History Webcomic / DadVillainAU

** While he terrorizes the corrupt elite, Paris at large does not start learning about the existence of Viceroy until the charity ball arc. This coincides with Viceroy [[spoiler:Identifying Gabriel as Hawkmoth, right in front of Adrien]].

* GoodColorsEvilColors: Viceroy's attire is made up of [[PurpleIsPowerful dark purples]] and blacks, emphasizing that while he's nobler in nature than Hawkmoth, he's still using Nooroo's powers for less than heroic purposes. Similarly, Emelie sports a dark palette when transformed into [[spoiler:Mayura]] in order to drive home her innate selfishness.
* HasAType: PlayedForLaughs -- After seeing Nathalie take a ''long'', appreciative look at a shirtless Tom, who shares only one trait with Gabriel, Adrien frantically wonders whether she has a thing for single fathers. [[spoiler:He may not be that wrong, given the fact she has fallen for both Hawkmoth and Viceroy, in two different timelines, she may have thing for single dads who are also supervillians.]]

** While he terrorizes the corrupt elite, Paris at large does not start learning about the existence of Viceroy until the charity ball arc. This coincides with Viceroy [[spoiler:identifying Gabriel as Hawkmoth, right in front of Adrien]].

** Gabriel wished that the backlash from using the broken Peacock Miraculous would be directed onto others. Nooroo mamages to escape his grasp and finds his way into Tom's hands, arming somebody who becomes hellbent on tracking the one responsible for his own wife's death and making them ''pay'' for all their crimes.

* HasAType: PlayedForLaughs -- After seeing Nathalie take a ''long'', appreciative look at a shirtless Tom, who shares only one trait with Gabriel, Adrien frantically wonders whether she has a thing for single fathers. [[spoiler:he may not be that wrong, given the fact she has fallen for both Hawkmoth and Viceroy, in two different timelines, she may have thing for signle dads who are also supervillians.]]

* ThrowTheDogABone: After everything he endured at Gabriel's hands, Nooroo managed to escape the Agreste Manor in the new reality and make his way to the Dupain-Cheng bakery. While he's still being used by a villain, Tom treats him as more than just a vehicle to grant him powers, and lets him spend time hanging out with Marinette, who's very kind towards him as one of their "fairy guardians".

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: When Viceroy captures him, Gabriel is all too happy to assume he'll be willing to make a deal with him, not realizing Viceroy is actually intending to render him down to subatomic particles. He also seems completley baffled as to why Adrien is so horrified by the horrible things that he's admitting to, which would be disturbing even without Adrien's knowledge of the old

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: When Viceroy captures him, Gabriel is all too happy to assume he'll be willing to make a deal with him, not realizing Viceroy is actually intending to render him down to subatomic particles.

** He also only wished that ''Emile'' using the Peacock would cause the damage to transfer to Ladybug and her loved ones, so Colt Fathom still died from the consequences of using it to have Felix, and Gabriel can't use it himself either.

* MoralMyopia: Gabriel Agreste firmly believes that his vendetta against Marinette and RevengeByProxy is "justified" by the fact she got in the way of his goals in the original timeline.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Emelie turns out to be the sort of person who expects to be the center of the universe -- everything revolves around ''her'' and what ''she'' wants. Perhaps best exemplified by her reaction to learning the AwfulTruth about what her husband has done: haughtily claiming that ''her judgment'' will prove more devastating than anything anyone else could do.

* MoralMyopia: Gabriel Agreste thinks himself in the right of ruining Ladybug's life and that of her relatives just because she opposed him in the previous timeline.

* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: Despite how Ladybug ''doesn't'' exist in the new reality, Gabriel still despises her enough to have devoted his Wish to making her miserable and ruining her life.

* HasAType: PlayedForLaughs -- After seeing Nathalie take a ''long'', appreciative look at a shirtless Tom, who shares only one trait with Gabriel, Adrien frantically wonders whether she has a thing for single fathers.

** PlayedWith; while Nooroo had informed Tom that his wife's illness was caused by an outside force, that's not ''confirmed'' for him until an incident where [[spoiler:''Marinette'' gets hit by the magical backlash and is saved by Caspases taking her into his pocket dimension]]. While he had prepared ahead of time for this possibility, he's still quietly devestated to learn Nooroo was indeed correct.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Emelie turns out to be the sort of person who expects to be the center of the universe -- everything revolves around ''her'' and what ''she'' wants. Perhaps best exemplified by her reaction to learning the AwfulTruth about what her husband has done: haughtily claiming that ''her judgment'' will prove more devestating than anything anyone else could do.

* PragmaticVillainy: Tom/Viceroy employ this heavily and prefers it. Until Marinette's health was directly threatened he used no akumas at all, relying on blackmail and coercion to get what he wants. It's even made clear that he would have never akumatized anyone at all until he found out who Hawkmoth was until Gabriel and Emelie forced his hand. Even then he is laser focused on them specifically, showing no intention on harming anyone else.

* RevengeByProxy: Gabriel didn't just Wish for Ladybug to suffer the burden of the magical backlash from the Peacock Pin. He specifically Wished that her ''loved ones'' would be impacted as well.

* TraumaCongaLine: Adrien wakes up in the new reality thinking that the canon events were just a dream, only to realize that the memories were all too real. Then he has to face the fact that not only is his father still an {{abusive|Parents}} {{jerkass}}, his mother is a ControlFreak whose treatment of him is similarly abusive couple with CondescendingCompassion. He checks up on Marinette and learns her mother's dead and she doesn't always attend Françoise Dupont because she needs to work at the bakery to help her father. Then he's present when Marinette suffers the backlash of his mother using the Peacock Miraculous - and he has a flashback to how the same thing happened to his mother in the original reality, leading to him becoming Akumatized into Caspases. During the charity ball, [[spoiler:not only does he learn that his father was Hawkmoth, he also realizes that Marinette is Ladybug and that Sabine Cheng was killed because of his father's Wish - and then his mother uses the Peacock Miraculous and ''he'' starts to suffer the backlash]].

'''Emelie:''' ...He's my responsibility, and my judgment would devestate him more than any revenge you could concoct, Butterfly holder. Now please--\\

** Chloé's campaign of constant cruelty and harassment contributes to Marinette dramatically dialing back her attendence of Francoise Dupont after Sabine's passing. When she first finds out about this, Chloé [[EvilGloating relishes her victory]].

** Gabriel's revenge scheme hinges entirely upon Emelie's willingness to use the Peacock Pin's powers despite how the Miraculous is clearly broken. If she was more cautious or considerate, or looked into getting the Pin repaired, there wouldn't be any magical backlash in the first place. So while Emelie may be an UnwittingPawn, his plan simply wouldn't work if she didn't act just the way he anticipated.

* {{Blackmail}}: A key part of Tom's M.O.: as Viceroy, he uses his butterflies to gather ''compromising information'' about the upper crust of Paris and bend them to his will. In order to protect his secret identity, he doesn't ''personally'' conduct all of this blackmail himself, recruiting various disgruntled employees and others to do so in his stead.

** Gabriel's curse was meant to aim at anyone the old Ladybug loves. [[spoiler:Adrien is part of the list...]]

* ExactWords: Adrien, Kagami, Felix, and the Kwami all remember the new timeline because Gabriel wished that no people would remember the old one, and he [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman doesn't view any of them as people]]. This also applies to Fang, Jagged Stone's pet crocodile.

* HeroicBSOD: Adrien has a major one during the charity ball upon learning that [[spoiler:his father was Hawkmoth, realizing that Marinette was Ladybug and that his creation inadvertantly contributed to Sabine's death]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Rolland tried to take advantage of Sabine's illness to force the Dupain-Cheng bakery to follow ''his'' recipes. Not only did he not foresee the possibility of Marinette standing up to him, he's caught completely flat-footed when she bluntly points out that all of their customers expect bread made with ''rice flour'', not ''wheat''.

* SayingTooMuch: Happens at the charity ball when Gabriel ''demands'' to know who commissioned the selection of Miraculous-based food, specifically referring to Ladybug and Chat Noir -- names that would be ''meaningless'' to anyone who didn't recall the original reality.

* SassySecretary: When confronted about possibly dating Tom and being told the don't approve of it, Nathalie Replies that as her employers, they don't have a say on her love life, something that the Elder Agrestes don't like.

** Rolland decided to use Sabine's illness as an opportunity to force ''his'' methods onto Marinette, insulting her parents and implying he didn't believe her mother was ''actually'' sick. He didn't anticipate Marinette standing up for her family and kicking him out of the bakery.

'''Marinette:''' ''(brandishing a large kitchen knife)'' ''[[ImpliedDeathThreat Give me your order before I put YOU on the menu.]]''

* SignificantWardrobeShift: In an effort to signal others that might recall the original timeline, Kagami and Felix have both incorporated red and black into their wardrobes. Specifically aiming to subtly mimic Ladybug's signature attire ''without'' alerting Gabriel to the fact that they've retained their memories.

* TakeAThirdOption: Duusu points out that if Gabriel actually cared about his wife's safety when using the Peacock Pin, he could use his knowledge of the original timeline and resources to fix the Miraculous. Gabriel claims that he didn't retain ''that'' little tidbit of information, but also makes clear that he just wants Ladybug to ''suffer'' for having ever opposed him.

** After how both of the Agrestes have taken advantage of her unrequited feelings, Nathalie gets revenge by play-flirting with Tom in front of them.