Line #2 Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E21Pixelator


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pixelator_lq_742.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Look into the lens...]]
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4	->''"Pixelator, I am Hawk Moth. I'm giving you the power to capture your hero's smile... ''forever''. But in return, you'll need to do some capturing for me as well."''
5	-->--'''Hawk Moth'''
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7	Vincent Aza, a photographer who is turned down from taking pictures of Jagged Stone, gets turned into a super villain by Hawk Moth with the ability to trap people within pictures.
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10	!!Tropes:
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12	* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Fang acts more dog like here than in "Guitar Villain" with his slobbering tongue, wagging tail and playing dead.
13	* AndIMustScream: Pixelator's victims, who can only get help if someone sees their photographs.
14	* AnArmAndALeg: Non-amputation, of course. Ladybug's right arm and leg get pixelated by the Pixelator during her battles with him, which is a problem since she's right-handed.
15	* BadassBystander:
16	** [[IntrepidReporter Nadja Chamack]], who manages to get an interview with Pixelator.
17	** Jagged Stone offering himself as a HeroicSacrifice.
18	* BatmanGambit: Ladybug tricks Pixelator into freeing everyone in exchange for a chance to see Jagged Stone. Hawk Moth protests, but it doesn't work.
19	* BlatantLies:
20	** Tikki is forced to pretend she's a cat when a civilian spots her and Marinette talking out in the open.
21	** Pixelator claims to be Chloé's fan. She completely buys it, even when he asks for her name.
22	* BrickJoke: Fang is shot into the PrisonDimension, and doesn't appear until Adrien and Chloé spot him there. He later shows up after some absence on a bed Sabrina is working on, causing her to faint.
23	* BullyingADragon: Chloé to the Pixelator when he walks in, mistaking him for a normal person. He proceeds to send her into a WhiteVoidRoom, along with Adrien who tries to save her.
24	* TheCakeIsALie: Pixelator's reaction to realizing that Ladybug wasn't going to give up Jagged Stone to him.
25	* CallForward: Every episode with Jagged Stone is explained here, as well as his praise for Ladybug and his pet, Fang.
26	* CallingYourAttacks: Attempted by Jagged Stone in a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokemon-like manner]] against Pixelator. It doesn't work.
27	* CharacterDevelopment: At first it seems Jagged doesn't treat people who serve him well, given he snaps at André for thinking Fang needs a bubble bath and chewing out Marinette for not getting the glasses he wants. By the end of the episode, however, he offers himself as a HeroicSacrifice to buy Ladybug time, wears the glasses that Marinette designs, and offers four concert tickets; one is for Marinette as a reward for her hard work.
28	* ChildishPillowFight: Alix and Ivan have one at the beginning of the episode.
29	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Discussion with Jagged Stone and Ladybug about Vincent.
30	-->'''Jaggged Stone:''' He has come to every one of my shows this year. He also sent me stacks of letters, gone through my trash; he even followed my mother to her weekly bingo night. \
31	'''Ladybug:''' How creepy...\
32	'''Jaggged Stone:''' Uh, not really, it's just a bunch of elderly ladies getting together having fun.
33	* CoolShades: The origin for the shades from "Guitar Villain" are explained here.
34	* CulturalTranslation: In the English dub, Jagged's mom plays bingo rather than poker.
35	* CurbStompBattle: The Pixelator quickly makes short work of Ladybug when she's forced to use only one arm in battle before eventually getting her leg pixelated.
36	* DareToBeBadass: Tikki tells Marinette this whens she can't find the sunglasses that Jagged Stone wants. This motivates Marinette to create the sunglasses.
37	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Jagged Stone plays the ending music for the episode on the piano just as the episode ends.
38	* DoubleTake: A mother and baby do one when they see Tikki talking.
39	* DramaPreservingHandicap: Ladybug's arm and leg get pixelated.
40	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: André actually punishes Chloé for goofing off and not doing any work by not letting her get a concert ticket like the rest of the students as a reward for the day's work. In nearly every other instance of her misbehaving, she assumes that he will enable her to get away with anything, and at most, simply won't give her any punishment other than not getting what she wants.
41	* FaintInShock: Sabrina faints when Fang reappears in front of her on the bed she's making.
42	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Ivan and Alix are pillow-fighting in Chloé's room. They stop when Miss Bustier, Sabrina and the maid catch onto them.
43	* HeroicSacrifice: Although Jagged had said that he should go out to see Pixelator because going on live television will make him look good, he offers himself as a subject to Pixelator right when the latter is about to pixelize Ladybug. This buys Ladybug enough time to use her Lucky Charm and Cat to use Cataclysm to free everyone.
44	* ILied: Ladybug does this as part of her BatmanGambit to Pixelator. To say he gets furious is an understatement.
45	* IOweYouMyLife: Jagged at the end of the episode writes a song for the girl who saved him: Ladybug.
46	* ImpossibleTask: Jagged wants a specific pair of sunglasses with the lenses shaped like the Eiffel Tower. After Marinette is unable to find them, Tikki encourages her to make a pair.
47	* IncompetentGuardAnimal: Fang consistently act like a lovable pet, so when the titular villain Pixelator breaks into Jagged's hotel room with the intent of kidnapping him, Jagged tries to have Fang attack him, only for the crocodile to roll over, wanting a belly-rub.
48	* JerkassHasAPoint: While Jagged Stone did dismiss Vincent rudely, Vincent was stalking him and he was rightly annoyed.
49	* LaserGuidedKarma:
50	** The Pixelator gets temporarily trapped within his own dimension due to Ladybug's Lucky Charm.
51	** Ladybug saving Jagged Stone and protecting him leads to him writing a song dedicated to her.
52	** Marinette putting in the extra work to get the sunglasses earns her tickets to Jagged Stone's concert, and to Adrien's ''first'' concert.
53	** Chloé in contrast, who fixed the assignments to spend a day at the front desk with Adrien, does not receive the tickets. To add insult to injury, it's her father making the judgment.
54	* LivingMacGuffin: Jagged Stone for the Pixelator.
55	* LoonyFan: Vincent Asa is one for Jagged Stone, even going through his trash and following his mother to her poker games.
56	* MirrorsReflectEverything: Ladybug's Lucky Charm conjures a pocket mirror which she uses to reflect Pixelator's beam back at him, trapping him in his own PrisonDimension.
57	* MoralityPet: Even though Jagged Stone starts off as a {{Jerkass}}, he still loves dearly his pet crocodile.
58	* NiceToTheWaiter: It's part of Jagged Stone's CharacterDevelopment arc, where he starts the episode by chewing out people for failing him and ends it by wearing Marinette's glasses and dedicating a song to Ladybug.
59	* OhCrap:
60	** Adrien when he recognizes Pixelator as an akuma who targets Chloé.
61	** Ladybug has this when her arm gets pixelated.
62	* OhCrapSmile: Tikki offers one to a mother and baby that see her talking, before saying "Meow?"
63	* OhNoNotAgain: Cat Noir says this almost word for word when he gets sent to the PrisonDimension again.
64	* OneSteveLimit: Very unusual Aversion; Vincent shares name with ''another photographer'' who showed up in two episodes, but was never akumatized.
65	* {{Paparazzi}}: Vincent Aza. This is what leads him to become a villain.
66	* PairTheSpares: Minor characters Mireille Caquet ([[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E01StormyWeather Aurore's rival]]) and Théo Barbot ([[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E03Copycat ex-Copycat]]) are seen embracing each other when trapped in Pixelator's picture.
67	* PrisonDimension: Where everyone goes when the Pixelator shoots them.
68	* RoboCam: Pixelator, what with having camera in his eye.
69	* ShoutOut: The scene where Alec meets Pixelator is similar to one from ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''.
70	* {{Squee}}: Marinette's reaction when hearing that Jagged Stone wrote a song for Ladybug.
71	* StalkerShrine: Vincent Aza has one of Jagged Stone. His victims also appear there.
72	* SuddenLackOfSignal: Inside of Pixelator's pictures phones don't work.
73	* TakingTheBullet: Subverted; Adrien tries when he sees that the Pixelator targets Chloé, but he only gets trapped with the later in a PrisonDimension.
74	* TooDumbToLive: Given that akumatized people have attacked before, you'd think that Chloé would A) realize that Pixelator is probably akumatized and B) stay as far away from him as possible. Instead, she lets him take her picture.
75	* VerbalBackspace: Ladybug and Jagged Stone do this when commenting on her middle school in front of the principal.
76	* VillainOverride: [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E09TheEvillustrator Once again]], Hawk Moth is forced to take control of his victim to remind them of their goal. This time, he's a lot more forceful about it, causing considerable pain and doing so more than once to make the point.
77	* WallRun: Ladybug shows once again her gravity-defying skills by running on the walls of the hotel room to escape the Pixelator's shots.
78	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Vincent Aza is nowhere to be seen after being freed from the akuma.
79	* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Cat Noir's Cataclysm frees everyone from the PrisonDimension easily.
80	* WhiteVoidRoom: Where the Pixelator's victims end up, and where he appears before Ladybug purifies him.

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