even say the names of their own holders... only for Pollen to point at Marinette, asking if this means she shouldn't mention that Marinette is her Queen. Tikki bursts into tears, finding it unfair that another Kwami has been partnered with the girl ''she'' was originally meant to work with. Once she's recovered, she sits Pollen down and starts teaching her the rules she'll have to follow now that she's out on a permanent basis.
Sabrina, meanwhile, is starting to get used to the idea that she's no longer friends with Chloé. Alix decides to invite both her and Lila to meet her roller derby team: looks like this might be the beginning of a new, healthy friendship for Sabrina.
The same can't be said of Chloé, however. Having posted a paper advertising that she's holding "BFF Tryouts" on the school bulletin board, she's frustrated to learn that nobody has signed up yet. When she demands to know ''why'', everyone points out all the ways she's bullied and belittled them. Not that Chloé cares, of course--not half so much as how somebody has just covered up her flyer with their own poster! Though she immediately berates them, her efforts to browbeat them into submission dissolve quickly when the culprit turns out to be M. D'Argencourt, who makes clear that he won't be intimidated by her posturing and pithy threats.
Meanwhile, Marinette checks the poster he just put up. It announces that he's holding his own auditions: there's an open spot available in his fencing class. The same one Adrien's attending, in face. Since using Venom involves wielding her trompo much like a fencing foil, Marinette decides to give it a try.
The next day, Marinette goes to the audition. There, she meets Marc Anciel, one of Aurore and Mireielle's classmates who happens to be an avid writer. They explain that they're being allowed to watch the tryouts as a writing reference, so long as they're not disruptive.
Enter the highly disruptive Chloé, who promptly gets warned not to distract anyone. Chloé angrily demands to know why ''Marc'' is allowed to be there, but Marinette defends them (correcting her pronouns after learning that Marc is non-binary.)
Tryouts begin: each candidate must fight one of the veterans, and the best will earn the only free spot. When it's Marinette's turn to fight Adrien, she manages to quickly defeat him, putting her at the front of the line.
However, a new challenger approaches, and noisily demands to join the school. Noting her apparent lack of respect, M. D'Argencourt nonetheless allows her to try out--which she does by demanding to fight the school's best student. The fencing master orders Adrien forward.
It quickly becomes clear that the two possess equal skills; no matter what each does, their score remains tied. The challenger requests to be unhooked from the machines, and Adrien agrees... but once unhooked, his opponent tackles him off the mat! Though Marinette points out that they just violated the rules, M. D'Argencourt allows the bout to continue. The resulting duel takes both fencers upstairs and into the library, where they appear to tie yet again, with only Marc, Marinette, and Chloé as witnesses.
M. D'Argencourt immediately rounds upon the trio, demanding that they declare who won. Panicking under the pressure, Marc abstains; Marinette notes how many rules were broken, but is quickly dismissed. Chloé, naturally, makes a blatantly biased call that Adrien won. M. D'Argencourt agrees with her, proclaiming Adrien victorious.
The challenger immediately leaves. Adrien and Marinette follow, trying to argue that she should get a rematch: out of everyone who tried out, she's clearly the most skilled. However, the girl declares that there's no such thing as second chances in her family before departing.
Adrien and Marinette quickly get in the former's car to follow the girl, hoping to fix things, but it's too late: Hawkmoth has already detected her state of mind and sent a butterfly her way. Adrien and Marinette discover the girl is Kagami Tsurugi, the only child of the Tsurugi family, a prestigious lineage of fencers, which they realize is why she was so disappointed. Before they can do anything else, Adrien's car is sliced in half, separating the front from the back: Kagami has been akumatized into Riposte. As Scarlet Lady appears, Riposte attacks Adrien and Marinette, who are forced to split off: Marinette takes advantage of the distraction to transform into Marigold.
While Scarlet Lady distracts (or attempts to distract) Riposte, Marigold arrives to get Adrien to a safe place. However, she gets distracted talking with him and doesn't notice Riposte is about to attack her, forcing Adrien to tackle Marigold out of the way, hurting his ankle in the process, for which Scarlet Lady berates Marigold. When she realizes her distraction got Adrien hurt, the Bee Heroine apologizes for her mistake - which causes Adrien's opinion of Marigold to improve.
Riposte follows the group to the roof, and Scarlet Lady declares she will get Adrien away - only for Marigold to have already absconded with the boy before either Scarlet Lady or Akuma notice. Marigold takes Adrien to the Louvre Museum's Tutankhamun exposition, and gets him into a sarcophagus so Riposte won't find him. While he's quite distressed by this, he does gain further respect for Marigold when she states that Chat Noir will solve the problem as Paris' real hero.
After Scarlet Lady stupidly leads Riposte to the Louvre, the Akuma attacks Scarlet, who's saved by Chat Noir's timely intervention. While Riposte continues her attack, Chat Noir has Scarlet Lady summon Lucky Charm - a radiator. Marigold quickly improvises an idea - trick Riposte into attacking, catching her sword with the radiator, and use Chat Noir's belt to break the sword blade.
Kagami wakes up, and Marigold calms her down, while Chat Noir deals with a Scarlet Lady - successfully distracting her by pointing out she'll be seen with messed up hair. Chat Noir leaves, detransforms and returns to Marigold and Kagami: when he talks with Marigold, he compliments her, making her happy while he notices how cute she looks like.
Marigold also leaves and returns as Marinette, cheerfully greeting Adrien and Kagami. Marinette manages to convince Kagami to try out again, since she could tell how enthusiastic M. D'Argencourt was at seeing her fence.
After recovering from the shock, Tikki quickly warns her that she needs to be more careful: if anyone ever saw her, she might expose Marigold's secret identity! Plagg notes that it would be difficult, as Kwami can't even say the names of their own holders... only for Pollen to point at Marinette, asking if this means she shouldn't mention that Marinette is her Queen. Tikki bursts into tears, finding it unfair that another Kwami has been partnered with the girl ''she'' was originally meant to work with. Once she's recovered, she sits Pollen down and starts teaching her the rules she'll have to follow now that she's out on a permanent basis.
Sabrina, meanwhile, is starting to get used to the idea that she's no longer friends with Chloé. Alix decides to invite both her and Lila to meet her roller derby team: looks like this might be the beginning of a new, healthy friendship for Sabrina.
The same can't be said of Chloé, however. Having posted a paper advertising that she's holding "BFF Tryouts" on the school bulletin board, she's frustrated to learn that nobody has signed up yet. When she demands to know ''why'', everyone points out all the ways she's bullied and belittled them. Not that Chloé cares, of course--not half so much as how somebody has just covered up her flyer with their own poster! Though she immediately berates them, her efforts to browbeat them into submission dissolve quickly when the culprit turns out to be M. D'Argencourt, who makes clear that he won't be intimidated by her posturing and pithy threats.
Meanwhile, Marinette checks the poster he just put up. It announces that he's holding his own auditions: there's an open spot available in his fencing class. The same one Adrien's attending, in face. Since using Venom involves wielding her trompo much like a fencing foil, Marinette decides to give it a try.
The next day, Marinette goes to the audition. There, she meets Marc Anciel, one of Aurore and Mireielle's classmates who happens to be an avid writer. They explain that they're being allowed to watch the tryouts as a writing reference, so long as they're not disruptive.
Enter the highly disruptive Chloé, who promptly gets warned not to distract anyone. Chloé angrily demands to know why ''Marc'' is allowed to be there, but Marinette defends them (correcting her pronouns after learning that Marc is non-binary.)
Tryouts begin: each candidate must fight one of the veterans, and the best will earn the only free spot. When it's Marinette's turn to fight Adrien, she manages to quickly defeat him, putting her at the front of the line.
However, a new challenger approaches, and noisily demands to join the school. Noting her apparent lack of respect, M. D'Argencourt nonetheless allows her to try out--which she does by demanding to fight the school's best student. The fencing master orders Adrien forward.
It quickly becomes clear that the two possess equal skills; no matter what each does, their score remains tied. The challenger requests to be unhooked from the machines, and Adrien agrees... but once unhooked, his opponent tackles him off the mat! Though Marinette points out that they just violated the rules, M. D'Argencourt allows the bout to continue. The resulting duel takes both fencers upstairs and into the library, where they appear to tie yet again, with only Marc, Marinette, and Chloé as witnesses.
M. D'Argencourt immediately rounds upon the trio, demanding that they declare who won. Panicking under the pressure, Marc abstains; Marinette notes how many rules were broken, but is quickly dismissed. Chloé, naturally, makes a blatantly biased call that Adrien won. M. D'Argencourt agrees with her, proclaiming Adrien victorious.
The challenger immediately leaves. Adrien and Marinette follow, trying to argue that she should get a rematch: out of everyone who tried out, she's clearly the most skilled. However, the girl declares that there's no such thing as second chances in her family before departing.
Adrien and Marinette quickly get in the former's car to follow the girl, hoping to fix things, but it's too late: Hawkmoth has already detected her state of mind and sent a butterfly her way. Adrien and Marinette discover the girl is Kagami Tsurugi, the only child of the Tsurugi family, a prestigious lineage of fencers, which they realize is why she was so disappointed. Before they can do anything else, Adrien's car is sliced in half, separating the front from the back: Kagami has been akumatized into Riposte. As Scarlet Lady appears, Riposte attacks Adrien and Marinette, who are forced to split off: Marinette takes advantage of the distraction to transform into Marigold.
While Scarlet Lady distracts (or attempts to distract) Riposte, Marigold arrives to get Adrien to a safe place. However, she gets distracted talking with him and doesn't notice Riposte is about to attack her, forcing Adrien to tackle Marigold out of the way, hurting his ankle in the process, for which Scarlet Lady berates Marigold. When she realizes her distraction got Adrien hurt, the Bee Heroine apologizes for her mistake - which causes Adrien's opinion of Marigold to improve.
Riposte follows the group to the roof, and Scarlet Lady declares she will get Adrien away - only for Marigold to have already absconded with the boy before either Scarlet Lady or Akuma notice. Marigold takes Adrien to the Louvre Museum's Tutankhamun exposition, and gets him into a sarcophagus so Riposte won't find him. While he's quite distressed by this, he does gain further respect for Marigold when she states that Chat Noir will solve the problem as Paris' real hero.
After Scarlet Lady stupidly leads Riposte to the Louvre, the Akuma attacks Scarlet, who's saved by Chat Noir's timely intervention. While Riposte continues her attack, Chat Noir has Scarlet Lady summon Lucky Charm - a radiator. Marigold quickly improvises an idea - trick Riposte into attacking, catching her sword with the radiator, and use Chat Noir's belt to break the sword blade.
Kagami wakes up, and Marigold calms her down, while Chat Noir deals with a Scarlet Lady - successfully distracting her by pointing out she'll be seen with messed up hair. Chat Noir leaves, detransforms and returns to Marigold and Kagami: when he talks with Marigold, he compliments her, making her happy while he notices how cute she looks like.
Marigold also leaves and returns as Marinette, cheerfully greeting Adrien and Kagami. Marinette manages to convince Kagami to try out again, since she could tell how enthusiastic M. D'Argencourt was at seeing her fence.
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Plagg and Tikki watch a news video about Paris' Paris's new heroine, remarking on how Pollen has been let out of the Miracle Box. When Tikki proclaims her faith in Pollen's ability to maintain a low profile, said Kwami promptly appears and greets them.
After recovering from the shock, Tikki quickly warnsher Pollen that she needs to be more careful: if anyone ever saw her, she might expose Marigold's secret identity! Plagg notes that it would be difficult, as given Kwami can't even say the names of their own holders... only for Pollen to point at Marinette, asking if this means she shouldn't mention that Marinette ''she'' is her Queen. Tikki bursts into tears, finding it unfair that another ''another'' Kwami has been partnered with the girl ''she'' was originally meant to work with. Once she's recovered, she calms down, she sits Pollen down and starts teaching her the rules she'll have to follow now that she's out on a permanent basis.
Sabrina, meanwhile, isstarting slowly adjusting to get used to the idea that she's no longer being friends with Chloé. Fortunately, it looks like there's a new, healthy friendship for Sabrina in the works: Alix decides to invite both her and Lila to meet her Alix's roller derby team: looks like this might be the beginning of a new, healthy friendship for Sabrina.
team.
The same can't be said of Chloé, however.Having After having posted a paper advertising that she's holding an advertisement for her "BFF Tryouts" on the school bulletin board, she's frustrated to learn that nobody has signed up yet. When she demands to know ''why'', everyone points out all the various ways she's bullied and belittled them. Not that Chloé cares, of course--not half so much as how somebody has just covered up her flyer with their own poster! Though she immediately berates them, her efforts to browbeat them into submission dissolve quickly when the culprit turns out to be M. D'Argencourt, who informs her that the school bulletin board is only for school-related news and makes clear that he won't be intimidated by her posturing and pithy threats.
Meanwhile, Marinette checks the poster he just put up. It announces that he's holding his ownauditions: there's tryouts for an open spot available in on his fencing class. team. The same one Adrien's attending, on, in face.fact. Since using Venom involves wielding her trompo much like a fencing foil, Marinette decides to give it a try.
The next day, Marinette goes to the audition. There, she meets Marc Anciel, one of Aurore andMireielle's Mireille's classmates who happens to be an avid writer. They explain that they're being allowed they got permission to watch the tryouts as a writing reference, so long as they're not disruptive.
Enter the highly disruptive Chloé, who promptly gets warned not to distract anyone. Chloé angrily demands to know why ''Marc'' is allowed to be there, but Marinette defends them (correcting her pronouns after learning that Marc isnon-binary.)
non-binary).
Tryouts begin: each candidate must fight one of theveterans, current members, and the best will earn the only free spot. When it's Marinette's turn to fight Adrien, she manages to quickly defeat him, putting making her at the front of top contender for the line.
spot.
However, a new challengerapproaches, approaches and noisily demands to join the school. Noting her apparent lack of respect, M. D'Argencourt nonetheless allows her agrees to try out--which consider if she defeats one of his students--which she does by demanding to fight the school's best student.''best'' one among them, much to the confusion of the rest of the team. The fencing master orders Adrien forward.
It quickly becomes clear that the twopossess equal skills; are evenly matched; no matter what each either does, their score remains tied. bouts end in draws. The challenger requests to be unhooked from the machines, machines so that she and Adrien agrees... will have more freedom. A bewildered Marc notes that the newcomer has just given up her only guaranteed impartial judge. Nevertheless, Adrien agrees to his opponent's request... but once unhooked, his opponent tackles him off the mat! Though Marinette points out that they the challenger just violated the rules, M. D'Argencourt allows the bout to continue. The resulting duel takes both fencers upstairs and into the library, where they appear to tie yet again, with only Marc, Marinette, and Chloé as witnesses.
M. D'Argencourt immediately rounds upon the trio, demanding that they declare who won. Panicking under the pressure, Marcabstains; abstains. Marinette notes how many rules were broken, broken but is quickly dismissed.dismissed for not answering D'Argencourt's question. Chloé, naturally, makes a blatantly biased call that Adrien won. M. D'Argencourt agrees with her, proclaiming accepts her ruling and proclaims Adrien victorious.
the clear victor, much to Marinette's bemusement.
The challenger immediately leaves. Adrien and Marinette follow, trying to argue that she should get a rematch: out of everyone who tried out, she's clearly the mostskilled. skilled, and Adrien even thinks she might've touched first. However, the girl unmasks herself and declares that there's no such thing as second chances in her family before departing.
departing. Adrien and Marinette Marinette, meanwhile, both blush at how cute she is.
The two then quickly get inthe former's Adrien's car to follow the girl, hoping to fix things, but it's too late: Hawkmoth Hawk Moth has already detected her state of mind and sent a butterfly her way. Adrien and Marinette discover the girl is Kagami Tsurugi, the only child of the Tsurugi family, a wa prestigious lineage of fencers, which they realize is why she was so disappointed. Before they can do anything else, however, Adrien's car is sliced in half, separating the front from the back: back. Kagami has been akumatized into Riposte. As Scarlet Lady appears, Riposte attacks Adrien and Marinette, who are forced to split off: off. Marinette takes advantage of the distraction to transform into Marigold.
While Scarlet Lady distracts (or attempts to distract) Riposte, Marigold arrives to get Adrien to a safe place. However, she gets distracted talking with him and doesn't notice Riposte is about to attack her, forcing Adrien to tackle Marigold out of theway, way and hurting his ankle in the process, for which Scarlet Lady berates Marigold. When she realizes her distraction got Adrien hurt, the Bee Heroine heroine apologizes for her mistake - which causes mistake, causing Adrien's opinion of Marigold to improve.
Riposte follows the group to the roof, and Scarlet Lady declaresshe ''she'' will get Adrien away - to safety... only for Marigold to have already absconded with the boy before either Scarlet Lady or Akuma notice. the akuma noticed. Marigold takes Adrien to the Louvre Museum's Tutankhamun exposition, exposition and gets puts him into a sarcophagus so Riposte won't find him. While he's quite distressed by this, he does gain further respect for Marigold when she states that Chat Noir Noir, Paris's ''real'' hero, will solve the problem as Paris' real hero.
fix things.
After Scarlet Lady stupidly leads Riposte to the Louvre, theAkuma akuma attacks Scarlet, who's saved by Chat Noir's timely intervention. While Riposte continues her attack, Chat Noir has Scarlet Lady summon Lucky Charm - a Charm--a radiator. Marigold quickly improvises an idea - trick idea--trick Riposte into attacking, catching her the akuma's sword with the radiator, and use Chat Noir's belt to break the sword blade.
Kagami wakes up, and Marigold calms herdown, down while Chat Noir deals with a Scarlet Lady - Lady, successfully distracting her and forcing her to flee by pointing out she'll be seen with messed up hair. Chat Noir then leaves, detransforms detransforms, and returns to Marigold and Kagami: Kagami; when he talks with Marigold, he compliments her, making her happy while as he notices how cute she looks like.
looks.
Marigold also leaves and returns as Marinette, cheerfully greeting Adrien and Kagami. Marinette manages to convince Kagami to try out again,since she could tell telling the girl how enthusiastic M. D'Argencourt was at seeing her fence.
fence against Adrien.
After recovering from the shock, Tikki quickly warns
Sabrina, meanwhile, is
The same can't be said of Chloé, however.
Meanwhile, Marinette checks the poster he just put up. It announces that he's holding his own
The next day, Marinette goes to the audition. There, she meets Marc Anciel, one of Aurore and
Enter the highly disruptive Chloé, who promptly gets warned not to distract anyone. Chloé angrily demands to know why ''Marc'' is allowed to be there, but Marinette defends them (correcting her pronouns after learning that Marc is
Tryouts begin: each candidate must fight one of the
However, a new challenger
It quickly becomes clear that the two
M. D'Argencourt immediately rounds upon the trio, demanding that they declare who won. Panicking under the pressure, Marc
The challenger immediately leaves. Adrien and Marinette follow, trying to argue that she should get a rematch: out of everyone who tried out, she's clearly the most
The two then quickly get in
While Scarlet Lady distracts (or attempts to distract) Riposte, Marigold arrives to get Adrien to a safe place. However, she gets distracted talking with him and doesn't notice Riposte is about to attack her, forcing Adrien to tackle Marigold out of the
Riposte follows the group to the roof, and Scarlet Lady declares
After Scarlet Lady stupidly leads Riposte to the Louvre, the
Kagami wakes up, and Marigold calms her
Marigold also leaves and returns as Marinette, cheerfully greeting Adrien and Kagami. Marinette manages to convince Kagami to try out again,
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Pollen unknowingly circumvents the rule barring Kwami from revealing the names of their holders by addressing Marinette [[ExactWords as her Queen]].
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Pollen unknowingly circumvents the rule barring Kwami Kwamis from revealing the names of their holders by pointing to Marinette while [[ExactWords addressing Marinette [[ExactWords as her Queen]].as Pollen's Queen (which the Kwami all know is how Pollen refers to her female holders)]].
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* BrutalHonesty: When Alix invites Lila to meet her roller derby team, she replies with a disgusted face while thinking about the sweat.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Kagami pushes Adrien off the mat (a ''corps-a-corps'') and leads him towards the library, making it impossible for M. D'Argencourt to give a ruling.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Kagami pushes Adrien off the mat (a ''corps-a-corps'') and leads him towards the library, making it impossible for M. D'Argencourt to give a ruling.
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* BrutalHonesty: When Alix invites Lila invited to meet her Alix's roller derby team, she Lila replies with a disgusted face while thinking about all the sweat.
sweating that comes with the sport.
* BullyingADragon: Chloé crows about Kagami knowing to listen to her superiors. Kagami replies by stabbing her foil into the concrete ground just a few centimeters away from Chloé's foot.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Kagami pushes Adrien off the mat (a''corps-a-corps'') ''corps-a-corps'' violation) and leads him towards all the way into the library, making it impossible for M. D'Argencourt to give a fair ruling.
* BullyingADragon: Chloé crows about Kagami knowing to listen to her superiors. Kagami replies by stabbing her foil into the concrete ground just a few centimeters away from Chloé's foot.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Kagami pushes Adrien off the mat (a
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** At the end of the episode, Plagg points out that, by helping Kagami gain the chance to take up the position in M. D'Argencourt's class, Adrien missed the chance to have ''Marinette'' in his class.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Adrien and Marinette get distracted when Kagami takes off her fencing mask, both of them thinking she's cute as she gets on her car.
* FacePalm: Marigold's reaction when Scarlet Lady accidentally leads Riposte to the Louvre Museum, which is where the former is hiding Adrien.
* FlawExploitation: When pointing to Scarlet Lady that she's about to detransform in front of the cameras doesn't work, Chat Noir points out that the cameras will catch her with messed up hair. Scarlet Lady promptly screams all the way to an empty corridor
* HypocriticalHumor: When Kagami enters the gym to demand being allowed to join M. D'Argencourt's school, [[AttentionWhore Chloé]] complains about her being a noisy show off.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Just after Tikki stated she trusted Pollen's ability to keep a low profile, Pollen shows up in Chloé's bag, cheerfully greeting both kwamis.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Marinette defends non-binary Marc from Chloé, she accidentally uses male pronouns to refer to them. After Marc mentions this, she immediately corrects herself.
* MuggingTheMonster: Chloé crows about Kagami knowing to listen to her superiors. Kagami replies by stabbing her foil into the concrete ground just a few centimeters away from Chloé's foot.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Adrien and Marinette get distracted when Kagami takes off her fencing mask, both of them thinking she's cute as she gets on her car.
* FacePalm: Marigold's reaction when Scarlet Lady accidentally leads Riposte to the Louvre Museum, which is where the former is hiding Adrien.
* FlawExploitation: When pointing to Scarlet Lady that she's about to detransform in front of the cameras doesn't work, Chat Noir points out that the cameras will catch her with messed up hair. Scarlet Lady promptly screams all the way to an empty corridor
* HypocriticalHumor: When Kagami enters the gym to demand being allowed to join M. D'Argencourt's school, [[AttentionWhore Chloé]] complains about her being a noisy show off.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Just after Tikki stated she trusted Pollen's ability to keep a low profile, Pollen shows up in Chloé's bag, cheerfully greeting both kwamis.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Marinette defends non-binary Marc from Chloé, she accidentally uses male pronouns to refer to them. After Marc mentions this, she immediately corrects herself.
* MuggingTheMonster: Chloé crows about Kagami knowing to listen to her superiors. Kagami replies by stabbing her foil into the concrete ground just a few centimeters away from Chloé's foot.
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** At the end of the episode, Plagg points out that, by helping Kagami gain the a second chance to take up the position in try out for M. D'Argencourt's class, team, Adrien missed the chance an opportunity to have ''Marinette'' in his class.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Adrien and Marinette get distracted when Kagami takes off her fencing mask, both of them thinking she's cute as she getson into her car.
* FacePalm: Marigold's reaction when Scarlet Lady accidentally leads Riposte to the Louvre Museum, which is where theformer Bee heroine is hiding Adrien.
* FlawExploitation: When pointing to Scarlet Lady that she's about to detransform in front of the camerasdoesn't work, fails to make her leave, Chat Noir points out that the cameras will catch her with messed up hair. Scarlet Lady promptly screams all the way to an empty corridor
corridor.
* HypocriticalHumor: When Kagami enters the gym to demand being allowed to join M. D'Argencourt's fencing school, [[AttentionWhore Chloé]] complains abouther the newcomer being a noisy show off.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Just after Tikkistated states she trusted trusts Pollen's ability to keep a low profile, Pollen shows up in Chloé's bag, cheerfully greeting both kwamis.
Tikki and Plagg.
*InnocentlyInsensitive: InnocentlyInsensitive:
** When Marinette defends non-binary Marc from Chloé, she accidentally uses male pronouns to refer to them. After Marc mentions this, she immediately corrects herself.
* MuggingTheMonster: ** PlayedForLaughs when Kagami refers to Chloé crows about Kagami as Marinette's friend, not knowing to listen to her superiors. Kagami replies by stabbing her foil into the concrete ground just a few centimeters away from that Marinette is actually Chloé's foot.favorite bullying target. Marinette makes a disgusted face in response.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Adrien and Marinette get distracted when Kagami takes off her fencing mask, both of them thinking she's cute as she gets
* FacePalm: Marigold's reaction when Scarlet Lady accidentally leads Riposte to the Louvre Museum, which is where the
* FlawExploitation: When pointing to Scarlet Lady that she's about to detransform in front of the cameras
* HypocriticalHumor: When Kagami enters the gym to demand being allowed to join M. D'Argencourt's fencing school, [[AttentionWhore Chloé]] complains about
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Just after Tikki
*
** When Marinette defends non-binary Marc from Chloé, she accidentally uses male pronouns to refer to them. After Marc mentions this, she immediately corrects herself.
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Sabrina has a bit of a hard time adjusting to her post-Chloé life. Fortunately, Alix is willing to help.
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Sabrina has is having a bit of a slightly hard time adjusting to her post-Chloé life. Fortunately, Thankfully, Alix is willing to help.
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When Chloé asks why no one signed on for her "BFF Tryouts", everyone else replies reminding her of all the stuff she's done to them. [[HypocriticalHumor Chloé angrily asks who asked them.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: While Chloé only names Adrien the winner due to her personal biases, the author points out that even if Kagami hadn't disqualified herself by violating so many rules, the winner still would have been Adrien.
* SkewedPriorities: When Kagami pushes Adrien off the mat (an obvious violation of the rules), M. D'Argencourt exclaims that this is ''real'' fencing and lets the bout continue.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: While Chloé only names Adrien the winner due to her personal biases, the author points out that even if Kagami hadn't disqualified herself by violating so many rules, the winner still would have been Adrien.
* SkewedPriorities: When Kagami pushes Adrien off the mat (an obvious violation of the rules), M. D'Argencourt exclaims that this is ''real'' fencing and lets the bout continue.
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When Chloé asks why no one has signed on up for her "BFF Tryouts", Tryouts," everyone else replies replies, reminding her of all the stuff she's done to them. [[HypocriticalHumor Chloé angrily asks who asked them.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: While Chloé only names Adrien the winner due to her personal biases, the authorpoints out reveals that even if discounting how Kagami hadn't had disqualified herself by violating so many rules, the winner still would have been Adrien.
* SkewedPriorities: When Kagami pushes Adrien off the mat (an obvious violation of the rules), M. D'Argencourt exclaims thatthis their bout is ''real'' fencing and lets the bout continue.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: While Chloé only names Adrien the winner due to her personal biases, the author
* SkewedPriorities: When Kagami pushes Adrien off the mat (an obvious violation of the rules), M. D'Argencourt exclaims that
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: One of the captions establishes that Marinette wants to learn fencing "not for any '''particular''' reason".''particular'' reason."
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* VillainHasAPoint: Scarlet Lady berates Marigold for getting Adrien hurt--which, for once, she's right about, since it was Marigold getting distracted that led to Adrien's injury.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Scarlet Lady berates Marigold for getting Adrien hurt--which, for once, she's right about, since it was about due to Adrien getting injured because Marigold getting distracted that led to Adrien's injury.was distracted.
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* FlawExploitation: When pointing to Scarlet Lady that she's about to detransform in front of the cameras doesn't work, Chat Noir points out that the cameras will catch her with messed up her. Scarlet Lady promptly screams all the way to an empty corridor
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* FlawExploitation: When pointing to Scarlet Lady that she's about to detransform in front of the cameras doesn't work, Chat Noir points out that the cameras will catch her with messed up her.hair. Scarlet Lady promptly screams all the way to an empty corridor
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Adrien and Marinette quickly get in the former's car to follow the girl, hoping to fix things, but it's too late, as Hawkmoth has detected her state of mind and sent a butterfly at her. Adrien and Marinette discover the girl is Kagami Tsurugi, the only child of the Tsurugi family, a prestigious lineage of fencers, which they realize is why she was so disappointed. Before they can do anything else, Adrien's car is sliced in half, separating the front from the back: Kagami has been akumatized into Riposte. As Scarlet Lady appears, Riposte attacks Adrien and Marinette, who are forced to split off: Marinette takes advantage of the distraction to transform into Marigold.
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Adrien and Marinette quickly get in the former's car to follow the girl, hoping to fix things, but it's too late, as late: Hawkmoth has already detected her state of mind and sent a butterfly at her. her way. Adrien and Marinette discover the girl is Kagami Tsurugi, the only child of the Tsurugi family, a prestigious lineage of fencers, which they realize is why she was so disappointed. Before they can do anything else, Adrien's car is sliced in half, separating the front from the back: Kagami has been akumatized into Riposte. As Scarlet Lady appears, Riposte attacks Adrien and Marinette, who are forced to split off: Marinette takes advantage of the distraction to transform into Marigold.
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: After being told that kwami can't say who their owners are since they can't speak their names, Pollen points at Marinette and asks if she shouldn't tell the others that she's her Queen.
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: After being told that kwami can't say who their owners are since they can't speak their names, Pollen points at unknowingly circumvents the rule barring Kwami from revealing the names of their holders by addressing Marinette and asks if she shouldn't tell the others that she's [[ExactWords as her Queen.Queen]].
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** Kagami demands to duel Adrien without machines in order to have more freedom - but, as Marc points out, she's sacrificing an impartial judge.
** At the end of the episode, Plagg points out that, by helping Kagami gain the chance to take up the position in M. D'Argencourt's class, Adrien missed the chance of having ''Marinette'' in his class.
** At the end of the episode, Plagg points out that, by helping Kagami gain the chance to take up the position in M. D'Argencourt's class, Adrien missed the chance of having ''Marinette'' in his class.
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** Kagami demands to duel Adrien without machines in order to have more freedom - but, freedom--but, as Marc points out, she's sacrificing an impartial judge.
** At the end of the episode, Plagg points out that, by helping Kagami gain the chance to take up the position in M. D'Argencourt's class, Adrien missed the chanceof having to have ''Marinette'' in his class.
** At the end of the episode, Plagg points out that, by helping Kagami gain the chance to take up the position in M. D'Argencourt's class, Adrien missed the chance
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: When Chloé states Adrien was the winner, it's obvious she's only doing it because it's Adrien, but the author points out that, regardless of the rules violations that would have disqualified Kagami, the winner had been Adrien.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: When While Chloé states only names Adrien was the winner, it's obvious she's only doing it because it's Adrien, but winner due to her personal biases, the author points out that, regardless of the rules violations that would have even if Kagami hadn't disqualified Kagami, herself by violating so many rules, the winner had still would have been Adrien.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Scarlet Lady berates Marigold for getting Adrien hurt - which, for once, she's right about, since it was Marigold getting distracted that led to Adrien's injury.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Scarlet Lady berates Marigold for getting Adrien hurt - which, hurt--which, for once, she's right about, since it was Marigold getting distracted that led to Adrien's injury.
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Plagg and Tikki watch a news video about Paris' new heroine, and comment on Pollen being let out. When Tikki proclaims her faith in Pollen being able to keep a low profile, said kwami promptly appears, greeting the other kwamis.\\\
After getting over the shock, Tikki quickly warns Pollen to be careful: if someone ever saw her, she could put Marigold's identity in danger! Plagg notes that it would be hard, since kwamis can't even say the names of their Miraculous' holders - only for Pollen to point at Marinette and ask if she shouldn't mention Marinette is her Queen. After bawling over the unfairness, Tikki sits with Pollen and tells her the rules she has to abide to, now that she's out on a permanent basis.\\\
Sabrina, meanwhile, is starting to get used to the idea that she's no longer friends with Chloé. Alix decides to check on her and invites both Sabrina and Lila to meet her roller derby team: looks like this might be the beginning of a new healthy friendship for Sabrina.\\\
The same can't be said of Chloé, however, who's put up a paper for "BFF Tryouts" that remains empty. She demands to know why no one signed on for the tryouts, everyone points out all the stuff she's done to them, which she obviously ignores - before someone covers her "Tryouts" paper with a poster. Her attempt to browbeat them dissolves quickly when it turns out to be M. D'Argencourt, who makes it clear he won't let her get her way.\\\
When Marinette checks the poster, she learns that there's tryouts for M. D'Argencourt's fencing class, and Adrien explains there's an open spot. As Venom is wielded quite similar to a fencing weapon, Marinette decides to give it a try.\\\
The next day, Marinette goes to the tryouts and finds Marc Anciel, one of Aurore and Mireille's classmates who likes writing. Marc explains about being allowed to witness the tryouts for references for writing scenes, as long as there's no disruption.\\\
Cue disruption in the form of Chloé, who gets quickly warned against being a distraction. Chloé angrily asks why Marc is allowed, but Marinette defends Marc (and corrects her pronouns when she learns Marc is non-binary).\\\
Tryouts begin: each candidate must fight one of the veterans, and the best will earn the only free spot. When it's Marinette's turn to fight Adrien, she manages to quickly defeat him, putting her at the front of the line.\\\
However, a new challenger approaches, and noisily demands to join the school. Noting her apparent lack of respect, M. D'Argencourt nonetheless allows her to try out - which she does by demanding to fight the school's best student. The fencing master orders Adrien forward.\\\
Adrien and the challenger begin their bout, but their skills are equaled, and no matter what each does, the score between them remains tied. The challenger requests to be unhooked from the machines, which Adrien agrees with. Much to his shock, the challenger immediately tackles him off the mat and keeps fighting: even though Marinette points out that the challenger just violated the rules, M. D'Argencourt lets the bout continue. Eventually, the two fencers walk upstairs and into the library, where they appear to tie yet again, with only Marc, Marinette, and Chloé as witnesses.\\\
M. D'Argencourt immediately demands the three witnesses to state who won. Marc panics and abstains; Marinette attempts to determine the rule breakage, but is quickly dismissed; and Chloé makes a blatantly partisan call for Adrien. When M. D'Argencourt proclaims it Adrien's victory, the challenger leaves. Adrien and Marinette follow, trying to get her to do a rematch since she's clearly the best of everyone that has tried out, but the girl states that there's no second chances in her family and leaves.\\\
Adrien and Marinette quickly get in the former's car to follow the girl, hoping to fix things, but it's too late, as Hawkmoth has detected her state of mind and sent a butterfly at her. Adrien and Marinette discover the girl is Kagami Tsurugi, the only child of the Tsurugi family, a prestigious lineage of fencers, which they realize is why she was so disappointed. Before they can do anything else, Adrien's car is sliced in half, separating the front from the back: Kagami has been akumatized into Riposte. As Scarlet Lady appears, Riposte attacks Adrien and Marinette, who are forced to split off: Marinette takes advantage of the distraction to transform into Marigold.\\\
While Scarlet Lady distracts (or attempts to distract) Riposte, Marigold arrives to get Adrien to a safe place. However, she gets distracted talking with him and doesn't notice Riposte is about to attack her, forcing Adrien to tackle Marigold out of the way, hurting his ankle in the process, for which Scarlet Lady berates Marigold. When she realizes her distraction got Adrien hurt, the Bee Heroine apologizes for her mistake - which causes Adrien's opinion of Marigold to improve.\\\
Riposte follows the group to the roof, and Scarlet Lady declares she will get Adrien away - only for Marigold to have already absconded with the boy before either Scarlet Lady or Akuma notice. Marigold takes Adrien to the Louvre Museum's Tutankhamun exposition, and gets him into a sarcophagus so Riposte won't find him. While he's quite distressed by this, he does gain further respect for Marigold when she states that Chat Noir will solve the problem as Paris' real hero.\\\
After Scarlet Lady stupidly leads Riposte to the Louvre, the Akuma attacks Scarlet, who's saved by Chat Noir's timely intervention. While Riposte continues her attack, Chat Noir has Scarlet Lady summon Lucky Charm - a radiator. Marigold quickly improvises an idea - trick Riposte into attacking, catching her sword with the radiator, and use Chat Noir's belt to break the sword blade.\\\
Kagami wakes up, and Marigold calms her down, while Chat Noir deals with a Scarlet Lady - successfully distracting her by pointing out she'll be seen with messed up hair. Chat Noir leaves, detransforms and returns to Marigold and Kagami: when he talks with Marigold, he compliments her, making her happy while he notices how cute she looks like.\\\
Marigold also leaves and returns as Marinette, cheerfully greeting Adrien and Kagami. Marinette manages to convince Kagami to try out again, since she could tell how enthusiastic M. D'Argencourt was at seeing her fence.\\\
After getting over the shock, Tikki quickly warns Pollen to be careful: if someone ever saw her, she could put Marigold's identity in danger! Plagg notes that it would be hard, since kwamis can't even say the names of their Miraculous' holders - only for Pollen to point at Marinette and ask if she shouldn't mention Marinette is her Queen. After bawling over the unfairness, Tikki sits with Pollen and tells her the rules she has to abide to, now that she's out on a permanent basis.\\\
Sabrina, meanwhile, is starting to get used to the idea that she's no longer friends with Chloé. Alix decides to check on her and invites both Sabrina and Lila to meet her roller derby team: looks like this might be the beginning of a new healthy friendship for Sabrina.\\\
The same can't be said of Chloé, however, who's put up a paper for "BFF Tryouts" that remains empty. She demands to know why no one signed on for the tryouts, everyone points out all the stuff she's done to them, which she obviously ignores - before someone covers her "Tryouts" paper with a poster. Her attempt to browbeat them dissolves quickly when it turns out to be M. D'Argencourt, who makes it clear he won't let her get her way.\\\
When Marinette checks the poster, she learns that there's tryouts for M. D'Argencourt's fencing class, and Adrien explains there's an open spot. As Venom is wielded quite similar to a fencing weapon, Marinette decides to give it a try.\\\
The next day, Marinette goes to the tryouts and finds Marc Anciel, one of Aurore and Mireille's classmates who likes writing. Marc explains about being allowed to witness the tryouts for references for writing scenes, as long as there's no disruption.\\\
Cue disruption in the form of Chloé, who gets quickly warned against being a distraction. Chloé angrily asks why Marc is allowed, but Marinette defends Marc (and corrects her pronouns when she learns Marc is non-binary).\\\
Tryouts begin: each candidate must fight one of the veterans, and the best will earn the only free spot. When it's Marinette's turn to fight Adrien, she manages to quickly defeat him, putting her at the front of the line.\\\
However, a new challenger approaches, and noisily demands to join the school. Noting her apparent lack of respect, M. D'Argencourt nonetheless allows her to try out - which she does by demanding to fight the school's best student. The fencing master orders Adrien forward.\\\
Adrien and the challenger begin their bout, but their skills are equaled, and no matter what each does, the score between them remains tied. The challenger requests to be unhooked from the machines, which Adrien agrees with. Much to his shock, the challenger immediately tackles him off the mat and keeps fighting: even though Marinette points out that the challenger just violated the rules, M. D'Argencourt lets the bout continue. Eventually, the two fencers walk upstairs and into the library, where they appear to tie yet again, with only Marc, Marinette, and Chloé as witnesses.\\\
M. D'Argencourt immediately demands the three witnesses to state who won. Marc panics and abstains; Marinette attempts to determine the rule breakage, but is quickly dismissed; and Chloé makes a blatantly partisan call for Adrien. When M. D'Argencourt proclaims it Adrien's victory, the challenger leaves. Adrien and Marinette follow, trying to get her to do a rematch since she's clearly the best of everyone that has tried out, but the girl states that there's no second chances in her family and leaves.\\\
Adrien and Marinette quickly get in the former's car to follow the girl, hoping to fix things, but it's too late, as Hawkmoth has detected her state of mind and sent a butterfly at her. Adrien and Marinette discover the girl is Kagami Tsurugi, the only child of the Tsurugi family, a prestigious lineage of fencers, which they realize is why she was so disappointed. Before they can do anything else, Adrien's car is sliced in half, separating the front from the back: Kagami has been akumatized into Riposte. As Scarlet Lady appears, Riposte attacks Adrien and Marinette, who are forced to split off: Marinette takes advantage of the distraction to transform into Marigold.\\\
While Scarlet Lady distracts (or attempts to distract) Riposte, Marigold arrives to get Adrien to a safe place. However, she gets distracted talking with him and doesn't notice Riposte is about to attack her, forcing Adrien to tackle Marigold out of the way, hurting his ankle in the process, for which Scarlet Lady berates Marigold. When she realizes her distraction got Adrien hurt, the Bee Heroine apologizes for her mistake - which causes Adrien's opinion of Marigold to improve.\\\
Riposte follows the group to the roof, and Scarlet Lady declares she will get Adrien away - only for Marigold to have already absconded with the boy before either Scarlet Lady or Akuma notice. Marigold takes Adrien to the Louvre Museum's Tutankhamun exposition, and gets him into a sarcophagus so Riposte won't find him. While he's quite distressed by this, he does gain further respect for Marigold when she states that Chat Noir will solve the problem as Paris' real hero.\\\
After Scarlet Lady stupidly leads Riposte to the Louvre, the Akuma attacks Scarlet, who's saved by Chat Noir's timely intervention. While Riposte continues her attack, Chat Noir has Scarlet Lady summon Lucky Charm - a radiator. Marigold quickly improvises an idea - trick Riposte into attacking, catching her sword with the radiator, and use Chat Noir's belt to break the sword blade.\\\
Kagami wakes up, and Marigold calms her down, while Chat Noir deals with a Scarlet Lady - successfully distracting her by pointing out she'll be seen with messed up hair. Chat Noir leaves, detransforms and returns to Marigold and Kagami: when he talks with Marigold, he compliments her, making her happy while he notices how cute she looks like.\\\
Marigold also leaves and returns as Marinette, cheerfully greeting Adrien and Kagami. Marinette manages to convince Kagami to try out again, since she could tell how enthusiastic M. D'Argencourt was at seeing her fence.\\\
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Plagg and Tikki watch a news video about Paris' new heroine,
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Tryouts begin: each candidate must fight one of the veterans, and the best will earn the only free spot. When it's Marinette's turn to fight Adrien, she manages to quickly defeat him, putting her at the front of the
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Adrien and
It quickly becomes clear that the
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The challenger immediately leaves. Adrien and Marinette follow, trying to argue that she should get
Adrien and Marinette quickly get in the former's car to follow the girl, hoping to fix things, but it's too late, as Hawkmoth has detected her state of mind and sent a butterfly at her. Adrien and Marinette discover the girl is Kagami Tsurugi, the only child of the Tsurugi family, a prestigious lineage of fencers, which they realize is why she was so disappointed. Before they can do anything else, Adrien's car is sliced in half, separating the front from the back: Kagami has been akumatized into Riposte. As Scarlet Lady appears, Riposte attacks Adrien and Marinette, who are forced to split off: Marinette takes advantage of the distraction to transform into
While Scarlet Lady distracts (or attempts to distract) Riposte, Marigold arrives to get Adrien to a safe place. However, she gets distracted talking with him and doesn't notice Riposte is about to attack her, forcing Adrien to tackle Marigold out of the way, hurting his ankle in the process, for which Scarlet Lady berates Marigold. When she realizes her distraction got Adrien hurt, the Bee Heroine apologizes for her mistake - which causes Adrien's opinion of Marigold to
Riposte follows the group to the roof, and Scarlet Lady declares she will get Adrien away - only for Marigold to have already absconded with the boy before either Scarlet Lady or Akuma notice. Marigold takes Adrien to the Louvre Museum's Tutankhamun exposition, and gets him into a sarcophagus so Riposte won't find him. While he's quite distressed by this, he does gain further respect for Marigold when she states that Chat Noir will solve the problem as Paris' real
After Scarlet Lady stupidly leads Riposte to the Louvre, the Akuma attacks Scarlet, who's saved by Chat Noir's timely intervention. While Riposte continues her attack, Chat Noir has Scarlet Lady summon Lucky Charm - a radiator. Marigold quickly improvises an idea - trick Riposte into attacking, catching her sword with the radiator, and use Chat Noir's belt to break the sword
Kagami wakes up, and Marigold calms her down, while Chat Noir deals with a Scarlet Lady - successfully distracting her by pointing out she'll be seen with messed up hair. Chat Noir leaves, detransforms and returns to Marigold and Kagami: when he talks with Marigold, he compliments her, making her happy while he notices how cute she looks
Marigold also leaves and returns as Marinette, cheerfully greeting Adrien and Kagami. Marinette manages to convince Kagami to try out again, since she could tell how enthusiastic M. D'Argencourt was at seeing her
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!!Episode 22 - Riposte - Tales of Kagami the Fencer
Plagg and Tikki watch a news video about Paris' new heroine, and comment on Pollen being let out. When Tikki proclaims her faith in Pollen being able to keep a low profile, said kwami promptly appears, greeting the other kwamis.\\\
After getting over the shock, Tikki quickly warns Pollen to be careful: if someone ever saw her, she could put Marigold's identity in danger! Plagg notes that it would be hard, since kwamis can't even say the names of their Miraculous' holders - only for Pollen to point at Marinette and ask if she shouldn't mention Marinette is her Queen. After bawling over the unfairness, Tikki sits with Pollen and tells her the rules she has to abide to, now that she's out on a permanent basis.\\\
Sabrina, meanwhile, is starting to get used to the idea that she's no longer friends with Chloé. Alix decides to check on her and invites both Sabrina and Lila to meet her roller derby team: looks like this might be the beginning of a new healthy friendship for Sabrina.\\\
The same can't be said of Chloé, however, who's put up a paper for "BFF Tryouts" that remains empty. She demands to know why no one signed on for the tryouts, everyone points out all the stuff she's done to them, which she obviously ignores - before someone covers her "Tryouts" paper with a poster. Her attempt to browbeat them dissolves quickly when it turns out to be M. D'Argencourt, who makes it clear he won't let her get her way.\\\
When Marinette checks the poster, she learns that there's tryouts for M. D'Argencourt's fencing class, and Adrien explains there's an open spot. As Venom is wielded quite similar to a fencing weapon, Marinette decides to give it a try.\\\
The next day, Marinette goes to the tryouts and finds Marc Anciel, one of Aurore and Mireille's classmates who likes writing. Marc explains about being allowed to witness the tryouts for references for writing scenes, as long as there's no disruption.\\\
Cue disruption in the form of Chloé, who gets quickly warned against being a distraction. Chloé angrily asks why Marc is allowed, but Marinette defends Marc (and corrects her pronouns when she learns Marc is non-binary).\\\
Tryouts begin: each candidate must fight one of the veterans, and the best will earn the only free spot. When it's Marinette's turn to fight Adrien, she manages to quickly defeat him, putting her at the front of the line.\\\
However, a new challenger approaches, and noisily demands to join the school. Noting her apparent lack of respect, M. D'Argencourt nonetheless allows her to try out - which she does by demanding to fight the school's best student. The fencing master orders Adrien forward.\\\
Adrien and the challenger begin their bout, but their skills are equaled, and no matter what each does, the score between them remains tied. The challenger requests to be unhooked from the machines, which Adrien agrees with. Much to his shock, the challenger immediately tackles him off the mat and keeps fighting: even though Marinette points out that the challenger just violated the rules, M. D'Argencourt lets the bout continue. Eventually, the two fencers walk upstairs and into the library, where they appear to tie yet again, with only Marc, Marinette, and Chloé as witnesses.\\\
M. D'Argencourt immediately demands the three witnesses to state who won. Marc panics and abstains; Marinette attempts to determine the rule breakage, but is quickly dismissed; and Chloé makes a blatantly partisan call for Adrien. When M. D'Argencourt proclaims it Adrien's victory, the challenger leaves. Adrien and Marinette follow, trying to get her to do a rematch since she's clearly the best of everyone that has tried out, but the girl states that there's no second chances in her family and leaves.\\\
Adrien and Marinette quickly get in the former's car to follow the girl, hoping to fix things, but it's too late, as Hawkmoth has detected her state of mind and sent a butterfly at her. Adrien and Marinette discover the girl is Kagami Tsurugi, the only child of the Tsurugi family, a prestigious lineage of fencers, which they realize is why she was so disappointed. Before they can do anything else, Adrien's car is sliced in half, separating the front from the back: Kagami has been akumatized into Riposte. As Scarlet Lady appears, Riposte attacks Adrien and Marinette, who are forced to split off: Marinette takes advantage of the distraction to transform into Marigold.\\\
While Scarlet Lady distracts (or attempts to distract) Riposte, Marigold arrives to get Adrien to a safe place. However, she gets distracted talking with him and doesn't notice Riposte is about to attack her, forcing Adrien to tackle Marigold out of the way, hurting his ankle in the process, for which Scarlet Lady berates Marigold. When she realizes her distraction got Adrien hurt, the Bee Heroine apologizes for her mistake - which causes Adrien's opinion of Marigold to improve.\\\
Riposte follows the group to the roof, and Scarlet Lady declares she will get Adrien away - only for Marigold to have already absconded with the boy before either Scarlet Lady or Akuma notice. Marigold takes Adrien to the Louvre Museum's Tutankhamun exposition, and gets him into a sarcophagus so Riposte won't find him. While he's quite distressed by this, he does gain further respect for Marigold when she states that Chat Noir will solve the problem as Paris' real hero.\\\
After Scarlet Lady stupidly leads Riposte to the Louvre, the Akuma attacks Scarlet, who's saved by Chat Noir's timely intervention. While Riposte continues her attack, Chat Noir has Scarlet Lady summon Lucky Charm - a radiator. Marigold quickly improvises an idea - trick Riposte into attacking, catching her sword with the radiator, and use Chat Noir's belt to break the sword blade.\\\
Kagami wakes up, and Marigold calms her down, while Chat Noir deals with a Scarlet Lady - successfully distracting her by pointing out she'll be seen with messed up hair. Chat Noir leaves, detransforms and returns to Marigold and Kagami: when he talks with Marigold, he compliments her, making her happy while he notices how cute she looks like.\\\
Marigold also leaves and returns as Marinette, cheerfully greeting Adrien and Kagami. Marinette manages to convince Kagami to try out again, since she could tell how enthusiastic M. D'Argencourt was at seeing her fence.\\\
Unfortunately, as Plagg points out later, Adrien missed something: since Kagami is taking the open spot, it means that ''Marinette'' won't be able to be in his team!
!!!This episode contains examples of:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: After being told that kwami can't say who their owners are since they can't speak their names, Pollen points at Marinette and asks if she shouldn't tell the others that she's her Queen.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Chat Noir snorts at Marigold's banter of him taking too long at the vet.
* BrutalHonesty: When Alix invites Lila to meet her roller derby team, she replies with a disgusted face while thinking about the sweat.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Kagami pushes Adrien off the mat (a ''corps-a-corps'') and leads him towards the library, making it impossible for M. D'Argencourt to give a ruling.
* CurbStompBattle: Marinette manages to beat Adrien with her first lunge at him.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Kagami demands to duel Adrien without machines in order to have more freedom - but, as Marc points out, she's sacrificing an impartial judge.
** At the end of the episode, Plagg points out that, by helping Kagami gain the chance to take up the position in M. D'Argencourt's class, Adrien missed the chance of having ''Marinette'' in his class.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Adrien and Marinette get distracted when Kagami takes off her fencing mask, both of them thinking she's cute as she gets on her car.
* FacePalm: Marigold's reaction when Scarlet Lady accidentally leads Riposte to the Louvre Museum, which is where the former is hiding Adrien.
* FlawExploitation: When pointing to Scarlet Lady that she's about to detransform in front of the cameras doesn't work, Chat Noir points out that the cameras will catch her with messed up her. Scarlet Lady promptly screams all the way to an empty corridor
* HypocriticalHumor: When Kagami enters the gym to demand being allowed to join M. D'Argencourt's school, [[AttentionWhore Chloé]] complains about her being a noisy show off.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Just after Tikki stated she trusted Pollen's ability to keep a low profile, Pollen shows up in Chloé's bag, cheerfully greeting both kwamis.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Marinette defends non-binary Marc from Chloé, she accidentally uses male pronouns to refer to them. After Marc mentions this, she immediately corrects herself.
* MuggingTheMonster: Chloé crows about Kagami knowing to listen to her superiors. Kagami replies by stabbing her foil into the concrete ground just a few centimeters away from Chloé's foot.
* NotSoStoic: Kagami's stoic image is broken when Marinette makes a disgusted face after Kagami refers to Chloé as Marinette's friend, making the Japanese girl snort.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Sabrina has a bit of a hard time adjusting to her post-Chloé life. Fortunately, Alix is willing to help.
* OcularGushers: Tikki's reaction when she learns Pollen's wielder is Marinette.
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When Chloé asks why no one signed on for her "BFF Tryouts", everyone else replies reminding her of all the stuff she's done to them. [[HypocriticalHumor Chloé angrily asks who asked them.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: When Chloé states Adrien was the winner, it's obvious she's only doing it because it's Adrien, but the author points out that, regardless of the rules violations that would have disqualified Kagami, the winner had been Adrien.
* SkewedPriorities: When Kagami pushes Adrien off the mat (an obvious violation of the rules), M. D'Argencourt exclaims that this is ''real'' fencing and lets the bout continue.
* StealthHiBye: Marigold manages to sneak away with Adrien when Scarlet Lady was right next to her AND Riposte was looking in their direction.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: One of the captions establishes that Marinette wants to learn fencing "not for any '''particular''' reason".
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: {{Subverted}}. When Marigold comes to get Adrien out of the way, she gets distracted and doesn't notice Riposte is about to attack her.
* VillainHasAPoint: Scarlet Lady berates Marigold for getting Adrien hurt - which, for once, she's right about, since it was Marigold getting distracted that led to Adrien's injury.
* WellDoneDaughterGal: Kagami turns out to be this.
* WhenSheSmiles: When Adrien compliments Marigold's skills, she blushes and smiles. [[ShipTease Adrien notes she looks cute.]]
* WreckedWeapon: How Riposte is finally defeated.
Plagg and Tikki watch a news video about Paris' new heroine, and comment on Pollen being let out. When Tikki proclaims her faith in Pollen being able to keep a low profile, said kwami promptly appears, greeting the other kwamis.\\\
After getting over the shock, Tikki quickly warns Pollen to be careful: if someone ever saw her, she could put Marigold's identity in danger! Plagg notes that it would be hard, since kwamis can't even say the names of their Miraculous' holders - only for Pollen to point at Marinette and ask if she shouldn't mention Marinette is her Queen. After bawling over the unfairness, Tikki sits with Pollen and tells her the rules she has to abide to, now that she's out on a permanent basis.\\\
Sabrina, meanwhile, is starting to get used to the idea that she's no longer friends with Chloé. Alix decides to check on her and invites both Sabrina and Lila to meet her roller derby team: looks like this might be the beginning of a new healthy friendship for Sabrina.\\\
The same can't be said of Chloé, however, who's put up a paper for "BFF Tryouts" that remains empty. She demands to know why no one signed on for the tryouts, everyone points out all the stuff she's done to them, which she obviously ignores - before someone covers her "Tryouts" paper with a poster. Her attempt to browbeat them dissolves quickly when it turns out to be M. D'Argencourt, who makes it clear he won't let her get her way.\\\
When Marinette checks the poster, she learns that there's tryouts for M. D'Argencourt's fencing class, and Adrien explains there's an open spot. As Venom is wielded quite similar to a fencing weapon, Marinette decides to give it a try.\\\
The next day, Marinette goes to the tryouts and finds Marc Anciel, one of Aurore and Mireille's classmates who likes writing. Marc explains about being allowed to witness the tryouts for references for writing scenes, as long as there's no disruption.\\\
Cue disruption in the form of Chloé, who gets quickly warned against being a distraction. Chloé angrily asks why Marc is allowed, but Marinette defends Marc (and corrects her pronouns when she learns Marc is non-binary).\\\
Tryouts begin: each candidate must fight one of the veterans, and the best will earn the only free spot. When it's Marinette's turn to fight Adrien, she manages to quickly defeat him, putting her at the front of the line.\\\
However, a new challenger approaches, and noisily demands to join the school. Noting her apparent lack of respect, M. D'Argencourt nonetheless allows her to try out - which she does by demanding to fight the school's best student. The fencing master orders Adrien forward.\\\
Adrien and the challenger begin their bout, but their skills are equaled, and no matter what each does, the score between them remains tied. The challenger requests to be unhooked from the machines, which Adrien agrees with. Much to his shock, the challenger immediately tackles him off the mat and keeps fighting: even though Marinette points out that the challenger just violated the rules, M. D'Argencourt lets the bout continue. Eventually, the two fencers walk upstairs and into the library, where they appear to tie yet again, with only Marc, Marinette, and Chloé as witnesses.\\\
M. D'Argencourt immediately demands the three witnesses to state who won. Marc panics and abstains; Marinette attempts to determine the rule breakage, but is quickly dismissed; and Chloé makes a blatantly partisan call for Adrien. When M. D'Argencourt proclaims it Adrien's victory, the challenger leaves. Adrien and Marinette follow, trying to get her to do a rematch since she's clearly the best of everyone that has tried out, but the girl states that there's no second chances in her family and leaves.\\\
Adrien and Marinette quickly get in the former's car to follow the girl, hoping to fix things, but it's too late, as Hawkmoth has detected her state of mind and sent a butterfly at her. Adrien and Marinette discover the girl is Kagami Tsurugi, the only child of the Tsurugi family, a prestigious lineage of fencers, which they realize is why she was so disappointed. Before they can do anything else, Adrien's car is sliced in half, separating the front from the back: Kagami has been akumatized into Riposte. As Scarlet Lady appears, Riposte attacks Adrien and Marinette, who are forced to split off: Marinette takes advantage of the distraction to transform into Marigold.\\\
While Scarlet Lady distracts (or attempts to distract) Riposte, Marigold arrives to get Adrien to a safe place. However, she gets distracted talking with him and doesn't notice Riposte is about to attack her, forcing Adrien to tackle Marigold out of the way, hurting his ankle in the process, for which Scarlet Lady berates Marigold. When she realizes her distraction got Adrien hurt, the Bee Heroine apologizes for her mistake - which causes Adrien's opinion of Marigold to improve.\\\
Riposte follows the group to the roof, and Scarlet Lady declares she will get Adrien away - only for Marigold to have already absconded with the boy before either Scarlet Lady or Akuma notice. Marigold takes Adrien to the Louvre Museum's Tutankhamun exposition, and gets him into a sarcophagus so Riposte won't find him. While he's quite distressed by this, he does gain further respect for Marigold when she states that Chat Noir will solve the problem as Paris' real hero.\\\
After Scarlet Lady stupidly leads Riposte to the Louvre, the Akuma attacks Scarlet, who's saved by Chat Noir's timely intervention. While Riposte continues her attack, Chat Noir has Scarlet Lady summon Lucky Charm - a radiator. Marigold quickly improvises an idea - trick Riposte into attacking, catching her sword with the radiator, and use Chat Noir's belt to break the sword blade.\\\
Kagami wakes up, and Marigold calms her down, while Chat Noir deals with a Scarlet Lady - successfully distracting her by pointing out she'll be seen with messed up hair. Chat Noir leaves, detransforms and returns to Marigold and Kagami: when he talks with Marigold, he compliments her, making her happy while he notices how cute she looks like.\\\
Marigold also leaves and returns as Marinette, cheerfully greeting Adrien and Kagami. Marinette manages to convince Kagami to try out again, since she could tell how enthusiastic M. D'Argencourt was at seeing her fence.\\\
Unfortunately, as Plagg points out later, Adrien missed something: since Kagami is taking the open spot, it means that ''Marinette'' won't be able to be in his team!
!!!This episode contains examples of:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: After being told that kwami can't say who their owners are since they can't speak their names, Pollen points at Marinette and asks if she shouldn't tell the others that she's her Queen.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Chat Noir snorts at Marigold's banter of him taking too long at the vet.
* BrutalHonesty: When Alix invites Lila to meet her roller derby team, she replies with a disgusted face while thinking about the sweat.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Kagami pushes Adrien off the mat (a ''corps-a-corps'') and leads him towards the library, making it impossible for M. D'Argencourt to give a ruling.
* CurbStompBattle: Marinette manages to beat Adrien with her first lunge at him.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Kagami demands to duel Adrien without machines in order to have more freedom - but, as Marc points out, she's sacrificing an impartial judge.
** At the end of the episode, Plagg points out that, by helping Kagami gain the chance to take up the position in M. D'Argencourt's class, Adrien missed the chance of having ''Marinette'' in his class.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Adrien and Marinette get distracted when Kagami takes off her fencing mask, both of them thinking she's cute as she gets on her car.
* FacePalm: Marigold's reaction when Scarlet Lady accidentally leads Riposte to the Louvre Museum, which is where the former is hiding Adrien.
* FlawExploitation: When pointing to Scarlet Lady that she's about to detransform in front of the cameras doesn't work, Chat Noir points out that the cameras will catch her with messed up her. Scarlet Lady promptly screams all the way to an empty corridor
* HypocriticalHumor: When Kagami enters the gym to demand being allowed to join M. D'Argencourt's school, [[AttentionWhore Chloé]] complains about her being a noisy show off.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Just after Tikki stated she trusted Pollen's ability to keep a low profile, Pollen shows up in Chloé's bag, cheerfully greeting both kwamis.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Marinette defends non-binary Marc from Chloé, she accidentally uses male pronouns to refer to them. After Marc mentions this, she immediately corrects herself.
* MuggingTheMonster: Chloé crows about Kagami knowing to listen to her superiors. Kagami replies by stabbing her foil into the concrete ground just a few centimeters away from Chloé's foot.
* NotSoStoic: Kagami's stoic image is broken when Marinette makes a disgusted face after Kagami refers to Chloé as Marinette's friend, making the Japanese girl snort.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Sabrina has a bit of a hard time adjusting to her post-Chloé life. Fortunately, Alix is willing to help.
* OcularGushers: Tikki's reaction when she learns Pollen's wielder is Marinette.
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When Chloé asks why no one signed on for her "BFF Tryouts", everyone else replies reminding her of all the stuff she's done to them. [[HypocriticalHumor Chloé angrily asks who asked them.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: When Chloé states Adrien was the winner, it's obvious she's only doing it because it's Adrien, but the author points out that, regardless of the rules violations that would have disqualified Kagami, the winner had been Adrien.
* SkewedPriorities: When Kagami pushes Adrien off the mat (an obvious violation of the rules), M. D'Argencourt exclaims that this is ''real'' fencing and lets the bout continue.
* StealthHiBye: Marigold manages to sneak away with Adrien when Scarlet Lady was right next to her AND Riposte was looking in their direction.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: One of the captions establishes that Marinette wants to learn fencing "not for any '''particular''' reason".
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: {{Subverted}}. When Marigold comes to get Adrien out of the way, she gets distracted and doesn't notice Riposte is about to attack her.
* VillainHasAPoint: Scarlet Lady berates Marigold for getting Adrien hurt - which, for once, she's right about, since it was Marigold getting distracted that led to Adrien's injury.
* WellDoneDaughterGal: Kagami turns out to be this.
* WhenSheSmiles: When Adrien compliments Marigold's skills, she blushes and smiles. [[ShipTease Adrien notes she looks cute.]]
* WreckedWeapon: How Riposte is finally defeated.
