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Season 1

    Origins Part 1: Tales of Chloé the Ladybug 
  • Marinette performing a Diving Save on Alya.
  • Scarlet Lady (accidentally) manages to knock out Stoneheart with a kick when she overhears Chat Noir suggest that Marinette should be a hero instead.
  • Marinette quickly steps up as the leader and comes up with a plan to defeat the akuma, all while as a civilian.

    Origins Part 2: Tales of Chat Noir the Exhausted 
  • Adrien finally decides he won't let his father boss him around anymore, giving Gabriel a Precision F-Strike via Nathalie.
  • Chat Noir jumping to save Marinette as she falls to her death.
  • Marinette, even as a civilian, tells off Hawkmoth in her "The Reason You Suck" Speech. This also motivates her to stand up to Chloé.
  • Adrien tells off Chloé, saying that they can't be friends if she continues to act like a bully.

    Stormy Weather: Tales of Aurore the Weather Girl 
  • Adrien's photographer isn't at all intimidated or impressed by Chloé throwing her weight around, even sassing her for her poor fashion choices. Given how used she is to getting her way, it can be assumed that few have ever stood up to her like this.
  • A villainous moment when Stormy Weather manages to defeat both Chat Noir and Scarlet Lady (working together for once) in the span of four panels: One to notice the charge, one to beat Chat, one to beat Scar, and one to perform a Flawless Victory pose. If she hadn't promptly gotten distracted by her own goals, Hawkmoth might have won right then.
  • Stormy Weather figures out all on her own that the weather girl contest was rigged and gets her revenge in the creepiest way possible.
  • Chat Noir defeats Stormy Weather by snatching Scarlet Lady's yoyo, looping its string around his baton, and using it like a makeshift fishing line to snag Stormy Weather's leg and pull her to the ground.
  • Mireille reveals on social media that the weather girl contest was rigged, causing Alec to be flooded with calls from Aurore's furious fans.

    The Bubbler: Tales of Nino the Party Planner 

    Lady Wifi: Tales of Alya the Journalist 
  • Marlena Césaire gets Alya's punishment lifted after learning that her daughter had been suspended for a full week, something that was handed down before the school even contacted her. She must've been pretty scary if Principal Damocles decided he'd rather risk the mayor's wrath than hers.
  • Chloé receives some Laser-Guided Karma for what she did to Alya courtesy of Tikki, who hides Chloé's diamond scrunchie and ruins her curling iron.

    Mr. Pigeon: Tales of Xavier the Bird Man 
  • Sabrina probably deserves credit for pointing out to Chloé that it'd be easier to use one of the many designs Marinette had balled up and thrown away rather than going after the one she plans on entering in the contest. Had Chloé listened to her, she probably wouldn't have gotten disqualified.
  • Like in canon, Marinette promptly proves that Chloé was the one who copied her design by pointing out how both hats have her name on them. Here, though, she also points out how she has the original sketches. Alya even outright calls Chloé an idiot for thinking she could get away with her plagiarism.
  • The judging panel quickly shuts down Chloé's attempt to scapegoat Sabrina and tell her that not only is she disqualified, but she's also banned from all future contests involving the Gabriel brand.

    The Pharaoh: Tales of Jalil the Conspiracy Theorist 
  • Alix is surprisingly well-versed in Egyptology, especially compared to her brother Jalil (which, to be fair, isn't saying much), whose various inaccurate statements she repeatedly corrects. The captions even explain that she's doing her best to prevent her brother from messing everyone up on their upcoming test.
  • Alix deactivates the Louvre's security system to free the heroes and Marinette so that they can stop the Pharaoh.

    Rogercop: Tales of Roger the Police Officer 

Season 2

    Darkblade: Tales of Armand the Knight 
  • Chat Noir defeats Darkblade in a sword fight—by countering a move he had only seen that morning.
  • After getting her hand trapped in Marinette's diary box, Sabrina reaches her Rage Breaking Point with Chloé and mouths off to her, probably for the first time ever. Then, when Chloé refuses to believe her about how she got her hand stuck in the box, Sabrina outright yells at her.
  • When Chloé tries to scapegoat Sabrina, the latter glares at her "best friend" rather than just meekly take it like she did previously. Moreover, the class, led by Alix, defends Sabrina, telling Chloé that they all know that she was the one who put Sabrina up to it.
  • Chloé gets angrily called out for abandoning her classmates during Darkblade's attack... by Rose of all people!

    The Gamer: Tales of Max the Pro Gamer 
  • Unlike in the show, Marinette stands up for herself and refuses to be shoehorned as being in the wrong:
    • When Alya accuses her of not taking the tournament seriously, Marinette points out that she would only be selected to represent the school in the tournament by proving herself as the best. Alya isn't seen bringing this up again, indicating it was an Armor-Piercing Question.
    • She later reminds an akumatized Max that he lost twice while calling him out for being a Sore Loser.
  • Sabine not only refuses to let Chloé go to Marinette's room, recognizing her as her daughter's bully, but overcharges her for her usual cookies order.

    Reflekta: Tales of Juleka the Goth 
  • Sabrina stands up to Chloé and refuses to help her with her latest bullying scheme. She manages to get in some snark at her "best friend" as well by pointing out that Chloé's "picture with Adrien" actually shows him shoving her off of him.
  • Adrien also gets a chance to call Chloé out and even roughly pushes her off of him as the class photo is being taken, clearing baffling her.
  • Rose performing a Diving Save on Sabrina.
  • Adrien cleverly detransforms while hidden in a locker and hands the ring to Plagg right before getting zapped by Reflekta. His subsequent reactions imply that he realized he could still transform over the Reflekta form.
  • Marinette gets to use the Black Cat Miraculous, becoming the heroine Maotif.
  • Maotif doing a maneuver worthy of Splinter Cell to sneak behind Reflekta and stop her.

    Timebreaker: Tales of Alix the Skater 
  • Marinette swiftly grabbing Timebreaker and knocking her to the ground, citing gùn training her mother had her undergo.
  • Marinette manages to essentially blackmail Scarlet Lady into fighting by recording her doing nothing (though this sadly gets the Ladybug heroine tagged).
  • Though Marinette is given the chance to sit out the fight, she still races back to help Chat Noir.

    Simon Says: Tales of Simon the Hypnotist 
  • The reveal that Aurore basically has Alec wrapped around her thumb as a result of how his attempt to rig the weather girl competition was exposed. By the episode's end, this is true for Nino, too, thanks to Alec's antics with Gabriel. He even calls Alec out for complaining about an alleged lack of "fairness" after what the host put Simon through.
  • Nathalie in general. She single-handedly foils Scarlet Lady's attempts to be alone with Adrien (especially since he's (supposedly) showering), takes down Simon Says' brainwashed minions, and keeps Gabriel from jumping off the roof of the studio. To quote the author's note:
    Caption: Look Nino, when your boss is Gabriel I-Make-A-Living-On-Being-An-Asshole Agreste you learn how to defend yourself.

    Volpina: Tales of Lila the Fox 

    The Collector: Tales of Gabriel the TOP SECRET 

    La Befana: Tales of Gina the Witch 
  • Sabrina immediately accepts her assigned role of "Chloé wrangler" and later makes sure to undo all of her friend's sabotage. It might not seem like much, but she's come a long way from the submissive lackey to Chloé she was at the beginning.
  • After La Befana hits his Berserk Button of hurting Marinette, Chat Noir's rage is enough to actually make Scarlet Lady listen to him.

    Kung Food: Tales of Wang Cheng the Chef 

    Evillustrator: Tales of Nathaniel the Artist 

Season 3

    Vanisher: Tales of Sabrina the Invisible 

    Riposte: Tales of Kagami the Fencer 
  • Through a video that Plagg and Tikki watch inside Chloé's purse, we get to see a moment from Marigold's debut TV interview. It's captioned, "Bravo Marigold!" showing that she is off to a great start in the public eye.
  • Pollen manages to (accidentally) reveal Marigold's identity, using Loophole Abuse to bypass the inability of Kwamis to say the name of their holders' names.
  • When Chloé angrily asks why Marc is allowed to watch the fencing tryouts and she isn't, not only does Marinette state that Marc has permission, she also uses the proper pronouns for them after they correct her.
  • For her first-time fencing, Marinette actually does very well, managing to land a good hit on Adrien.
  • Kagami's Dramatic Entrance.
  • Marinette immediately identifies Kagami's corps-a-corps violation and correctly points out that the bout should be halted as a result. Too bad D'Argencourt doesn't listen to her.
  • Chloé taunts Kagami over losing due to the former's biased ruling, gloating that Kagami knows when to listen to "her superiors." Kagami then stabs the ground so hard, she actually makes a crack in it, causing Chloé to flinch. It's also unclear if Kagami was actually aiming for her foot or not.
  • When Marigold makes a major blunder in the initial Riposte fight (talking too much to Adrien about getting him to safety and missing an incoming attack by Riposte), Adrien has to do a Diving Save for her, injuring his ankle in the process. Marigold is mortified that he was injured protecting her when she was supposed to protect him and promises to do better. A cartoon "respect meter" shows she has gained a little respect in his eyes.
  • Marigold pulls off an Offscreen Moment of Awesome by getting Adrien away when they are cornered by Riposte on the rooftop. The two were within direct sight of Riposte, and Scarlet Lady was very close, ready to take Adrien away herself. Yet they managed to pull off a Stealth Hi/Bye, which would've taken amazing timing and sneakiness.
  • Chat Noir and Marigold coordinate much faster in this version, defeating Riposte before there is any threat to the sarcophagus where Adrien is supposedly hidden. To be fair, Scarlet Lady helps by providing a third opponent to knock around, as well as the Lucky Charm radiator they need to break the sword/arm (albeit reluctantly).
  • Adrien, pretending he watched the fight from the sidelines, compliments Marigold, saying, "You should give yourself more credit. I saw how helpful you were." Marigold blushes and replies, "Helpful?! Really?!" and Adrien thinks, "Cute."

    Captain Hardrock: Tales of Anarka the Pirate 
  • Chloé's tendency to invite herself to every event and expect to be allowed to stay is not welcome on the Liberty. Ivan's solution, instead of arguing with someone he KNOWS will not listen to anyone but herself, is to haul her off the boat and pull up the gangplank before she can react and get herself back on the houseboat, showing that he and everyone else is DONE tolerating her.
  • With Marinette not being obsessed with Adrien in this timeline, she shows her ability to focus on the task at hand (setting up for the concert) and avoids Alya's hints, even innocently reversing one on Alya, pointing out her friend's crush on Nino.
  • When Pollen is about to blurt out what she did to open the lock in a secret-identity-exposing answer to Luka's question, Marinette manages to grab the Kwami; shut her up, smoothly finish her sentence with a little "erm" to cover the Vocal Dissonance; and get out her guitar pick with the other hand to show Luka. It's a great feat of quick thinking.
  • Marigold gets another Dynamic Entry, freeing Scarlet Lady from the chains that just caught her. She gets no gratitude from Scar, however.
  • One to Captain Hardrock, who gets Chat pinned to the mast of the ship and prepares take his ring before Marigold and Scarlet Lady even notice.
  • The entire Kitty Section band and their friends (Luka, Rose, Juleka, Ivan, Nino, Alya, and Mylène) become Adaptational Badasses under Luka's lead. Using Chat Noir's extended baton as a steering pole, they force Captain Hardrock's ship to crash onto dry land. This also provides an opening for Chat Noir and Marigold to use the Lucky Charm chain against the akuma. Their action is not without cost; as Luka laments, "We're gonna be so sore tomorrow!"
  • After helping with three akumas in a row, Marigold gets recognized as a partner by Chat Noir and shares a fist-bump "Bien Joué!" with him, to her delight.
  • Roger finally gets even with Chloé for what happened in "Rogercop." He allows the band to play their music because, well, it is a music festival, which in turn recedes the violation order he issued. When Chloé objects and threatens to have her dad fire him (again), Roger informs her that he and Sabrina looked over things and realized the mayor doesn't have the jurisdiction to do that, complete with a shaded face as he tells her this. Chloé's Sweat Drops as he does this are both hilarious and cathartic.

    Syren: Tales of Ondine the Mermaid 

    Dark Cupid: Tales of Kim the Romantic 
  • Adrien's fan club immediately realizes that Chloé is trying to trick them using a fake autographed poster and call her pathetic for her stunt.
  • Scarlet Lady manages to stop Dark Cupid by throwing a candy heart at him before using her yo-yo to stop a brainwashed Marigold from stinging Chat Noir.
  • Once he's saved, Kim wastes no time indirectly calling Chloé out for ruining his gift to Ondine.

    Intermission: Tales of Marinette the Bee 
  • Sabrina (and implicitly Lila) is revealed to have a certain talent in roller derby.
  • While not concentrating on action and more Slice of Life, the ending has Chat Noir and Marigold discussing how Scarlet Lady isn't the intended owner of the Ladybug Miraculous. When it turns to the subject of if or when they defeat Hawkmoth, Chat doesn't think Scarlet Lady would give the Miraculous up willingly. Marigold's clenching her fist indicates that there will come a time in the future when the two true heroes of Paris will have to bring down Scar like any other villain.

    Animan: Tales of Otis the Zookeeper 
  • Though he unfortunately gets interrupted by Animan releasing the animals, Adrien finally tells Chloé off for intruding on their group activity when she wasn't invited. While Chloé completely misses (or chooses to ignore) the hint, Adrien makes it as clear as possible that he's considers her as nothing more than a Stalker with a Crush and doesn't want her there.
  • When trapping Animan in the bus doesn't work (because he rips the roof by transforming into a dinosaur), Marigold gives him a Non-Lethal K.O. with Venom, handily defeating him. Even the caption for this makes it clear how fast it went.

    Puppeteer: Tales of Manon the Doll Master 
  • Nadja is apparently such an Almighty Mom that even while akumatized, her daughter is afraid of getting into trouble.
  • Multimouse dominates the fight. First, she grabs the Lucky Charm electrical extension cord and whirls it, along with her jump rope, to make twin shields the villains cannot penetrate, mocking, "That all you got?" Then, with the power of Multitude, she attacks the dolls controlling the puppet villains, making them flop on the ground. While Puppeteer is distracted by this, another copy bites her hand to make her drop her wand, and two more carry her wand away.
  • Manon manages to get everyone who witnessed Multimouse's detransformation into Marinette (even Scarlet) to pinkie promise to not reveal what they saw.

    Guitar Villain: Tales of Jagged Stone the Rock Star 
  • Chat Noir gives Scarlet Lady A Taste Of Her Own Medicine, cheerfully taking all the credit for saving Théo when the sculptor thanks him for it, even though Scarlet had actually rescued him on her own.
  • Marigold not only performs the dragon-taming feat that Ladybug did in canon, but she also picks up both Chat Noir and Scarlet Lady for the ride.
  • Marigold drops off the others at the top of the Eiffel Tower, gets Fang the Dragon stuck in the tower, and gets back to the others extremely fast, so much so that Scar is shocked when Marigold pops up and points to her newly created Lucky Charm with an idea for how to use it
  • Jagged has enough of Roth's crap, so he threatens to quit and go find another company that truly appreciates him. This immediately gets Bob Roth to back down and acquiesce to Jagged's demands.

    Princess Fragrance: Tales of Rose the Princess 

Season 4

    Despair Bear: Tales of Jean the Butler 
  • After three seasons of seeing Chloé at her worst, coupled with her latest stunt of getting everyone (except herself, of course) in trouble, Adrien finally tells her off with a well-deserved "The Reason You Suck" Speech and breaks off his friendship with her. The look on Chloé's face is immensely satisfying.
    • He gets even more awesome points later in the episode when he makes it clear that he knows that the only reason that Chloé threw the party was because she is trying to suck up to him and that it is not working.
    • When Chloé laters asks if he forgives her, he tells her straight to her face that he doesn't (not that she's willing to properly acknowledge it).
  • Jean clearly knows how Chloé rolls and manages to get her to behave by using Mr. Cuddly as a tool.

    Sapotis: Tales of the Césaire Twins 
  • Nino racing across Paris trying to save his young brother from the titular akuma is certainly admirable, especially when you remember that he's willing to try to fight the akuma hoard himself despite having neither powers nor a supersuit to protect him. Well, no powers or suit until Chat Noir gives him the Fox pendant, allowing him to debut as Fox Trot!
  • A minor one when Scarlet Lady grabs the Smart Ball and notes how strange it is that Chat Noir and Marigold know that the butterfly is in the hat of the original Sapotis, but not the clones. She immediately dismisses it as unimportant, though.
  • It only takes Marigold a few seconds to write down a comprehensive list of items she needs to make the latest Lucky Charm work.
  • Nino as Fox Trot not only gets to create an illusion to stop the Sapotis, but he also gets to rescue his little brother in person, winning him as his first fan.

    Anansi: Tales of Nora the Martial Artist 
  • Adrien reveals how experienced he's gotten at rebelling against his father when he gets Gabriel to cave by showing off his collection of hair dye.
  • When Nora challenges Nino to an arm-wrestling contest to prove he can take care of Alya, he accepts the challenge along with Alya, Adrien and Marinette. The four friends work together to beat Nora, declaring their intention to stand by each other and protect each other with The Power of Love and The Power of Friendship, showing just how close they all are. It's quite Heartwarming too.
  • When Alya hears that Marigold needs to make a trip since Chat got trapped and Scarlet Lady bailed on them, she instantly offers to keep her sister busy. This is implied to be the reason why Marigold plans to offer her the Turtle Miraculous, which she gives Alya on the very next page, allowing her to debut as Koki Marina!
  • Nino records Koki Marina for the Ladyblog, snubbing Scarlet Lady when she demands he focus on the real heroes by pointing out that he doesn't remember her saving him.
  • Alya sets up two projects: one to take account of everything Scarlet Lady has actually done... and another to find Hawkmoth's identity. Word of God reveals her plan for the latter: she intends to find how long it took between the moment the akumatized victims started getting upset and when they got akumatized. By mapping out the position and time of each akumatization, she can then triangulate where the butterflies come from. While getting all the timestamps will be hard, if not impossible, enough data should be able to do what multiple fights can't do: figure out where Hawkmoth's lair is.

    Troublemaker: Tales of Penny the Manager 
  • Tikki gets some much-deserved payback at Chloé, gleefully pointing out that Chloé's the reason Marinette even met Jagged in the first place.
  • Sabine going full Mama Bear on Bob Ross when he refuses to stop filming after Marinette's room ends up on live TV. If it weren't for Troublemaker making her presence known, things probably would've gotten violent.
  • After Chloé attempts to make fun of Marinette due to her room ending up on TV and calling Chat Noir "the World's Biggest Loser," Alya proceeds to get two awesome moments in one, first by revealing she got the class to wear Chat Noir-themed clothes in order to convince everyone that Marinette's crush was a simple celebrity one, and then by revealing to Chloé that Chat Noir is now tied with Scarlet Lady in the popularity polls.

    Silencer: Tales of Luka the Musician 
  • Luka finallyexplodes at Chloé when he learns she helped Bob Roth and XY plagiarize Kitty Section. He even flips double birds at her as he's being akumatized.
  • Even though Silencer has stolen her voice, Marigold manages to activate Venom by crafting a Venom-like prop with stuff she finds lying around the studio and using her prop to trick Silencer into saying her attack's name with Marigold's voice while Kitty Section jumps in and holds him so Marigold can use her weapon.
  • Luka and Marigold trick Roth into confessing to plagiarism in front of a running camera, forcing Roth to offer a good deal to Kitty Section, lest they sue him into oblivion.
  • Jagged ensures that both Roth and Chloé get some well-deserved karma: he scares the crap out of the former using a Dramatic Spotlight and lets Fang eat the latter's expensive shoes.

    Desperada: Tales of Vivica the Guitarist 
  • As much of an Asshole Victim as she is, Chloé deserves credit for personally hunting down Jagged Stone and demanding that he reimburse her for all the shoes his pet crocodile ate.
  • When Desperada aims for Luka, Marigold pulls off a Big Damn Heroes and uses her trompo to send Desperada flying! Luka and Adrien even briefly wonder whether the Bee heroine just killed the akuma.
  • Aspik uses Second Chance to mess with Scar over countless loops, getting some satisfying payback and In-Universe Catharsis after four seasons of mistreatment. Moreover, with Second Chance's infinite time rewinds, he doesn't have to face any consequences for pissing her off.

    Ikari Gozen: Tales of Tomoe the Swordswoman 
  • Kagami manages to memorize each one of her contacts before deleting them to keep her mom from spying on her. In this day and age, memorizing a whole contact list is very impressive.
  • Unlike in canon, Kagami and Marinette work together extremely well, easily finding all the clues even with Chloé attempting to sabotage them (or even because of said sabotage).
  • When Chloé attempts to steal Kagami's phone from Marinette, Kagami stops the former with an impressive Death Glare.
  • Kagami finally finds the courage to tell her mother off over her Control Freak ways. Sadly, that's what causes Tomoe to get akumatized.
  • Ryūko willingly lets herself be captured by Ikari Gozen so she can set off the bath bombs from inside the akuma.
  • Kagami's heartfelt speech about how she'll never regret her friendships manages to move her mother enough that when Marinette suddenly appears, Tomoe just tells Kagami to be back by dinner.

    Crocoduel: Tales of You Two Again?! 
  • Purple Tigress uses Clout to punch Captain Hardrock and Guitar Villain at the same time. Both Chat Noir and Viperion have a Jaw Drop when they see it.
  • Juleka later uses her newfound confidence to yell at both her deakumatized parents and get them to stop fighting, which also proves instrumental to Jagged and Anarka realizing who was actually behind their breakup.
  • Jagged finally quits Bob Roth's record company after learning the executive ruined Jagged's relationship with Anarka.

    Robostus: Tales of Markov the Robot 
  • When Marinette trips as she returns to the locker room for her bag, she does a flip and lands on her feet without hurting herself. All her friends seem impressed by this maneuver.
  • Max implies that he found building Markov so easy, he's confused at the idea of people not being able to do so.
  • Despite Mme. Mendeleiev refusing to let her go to the principal's office to get Markov, Marinette manages to trick her teacher into sending her there anyway by asking if Mme. Mendeleiev is jealous of the robot.
  • Robostus showcases his abilities by not only capturing the Miraculous Team with relative ease but also managing to showcase Hawkmoth's inability to control him by turning his lair's security system against him.
  • Max manages to free the team before Robostus can claim the team's Miraculous.

    Prime Queen: Tales of Nadja the Reporter 
  • Lila gets some much-deserved payback against Scarlet Lady when she calls in on Nadja's interview and promptly declares the Ladybug heroine "the worst" while asking her question. Chat Noir and Marigold agree but can't outright say so, though fortunately, they don't have to; Lila correctly deduces that the two's diplomatic answers are just nice ways of saying they put up with Scarlet Lady because they have to, which she gleefully announces on TV.
  • While Scarlet Lady's motivated mainly by not being the center of attention, the heroes call Nadja out on harassing Chat Noir and Marigold and trying to force out a Love Confession. All three then storm out, with Chat Noir bluntly spotlighting her unprofessional behavior and then shouting that "NO MEANS NO, LADY!"
  • Speaking of Scarlet Lady, it's certainly awesome watching her accidentally reveal how callous she is to all of Paris when questioning why they have to save Alya when she could just bring her back with the Miraculous Cure, apparently having forgotten they're still live thanks to Prime Queen. Marigold calling her out just adds to it, showing Paris who the real heroes are.
  • In order to catch Prime Queen, Marigold uses the Lucky Charm to cover the screen, preventing the akuma from seeing what's going on. Then, she and Chat Noir bait the akuma by stating they will take off their Miraculous. When Prime Queen tries to get to them by punching through the box covering the screen, Marigold quickly paralyzes her with Venom and captures her while Chat Noir Cataclysms the way out.

Season 5

    Zombizou: Tales of Caline the Teacher 
  • When Mme. Bustier brings Marinette outside to talk, she asks Alya to watch over the class. Alya promises she'll keep everyone on track. Said "track" involves everyone giving Chloé massive and very well-deserved Death Glares, leaving her sweating buckets.
  • When Bustier starts with the whole "Chloé is someone you should forgive because she doesn't know how to be a good person" speech, Marinette finally blows her top and angrily points out everything wrong with that sentence in her most scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech yet.
  • Sabrina gets payback for everything she's had to deal with from Chloé by going for the jugular and telling Chloé she tries to ruin other people's birthdays because her mother Audrey never remembers Chloé's own. Chloé has no response other than storming angrily out of the classroom.
  • When Zombizou attacks the class, the class all throw their backpacks at her in order to buy themselves some time so they can escape.
  • Juleka ends up punching out one of the zombies when they go after Rose.
  • After getting kissed, Chat Noir spends his last moments holding off the zombie horde, giving Marinette the time she needs to escape and save the day.
  • After succumbing to stress while transformed as Marigold, Marinette unlocks a brand-new power, Bee Balm, with an updated suit! Moreover, Bee Balm's effects are essentially a low-tier Miraculous Ladybug, allowing Marigold to dispel some of the effects of the akumas. Fortunately, that's all that's needed for Marigold to cure the zombies and paralyze Zombizou with Venom.
  • Marinette tells the class that she "went off" on Mme. Bustier, causing their teacher to be akumatized. To her surprise, the whole class congratulates her for standing up to Bustier when their teacher was letting Chloé get away with bullying people again. Some even admit that they, too, have had problems with Bustier in the past but were afraid to speak out against the "nice" teacher; Marinette finally calling Bustier out on her inaction has given them the courage to also voice their true opinions about their teacher.

    The Mime: Tales of Fred the Performer 
  • Despite having had a fear of akumas ever since Stoneheart, Mylène steps up to the plate and agrees to become a temporary hero to save her dad.
  • Ultimutt (Mylène with the Dog Miraculous) defeats the Mime with a fantastic Guile Hero stunt. After distracting him with a game of back-and-forth miming, she pretends to mime the throwing of a ball... but instead hits his hat with her real ball, allowing a Fetch of the hat and the akumatized object hidden inside it. Doubles as a funny moment.

    Gorizilla: Tales of the Bodyguard 
  • When Marigold jumps to save Adrien, she does so by pulling him towards her with Scarlet Lady's yo-yo and then quickly throwing the yo-yo again to hook it to a safe place, allowing them to descend safely. And she manages all this as they're free-falling from Gorizilla's hands.
  • During the denouement, Adrien shuts down his father's attempts to Gaslight him into blaming himself for what happened by bluntly reminding Gabriel that he did, in fact, try asking his father for permission to go see his mother's movie, only for Gabriel to completely ignore him. He also points out that he has no reason to trust his father, either, declaring, "you've never given me a reason to."

    Sandboy: Tales of the Sleepwalker 
  • When Nightmare!Chat attempts to attack Marinette, Rose leaps into action with a kick to his face and begins handing him a Curb-Stomp Battle, even though she was struggling to deal with her nightmares all on her own just a moment ago. She's later seen holding Nightmare!Chat Noir down with a Boston crab.
  • Sandboy becomes the first of Hawkmoth's victims to deliberately destroy their own akumatized object.
  • When Chloé tells Tikki that she doesn't want the Kwami to find Hawkmoth, Tikki gives her holder a looming Death Glare and makes it clear that she's fed up with Chloé's egoism. This actually makes Chloé stammer.

    Reverser: Tales of Marc the Writer 
  • When Chloé tries to make a big entrance to show off her "revolutionary" artwork, Alix quickly punctures her ego by mockingly asking if she brought in yet another collage of selfies. Everyone laughs at the bully in response.
    • Chloé then tries to knock the club down a peg by claiming their work is bad. Juleka and Marinette, however, quickly shut the bully's attempts down pointing out their work has gained celebrity recognition and asking why Chloé herself attempted to steal their work (twice in the case of the latter) if it's so bad?
    • After Chloé leaves, Alix quickly shuts down the art teacher's attempt to defend Chloé:
      Art Teacher: Well Alix, if Chloé really did have an art project, it's too bad we didn't give her a chance to tell us about it, isn't it?
      Alix: Uh, no? Why would I want her here? So she can come insult everyone, take over the art room, and try to steal ideas from us?
      Art Teacher: ...
      Alix: Yeah, that's what I thought.
  • Reverser manages to successfully hit all three heroes with his paper airplanes, ensuring a massive advantage for the akuma.
  • Nathaniel pulls the three heroes out of the Seine using Scarlet Lady's yo-yo.
  • When Master Fu wants to see Chat Noir alone, he does so by pretending that he needs help walking up the stairs. Even though Reverser has made Chat scared of everything, the Cat hero still helps Master Fu because Marigold is currently too clumsy and Scarlet Lady and Nathaniel don't know who the Guardian is.
  • Even though Nathaniel thought that only being able to create one item at a time as Caprikid wasn't as good as his powers as Evillustrator, he makes it count by using Genesis to create a jetpack and then flies Chat Noir towards Reverser's glider—allowing the Cat hero to use Cataclysm on it—before rescuing Marc.
  • Nathaniel draws Ziggy a picture of himself as Caprikid alongside the Kwami in a very short space of time and with no references.
  • The art teacher subverts the Adults Are Useless trope commonly found in the canon show and even the comic by banning Chloé from the art room and any future activities for destroying Marc's notebook, even as she fruitlessly makes the technically correct point that she wasn't on campus when she did so.

    Party Crasher: Tales of Wayhem the Fun Guy 
  • Fu, under the guise of Adrien's tutor, arrives at the manor for a project that he and Adrien have been working on: a list of suspects for both the identities of Hawkmoth and Scarlet Lady. He's also pinpointed Scarlet Lady as someone in Adrien's school, explaining to Adrien that it's where she would have had the greatest opportunity to steal the earrings from the rightful owner. The vice is getting tighter around the thief...
  • After the girls get the texts from the guys of their various excuses for skipping out on tree planting, Lila and Sabrina are instantly able to pick up on the fact they're lying, with Lila pointing it out while Sabrina laughs.
  • Marinette "fights like a girl" the way Lila showed her, guilt-tripping all the guys as "Marino" by mentioning how hot it is outside and how mad Gabriel will be when he inevitably finds out about the party, as well as singing "Promises, Promises."
    Luka: Girls fight hard.
    Captions: They'll destroy you from within if you're not vigilant.
  • With some encouragement from Fu, Ivan realizes that he should've spoken up from the beginning about how bad an idea this party was and soon afterwards calls Kim out for still not getting that the party is now out of control and that they completely ditched the girls.
  • When Party Crasher nearly hits Marigold and Chat Noir, Ivan and Kim manage to pull them out of the way, respectively. Kim also manages to give Chat Noir an idea on how to defeat the akuma!
  • After Party Crasher traps all the temporary heroes, King Monkey debuts by using Uproar to disrupt the akuma's power and destroys his disco ball, freeing everyone. Then, when Party Crasher tries to come back for another try, Minotaurox forces him back with Resistance, giving Marigold the time she needs to craft a plan that puts together everyone else's powers.
  • After Party Crasher is dealt with, Alya confides in Marinette about how her research points to Gabriel being Hawkmoth. While Marinette raises her doubts due to his akumatization, Alya reminds her that adults have very little defined limits on their Miraculous powers. Moreover, they have no idea what the Butterfly's full potential is. All this, plus the discovery that the man's house uses more power than a nuclear reactor, makes it appear the blinds on Gabriel's cover-up are starting to unravel, meaning Hawkmoth's reign of terror may soon be coming to an end.
  • The last bonus panel shows the girls forcing the guys to make up for the tree-planting they ditched earlier.

    Frozer: Tales of Philippe the Ice Skater 
  • Marinette and Adrien ask each other out in spite of their fears of being wrong about each other's identity.
  • Both Luka and Kagami turn out to be excellent ice skaters. Not only that, but it's implied Luka's never had formal lessons while Kagami is confirmed to have learn how to skat simply from watch the Ranma ½'s Skating Arc.

    Frightningale: Tales of Clara the Pop Star 
  • When Chloé tries to protest Clara's exclusion of Scarlet Lady from her "Heroes of Paris"-themed music video, Lila immediately steps up and dresses her down, pointing out that Scarlet Lady is nowhere near the hero Chloé claims she is and citing multiple pieces of evidence to back her argument up. The next page also has several other people calling out how useless Scarlet Lady is, making it clear that her Villain with Good Publicity status is gone and Paris knows that Chat Noir and Marigold are the true heroes of the city.
  • Like in canon, Chloé forces her father to try and cancel the shoot. However, here, Sabrina immediately stands up to them, poking holes in André's attempts to enforce the "rule" about the missing permit, correctly deducing he made it up on the spot, and pointing out that Clara's massive fanbase will turn on him in an instant once they find out what he tried to do. It's not enough to prevent Clara's akumatization, but it's amazing to watch her shut down her former "friend's" tantrum.
  • Lila and Sabrina's first instinct when Frightningale attacks is to protect Adrien and Marinette, respectively, and then to go out to find the others.
  • Alya saves Master Fu from being hit by Frightningale's attack and manages to do improvised rhyming to avoid being frozen before deciding to take advantage of her current situation by shielding other people from the akuma. If she's already been hit, there's no harm in her being hit again. Fu even responds to Wayzz, "She'd make a better shield with a suit." Marinette's clearly not the only person who's impressed Fu with her heroism!
  • The temporary heroines manage to work together and use their powers in inventive ways to put on an impromptu concert that's good enough to divert Frightningale's attention from Chat Noir and Marigold.
  • Purple Tigress manages to knock Frightningale out by hiding her use of Clout in her song. Had Scarlet Lady not interrupted the plan the girls had crafted, they could have won right there.
  • Koki Marina manages to save Scarlet Lady from getting hit point-blank by Frightningale's attack with less than a second to react. Too bad the Ladybug heroine isn't the least bit grateful.
  • Due to Scarlet Lady screwing up the temporary heroines' plan, Marigold and Chat Noir decide to bring two new heroes on the scene: Sabrina (who becomes Comousiner) and Lila (who becomes Fenice).
  • Fenice uses her power, Sublimation, to give herself the ability to always speak in rhyme, thus ensuring that she can fight the akuma without risking being Taken for Granite by the latter's power. She proceeds to drive Frightningale up the wall by always having a rhyme ready, eventually driving her off towards the stage... and straight into Comousiner's trap, rendering the akuma unable to defend herself. Bonus points for Marigold and Comousiner joining in on the rhyme when they break the object.

    Malediktator: Tales of André the Mayor 
  • A minor one but when the rest of the class are wary of Zoé, Nino shows some fantastic maturity by pointing out that they should give the girl a chance. He cites Adrien as an example of how someone being associated with Chloé doesn't necessarily determine whether the person is a Nice Girl/Nice Guy or potentially The Bully.
  • Zoé, despite her bad first impressions with the audience and her class, quickly proves that she's nothing like her sister and has quite a couple heroic moments despite being a powerless civilian (for now, at least).
    • Zoé is willing to go with Malediktator, whose brainwashing powers she has already seen, just to make him stop attacking the school.
    • Zoé gets a second moment when she takes the wind out of Scarlet Lady's sails by pointing out that not only did she not know who she was before that day (meaning she couldn't defend her during Chloé's project), pretty much everyone in New York was a superhero, so she doesn't really keep up with international heroes.
  • The chapter ends with a bomb as Alya finally publishes her exposé on Scarlet Lady—and Gabriel prepares for what he expects will be his victory.

    Style Queen: Tales of Audrey the Fashion Critic 
  • Word of God reveals that Marinette made the outfits for most of her friends (Aurore, Mireille, and Kagami had their own hookups or already had dresses), and they're good enough that Clara Nightingale thought Gabriel designed them.
  • When Marinette's hat lands at Audrey's feet, the critic doesn't say anything, but in spite of her daughter's taunts, it's clear that she's impressed.
  • When Style Queen threatens to turn her into a statue, Zoé quickly improvises a suggestion to avoid that fate and also comes up with a way to get Marigold's attention by telling Style Queen that bringing the Taken for Granite Adrien and Chloé to a public place will catch Gabriel Agreste and Scarlet Lady's attention. Of course, Marigold already knows, but Zoé's ability to improvise is impressive.
  • As Style Queen makes her demands, Alya is staring at the akuma with a determined expression, implying that she's more than willing to step up to help once again. Additionally, it's noted that Alya somehow managed to catch up to the akuma, who was moving so fast that she made Zoé feel sick.
  • Marigold single-handedly saves the day by using Bee Balm to free Adrien and Chloé before running away with the former in her arms. She manages to stay ahead of Style Queen's attacks and eventually doubles back and uses Venom on the akuma while giving Style Queen a Big "SHUT UP!"
  • Marigold and Adrien confirming to the other that they figured out the other's identity...and then sealing it with a Big Damn Kiss.

    Queen Wasp: Tales of Chloé the Ex-Hero 
  • Marinette detransforming in front of Adrien, just to confirm to the both of them that they are aware of who the other is.
  • Audrey asks who created Adrien's hat, and Marinette states it's hers. Audrey not only states that her work is exceptional, she also says that feathers will be a trend soon!
  • When Chloé snaps about her mother wanting to take Marinette to New York over her and proclaims she's just as exceptional as Marinette, Audrey wastes no time in pointing out that Chloé isn't exceptional in any stretch of the imagination and proceeds to list some of her recent failures (which were all the result of Chloé attempting to beat or show up Marinette, too, not that Audrey knows that).
  • Chloé tries to publicly brag about her "superhero" identity, only to discover that it's not the bragging point she thought it was.
    • Alya publicly rejects her offer for an interview while Nino recalls that she was planning to abandon the city to Hawkmoth just because no one liked her video for a class project, sparking the rest of the city to start calling her out and demanding she hand her Miraculous over to Chat Noir and Marigold.
    • Remember back in Sandboy where Chloé's biggest fear as Scarlet Lady was the city turning on her and telling how the heroes were more popular than her? That nightmare has become a reality and is greatly satisfying, especially as the whole thing is her own damn fault for being a self-centered Nominal Heroine throughout the entire series.
  • Chloé's akumatization into Queen Wasp actually makes the usually lazy teenager into an actual threat. She has her mind-controlled minions and bees take the initiative, searching the streets for Zoè, Marigold, and Chat Noir, and she's proven to be willing to get her hands dirty when needed, such as having her wasps throw cars at Marigold and flinging Chat Noir away when he tries to sneak attack her. Gabriel certainly made the right choice in akumatizing her.
    Marigold: Why does she fight better when she's evil?!
  • Zoé manages to avoid detection by hiding in a trash can and reach the Liberty.
  • Marigold and Chat Noir are at first horrified when they see Zoé surrender to Queen Wasp. Then they find out that Zoé gave the Ladybug Miraculous to Alya to give to them; she is making a Heroic Sacrifice to buy the heroes time to plan how to use the power. It pays off when Queen Wasp is caught by surprise by the heroes while she's still trying to find the earrings on Zoé.
  • Marigold finally puts on the Earrings that had always meant to be hers - and uses Unification to wield the powers of the Ladybug and the Bee at the same time.
  • Once Ladygold gets the Lucky Charm, she quickly comes up with a plan: put the snorkel on Queen Wasp so they can pull her into the water, and take advantage of the sudden change of battlefield to paralyze her with Venom. And, since they don't know where the butterfly is, they just rip everything apart.
  • Before Audrey starts to leave for New York on her helicopter, Marinette arrives and rejects her offer to her face for being a Bad Boss. It's topped off by her allowing Zoé to give her a very well-deserved "The Reason You Suck" Speech for being an inattentive, condescending, and obnoxious asshole to both her and Chloé — who's ruined her whole life acting like her mother — before letting her know she's not going to abandon her half-sister just because Audrey will. Surprisingly, Audrey actually gets the message and tells her pilot to stop the chopper.
    Zoé: Why don't you love us, Mom?
    Audrey: Buh—! Of course I l-love you! I just... show it in different ways.
    Zoé: Like, not remembering our names?
    Audrey: I—I remember exceptional—
    Zoé: Oh, what does being "exceptional" even mean, Mom? Having talent? Or just being an ass?
    (Audrey is left in Stunned Silence with a Jaw Drop)
    Zoé: Chloé's ruined her whole life by trying to emulate your "exceptional" example, and for what? You don't even care! Well, I'm done following your example! I'm not leaving Chloé alone just because it'd be more convenient. But go ahead and fly off like the "exceptional" parent you've always been.

    Catalyst: Tales of Nathalie the Assistant 
  • When Bustier suggests Zoé to organize a party so the class can celebrate Chloé's work as Scarlet Lady, Zoé immediately stops her right there:
    • Zoé then proceeds to pick apart Bustier's entire methodology, pointing out that Chloé doesn't feel a scrap of remorse over her actions and that all Caline will accomplish by forcing the class to cater to their bully is driving a deeper wedge between them while reinforcing Chloé's spoiled and selfish attitude. She also reveals that she's speaking from personal experience, having been bullied herself. And the best part? All Caline can do is stammer at Zoé's logic while outside, the whole class has been brought to tears by the sight of someone actually standing up for them.
  • Zoé Spotting the Thread on the flaws in Hawk Moth's illusion of Marigold and Chat Noir, pointing out that since Marigold has the earrings, she would be using them and not the Bee. And when people start telling her she doesn't know enough about the Akumas to make the call, Lila, Alix and Sabrina back her up, followed by Marinette and Adrien joining in as well.
  • Mme. Bustier and M. Damocles protect their students from the red Akumas while encouraging them to show no fear.
  • Alya and Nino keep the Akumas away from them by sheer force of will.
  • Nora has been nonchalantly smacking down every Akuma that dared to enter her family's home.
  • When Scarlet Moth calls out to Chat Noir to give up the Miraculouses, Vesperia mocks him for showing his hand, and the five teen heroes tell him to Bring It!

    Hawkmoth: Tales of Gabriel the Butterfly 
  • In a lovely meta touch, the header image for the episode is animated, transitioning back and forth between a purple suit based on Hawkmoth's usual attire and a red and black ensemble symbolizing Scarlet Moth.
  • Ladybug, Chat Noir, Vesperia, Fox Trot and Koki Marina tearing through Scarlet Moth's army, to the point where Ladybug asks if the akumas are made out of paper.

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