Line #54 Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E19Reflekta


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Take a good look at me, because I am your future face!]]
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4	->''"Reflekta, I am Hawk Moth. From now on you will be the ''only'' one people see. No one will ever ignore you again. However, you must do me a favor in return, when the time comes."''
5	-->--'''Hawk Moth'''
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7	On class picture day, the photographer puts EmoTeen Juleka next to Adrien, which annoys Chloé. Juleka, already camera-shy due to having bad luck with cameras, breaks down when Chloé locks her in the girls' bathroom and causes her to miss the photo. Hawk Moth corrupts Juleka into Reflekta, an akuma that turns everyone into a mirror image of her.
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10	!!Tropes:
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12	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Ladybug can't stop giggling at how Cat Noir looks after Reflekta changes him.
13	* AgonyOfTheFeet: Cat Noir's not very fond of the platform pumps that come with his Reflekta transformation.
14	* AngelsPose: Nino, Kim and Adrien do one around Juleka in one on photos they take together at the end of episode.
15	* BatmanGambit: Ladybug lures Reflekta to the TV studio by announcing a plan.
16	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Reflekta was born out of Juleka's disappointment at not getting a good class picture. Lucky Charm turns out to be a camera, which Ladybug uses to blind Reflekta after Cat Noir turns off the lights in the TV studios.
17	* BlindingCameraFlash: Weaponized by Lucky Charm.
18	* BroughtDownToBadass: Cat Noir continues helping Ladybug even after Reflekta took his powers, even saving her twice.
19	* CallingYourAttacks: This gets Cat in trouble; just as he's about to use Cataclysm, Reflekta changes him and depowers him.
20	* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Marinette tries to delete the photo of her class so that the photographer will retake the photo with Juleka, and Chloé and Sabrina immediately catch her.
21	* CoolButInefficient: Reflekta's only superpower (aside from strength and speed) is the ability to make everyone else look just like her. Using this power on Ladybug and Cat Noir however makes her unable to get their miraculous. Funny, considering Hawk Moth gave her these powers for the sole purpose of getting these miraculouses. DidntThinkThisThrough, did we, Hawk Moth?
22	* DirtyCoward: The mayor. He tries to say Ladybug will stop Reflekta, but after getting transformed he reluctantly helps her since she [[YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo promised to change him back]].
23	* FreezeFrameBonus: The first bad picture in the PhotoMontage has several characters with different appearances than usual. Max has an afro and his shirt is blue, Marinette is wearing her hair in a single bun and has blue pants, Rose has longer hair like Marinette's current style, and Kim's shirt is yellow.
24	* GenderBender: All male victims of Reflekta suffer from this, though it is barely acknowledged with everybody being similarly upset about their new appearances.
25	* HostageForMacGuffin: Rather, MacGuffin for MacGuffin. When Chloé threatens to tattle on Marinette with video proof of the latter breaking into the principal's office, Marinette in turn threatens to delete the picture of Chloé with Adrien in exchange for the incriminating phone. Once she has it, Sabrina swipes the digital card from the camera, only for Marinette to grab it when they're distracted.
26	* KarmaHoudini: Marinette for stealing the digital card, and Chloé for locking Juleka in the girl's bathroom. Chloé's only punishment, which she enforces on herself, is that she's not in the new class photos, while Marinette deletes the evidence of her theft and returns the card.
27	* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Cat has to when turned into Reflekta's mirror image. He lampshades the ImpracticallyFancyOutfit, heels and all. Very rare male example.
28	* KickTheDog: Chloé and Sabrina lock Juleka in the girls' bathroom so that Chloé will take her spot next to Adrien and she'll miss the picture.
29	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Juleka's jinx extends to the Season 1 intro sequence, where her face is mostly covered by Nino's hand.
30	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Reflekta changing Cat into her mirror image ends up making his Miraculous vanish, before he could use an attack that would cause his transformation to run out. Hawk Moth is unamused when this happens.
31	* NoSell:
32	** Ladybug's yoyo against Reflekta, who casually deflects every throw with her beams.
33	** Reflekta's transforming blast against Cat Noir after he's already transformed.
34	* PhotoMontage: One of these is used to show Juleka's horrible luck with pictures. In order:
35	** Max raises his hand and blocks her face.
36	** A pigeon flies in front of her face.
37	** She's halfway out of the frame, seemingly being pulled by someone else at the worst moment.
38	* PictureDay: The backdrop of the episode is the class photo being taken.
39	* PokeThePoodle: Considering what Chloé did, Reflekta changing her into a mirror image and saying she looked better that way counts as this.
40	* PolitenessJudo: After spending most of the episode trying to erase the previous class photo, Marinette decided to simply ask the photographer to shoot another one.
41	* RunningGag: This is the [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E03Copycat third]] [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E13TheMime time]] Marinette had to steal someone's phone.
42	* ShoutOut:
43	** Reflekta's plan to turn everyone into her own image, sans becoming exactly like her, is similar to the Master's plan in ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]".
44	** One of the photos the kids take with Juleka at the end of the episode resembles the iconic Series/CharliesAngels pose.
45	* ShutUpHannibal: The photographer doesn't know who Chloé's father is and only cares that she's acting like a brat about where she's sitting in the photo.
46	* SkywardScream: "WHERE IS CHLOÉ BOURGEOIS?!?"
47	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Ladybug recognizes Cat Noir among Reflekta's copies when he calls her "My Lady".
48	* TakingTheBullet: Cat Noir does it [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E04Timebreaker once]] [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E10DarkCupid again]], but with less unfortunate results, since he's already affected by Reflekta's power at this point.
49	* WhatTheHellHero: Tikki chides Marinette for stealing the digital card since it's not ethical, even if she has good intentions.
50	* VoicesAreMental: When Reflekta transforms someone, they retain their voices.
51	* ZergRush: Cat Noir recruits the school students to charge Reflekta en masse so that she doesn't steal Ladybug's Miraculous.

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