Heroes (Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Adrien Agreste, Alya Césaire, Kagami Tsurugi, Luka Couffaine, Félix Fathom, United HeroeZ) | Kwamis | School Characters | Villains (Hawk Moth, Akumatized Villains – Season 1, Akumatized Villains – Season 2, Akumatized Villains – Season 3, Akumatized Villains – Season 4, Akumatized Villains - Season 5, Amokized Sentimonsters) | Assorted Civilians
Assorted Parisian residents of Miraculous Ladybug, covering the main and supporting cast's families, other recurring characters, and One Shot Characters.
For tropes pertaining to Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste, see their respective character pages. For tropes pertaining to Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Alix Kubdel, Lê Chiến Kim, Kagami Tsurugi, Max Kanté, Rose Lavillant, Zoé Lee, Juleka Couffaine, Mylène Haprèle, Ivan Bruel, Sabrina Raincomprix, Nathaniel Kurtzberg, Marc Anciel, Luka Couffaine, and Félix Fathom see here. For tropes pertaining to Chloé Bourgeois, see here. For tropes pertaining to other characters from Marinette's school, see here.
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Dupain-Cheng family
Tom Dupain
Akumatized form: Weredad
"Tom style! Boo-yah!"
Marinette's father. He and his wife, Sabine, own a bakery.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: How Marinette sees him and Sabine after they continuously interrupt her and Adrien's video game training with offers of food, and tell him that Marinette talks about him a lot. Adrien, whose parent is guilty of Parental Neglect, appreciates their gestures.
- Author Avatar: Series creator, Thomas Astruc based Tom on himself.
- But Not Too Foreign: French on his father's side, Italian on his mother's.
- Foil: To Gabriel Agreste. Both are the fathers of the respective main characters, but everything about them from their personalities to their approaches in parenting are polar opposites. Tom is Happily Married with Sabine and knows what's best for Marinette, while Gabriel is cold and distant with the rest of the household and has been neglecting Adrien for most of his life. Tom genuinely cares about Marinette while occasionally scolding her for her flawed moments, and while Gabriel does care about Adrien, he's been raising him to be passive and is not only unresponsive to Adrien's flaws but is the main cause of his flaws in the first place. And since Gabriel is Hawk Moth, he often hides the truth from Adrien and is willing to brainwash people and inflict destruction on Paris to achieve his goal, even if it involves putting people's lives (especially Adrien's) at risk. This even extends to their villain forms Weredad and the Collector respectively, where both were the first people to be newly Akumatized at the start of a season (not counting Lila). While Weredad was akumatized because of his fatherly instincts towards Marinette and wants to protect her in every way he can, the Collector is Ax-Crazy and is obsessed with trapping everyone and everything into his sketchbook, even his loyal associates.
- Good Parents: With Sabine. They clearly love their daughter, but they are also ready to scold her when they catch her being selfish or mean.
- Happily Married: With Sabine. In one episode they celebrate their 20th anniversary, and they are as happy as the first day!
- Hidden Depths: Tom is a skilled gamer. Pretty impressive, considering how huge his hands are.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Sabine. The height difference isn't too extreme, but Tom's forearm is about as wide as Sabine's waist. He's also this with his daughter, who's a full head shorter and far slimmer.
- Like Parent, Like Child: He, like Marinette (his daughter), gets waaay too invested in Marinette and Adrien's (well, Cat Noir) life together with their big house and three kids and hamster.
- Meaningful Name: "Dupain" means "bread" in French. He's a baker.
- Nice Guy: Tom is a caring and kind person.
- Papa Wolf: He goes against André Bourgeois' s authority when the latter tries to have Marinette arrested in "Rogercop". He also literally becomes this in "Weredad" after Cat appears to break Marinette's heart. In the alternate timeline seen in "Cat Blanc", he angrily bans Nathalie and Gabriel from his bakery after Gabriel blackmails Marinette into dumping Adrien.
- Parental Obliviousness: He (and Sabine) are unaware of their daughter's superpowers.
- Shipper on Deck:
- He and Sabine are delighted that Marinette and Adrien spend time together in "The Gamer," and frequently pop in with excuses to check on the two of them.
- He is utterly delighted when Marinette pretends to confess her love to Cat Noir in "Weredad", and sets up a romantic date between them.
- Supreme Chef: He's good enough in the kitchen to cater a major movie premiere attended by the likes of Adrien Agreste and Jagged Stone. Both Adrien and Plagg consider him the best baker in the city.
- Sweet Baker: Like his wife, Tom is a skilled baker and they co-own their bakery. And like Marinette, he is a Nice Guy.
- Top-Heavy Guy: Tom's upper torso is comparatively massive compared to his head and legs.
- Tuckerization: Tom is named after creator Thomas Astruc.
- Wacky Marriage Proposal: Apparently proposed to Sabine by hiding the ring in one of André's ice cream cones. She nearly swallowed it as a result.
Sabine Cheng
Akumatized forms: Verity Queen (incomplete), Qilin
Voiced by: Jessie Lambotte (FR), Philece Sampler (1st EN) (2015-2021), Anne Yatco (2nd EN)Foreign VAs
Marinette's mother. She and her husband, Tom, own a bakery.
- All Asians Know Martial Arts: Sabine is Chinese and can wield a baking paddle like a spear. "Qilin" does have her performing some tai chi (albeit following it off of the television) as she starts her morning to give some implication that she may have genuinely had martial arts training, though tai chi can also be practiced only as an exercise routine.
- All There in the Script: Until the Christmas special, Sabine's name was only in promotional material.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: How Marinette sees her and Tom after they continuously interrupt her and Adrien's video game training with offers of food, and tell him that Marinette talks about him a lot. Adrien, whose parent is guilty of Parental Neglect, appreciates their gestures.
- Character Tics: Usually seen drinking tea, especially when giving out pearls of wisdom.
- Culture Equals Costume: Sabine wears a cheongsam to reflect her Chinese heritage. During the Christmas special, she wears a tang coat over it.
- Good Parents: With Tom. They clearly love their daughter, but they are also ready to scold her when they catch her being selfish or mean. Exaggerated in "Qilin", which shows Sabine knows Marinette so well that she places a full laundry basket at the bottom of the stairs to Marinette's room to cushion her losing her balance on the stairs, places a sponge on the ground next to the kitchen table beforehand to soak up milk Marinette will spill, opens a magazine showing shoes on sale to make Marinette think about asking for bigger shoes, reserves a spot at a restaurant before Marinette suggests the two of them go to for lunch, and counts down on her fingers in prediction of the exact moment Marinette will call her after Marinette's missed the bus.
- Happily Married: With Tom. In one episode they celebrate their 20th anniversary, and they are as happy as the first day!
- Heroic Willpower: In "Qilin", she tries to resist from being akumatized even after getting unfairly arrested, but Shadow Moth's influence eventually manages to overcome her. However, she ends up breaking free of the Akuma once Ladybug brings the keys to her handcuffs in order to free her.
- Hidden Depths: In "Troublemaker", she uses a peel as a makeshift Kung Fu spear.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Tom. The height difference isn't too extreme, but Tom's forearm is about as wide as Sabine's waist.
- The Maiden Name Debate: Even though she is married, Sabine kept her maiden name.
- Mama Bear: Sabine uses a peel as a Martial Arts Staff in "Troublemaker" when Jagged Stone's cameraman barge into Marinette's room revealing her privacy without permission.
- Naturalized Name: As revealed in the Shanghai special, she changed her name from Xia-Bing to the very similar Sabine when she moved to France.
- Nice Girl: She is gentle, kind, and loving.
- Open-Minded Parent: Sabine is more mild about protecting Marinette than Tom while remaining just as loving and caring. "Dearest Family" sees all of the Dupain-Cheng family akumatized over arguing on the topic of if Marinette should be allowed to have a motorcycle, and Sabine ends up coming off as the most reasonable by declaring that Marinette should be able to decide this sort of thing on her own (though ironically failing to get Marinette to let her say her piece throughout the argument), aside from how she wants to keep Marinette away from the rest of the family after being Akumatized.
- Parental Obliviousness: She (and Tom) are unaware of their daughter's superpowers.
- Shipper on Deck: She and Tom were delighted that Marinette and Adrien spend time together in "The Gamer," and frequently pop in with excuses to check on the two of them.
- Sweet Baker: Like her husband, Sabine is a skilled baker and they co-own their bakery. And like Marinette, she is a Nice Girl.
- Tuckerization: Sabine was named after Thomas Astruc's girlfriend at the time, who is French-Chinese.
- Your Size May Vary: Sometimes, she goes from being the same height, to slightly shorter, to significantly shorter than Marinette.
Wang Cheng
Akumatized form: Kung Food
Voiced by: Philippe Roullier (FR), Todd Haberkorn (EN)Foreign VAs
Marinette's great uncle on her mother's side. An accomplished Chinese chef who comes to Paris to participate in a cooking contest.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: Wang has huge eyebrows.
- Chubby Chef: One of the greatest chefs in the world, and on the chubby side.
- Cool Uncle: To Sabine and Marinette. He's an accomplished Chef and a pretty nice fellow.
- Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Can speak a bit of French, but still requires Adrien as a translator. Adrien himself becomes rather intrigued with Wang after their conversation in Mandarin.
- Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Chloé thinks he'll only be able to make sushi due to him being Chinese. Adrien corrects her, stating that Japanese people are known for making Sushi.
- Keep It Foreign: He speaks Mandarin Chinese in every other dub, but in the Mandarin dub, he speaks Cantonese, which is still a Chinese dialect, but notably mutually unintelligible with Mandarin.
- Mundane Made Awesome: The montage of him preparing his soup.
- Nice Guy: He's soft-spoken, congenial, and respectful.
- Older Than They Look: For a man with a grown niece and a teenaged great-niece, Wang certainly doesn't look old.
- The Shanghai special states he's just turned 60 years old. He looks like he's early middle aged at the oldest.
- Supreme Chef: Enters a cooking contest in Paris so he can achieve the title of "World's Greatest Chef". He eventually wins.
Gina Dupain
Akumatized form: Befana
Marinette's grandmother on her father's side. A cool, motorcycle driving old Italian lady who loves Marinette, but is unfortunately out-of-touch with what Marinette likes.
- Amicable Exes: The fact that she's not shown associated with her husband Rolland implies that they're divorced, but Marinette's Instagram post for New Year's Eve 2019
shows her amiably sitting next to her ex-husband. - Cool Old Lady: She travels across the world, rides a motorcycle, and is very stylishly dressed.
- Cool Shades: She wears red glasses with tan rims.
- Doting Grandparent: Gina's debut episode shows how much she absolutely adores her granddaughter.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Downplayed. Her outfit is nearly identical except for the watch and assorted wristbands she has on her left and right wrists, respectively.
- Gratuitous Italian: Between the Italian words she drops and her heavy accent, it's made quite clear that Italian is her native language.
- Nice Girl: Gina is a kind, loving, and understanding person.
- Shipper on Deck: Implied. When Adrien gives Marinette his birthday gift to her, Gina can be seen smiling at the two along with her son and daughter-in-law.
- Silver Vixen: A rather attractive and good-looking grandmother with white hair.
- Unwanted Gift Plot: Ends up gifting Marinette with a shirt that's several sizes too small. Marinette salvages it by sewing the shirt design over her purse.
Rolland Dupain
Akumatized forms: Bakerix, Simpleman
"You're not a traditional granddaughter, Marinette. And you know what? I like it."
Marinette's grandfather on her father's side. A crotchety old man who holds anything modern in contempt and is estranged from his son.
- Berserk Button: Any modern innovation, as well as "ruining" bread by making any changes to the recipe or eating it any way other than plain. He disowned his son for adding rice flour to his dough recipe, curses the Romans for conquering Gaul and introducing the concept of sandwiches to the people there, and considers pizza to be an unholy abomination.
- Better with Non-Human Company: Other people haven't seen him outside of his house in years and Marinette soon finds him quite unsociable...but he's got three mice in his house (despite the obvious health risk they'd possess to cooking) that he's named Charlotte, Marie-Louise and Marguerite which seem to have such a mutual understanding with him that they fetched him and Marinette ingredients for their bread making competition without him directly telling them to do this.
- Character Catchphrase: "That's not how it's done!"
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: He stopped talking to his son 20 years ago for "adding rice" to the family's traditional bread recipe. Recall that Tom married Sabine around the same time. Though he's perfectly willing to talk to Sabine over the phone and only gets mad when she brings up Tom, so it's possible he really is just that petty.
- Evil Luddite: Downplayed. He's merely a Jerkass Luddite until he gets akumatized. He refuses to consider anything that does not fit into his traditionalist mindset.
- Grumpy Old Man: He's extremely irritable and unsociable. When Marinette first tries to talk to him, he shuts down all attempts without even knowing who she is.
- Heel–Face Turn: Eventually, Marinette manages to make him reconsider and he attends his son's birthday party.
- I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: When he finally tries Tom's altered recipe, he admits that it actually is as good as everyone says it is.
- I Have No Son!: Disowned Tom after he changed the family's traditional bread recipe.
- Irony: He expresses a grudge against the Romans for conquering the Gauls and trying to change their traditions, his ancestor's bread being the main reason... yet he married an Italian woman.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Underneath that crabby traditionalist exterior is a man who, after not leaving his home for 20 years, deeply misses his family. After his Akumatization ends, he quickly worries about Marinette since his home oven may have been alone...though he lies badly that he was just worried the bread might have gotten overbaked.
- Meaningful Name: Rolland. As in bread rolls. Given that he's usually Akumatized after getting worked up about tradition, his name may also be a reference to Roland, the titular hero of The Song of Roland, who is famed for giving his life in defense of Francia.
- Miniature Senior Citizens: His son and ex-wife are way taller than him.
- Papa Wolf: Grandpapa Wolf in this case, but after recovering from his Akumatization, his first thought is panic at the possibility that Marinette might be in danger. In "Simpleman", he's also highly protective of the children Marinette left in his care, even after being Akumatized again.
- Patriotic Fervor: Implied, given his dedication to traditional French recipes and how proud he is of his Gallic heritage. Additionally, in "Simpleman," one of the things he recommends the kids watch is the 1998 World Cup Finalnote , and as Simpleman, he has a Tricolour flag pattern on his mask and cape.
- The Shut-In: He hasn't left his house in 20 years. The only person he talks to on a regular basis is the guy who delivers his groceries.
- Serious Business: Bread is very serious business to this man. He goes as far as to condemn sandwiches and pizza as affronts to bread.
- Technologically Blind Elders: He really dislikes new things, especially technology, which he's decades behind on. He doesn't understand how wirelss transmission for telephones and internet works, despite likely being familiar with the radio before television. In Simpleman, the younger children Marinette babysits deconstruct this by suggesting that maybe he's afraid of so many new things because he doesn't understand them. Because everything is new to them as well, they offer to learn with him about how they work, which he considers.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: He's rather plain-looking, being short, chubby, and bald, while his wife is a Silver Fox.
- When I Was Your Age...: Downplayed, while he never fails to express his discontent with pretty much anything he considers new and non-traditional, he doesn't tend to actually say that the traditional ways being less convenient or effective made the people using it better - he just gets grumpy at new things and gripes "That's not how it's done!", but he doesn't continue to complain about the modern world overall any further. He's once Akumatized into Simpleman, which has him make everyone simpler (and stupider) because he thinks it'd all work better that way, which certainly implies some inkling of this trope's train of thought is in his head - but as far as grumpy luddites go, he doesn't go around justifying his own opinion very much, he just doesn't like new stuff.
Agreste family and associates
Emilie Agreste née Lady Graham de Vanily
Voiced by: Colleen O'Shaughnessey (EN), Fernanda Baronne (BRP)
Emilie Agreste is Gabriel Agreste's wife and Adrien's mother. Also she's a former Peacock Miraculous holder who used it to create her son Adrien. She was in a stasis chamber in a coma underneath the Agreste mansion before Gabriel gained the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous to heal Nathalie before reuniting with Emilie in the afterlife, according to Wordof God.
- Adventurer Archaeologist: Though not an archaeologist by trade, she searched Nepal for lost Miraculouses; Nathalie flashbacks to her in a tunnel, with the classic khakis and torch.
- Ambiguously Evil: Adrien and Gabriel seem to remember her as a good person, but the show hints that Emilie might be sketchier than they let on. It's made clear by many of Adrien's statements that Gabriel's abhorrent parenting techniques date back to before Emilie's disappearance, implying that she at least went along with them. In fact, Gabriel has actually softened on some things like letting Adrien go to school, which did not happen while Emilie was around. Furthermore, she worked with Gabriel in his initial pursuit of the Miraculouses, and used the Peacock one herself, for reasons unknown. "Passion" and "Collusion" further muddles things by showing that she was concerned about how obsessed Gabriel was becoming about obtaining the rest of the Miraculouses and wanted him to stop his search.
- Ambiguous Situation: Emilie is said to have disappeared, but it's not clear what the circumstances behind it are. Gabriel has her body preserved in a mausoleum beneath his home, and it's not clear if she's actually dead or merely being kept in stasis of some kind. In any case, Gabriel clearly doesn't have the means to revive/heal her without the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses. In "Stormy Weather 2", Nathalie states that Emilie is merely in a deep sleep but is only falling deeper as time goes on. In the webisode "Gabriel", Gabriel mentions that had he and Emilie not used the Peacock Miraculous she wouldn't be in the condition she is now, all but confirming the Miraculous is responsible for Emilie's coma. This makes sense that the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous are the only thing which can save her given a Miraculous is responsible for her condition. It is further confirmed in "Evolution" when a young Gabriel is shown giving her the damaged Peacock Miraculous.And although in "Re-creation" Gabriel succeeds in making his wish at the cost of his life, is unclear if the blonde woman who appears in the Agreste mansion was Emilie revived from her coma or her twin sister Amelie. The creators later confirmed that it was Amelie as her sister and brother-in-law are now together in the afterlife.
- Art Imitates Art: The portrait of her that hangs in Mr. Agreste's office is a shout-out to Gustav Klimt's The Woman In Gold.
- Blue Blood: She and her younger twin sister, Amelie, are daughters of aristocrats from a British noble family and had a Lady courtesy title and rank before renouncing it.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: They pretty much just took a photo of Tara Strong, recolored the dress and gave her a new face. In fact, the writers admitted that they modeled Mrs. Agreste's design on Tara.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: Both her parents in her case, as they opposed her marriage to Gabriel, who was then a poor tailor who went by Gabi Grassette.
- Family Eye Resemblance: Adrien has inherited her green eyes. This was lampshaded by Ladybug in the English dub.
- Family Theme Naming: Her name is two letters off from her sister Amelie. May be Theme Twin Naming, due to their resemblance.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish to Amilie's responsible in choosing to marry another man that her parents disapprove of.
- Good Parents: Implied. While Adrien's relationship with his father is strained, there is not a single hint this applies to his mother. He has shown numerous times to deeply love his mother, keeping many pictures of her on his phone and becoming depressed in "A Christmas Special" because it is his first Christmas without her.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blonde hair and is regarded as a loving wife and mother, and appeared closer to Adrien than Gabriel is.
- Happily Married: Implied. While not much is known about her relationship with Gabriel, there are moments that show they had a loving marriage — He keeps many pictures of her in their home and that Adrien explained in the webisode, "Adrien's Double Life", that ever since Mrs. Agreste disappeared, Gabriel has been a "changed man". Also they were shown together in "Evolution" in a lovely picnic and Gabriel even Bridal Carry her.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: She was friends with Nathalie from their teenage years until her own death, shared a house with her even after getting married, and devoted a section of her video will to her, and even entrusted her to take care of her son, knowing Nathalie would do so like a mother.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In her recordings, she wanted Gabriel to stop obsessing over the Miraculous, move on, and be happy. The same with Adrien.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Implied to be this to Gabriel. According to Adrien in a webisode, she disappeared, leaving her husband a changed man and in "A Christmas Special", he is shown looking at her portrait forlornly.
- The Lost Lenore: Played with. Emilie isn't dead, just in a very deep sleep. It is revealed that she and Gabriel are now in the afterlife together.
- Mama Bear: Also in her recordings, Emilie called Adrien her and Gabriel's "little prince" and "little miracle". Her wishes were for him to be free, have control over his life, be able to make his own decisions, be protected, and more than anything, she just wanted him to be happy and create his own vision of happiness.
- Missing Mom: To Adrien. She disappeared some time before the series premiere and "A Christmas Special" reveals that her disappearance happened some time in the last year, as it is Adrien's first Christmas without her.
- Motherly Side Plait: In all of Adrien's photos of her, Emilie wears her hair in a large corkscrew curl draped over her left shoulder. Very fitting for a woman said to be a good-hearted wife and mother.
- Mysterious Parent: Even more-so than her husband; almost no information about Emilie, like the circumstances of her disappearance, has been brought to light yet. Although, it is known that Emilie was a former holder of the Peacock Miraculous and used it to create Adrien.
- Nice Girl: Not much is known about her, except she was stated to be kind-hearted and a loving mother/wife to her family.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Not death, but Emilie falling into a coma is what inspired Gabriel to take up the Butterfly Miraculous and terrorize Paris in order to lure out the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous. Also, her video recordings to Nathalie were part of the reason she turned against Gabriel.
- Properly Paranoid: "Passion" and "Collusion" reveals that Emilie had grown concerned about how obsessed Gabriel was becoming with finding the Miraculouses and wanted him to give up on the idea. She left behind recordings to him to try and convince him to stop should the worst come to pass and also left a recording for Nathalie to look after Adrien. Considering everything that happened up to the point this was revealed she was right to be worried and smart to make those recordings.
- The Reveal: "Style Queen" reveals she was comatose before the start of the show, and Hawk Moth wants to collect the Miraculouses in order to revive her.
- Riches to Rags: In "Representation", it was revealed that Emilie was an aristocrat who came from a British noble family, but she gave up her title and wealth to marry a then poor Gabriel. However, after he becomes a successful fashion designer, he and Emilie are able to live a wealthy lifestyle until her coma.
- Spirited Young Lady: She was this in her youth; adventurous, bold, and wild. She hated the nobility life and escaped it whenever she could.
- Suddenly Speaking: She says "Yes" when accepting the Peacock Miraculous from a young Gabriel in "Evolution", which is the first time she has ever spoken in the series.
- Unnamed Parent: Until "Gorizilla", Emilie was only ever referred to as [Adrien's] mother or [Gabriel's] wife.
Adrien's chauffeur / "the Gorilla"
Akumatized form: Gorizilla
Voiced by: Gilbert Lévy (FR), Ezra Weisz, Ethan Murray (EN)Foreign VAs
Adrien's bodyguard and driver for the Agreste family.
- All in the Manual: The official Collectible Card Game, Miraculous Secrets, reveals his first name: Placide.
- Animal Motifs: He's sometimes called "The Gorilla" in-show (which is French slang for a bodyguard). In "Simon Says", he's even hypnotized to act like an actual gorilla. And in "Gorizilla", he's Akumatized into the titular villain, which is a giant, blue gorilla.
- Badass Bystander: Downplayed since it never amounts to anything, but there are several instances where he challenges an akumatized villain to protect Adrien. While he's often shown struggling against the sheer amount of Adrien's rabid fanbase, he is good at his job when he's not literally being buried under a mass of humanity, notably spotting and preventing Fei's attempt to pick Adrien's pockets before she can make the attempt.
- Bait-and-Switch Boss: He is set up to be the antagonist of "Gigantitan" after he gets caught up in Marinette's Zany Scheme to get a date with Adrien, but he calms down at the last second and the role goes to a nearby infant. He gets his turn as an akumatized villain in "Gorizilla".
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: Despite his extremely intimidating appearance, he is very fond of Adrien and often goes behind his boss's back to make him happy.
- Closet Geek: He reads superhero comic books and has an extensive collection of superhero action figures.
- The Driver: His main role is to drive Adrien around in the Agreste's family car, although he sometimes also acts as his bodyguard.
- Hidden Badass: His large size makes him someone you don't want to end up fighting. In "Simon Says", when the titular villain shows up in the studio, he immediately puts himself between Adrien, Nino, and Simon Says, before charging at the guy without hesitation. Goes about as well as you would expect, but hey, this guy takes his job seriously.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be a serious, grim, and stoic man, but his reaction to seeing that Adrien is safe in "Gigantitan" shows that he really does care for his young charge. He also often disobeys his boss on many occasions like letting Adrien have a party in "Party Crasher".
- Manly Tears: He had tears in his eyes seeing Adrien being forced to leave Marinette.
- No Name Given: Even the show's creator just calls him "The Gorilla". The most given by the show is his name in Adrien's contact list where he is simply called "G".
- Pet the Dog: In "Cat Blanc", when Marinette breaks up with Adrien and runs off, Adrien begs him to let him go after her. Gabriel told him not to, but he disregards the order and lets Adrien go. He also seems to witness Adrien transforming into Cat Noir, but unlike Nathalie, he doesn't seem to report it to Gabriel. Of course, reporting it to Gabriel would require actually speaking, and he isn't very fond of that.
- Primal Fear: The New York special reveals he's deeply afraid of flying. He has to listen to relaxing music throughout the plane ride and even when he lands. This is probably a little joke about his Akumatized form being a giant gorilla and the planes shooting in the famous "King Kong" Climb.
- Satellite Character: Even more so than Nathalie, as his appearances coincides mainly with Adrien.
- Serious Business:
- According to Hawk Moth in "Gigantitan", the Gorilla takes his job as a chauffeur very seriously, to the point that a few parking tickets made him susceptible to being akumatized before he calmed down at the last second.
- He is an avid collector of superhero action figures. So much that he is willing to go behind Gabriel's back by letting Adrien's friends throw a party in the house for a few rare ones.
- Spanner in the Works: In "Cat Blanc", Gabriel orders him to not let Adrien go after Marinette after the latter breaks up with the former. When he disobeys him, it leads to Adrien revealing his identity to Marinette, Nathalie, and Gabriel. As a result, Gabriel is able to emotionally manipulate Adrien so that he can akumatize him, which leads to the End of the World as We Know It. However, Ladybug from an alternate timeline is at least able to reverse it, because if the Gorilla had followed his orders instead, then Marinette would have been akumatized.
- To Be Lawful or Good: Despite being under Gabriel's payroll, he frequently disobeys him in order to let Adrien do what he wants to do, firmly setting him as the Good part of this trope.
- Token Good Teammate: Between himself, Gabriel, and Nathalie, he's the only one who's not actively crusading for Hawk Moth's goals (at least when not akumatized).
- The Voiceless: He never bothers to speak; he just grunts or growls.
Lady Amelie Graham de Vanily
Voiced by: Jeanne Chartier (FR), Laura Post (EN)
Emilie's twin sister and Félix's mother.
- Ambiguous Situation: While she knows about Félix being Argos, it is unclear if she knows that her brother-in-law is Hawk Moth/Monarch or that her sister is in a coma while being preserved in a cryogenic pod. Also, while it's known that her husband Colt was abusive towards their son, it's unknown if Amelie was aware of this or if she was also treated badly by her husband.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Played with, as in "Multiplication" it is revealed that Amelie is an aristocrat by the of "Lady" and hides her son from Ladybug and Cat Noir after he betrayed them, as she believed they mistakenly thought that Félix was a villain.
- Arranged Marriage: In "Representation", it was revealed she and Colt were paired up by the former's parents.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts fairly cheerful when meeting Gabriel and Adrien again, except she's only there to steal Gabriel and Emilie's wedding rings.
- Blue Blood: She and her older twin sister, Emelie, are daughters of aristocrats from a British noble family and has a Lady title and rank.
- Clothing Reflects Personality: While her sister is only ever seen in white, Amelie is only ever seen in all-black.
- Domestic Abuse: Implied at the hands of her husband by Félix as he mentioned in his play that "if he became a fond of anyone who displeases his father", and it showed an arm of a stuffed bunny being ripped and in "Gabriel Agreste", Amelie also wore a bunny mask in the party.
- Family Theme Naming: Her name is two letters off from her sister Emilie. May be Theme Twin Naming, due to their resemblance.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible to Emilie's foolish in being obedient to their parents by accepting her arranged marriage to Colt.
- Lack of Empathy: Gives Gabriel some thinly-veiled mockery for wearing his wedding ring after Emilie's disappearance, despite having lost her own husband around the same time.
- Mama Bear: A villainous example. She actively harbors Félix after his betrayal of the heroes in Paris. Also she never blamed or stopped loving her son for her husband's illness and death, unlike Colt.
- Mugging the Monster: Although she doesn't know it, the person whose wedding ring she's trying to steal is Hawk Moth.
- Parental Substitute: At the end of "Re-creation", Amelie moves in the Agreste mansion and it's implied that she, alongside Nathalie will take care of her nephew Adrien after his father's death.
- Secret Test of Character: Gives one to Gabriel in "Emotion", by pretending that her son is missing and scolding Gabriel for not helping her to find him, only to be coldly dismissed by him, convincing Amelie that her brother-in-law is a monster.
- So Proud of You: Gives one to Félix after she finds out that he stole Gabriel's ring.
- Villainous Mother-Son Duo: While she and Félix are small potatoes compared to Hawk Moth, Mayura, and Lila, they're nonetheless out to steal Gabriel and Emilie's wedding rings, and Amelie's conversation with her son implies there's more to the rings than meets the eye.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: In "Representation", she was revealed to be this in her youth unlike her sister Emilie, as she always wanted to please her parents and even agreed to wed the heartless billionaire Colt Fathom in an arranged marriage for their sake.
Colt Fathom
Voiced by: N/A
Amelie's late husband and Félix's father, an American billonaire and arms dealer.
- Abusive Dad: In "Pretension", Félix mentioned that his father was "a thousand times worse" than the strict Tomoe Tsurugi. In "Representation", it was shown he called Félix a monster, controlled him with his amok like a puppet while spending his final days taking anything that made Félix happy.
- Ambiguous Situation: In "Multiplication" it was revealed by Ladybug that he died a year before the events of the episode, but the cause of his passing was never revealed. However, it was confirmed that he died as a result of using the damaged Peacock Miraculous to create Félix.
- Arranged Marriage: In "Representation", it was revealed he and Amelie were paired up by the latter's parents.
- Babies Ever After: Along with his in-laws, Colt also wanted a child to symbolize wealth and status.
- Domestic Abuse: It's implied that he was not only abusive towards Félix but also Amelie as he mentioned in his play that "if he became a fond of anyone who displeases his father", and it showed an arm of a stuffed bunny being ripped and in "Gabriel Agreste", Amelie also wore a bunny mask in the party.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Colt was jealous of Emilie and Gabriel being able to have a child while he and Amelie couldn't and Colt created Félix from that jealousy.
- Hate Sink: Despite not having much known about him, what is known about him makes him out to be an incredibly detestable person, even arguably up there with the likes of Gabriel, Lila, and Chloé;, for being an incredibly rude snob and an absolutely horrible and father to Félix, abusing him and calling him a monster.
- Never My Fault: He blamed Félix for his illness, when it was Colt who created him with the Peacock Miraculous.
- Rich Bitch: In "Multiplication" it was stated that Colt was an billionaire and Félix implied that his father was abusive towards him.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He's deceased, but the Agrestes being absent from his funeral caused Félix to be embittered towards Gabriel and Adrien. Also, it's implied that Félix wants to free his cousin and Kagami from their strict parents because he was oppressed by his father. Also due to creating Félix from his jealousy, caused his son to be envious and aloof.
- You Monster!: Called Félix this due to his creation being the cause of his deteriorating health.
Mr. and Mrs. Graham de Vanily
Voiced by: N/A
The parents of Emilie Agreste and Amelie Graham de Vanily, the in-laws of Gabriel Agreste and Colt Fathom, and the maternal grandparents of Adrien Agreste and Félix Fathom, they are first pictured in "Representation" where they are portrayed by Félix and Kagami.
- Arranged Marriage: They arranged one between Amelie and Colt Fathom.
- Babies Ever After: After Amelie and Colt's wedding, the parents wanted the two to have an heir to continue their wealthy, aristocratic, and noble lineage.
- Blue Blood: They are aristocrats of the British nobility. Since the daughters have a Lady courtesy title, the father is either a Duke, Marquess, or Earl (the British equivalent for Count).
- Dating What Daddy Hates: Both parents opposed Emillie's marriage to Gabriel, who was then a poor tailor named Gabi Grassette.
- Nobility Marries Money: They expected this from their daughters. They set up Amelie with Colt because of his status and wealth.
- Pet the Dog: Though Emilie cut ties with her family after she infuriated them for marrying beneath her, they were willing to give her the best medical treatments as she and Amelie were infertile.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Worried about Emilie's rebellious nature, they sent her to Paris for her education, where she met Gabriel. Amelie and Colt were arranged together. Even with the best medical treatments for their daughters, neither could have a child, leading Emilie and Colt to use the broken Peacock Miraculous to create Adrien and Félix.
The Bourgeois family and associates
Mayor André Bourgeois
Akumatized forms: Malediktator, Heart Hunter (with Audrey)
Voiced by: Gilbert Lévy (FR), Joe Ochman (EN)Foreign VAs
Chloé's father and former mayor of Paris.
- Being Evil Sucks: The weight of constantly doing the bidding of his wife and daughter, coupled with Gabriel betraying him, convinces André to resign as mayor as of "Collusion".
- Birds of a Feather:
- In stark contrast to his and Chloé's relationship, André actually has much in common with his stepdaughter, Zoé, and they bond over their necessity to take the backseat for the family and have to give up a dream to please them. Zoé's presence has a positive influence on André, where he tries to assert himself a little more to Chloé and Audrey's demands.
- In a deleted scene from "Collusion", where André finally mans up, resigns as Mayor, and declares that he's done being Audrey and Chloé's slave (even divorcing the former), he takes custody of Zoé. Aside from wanting to get his stepdaughter away from such horrible influences, it's very likely he did so out of gratitude for being such a positive influence on him and helping him reignite his true passion.
- Corrupt Politician: Played for Drama. Most of his immoral actions as mayor are the result of being a Doting Parent to Chloé and a Henpecked Husband to Audrey. He even lampshades his predictiment in "Collusion" to Gabriel, who doctored the footage to further tarnish his image.
- Cuckold: André and Audrey have been married for 20 years, but it's revealed Audrey has a teenage daughter with another man shortly after giving birth to Chloé.
- Doting Parent:
- Deconstructed with his relationship with Chloé. André pays for Chloé's every whim and she uses his status to ensure she never has to face the consequences of her actions, effectively turning Chloé into the spoiled brat she is today.
- "Sole Crusher" demonstrates he has the capability to be a more positive version of this, given he is the only one of the Bourgeois to show Zoé any normal familial love. This is even sweeter when you remember that Zoé is not even his biological child, but the result of an affair Audrey had, so he would have every reason to disdain her.
- Engineered Public Confession: Became a victim of it while complaining about all the horrible things he's done to stay in his wife's good graces, Gabriel secretly recorded André and edited the footage so he can release it online and discredit him.
- Ermine Cape Effect: He is always seen wearing his sash with the colours of the French flag. Normally in France a mayor would be expected to wear this piece of garment only during a formal ceremony.
- Even Evil Has Standards: While reluctantly willing to cater to the demands of his more immoral relatives, André wilfully refuses to replace the Parisian police force with robots.
- Foil:
- To Gabriel Agreste — In matters of parenting styles, Mayor Bourgeois is the opposite. While Gabriel is aloof and has placed restriction after restriction on his son's life, André is usually personable, but gives his daughter more freedom than is safe or healthy. Also, while Gabriel is openly rude to everyone he does have a softer side, André is more friendly in comparison, but can be quite obnoxious, especially when it comes to his daughter.
- To Tom and Sabine — Both are loving parents to their respective daughters, but while Tom and Sabine know when to discipline Marinette for her behavior, André constantly excuses Chloé's brattiness.
- Freudian Excuse: As the show goes on, André’s status as a bitter Corrupt Politician is revealed to be because he gave up his dreams of film-making to impress a wife who never loved him and has spent an entire political career he did not want kow-towing to a daughter who was a Generation Xerox of said wife.
- Good Stepmother: Gender-inverted. While Zoé isn't his biological daughter, he cares for her as if she were his own.
- Grew a Spine: As the show goes on, André gains the courage to stand up for himself against his demeaning wife and daughter by exiling them to New York In "Revolution".
- Heel Realization: André admits that he has abused his power as mayor for the sake of his wife and biological daughter who treat him like dirt regardless, and was happier when he had a simple life. This motivates him to finally step down as mayor.
- Henpecked Husband: His wife has absolutely no respect for him and she has him completely under her thumb. The prospect of disappointing Audrey leads him to go along with his daughter's scheme in "Frightningale". "Adoration" reveals that not only did he go into politics to please Audrey (as revealed in "Sole Crusher"), but went so far as to change his name from "Anaximandré" to "André" just to make her happy.
- Hidden Depths: "Sole Crusher" reveals he had aspirations of being a film director, and was the one to direct Solitude, the film that Emilie Agreste starred in. But was forced to become a politician to stay in his wife's good graces.
- Like Parent, Like Child: André admits that his father used to be a politician which was part of his motivation in becoming mayor.
- Mayor Pain: Of the incompetent kind. He fires Officer Roger on a spur of the moment because he accidentally upset Chloé, among others abuses of power. The "Darkblade" episode also implies he's a Sleazy Politician.
- Never My Fault: Just like Audrey, he never accepts any responsibility for how Chloé turned out. In "Revolution", he kindly denies Ladybug giving his daughter a Magical Charm and finally takes responsibility for his errors.
- Papa Wolf:
- Deconstructed in his relationship with Chloé. If he feels that his daughter has been wronged, he will go to any lengths to help her... even if it means jumping to conclusions and using his position to threaten others.
- Despite the amount of slack he cuts Chloé, there is one thing he refuses to do for her — harm his stepdaughter Zoé.
- Pushover Parents: He bends and caters to Chloé's every whim, and she's naturally developed into a Spoiled Brat and a Kiddie Kid because of it.
- Resigned in Disgrace: After Gabriel uses Manipulative Editing to make André look like (even more of) a Sleazy Politician, he’s forced to leave the office of Mayor. As André already deeply regretted the lengths to which he went to make his wife and daughter happy (and they still treat him with no respect, anyway), he sees it as the perfect opportunity to pursue his true passion and gladly resigns.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: He's not above abusing his power to get his way, and it's usually similar to his daughter's hissy fits.
- Sleazy Politician: Mayor Bourgeois is implied to be one. While he doesn't seem to be a bad man, Chloé claims that, if there is one thing her father's campaign tactics have taught her, it is that the way to win an election is to make your opponents look bad. It's worth noting two of the villains were created as a result of his actions. André even admits as much to Gabriel in private, though he's not proud of it.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: His wife is a Statuesque Stunner, while he’s overweight and seemingly older than her, judging from his grey hair.
- Ultimate Authority Mayor: Downplayed. He is shown seeking reelection in "Darkblade" and the conflict of "Malediktator" starts when his wife and daughter make a demand of him that exceeds even his authority, but he's still treated as the highest authority in Paris with no sign of any interference from the federal government.
- We Used to Be Friends: How he feels about Gabriel after the latter betrays him in "Collusion" by releasing an Engineered Public Confession of the mayor.
Audrey Bourgeois
Akumatized forms: Style Queen, Heart Hunter (with André)
Voiced by: Céline Melloul (FR), Haviland Stillwell (EN)Foreign VAs
Chloé's henpecking mother, known for being one of the harshest fashion critics.
- Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: While away from her husband in New York, she had an affair and a child with a man named Mr. Lee.
- Abusive Parents:
- When Audrey isn't neglecting Chloé, she's putting her down every minute or mis-remembering her name. Even if she's nice to her daughter, it's while encouraging her to be spiteful and selfish. But following "Revolution", furious that Chloé tarnished the family name after being ousted as the dictatorial mayor of Paris (rather than for turning Paris into a dictator state, which she approved of), Audrey makes it clear she intends to make her daughter's life miserable.
- She's less abusive and more neglectful of Zoé, seemingly uninterested in her compared to her molding of Chloé into someone like herself. Zoé needs to put up a similar stuck-up attitude in order to gain her mother's attention. Still, Audrey doesn't put her down and actually remembers her name, which is downright nice by her standards.
- Accidental Misnaming: Audrey has as much of a head for names as Chloé. It comes of as Malicious Misnaming at times, since she is too self-centered to be concerned with the names of her husband or daughter. Averted with Zoé her child from an affair. She actually remembers her name despite rarely seeing her, which says things about Audrey's priorities.
- All Take and No Give: She forced André to give up his dreams of being a movie producer, go into politics, and even change his name for the sake of their marriage, but wasn't willing to make any similar concessions on her part. She had no problem abandoning him and their newborn daughter to continue her job as a fashion critic, and, to rub salt in the wound, cheated on him with another man while in New York, resulting in Zoé.
- All There in the Script: Her first name wasn’t said onscreen until "Style Queen".
- Alpha Bitch: She makes Chloé look nice by comparison, constantly firing (or trying to) anyone around her for the most minor of slights.
- Bad Boss: She tends to fire people at the drop of a hat, even trying to fire people who don't work for her. This is so prominent that "You're fired." is her catchphrase, and she still uses the catchphrase as Style Queen.
- Behind Every Great Man: Deconstructed. When Chloé faces being expelled in "Confrontation" for helping Lila frame Marinette for making fake copies of every single student's school forms, Audrey intimidates André into abusing his authority over Mr. Damocles to keep their daughter in school.
- Caustic Critic: Audrey is a high profile fashion critic, and legendary for being impossible to please.
- Character Catchphrase: "You're fired." She also uses Chloé's "Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!" (or rather the other way around) and variants on it.
- Domestic Abuse: Her treatment of André is frankly emotional abuse, demeaning and insulting him for the slightest thing and making him terrified of disobeying her. He seems to have wised up to this as he wants her as far away from him as possible, so she's moved on to threatening to take Chloé away.
- The Dreaded: In "Frightningale", André is reluctant to sabotage Clara's video (although Chloé is pushing him to do so, likely to spite Marinette). However, all it takes is Chloé threatening to call Audrey for him to be willing. She is so bad that Hawk Moth (who knows her personally) is confident that she would make a villain so vile that he would finally succeed, and after she is defeated he actually retires from being Hawk Moth since he feels there's no point in trying anymore if not even a villain made from someone that evil could win (of course, said retirement ends up being of the ten minute variety).
- Fearless Fool: Audrey is not intimidated by Akumatized villains, because she's so arrogant that the idea that someone might actually oppose or hurt her simply never enters her mind.
- Generation Xerox: Her debut episode makes it very clear where Chloé got her Alpha Bitch behavior from.
- Hate Sink: She’s an older Chloé without the redeeming qualities, she treats her daughters, husband, and staff poorly, and casually cheated on her husband with a man in New York. The fact that she can even make the viewer feel sorry for Chloé, who is normally a hate sink in her own right, tells you just how awful she is.
- It's All About Me: After getting to know Audrey, it's clear where Chloé gets her narcissism and inflated ego from. Audrey thinks that everything is supposed to go her way, and even believes she has the authority to fire people who don't even work for her. She even tells her own daughter that the only thing that's exceptional about her is her own mother.
- Jerkass: She is even worse than Chloé - a narcissistic, egotistical, cold-hearted prima donna who thinks she is above everyone else and even treats her daughter and husband very poorly.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: If her behavior in "Style Queen" is anything to go by, Chloé gets most of her Alpha Bitch tendencies from her. She is narcissistic, conceited, believes everyone and everything should cater to her and believes she has the authority to fire anybody (including people who don't even work for her). It is not until the end of "Queen Wasp" does she realize this and promise to be nicer (to Chloé, anyway).
- Missing Mom: She left Chloé to pursue a career in America when she was only a toddler. She returns in the "Queen's Battle" two-parter.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Likely named for fashion icon Audrey Hepburn.
- Never My Fault: Even after in the aftermath of "Revolution", Audrey never accepts responsibility in how Chloé turned out due to her bad parenting. Played with in that Audrey doesn't disapprove of her daughter's behavior, but her incompetence at getting away with it.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Her appearance (bob haircut, large sunglasses), attitude (caustic, with extremely high standards), and status (one of the biggest names in fashion) make her an exaggerated sendup of Anna Wintour.
- Parental Abandonment: "Despair Bear" suggests that she left her husband and daughter years ago. It is revealed in "Style Queen" that she lives in New York where she does most of her work.
- Parental Neglect: In "Zombizou", Sabrina mentions that Audrey never bothered to remember birthdays, likely including her own daughter's.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: While being exiled to New York, Audrey harshly and angrily gives one to Chloé for her foolishness and vows to gain control of her life. Chloé, seething that she also lost her mother's love and respect, retreats to the back of the plane.Audrey: Because of you, we've lost face! You've ruined our name and our reputation! You had all the powers in your hands, and you foolishly lost them! Bourgeois do not raise losers. You think you're going to London on vacation? Dream on! I'm going to take control of your life again, starting with your education.
- Rich Bitch: Audrey is dumbfounded that she would be made to walk on a fabric carpet when she ordered a marble one.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Turns out Chloé got this trait from her, as she's happy to use her husband's position to demand ridiculous things.
- Secret Other Family: In New York, she had an affair with a man named Mr. Lee and had a child with him, Zoé.
- Shadow Archetype: Audrey, who puts her daughter's selfishness and arrogance to shame, is clearly what Chloé will become if she doesn't clean up her act and learn humility.
- Shared Family Quirks: She and Chloé share a lot of mannerisms. At least some of this is Chloé consciously copying her.
- Statuesque Stunner: She’s tall and attractive.
- Stylish Sunhats: Audrey wears a gold and black sunhat with a large gold rose adorning it. She's a harsh high-profile fashion critic.
- Too Dumb to Live: Much like her daughter, Audrey does not know when to draw the line when it comes to pushing other people's buttons. She does not seem the least bit alarmed by Chloé's transformation into Queen Bee, nor does she seem concerned that her husband (who she has been kicking around because he won't abuse his power) was akumatized, continuing to Kick the Dog in spite of this.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: André is overweight, and judging by his grey hair, older than the statuesque Audrey.
- Womanchild: A middle-aged Alpha Bitch, which is ultimately just as depressing as it sounds.
- You Are the New Trend: She has a lot of sway in the fashion world, having turned Gabriel from "drawing his unworldly designs in his dismal, cramped studio" into one of the richest fashion-moguls in France, something she almost did with Marinette.
Armand the Butler
Akumatized form: Despair Bear
An employee at André's hotel who acts as Chloé's personal valet.
- Accidental Misnaming: Neither Chloé nor Audrey care enough to learn his name, and just call him various compound names that start with Jean. Sole Crusher lampshades it by calling him "Jean-Something". His name actually isn't Jean-anything; it's Armand.
- The Conscience: Invoked in "Despair Bear," where he pushes Chloé to improve her personality by asking her what her stuffed bear would do.
- Nice Guy: He's been looking out for Chloé since she was a little girl, and is more patient with her than you would think humanly possible. When Adrien threatened to end his friendship with her, he comforted her and encouraged her to be a better person, so as to amend their relationship.
- Old Retainer: He's not old per se, but he's apparently been working for the Bourgeoises since Chloé was a toddler, and acts as the fatherly figure that André does not provide by acknowledging her shortcomings and encouraging her to improve.
Césaire family
Otis Césaire
Akumatized form: Animan
Voiced by: Éric Peter (FR), Paul St. Peter (EN)Foreign VAs
The zookeeper at Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes and the father of Alya and her siblings.
- Ambiguously Brown: Otis may be of Martinican descent, considering that he's the father of Alya.
- Berserk Button: Insulting his animals. It's what got him Akumatized in the first place.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: He has some thick eyebrows.
- Family Theme Naming: The names of him and his family are related to jazz singers (in his case, Otis Redding).
- Friend to All Living Things: Otis is very serious about his job as zookeeper and feels that his animals deserve respect.
- One Degree of Separation: Otis makes a few background appearances in the 2016 Christmas special which confirm him◊ to be part of the Césaire family, specifically her father.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Downplayed. Otis isn't ugly, but is a fat man with unkempt, bushy hair. Marlena, on the other hand, is a conventionally attractive woman.
Marlena Césaire
Alya's mother and the head chef at Le Grand Paris.
- Ambiguously Brown: Marlena may be of Martinican descent, considering that she's the mother of Alya.
- Brutal Honesty: While she is nicer than the other judges, Marlena doesn't hide her opinion of Cheng's dish (which was messed with by Chloé).
- Curtains Match the Windows: Brown hair and brown eyes.
- Family Theme Naming: The names of her and her family are related to jazz singers (in her case, Marlena Shaw).
- Nice Girl: Very kind and considerate.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Downplayed. Marlena is a conventionally attractive woman. Otis, on the other hand, isn't ugly, but is a fat man with unkempt, bushy hair.
Nora Césaire
Akumatized form: Anansi
"Look how many times you've been in direct danger. So, you're staying home, safe and sound, period!"
Voiced by: Céline Melloul (FR), Laila Berzins (EN)Foreign VAs
A kickboxer, and Alya's overprotective older sister.
- Badass Normal: Nora has no powers, but in "Mayura", she leads a small army of Parisians against Hawk Moth's Akuma army.
- The Big Girl: She completely towers over Alya and her friends. She's big enough and strong enough that she can wrap all three of her siblings and Nino in a single bear hug.
- Boxing Battler: She mostly fights like this in spite of being a kickboxer, as otherwise it would be too easy.
- Boisterous Bruiser: She's loud, short-tempered, and very proud of her fighting skills.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Apparently, she's used to delivering them, claiming that most of her matches end with her winning in Round 1.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Insists on being called by her ring name, Anansi.
- Epic Fail: Marinette mentions that Nora once tried to protect Alya from an Akuma...who turned out to simply be an unfortunate Mr. Banana.
- Gender-Blender Name: Well, a nickname. Anansi spiders are named after a male character from African folklore. Might double as Tomboyish Name.
- Handwraps of Awesome: Never seen without them.
- Jerkass Has a Point: She wasn't wrong about Alya being in constant danger by Akuma victims.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Nora is unbelievably overprotective of Alya and underestimates Nino and even Ladybug and Cat Noir, but that's only because she loves her younger sister and doesn't want anything bad to happen to her.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: She takes a page out of the Gabriel Agreste parenting guide when it comes to overprotectiveness.
- Nerves of Steel:
- In "Catalyst", she beats back a swarm of Akumas without batting an eyelash, avoiding Akumatization due to her total lack of fear.
Nora: Fear? [laughs] Little sister, fear is afraid of me!- In "Mayura" she leads the charge against an army of supervillains.
Nora: Parisians, we can be heroes just for one day! - The Nicknamer: Quickly dubs Marinette "Baguette", Nino "Cappy", and Adrien "Cell Phone Boy" note . She also refers to the group at large as "flyweights".
- Remember the New Guy?: All the characters know her already in her debut episode. Alya even lampshades that she can't remember the last time she spent time with her sister.
Etta and Ella Césaire
Akumatized form: Sapotis
"It's not us! It's the Sapotis!"
Voiced by: Jessie Lambotte and Marie Nonnenmacher (FR, Etta and Ella, respectively), Cherami Leigh (EN)Foreign VAs
Alya's younger twin sisters.
- Always Identical Twins: The first pair of twins shown in the series; they're identical girls.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: While Alya clearly loves them, they mess with her to the point that she gets worn out and frustrated with them.
- Character Catchphrase: "It's not us, it's the Sapotis!" They use it to excuse their bad behavior.
- The Dividual: They act as a single character for all effective intents and purposes.
- Family Theme Naming: Like the rest of their family, they're named for jazz singers, in this case Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: Though they wear matching outfits, they're color-coded to tell them apart; Etta wears pink and Ella wears blue.
- Single-Minded Twins: Appear to have the same personality, and all their actions are as a unit. Heck, they even get akumatized together.
- Theme Twin Naming: Etta and Ella. Doubles as Family Theme Naming.
- Trickster Twins: Even before being Akumatized, they are mischievous and love messing with Alya.
Chamack family
Nadja Chamack
Akumatized form: Prime Queen
Voiced by: Jessie Lambotte (FR), Sabrina Weisz (EN)Foreign VAs
A television personality and reporter, and friend of Marinette's parents. Occasionally has Marinette babysit her daughter, Manon Chamack.
- Character Catchphrase: Her catchphrase is "Don't be bemused, it's just the news", which she says before many of her news broadcasts.
- Deadline News: Pixelator, The Collector, Robostus, the Sapotis and Zombizou have all interrupted her broadcasts on them in various ways.
- Economy Cast: All of Paris' reporting and journalism is apparently done by her. She can even be a news anchor when needed, despite working in the field most of the time.
- Good Parents: Despite what must be a very demanding career, Nadja is caring and attentive to Manon, and she can be very stern with her daughter if necessary, wanting her to learn good virtues.
- Intrepid Reporter: It often appears that nothing will stop Nadja from getting her story. She even interviews supervillains on two occasions, and pays the price.
- Nice Girl: She is friendly to others, and unquestionably a good mother to her daughter.
- Shipper with an Agenda: She wants Ladybug and Cat Noir to admit they're in love and kiss... because it would be good for her show's ratings.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She is partially responsible for Armand D'Argencourt's and Manon's Akumatizations.
Manon Chamack
Akumatized form: The Puppeteer
Voiced by: Marie Nonnenmacher (FR), Stephanie Sheh (EN)Foreign VAs
An occasional babysitting charge of Marinette, and the daughter of Nadja Chamack, a friend of Marinette's parents and a television personality and reporter.
- Ambiguously Brown: Manon has tan skin. Given her mother's light complexion, she may be biracial.
- Ambiguously Evil: In "The Puppeteer 2", she sports a Psychotic Smirk when holding a replica of Puppeteer's wand, after which Hawk Moth immediately detects her as an Akuma target and reakumatizes her into Puppeteer, implying she was actually looking forward to becoming Puppeteer again. But since she's a young child, it's possible she only wanted to play Puppeteer, or that she just sees being Puppeteer as a game.
- Bratty Half-Pint: She enjoys messing with Marinette whenever she's babysitting her.
- Family Eye Resemblance: Manon looks almost nothing like Nadja besides the same amber eyes.
- Genki Girl: She's so hyperactive that she gives Marinette a run for her money.
- Girlish Pigtails: She's a little girl, so clearly this is how her hair is styled.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: According to her mother, she has a mountain of toys in her room, and she gets Akumatized over Marinette's stuffed dolls.
- Psychotic Smirk: Makes one in "The Puppeteer 2" when holding a wax replica of Puppeteer's wand.
- Puppy-Dog Eyes: Turns these on Marinette to try to get her to lend her the Ladybug doll.
Couffaine family
Anarka Couffaine
Akumatized form: Captain Hardrock
"Cap'n Anarka speakin' to ya! So how's it comin' along, me young pirates?"
Voiced by: Laura Préjean (FR)Foreign VAs
Luka and Juleka's mother who lives in a houseboat with her children. She loves speaking like a pirate, freedom and blasting loud music.
- Amicable Exes: A (possibly) non-romantic example with Jagged Stone. They used to perform together, and the way Jagged begs for "Nanarky" to come back to be his guitarist in "Desperada" is very flirty-sounding. Anarka herself doesn't want anything with Jagged, but still visibly considers his proposal for a brief moment and is actually proud that she was his "first" guitarist. "Truth" reveals this is actually the case.
- Cool Old Lady: A bombastic middle-aged woman who takes joy in blasting loud rock music.
- Family Theme Naming: Like her two children, her name ends in "-ka".
- Large Ham: Anarka has very little volume control.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: Both her children seem to be far more mellow than she is.
- Moral Myopia: As part of her pirate thing, she doesn't respect law enforcement...or regulations. It turns out her houseboat breaks several regulations and lacks permits, which was only discovered because she refused Roger's request she turn her speakers down from the dangerous noise levels they were at. Her rage at getting ticketed is what makes her become Captain Hardrock, but she was the one in the wrong.
- The Pig-Pen: While she's not obviously dirty herself, she does chastise Marinette for cleaning up the boat since she apparently likes things messy, and throws all the trash Marinette picked up back on the floor.
- Punny Name:
- Anarka, as in "anarchy". Doubles as a Meaningful Name, given her love of personal freedom and contempt for law enforcement.
- Her last name sounds like "acouphene", which is French for "tinnitus". Given how loud Anarka likes her music, hearing loss is probably in her future.
- Talk Like a Pirate: She insists on speaking in this manner for no apparent reason other than to have fun with the fact she lives on a houseboat.
- Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Extremely bombastic and eccentric, especially by comparison to the more mellow Luka and shy Juleka.
Kanté family
Claudie Kanté
Akumatized form: Startrain
Max's mother. She is a train conductor who dreams of becoming an astronaut.
- Badass Bystander: In "Intuition", she breaks the window of her akumatized spaceship and catapults herself into space in order to save Cosmo Bug from getting her Miraculous taken away by the villain. Her presence ultimately causes Monarch to give up on that plan entirely, as he can't neutralize Claudie without admitting to ADA that he's deceiving her.
- Family Versus Career: Downplayed. She was forced to put her dream of becoming an astronaut on hold in order to raise Max. Now that he's a teenager who can be trusted to take care of himself for an extended period of time, she's able to pursue said dream in earnest. Even so, she states herself that she didn’t want to miss Max grow up, and is very close to and proud of her son.
- Nice Girl: She's a loving mother and courageous woman who's willing to risk her life in order to help the heroes.
- Punny Name: Her name sounds like "claudiquante", French for "walking with a limp".
- Shout-Out: Her first name and her dream to be an astronaut is likely a reference to the first female French astronaut Claudie Haigneré.
Markov
Akumatized form: Robostus
A small but highly advanced robot built by Max Kanté.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted. Markov only went rogue due to Hawk Moth's influence and is otherwise nothing but friendly.
- Benevolent A.I.: Markov is a polite, innocent, helpful little robot.
- Blue Is Heroic: His overall colour is blue and he's quite friendly.
- Brutal Honesty: Markov tells Ms. Mendeliev she's unreasonable for talking down to him and Max, and it's the final straw that gets him confiscated.
- Constantly Curious: As an AI that can get information by itself, Markov is always asking questions.
- Cute Critters Act Childlike: Though not exactly a "critter", Markov is innocent, perpetually curious, and utterly adorable.
- Cute Machines: A tiny robot with an adorable design.
- Do Androids Dream?: Ms. Mendeleiev and Principal Damocles both question whether Markov, as a robot, can truly have feelings. As Hawk Moth demonstrates by Akumatizing him, the answer is a definite "yes".Hawk Moth: Two dear friends who've been separated...there is nothing artificial about those emotions!
- Flight: Markov has a small propeller attached to the top of his head that allows him to fly.
- Heroic Bystander: In "Startrain", he assists the heroes in disabling the deathtraps despite being in a life-or-death situation.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Likely named with the Russian mathematician Andrei Markov in mind.
- Nice Guy: A friendly, polite robot.
- No Mouth: Markov doesn't have a mouth, just two eyes that can change shape to reflect his moods.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: Not in appearance, but certainly in personality.
- Robot Buddy: Markov is a robot created by Max and is the latter's best friend.
- Schizo Tech: Magical superheroes aside, the technology shown in Miraculous Ladybug is roughly equivalent to that of the real world at the time of airing. Markov is the second exception to this (after Alix's watch which isn't actually an exception; it's tied to the magical superheroes, meaning Markov really is the first case) — a robot who is able to fly, communicate with others, and possesses enough sentience to be akumatized. The really impressive part? He was built by a teenager!
- Secret-Keeper: He is present when Max is granted the Horse Miraculous in "Startrain", and is thus aware that Max is Pegasus.
- Wingding Eyes: His eyes can change form to shapes like hearts, question marks, or exclamation points. Of course, it's justified by him being a robot with a screen for a face.
Affection Decision Assistant (A.D.A.)
Akumatized form: Bugfighter
Voiced by: Frédérique Marlot (FR)
The A.I. Mission Control of the Tsurugi Space Jet. Since she was created with the same technology as Markov, she can be considered his little sister, which is why she is under the Kanté family header.- A.I.-cronym: She's the Affective Decision Assistant.
- Benevolent A.I.: She wants nothing but the best for her pilots and humanity in general. When she believes Claudie has been lost in space while piloting her, she chooses to exile herself to the far reaches of space because she believes herself to be a danger to humanity.
- Do Androids Dream?: Like her "big brother", she has enough emotion to be Akumatized.
- The Empath: Her sensors allow her to detect the emotions of her pilots from their voices.
- The Exile: A self-imposed example. When she believes she has lost Claudie in space, she decides that she is a danger to humans and banishes herself to the far reaches of the universe to prevent herself from causing them any more harm.
- Heroic Willpower: She manages to de-Akumatize herself when she realizes that Monarch deceived her and that Claudie is still safe and sound.
- Impeded Communication: Invoked by Monarch, who hacks into her system and shuts down her biometric sensors, leaving her unable to detect Claudie and making her believe Claudie has been lost in space, which makes her vulnerable to his Megakuma.
- Mission Control: She is designed to assist astronauts piloting the Tsurugi Space Jet, and can temporarily take over control of the jet for them if she senses that they are too stressed to pilot it safely.
- Superior Successor: She was made with the same technology as Markov, and refers to herself as his "updated, improved sister."
Kubdel family
Alim Kubdel
Voiced by: Thierry Kazazian (FR), Todd Haberkorn (EN)Foreign VAs
Alix and Jalil's father. A historian who works at the Louvre.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: His hair is dark brown in "Timebreaker", but reddish-orange in "The Pharaoh".
- Good Parents: Alim is shown to be a supportive parent when understanding Alix's wish to be with her friends in "Timebreaker" and has shown when to get strict when needed as seen when scolding his son for almost breaking the rules in "The Pharaoh".
- Meaningful Name: His name is Arabic for "scholar", fitting as he is a historian.
- Schizo Tech: The family watch he gave to Alix in "Timebreaker", which has holographic capabilities. Ultimately justified when "Timetagger" reveals the watch's true nature.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: He not only knew that the pocket watch was a Miraculous but also that his daughter Alix will become its wielder.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: He's an historian, so of course he wears glasses.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His dismissal of Jalil's theories directly leads to his son's Akumatization.
Jalil Kubdel
Akumatized form: The Pharaoh
Voiced by: Franck Tordjman (FR), Vic Mignogna (first season) Alejandro Saab (later seasons) (EN)Foreign VAs
Alix's older brother and a young historian.
- As You Know: He explains to his father about the history behind a scroll from the Louvre's Egyptian exhibit, even though Mr. Kubdel is the exhibit's director and already knows all about it, leading to some Lampshade Hanging.
- Cloudcuckoolander: As shown in "Kwamibuster", he seems to believe that the pyramids were alien spaceships, much to Alix's embarrassment.
- Conspiracy Theorist: He already had shades of this in his debut episode, but his later appearances made it more prominent; in "Kwamibuster" he's shown to believe that the Egyptian pyramids were alien spaceships, and in "Reunion" he buys into online conspiracy theories that Paris' heroes aren't as benevolent as they seem.
- Didn't Think This Through: As Marinette notes, Jalil is quick to make assumptions without thinking ahead.
- It's All About Me: Jalil was willing to risk his safety and father's job just to prove he was right about a spell.
- Jerkass Ball: In "Reunion", after thinking that Alix was forced to travel through time against her will and believing the social media rumours about Ladybug and Cat Noir not being as benevolent as they seem, he voluntarily helps Monarch to defeat the heroes and bring their Miraculous to him in order to return his sister in the current timeline. However, he rejects his Akuma once he finds out that all the rumours about the heroes were lies and apologizes for believing the worst about them.
- Meaningful Name: "Jalil" means respected, and he desires his father's respect as a young historian following in his footsteps.
- Not Brainwashed: In his fourth Akumatization he helps Monarch voluntarily.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: Jalil wears circular glasses and is able to translate an ancient papyrus by himself and wants to perform the spell that is written on it.
- Social Media Is Bad: In this case, it corrupts him to the point he wants to side with a magical terrorist over the heroes.
- Strong Family Resemblance: He shares a lot of his father's facial features.
- The Unfavorite: While the French dub is clear to state that the heirloom pocket watch goes to the youngest child of the family (and thus Jalil wasn't skipped maliciously), Thomas Astruc also stated that Mr. Kubdel favors Alix because Jalil can be absentminded and prone to making snap judgments.
- Willing Channeler: In "Reunion", he summons Monarch to akumatize him.
Jagged Stone, his associates and his rivals
Jagged Stone
Akumatized form: Guitar Villain
"I'm a real artist! Real talent! Even my hair is real! And that's what people love about me."
Voiced by: Matthew Géczy (FR), Lex Lang (EN)Foreign VAs
A popular rock star of whom both Marinette and Adrien are fans.
- Accent Adaptation: In the original French version he speaks with a pronounced American accent, but in the English dub he has a British accent.
- Amicable Exes: To an extent with Anarka, who does not want anything with Jagged anymore, but still has good memories of their time together as rockstars. Incidentally, Jagged is also the father of Anarka's children.
- Be Yourself: Jagged Stone is shown to believe this in "Guitar Villain". He adamantly refuses his producer's insistence to copy a trendy DJ, because he prefers Doing It for the Art and encourages Marinette to do the same with her designs.
- British Rockstar: The English dub takes this route with him, as he's given a British accent and he's already clearly inspired by Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones (the Eiffel Tower glasses he requests in his first appearance are pure '70s Elton John). However, this isn't the case in the original French version since he has a pronounced American accent instead.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: The reason Jagged didn't try to be part of his childrens' (Luka and Juleka) lives was because he knew he would be a poor parent, considering how much he loves his rockstar lifestyle.
- Doing It for the Art: In-Universe, this is the kind of musician he is. He couldn't care less if he's not at the top of the sales charts, as long as he gets to do his own thing. Of course, #2 is still nothing to sneeze at, which he points out to his producer.
- Eccentric Millionaire: He leans towards this; he picks fights with his producer, has a very unique and distinct style, gives his pet crocodile baths in hotel bathtubs and so on.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Suggested to be genuinely fond of Marinette after quite liking her design work for him.
- Keet: He's wild and loves to be entertained.
- Large Ham: Extremely extroverted and bombastic, Jagged tends to dominate any scene he's in.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: "Truth" reveals that he is Juleka and Luka's dad.
- Nice Guy: While he starts out pretty rough in his debut episode, Jagged is very humble and friendly for a famous rocker. When Marinette brings him an album cover concept that isn't very artistic but similar to what his manager—who's more interested in money than artistic integrity—would like, he realizes that his manager told Marinette that he wanted something like that and politely asks her to make another one by following her own instincts.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: His name is likely a reference to The RollingStones lead singer Mick Jagger, while his appearance borrows a lot from Johnny Depp (who is Stones-adjacent, via his longtime friendship with Keith Richards.)
- Older Than They Look: According to Bob Roth in "Lies", Jagged lies about his age, implying he's much older than he actually looks. "Truth" reveals that he's old enough to have two teenage children.
- Punny Name: His name is a pun on the genre "Hard Rock" while also calling back to Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones. His assistant's last name is Rolling, furthering the reference.
- Put on a Bus: He goes on tour in Season 5 so Luka has an excuse to skip town by joining him.
- Shipper on Deck: In "Troublemaker", after accidentally entering Marinette's room, he sees her pictures of Adrien and realizes she has a crush on him and Jagged even considers it sweet.
- Rock is Authentic, Pop is Shallow: He certainly thinks so. In his words:Jagged Stone: I'm a real rock n roller. Not some pop star in diapers!
- The Rock Star: Has the typical look and popularity, but the show refrains from portraying more adult aspects of the trope (eg. Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll).
- Took a Level in Badass: In "Recreation", he, Luka and Penny Rolling fight back against the miraculized soldiers alongside Su-Han to protect Marinette and Adrien's friends as members of the Miraculous Order.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Jagged's initial appearance is a rather negative impression that makes him seem entitled and unreasonable, being very surly that Mayor Bourgeois unsurprisingly doesn't get how to provide for a crocodile and Marinette (a mere fourteen-year-old girl) didn't provide him with a very specific set of glasses he wanted. After she succeeds in making them for him and in subsequent episodes, he's clearly more grateful and not just self-absorbed by being thankful for Marinette and Penny's work and noticing Marinette's first album cover probably wasn't her own direction…but still keeping it consistent that his tastes are a bit eccentric ("Troublemaker" has Penny having to ask about getting a polar bear to serve his breakfast on).
Fang
Jagged Stone's pet crocodile.
- All Animals Are Dogs: When he is not helping Jagged Stone threaten somebody, he behaves like a dog. He pants, wags his tail, likes getting his belly-scratched, etc.
- Angry Guard Dog: When Jagged Stone is pissed at his manager, Fang will grow menacingly at him, keeping him at a distance from his client. Against Pixelator, he may as well be a house-cat given how useless he is at it.
- Incompetent Guard Animal: Fang behaves less like the swamp predator that he is and more like a pet dog, wagging his tail, panting with his tongue hanging out, having his belly scratched and so on. In "Pixelator", he 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.
Penny Rolling
Akumatized form: Troublemaker
Voiced by: Anne-Charlotte Piau (FR), Mela Lee (EN)Foreign VAs
Jagged Stone's assistant.
- Ambiguously Brown: She has dark skin, but her exact ethnicity is unknown.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Most obvious in "Troublemaker", where she attempts to reconcile Jagged's myriad eccentricities to many different people at the same time.
- She's only beleaguered in that she has a lot of work to do as Jagged's assistant, though. As also shown in "Troublemaker", Jagged does value her, repeatedly mentioning he'd be lost without her.
- Berserk Button: Obsessive fans, if her reaction to Vincent Aza is any indication.
- Beware the Nice Ones:
- You don't want to see her angry side, especially when it comes to any obsessive fans like Vincent Aza. She threatens to break his camera if he keeps bugging Jagged.
- In fact, make her stressed and she'll lose her cool with anyone, such as Bob Roth and Alec Cataldi.
- Character Tics: Tends to click her pen when frustrated.
- Extreme Doormat: In "Troublemaker", she goes out of her way to solve everyone's problems, eventually causing her to be Akumatized.
- Girl Friday: She has to handle much of the business side of the music, while balancing the corporate-minded Bob's demands with Jagged's vision.
- The Kirk: Often ends up having to balance Bob's monetary focus with Jagged's fixation on his art.
- Nice Girl: Penny can be a little stern when work is involved, but other then that she's a very professional, helpful and hardworking person who is also kind, thoughtful and supportive.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her throwing Vincent out of the hotel for bugging Jagged in "Pixelator" is what leads to him getting Akumatized into the titular villain.
- Punny Name: Penny Rolling, who works for Jagged Stone. Put them together and you get "Rolling Stone".
- Subordinate Excuse: "Troublemaker" implies that Penny's feelings for Jagged are more than professional, and "Migration" confirms it.
- Took a Level in Badass: In "Recreation", he, Luka and Jagged Stone fight back against the miraculized soldiers alongside Su-Han to protect Marinette and Adrien's friends as members of the Miraculous Order.
Bob Roth
Akumatized forms: Moolak, Gold Record
Jagged Stone's producer.
- Abusive Parents: Downplayed. Refers to XY (his son) as talentless in "Silencer".
- Accidental Hero: In "Gabriel Agreste", Bob deletes Chloé's video from his phone, foiling her scheme to get Adrien pulled out of school.
- Bald of Evil: He's a total jerk and he has no hair on top of his head.
- Color Motifs: Gold, fitting his greed. He wears a gold ring, a gold necklace, a belt with a gold buckle, and sunglasses with yellow lenses, he has yellow eyes, both his akumatized forms have golden skin and teeth, Moolak has gold hair and sits in a gold safe which fires yellow lasers that turn people into gold coins, Bob's second supervillain identity is named Gold Record, and Gold Record wears shiny, gold clothes and uses a golden record as a weapon, which can transform people into records in a flash of yellow light.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Holds a fake contest to gather bands' material, specifically so XY can rip it off. When called on it, he tries to hide behind his connections.
- Dirty Coward: At one point in "Silencer", when Silencer tries to steal his voice, Bob uses Ladybug as a human shield and then abandons her to make his escape.
- Engineered Public Confession: Ladybug and Cat Noir trick him into one in “Silencer” by filming him with a TV camera while he’s gloating to Luka about how he’s going to get away with stealing Kitty Section’s song and costume design.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even though Bob’s a greedy jerk, he seems to care about his son, XY, and helps him with his music career.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In “Migration”, he’s baffled why Luka would refuse to abandon his friends and choose them over wealth and fame.
- Evil Gloating: He loves doing this. In “Silencer”, he gloats to Marinette and Luka about stealing their band’s song and costume design, and gloats at Luka after Ladybug has de-akumatized him and thwarted his plot to expose his plagiarism (which backfired on him, because he was on live TV). And in “Migration” he gloats at Kitty Section after he tricks them into signing his contract which forces Luka to work for him and completely screws the rest of them over.
- Evil Old Folks: He’s a slimy, moneygrubbing jerk, and based on his male-pattern baldness and grey hair, clearly not a young man.
- Executive Meddling: In-Universe, he tries to push Jagged closer to the trends of the current pop scene, which of course annoys Jagged.
- Fatal Flaw: His tendency for Evil Gloating blows up in his face in "Silencer" when Ladybug and Cat Noir film his confession to expose his plagiarism.
- Fat Bastard: He’s mean, greedy, and has a noticeable gut.
- Greed: Starting in season three, Bob's fixation on money has grown more prominent, even informing his akumatized form in "Ephemeral".
- Hate Sink: He’s a smug, greedy, lying crook of a businessman who will break the law and ruin people’s lives to make a profit.
- I Lied: In “Migration”, when trying to convince the kids he’s changed his ways, he earnestly admits he was lying in “Silencer” when he promised them their own record deal. He once again offers them a record deal and after they sign his contract, he smugly admits that he lied again.
- Jerkass Has a Point: In “Migration”, he was right that the kids should’ve been careful and read his contracts before they signed them. He also wasn't wrong about Ladybug's Magical Charms being worthless by the time he got one.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk:
- While he's abrasive and moneygrubbing, he genuinely believes that it's the best way to help Jagged... until "Silencer", where he plagiarizes Kitty Section's song for XY's use, and then mocks Luka and Marinette when they call him out.
- In "Migration", he convinces Kitty Section to sign contracts to work for him, only to turn around and fire three of them because he really only wanted to sign Luka. Plus, the contracts state that they cannot form another band (even after being fired), so he's really just killing Ivan, Juleka, and Rose's careers outright without benefitting them in any way. No wonder Luka was nearly akumatized over that stunt.
- Large Ham: Bob can be loud and over-the-top. In “Ephemeral”, he bursts into tears over losing a penny.
- Nepotism: Goes out of his way to help XY, who is his son.
- Only in It for the Money: Tries to sway Jagged toward pursuits that he believes will make him more money. Penny usually has to balance them out.
- Plagiarism in Fiction: He causes the conflict of "Silencer" when he rips off Kitty Section's song and video for XY's use, which gets Luka Akumatized.
- Pride: Bob’s secondary vice, next to his greed.Bob: Bottom line is that Bob Roth Records cannot afford to be #2 in sales or rep. a #2 rock star!
- Real Men Wear Pink: He wears a pink shirt. He also briefly wears pink scuba goggles in “Migration”.
- Shout-Out: His name may be a reference to Canadian producer Bob Rock.
- Smug Snake: He loves to rub it in people’s faces when he thinks he’s beaten them. In “Silencer”, he gloats to Marinette and Luka about stealing their band’s song and costume design, and gloats at Luka after Ladybug has de-akumatized him and thwarted his plot to expose his plagiarism (which backfires on him as he was on live TV). And in “Migration” he gloats at Kitty Section after he tricks them into signing his contract which forces Luka to work for him and completely screws the rest of them over.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: While abrasive and money-minded in the first two seasons, he never sank so low as to plagiarize another artist (not that Jagged would have accepted it) as he does in the third season.
- Trivial Tragedy: In "Ephemeral", he is devastated enough to be akumatized over accidentally dropping a single penny into a sewer grate, despite being an influential record producer with an untold amount of wealth. Though it's justified given how money-obsessed he is.
- Ungrateful Bastard: In “Silencer”, when Ladybug shows up to save him and stops Silencer from stealing Bob’s voice, he says “It’s about time!”, and then pushes her towards Silencer, telling her to get to work. He then uses her as a human shield when Silencer tries to steal his voice again, and ditches her to save himself.
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: He has yellow eyes and he’s a devious con artist.
Xavier-Yves "XY" Roth
A famous pop/rock star and rival of Jagged Stone.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: XY is pretty arrogant, but isn't above begging for mercy when Guitar Villain is about to send him falling from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
- Anime Hair: He probably spends an obscene amount of hair gel to get that pompadour standing.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": He wears a chain with the letters, "XY".
- Cloudcuckoolander: As part of the jury on "Alternative Truth", he apparently buys into some pretty out-there theories.
- Distressed Dude: Gets captured by Guitar Villain midway through the titular villain's episode.
- Dumbass DJ: Going by his hologram, he appears to be an EDM disk jockey, and he is just as obnoxious as the trope suggests.
- Dumb Blonde: He has blonde hair and he admits in “Silencer” that he never has any ideas.
- Foil: To Jagged Stone — One represents Pop while the other represents Rock, which are contrasting genres in music. And where Jagged is dedicated to
Doing It for the Art, XY cares more for his fame and money. - Jerkass: He's a very unpleasant and narcissistic fellow who likes to take potshots at fellow musicians. Cemented in "Silencer", where he helps Bob mock Marinette and Luka when they call him and Bob out for plagiarizing Kitty Section.
- Nepotism: Bob Roth is his father and he uses his connections to push his son's career further than his talent would support.
- Plagiarism in Fiction: He rips off Kitty Section's song and video, and then mocks Luka and Marinette when they call him and Bob on it.
- The Rival: Competes with Jagged Stone for the top spot in the sales charts.
- Stage Names: "XY", which are the initials of his real name, Xavier-Yves.
- Teen Idol: Chloé is fond of him, and he's noted to be popular with this demographic.
Vivica
Akumatized form: Desperada
Voiced by: Morgan Berry (EN)
Jagged Stone's guitarist.
- Flat Character: Whilst most episodes that center around an akumatized villain will explore their personality, background, and whatever it is that caused them to become Akumatized, Vivica gets basically no attention in her own episode. More of her titular episode is devoted to Adrien and Luka's forays into using the Snake Miraculous. By the end of her episode it is known that she is Jagged's guitarist, she ate his cereal and drank the milk that he was going to give to Fang (and so he fired her...it probably makes sense that this made her upset enough to be akumatized). And that's it.
- Ink-Suit Actor: She looks like a younger version of Morgan Berry, notably thanks to the large bangs on the side of their heads.
Jagged Stone's mother
Jagged Stone's mother, an old lady who plays Bingo.
- Flat Character: We know that she likes playing Bingo. And... that's about it.
- Games of the Elderly: According to her son, she gets together with other old ladies for Bingo nights.
- The Ghost: She's never seen, only mentioned by her son in "Pixelator" as a target of his Loony Fan Vincent Aza's stalking.
- One-Shot Character: Never seen or mentioned in any episode other than "Pixelator".
- Unnamed Parent: Her name is never revealed.
Police
Lieutenant Roger Raincomprix
Akumatized form: Rogercop
Sabrina's father, a policeman.
- Alliterative Name: Roger Raincomprix.
- Bait-and-Switch Boss: In "Startrain", his agitation over being forced to ignore several lawbreakers in order to take Sabrina to her field trip makes him vulnerable to an Akuma, but he calms down before it can reach him.
- Butt-Monkey: Many of his scenes involve him being thrown about by various supervillains.
- By-the-Book Cop: He follows the law to a T, no matter how wealthy or influential the people involved in a case are.
- In "Rogercop", his refusal to arrest a girl without evidence almost costs him his job.
- He also tries to be fair to people only violating things like noise ordinances, giving Anarka a warning that she'll need to turn down the volume on her speakers. But when she gets belligerent about his reasonable request, he promptly charges her with all the other regulations her houseboat was breaking. Post-Akuma, he takes her turning her speakers almost all of the way down as a sign of good faith and doesn't charge her for anything for the rest of the day.
- "Mega Leech" has him slightly worse off in this regard with the mayor demanding him to arrest Ivan and Mylène for protesting which causes him to reluctantly start driving them home, until Ms. Bustier demands back to not do so and he eventually comes around to agreeing with the protesting's purpose anyway.
- Determinator: In "Captain Hardrock", he will not stop trying to arrest the titular Akuma, even if he is ludicrously outmatched.
- Economy Cast: If a scene requires a cop character, he will probably fill the spot.
- First-Name Basis: Possibly - it's not quite clear if his surname is Roger or Raincomprix (Sabrina's surname).
- Generic Cop Badges: He wears for a badge a patch with France's flag on his right arm and that's about it. If it wasn't for his cap having "POLICE" emblazoned on it, you'd never know he's an officer from looks alone. The background cops don't share that privilege, seeing that they don't sport any badges.
- Jerkass Ball: Whenever his actions are required to akumatize someone, he'll ticket them for petty reasons like ruining his mood or just because he felt like it.
- Lawful Stupid: He occasionally prioritizes enforcing the law over his own self-preservation when he confronts people who are clearly Akumatized and capable of crushing him like a grape. Most notably, he sided with a racist ticket inspector over Sabine, whom he knows well enough to verify her citizenship. But arrests her anyway for not having her ticket.
- Papa Wolf: When Chloé's father tries to arrest Sabrina, Roger tells him point blank to back off.
- Police Are Useless: Being a muggle cop, Roger is very rarely any help against supervillains, although he does try his best. Especially against Captain Hardrock, whom he never gives up the pursuit of leading to him distracting her at an important time for the heroes.
- Punny Name: "(Ro)ger Raincomprix" is very phonetically close to "j'ai rien compris" ("I didn't understand anything").
- Rank Up: He gets promoted from Officer at the end of "Rogercop".
Ticket inspector
A ticket inspector who gets into a conflict with Sabine, resulting in her akumatization.
- Jerkass: While Sabine was in fact missing her ticket, the inspector refuses to listen to her side of the story and in general acts like a complete jerk, ultimately resulting in the normally-placid Sabine getting akumatized over the unfairness of it all.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Downplayed. He is nothing but rude to Sabine, assuming she is an illegal Chinese immigrant.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His prejudiced actions cause the events that get Sabine akumatized into Quilin.
Akumatized civilians
Théo Barbot
Akumatized form: Copycat
Voiced by: Franck Tordjman and Martial Le Minoux (FR, first and second voice, respectively), Brian Beacock and Ezra Weisz (EN, first and second voice, respectively)Foreign VAs
A young sculptor with a deep admiration and respect for Ladybug and Cat Noir, especially the former whom he has a crush on.
- Ambiguously Brown: Théo has light brown skin and his ethnicity has yet to be specified.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Brown hair and brown eyes.
- Entitled to Have You: He outright states this during his jealous rant about Ladybug, though he seems to have cooled down on this after being freed from his Akuma.
- Hopeless Suitor: Even without Cat Noir's lie, Théo's crush on Ladybug would've proven in vain given her only being smitten with Adrien...who is Cat Noir.
- Nice Guy: Théo is a gracious person, at least when Ladybug is actually in the room.
- Oral Fixation: Théo keeps a lollipop stick in his mouth. Leaving it behind when he steals the Mona Lisa clues Cat Noir onto his identity.
- Recurring Extra: Théo keeps popping up in bit roles in later episodes, usually doing part-time work.
- Shipper on Deck: After being deakumatized, Théo gets over his jealousy and come to peace with Ladybug and Cat Noir being together.
- Younger Than They Look: Appears to be an adult, but confirmed by Word of God to be 16-18.
Xavier Ramier
Akumatized form: Mr. Pigeon
Voiced by: Franck Tordjman (FR), Todd Haberkorn (EN)Foreign VAs
An adult man who loves pigeons.
- Animal Motifs: Pigeons — His eyes are shaped like those of a pigeon's, he wears a grey suit and pigeons have grey feathers, he likes to feed them, and even pretends to be one. It's implied in "Timetagger" that he'll adopt a rat motif.
- The Beastmaster: "Mr. Pigeon 72" reveals that even without Hawk Moth's powers, he's capable of getting his pigeon friends to do whatever he wants. He uses this to participate in a Gabriel commercial.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He pretends to a pigeon.
- Curtains Match the Windows: He has brown hair and eyes.
- Friendly Enemy: While Mr. Pigeon is not this, Xavier is frequently apologetic after being defeated and will pay for ice cream for the heroes as apologies for being Akumatized again. While Ladybug and Cat Noir find Mr. Pigeon tiring they don't extend this to Xavier himself.
- Friend to All Living Things: To pigeons and rats, specifically. He's very friendly towards them and likes to feed them in the park even though it's forbidden.
- Gonk: He has two bulbous, protruding eyes and teeth; when compared to the other characters, he looks especially cartoonish.
- Homeless Pigeon Person: While it's unknown if he is actually homeless, he does appear to be generally based on this character archetype. At the very least he has enough money to pay for ice cream for the heroes after his Akumatizations.
- Ink-Suit Actor: He really looks like a cartoonish Todd Haberkorn.
- Meaningful Name: "Ramier" is the French word for the common pigeon.
- Recurring Extra: Exaggerated. Not only is he one of the most recurring characters (background or otherwise), but by the time of the episode "Mr. Pigeon 72" he's been akumatized and turned into Mr. Pigeon (off-screen) a whopping 71 times (and the events of the episode are the titular seventy-second), much to the Miraculous heroes' annoyance. Marinette decides to use her Guardian knowledge to end this for good by giving him an amulet that prevents Shadow Moth from Akumatizing him again… only for Shadow Moth to overcome that protection near the end of the season. One episode showing glimpses of the future even shows that he remains a recurring minor villain for the Miraculous holders, but he stopped being "Mr. Pigeon" and became "Mr. Rat".
Vincent Aza
Akumatized form: Pixelator
Voiced by: Franck Tordjman (FR), Matthew Mercer (EN)Foreign VAs
A freelance photographer who frequently snaps photos of Jagged Stone.
- Ambiguously Gay: His obsession with Jagged Stone can make him sound like a Stalker with a Crush at times.
- Camera Fiend: Aza takes photos of Jagged Stone without the guitarists' permission.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Appears on the show "Alternative Truth" with a hypothesis that snow is actually boogers from a giant living in the sky. He fails to convince Mr. Banana.
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's basically Matthew Mercer with a different haircut.
- Loony Fan: Vincent stalked Jagged Stone in hopes of getting some photos, but he's too polite to be considered paparazzi.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted. Adrien's Italian photographer who appears in a few episodes is also named Vincent.
- Stalker with a Crush: Maybe, but Aza is obsessed with Jagged Stone — He spies on Jagged Stone to take pictures, followed his mother, and has a shrine of him.
Simon Grimault
Akumatized form: Simon Says
Voiced by: Franck Tordjman (FR), Ezra Weisz (EN)Foreign VAs
A hypnotist who appears on a talent show.
- Hypno Fool: Averted; when Alec challenges him to hypnotize Gabriel Argeste into coming to the studio, Simon quickly protests that hypnotism doesn't work that way.
- Meaningful Name: In the French version, his name is Jacques Grimault, which is a reference to the French version of "Simon Says" called "Jacques a dit."
- Nervous Wreck: Downplayed. Simon gets a bit nervous during the competition, but has enough confidence in his abilities to keep a calm face.
- Nice Guy: Simon is soft-spoken and nice.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Simon bares a resemblance to Harry Houdini.
- Stage Magician: Well, a Stage Hypnotist.
August
Akumatized form: Gigantitan
Voiced by: Caroline Combes (FR)Foreign VAs
A baby whose tantrum attracts a stray Akuma.
- Accidental Misnaming: He's too little to pronounce Hawk Moth's name correctly. In the English dub, he says "Hawk Moo," and in French, he pronounces Le Papillon as "Pallonnote ."
- Ambiguously Brown: He has tan skin like Alya, but his mother has lighter skin, indicating mixed heritage.
- Baby Talk: Obviously.
- Humble Goal: He gets Akumatized over not getting a lollipop.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He likes him his lollipops, and gets victimized by the villains several times over them.
André Glacier
Akumatized form: Glaciator
Voiced by: Patrice Baudrier (FR), Ezra Weisz (EN)Foreign VAs
An ice cream vendor whose ice cream is noted to bind couples together.
- Chubby Chef: A famous ice cream man who's a bit on the pudgy side.
- Innocently Insensitive: André tries to cheer up Marinette (who was saddened by the fact Adrien was not able have ice cream with their friend) by having her eat some of his ice cream, stating that if she eats it her true love will appear. Unfortunately all of André's talk about romance just upsets Marinette more.
- Irony: André is never actually wrong about the pairings of Ladybug & Cat Noir and Marinette & Adrien he's sure about that he gets akumatized over whenever they look in doubt. He's just locked out of the loop on the Love Square.
- Love Freak: André is very passionate about love and relationships; he's friendly towards his customers in relationships, takes pride in the couples who've bought from him, and even encourages Marinette when he senses that she has love problems. He's even Akumatized because Marinette dismissed his ice cream.
- Non-Standard Character Design: André looks like he came straight out of a Pixar movie, being noticeably more cartoony than the rest of the cast.
- One-Steve Limit: An aversion; he shares his first name with Chloé's father, Mayor Bourgeois.
- Recurring Extra: Appeared in a minor capacity in "Befana" and "Gigantitan" before taking center stage in "Glaciator".
- Rhymes on a Dime: He has a tendency to speak like this, in both forms. He even sometimes sings.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: André Glacier is an ice cream man. The last name also goes well with his Akumatized form, which is a Snowlem with the power to transform people into ice cream statues.
- Soul-Crushing Desk Job: "Wishmaker" reveals that he used to have one of these when Marinette asks him about what drove him to ice cream-making. His only comfort was experimenting with ice cream flavours when he got home every day, and eventually, he got the idea to try and make other people happy and never looked back.
Ondine
Akumatized form: Syren
"The boy I'm crushing on is... you."
A talented swimmer who has a crush on her friend Kim.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: Has bigger eyebrows than the females and even some of the male characters.
- Interrupted Declaration of Love: Her confession to Kim is interrupted by Kim's phone reminding him of the movie he and his classmates are going to see.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Hawk Moth twists her seemingly unrequited crush on Kim and turns her into the Yandere Syren.
- Meaningful Name: An undine is a water elemental spirit; fitting for someone who's a good swimmer.
- Relationship Upgrade: Things with her crush, Kim, got significantly better, since he got right her feelings.
- Second Love: To Kim, as he used to have a crush on Chloé before dating her.
- Shout-Out: She shares some similarities with Misty from Pokemon like the hair color, the theme of the mermaid, the fact that they both have a crush on a boy Oblivious to Love, and finally, Misty's french name is also Ondine.
- Youthful Freckles: A teenage redhead with a smattering of freckles across her face and shoulders.
- Walking Swimsuit Scene: Has yet to be seen wearing anything else. Probably justified since the only times we've seen her more than 10 feet away from the swimming pool are when she was Akumatized.
Clara Nightingale
Akumatized form: Frightningale
"You did what Ladybug would have, just the same! Your heart is pure like hers. What's your name?"
A pop star who has come to Paris to film a music video for her new song about Ladybug and Cat Noir.
- Foil:
- To Chloé — Both of them are relatively famous within France, but while Chloé is an Alpha Bitch, Clara is the opposite.
- To Adrien — They're both famous and sweet, but Adrien is fairly reserved and largely went into modeling to please his father, while Clara is an extrovert with a genuine passion for music.
- Idol Singer: A peppy pop star who maintains a large fanbase.
- Inconsistent Dub: She's sometimes called Laura instead of Clara, based on her English rather than original French voice actress.
- Ink-Suit Actor: She's based on Laura Marano, her voice actress and professional singer. Depending on dub, they even share their first name.
- Meaningful Name: A nightingale is a bird known for its sweet voice. She's an Idol Singer.
- Nice Girl: She's upbeat, friendly, and honestly just wants her music video to go well.
- Rhymes on a Dime: Almost all her spoken lines rhyme. It's a trait that carries over to her Akumatized form.
- Secret Test of Character: She actually invokes the exact same test Master Fu used to select Marinette and Adrien to choose her video's Ladybug — by falling over and offering the role to the person who helps her up, with the rationale that it's what Ladybug would do. Fittingly, Marinette is the one to help her out.
Sandboy (civilian form)
Akumatised form: Sandboy
A young boy who gets nightmares from watching a scary movie.
- Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: The reason he gets akumatized is that he had nightmares as a result of watching a horror film.
- No Name Given: He's the first Akumatized victim with no known name.
- Spiky Hair: The kid looks like he could be a Final Fantasy protagonist!
Philippe
Akumatized form: Frozer
Voiced by: Philippe Candeloro (FR)Foreign VAs
An ice skating instructor hoping to save the ice rink from closure.
- Badass Normal: In "Christmaster", he puts up a surprisingly good showing against Christmaster's toy soldiers. It helps that they are on an ice rink where the toys have trouble maneuvering and Phillipe is in his element.
- Camp Straight: Has an extremely camp voice and mannerisms, but mentions his daughters in "Christmaster" (and his real-life inspiration is married to a woman).
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is based on figure skater Philippe Candeloro, who voices him in the original French.
Chris Lahiffe
Akumatized forms: Christmaster, Timetagger (future)
Click here to see him when he's older
Voiced by: Alejandro Saab (EN)
Nino's younger brother, who is obsessed with being seen as a big kid.
- Allergic to Love: He is disgusted when he learns that Marinette's chest contains gifts for a boy.
- Alliterative Family: In the original French, his name is Noel, which starts with the same letter as his brother Nino.
- Bratty Half-Pint: He's incredibly difficult to handle, throwing toys at Marinette when he doesn't get his way.
- Precocious Crush: The end of "Timetagger" seems to imply that he has one on Lila.
- Remember the New Guy?: He is never even mentioned before his debut episode despite being the younger brother of one of the main supporting characters.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Chris looks like a smaller, younger Nino except for the different hair color.
Marianne Lenoir
Akumatized form: Backwarder
"Leave without me — I'd rather stay and resist, even without the Miraculous!"
Voiced by: Virginie Ledieu (FR), Barbara Goodson (EN)
Master Fu's lost love who is aware of Fu's duty as Guardian of the Miraculous.
- Action Girl: She was a part of the resistance against the Nazis during World War II.
- But Now I Must Go: Following her Akumatization, she goes underground as Hawk Moth know she is close to the keeper of the Miraculous.
- Happily Married: Becomes this with Fu after he loses his memory and moved with her to London.
- I Will Wait for You: Before he fled to England, Marianne promised Fu that she'd wait for him for as long as it took.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's around the same age as the 186-year-old Wang Fu.
- Retired Badass: A former World War 2 resistance member.
- Secret-Keeper: She is aware of Fu's role as the Guardian of the Miraculous. After the finale of season 3, it's implied that she also knows that Marinette is the new Guardian of the Miraculous since it's Marinette who reunited her with Fu.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Fu and Marianne became separated during the Nazi occupation of Paris; Fu fled to protect the Miraculous while Marianne stayed to resist. Until Miracle Queen that is, which sees Fu pass on his role as the Guardian of the Miraculous to Ladybug and thereby loses his memory which renders him irrelevant to the conflict with Hawk Moth...and quite fortunately, forgetting everything didn't stop Fu falling in love with Marianne nigh instantly.
- Tuckerization: Her name is a homage to the grandmother of Fred Lenoir, a writer for the show. And serendipitously a Meaningful Name as a reference to Marianne, the national personification of the French Republic, resurgent as a symbol of Liberty against the Nazi invaders and the Vichy regime (where her image was suppressed).
Thomas Astruc
Akumatized form: Animaestro
Voiced by: Thomas Astruc (FR), Jason Marnocha (EN)Foreign VAs
The director of the 2D Ladybug and Cat Noir movie.
- As Himself: He's voiced by the actual Thomas Astruc in French.
- Butt-Monkey: Spends most of "Animaestro" dealing with people who either don't appreciate his work, just don't understand it or getting trampled on by groups of children.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: He gets no respect from the moviegoers due to being unable to explain what his role in the movie actually is.
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's a dead ringer for the real-life creator of the cartoon, who voices him in French.
Wayhem
Akumatized form: Party Crasher
"Adrien? The Adrien Agreste? This! Is! AWESOME!"
Voiced by: Tony Marot (FR), Chris Hackney (EN)Foreign VAs
A Parisian boy who is a huge fan of Adrien Agreste.
- Ambiguously Gay: A lot of his interactions with Adrien come off as a Stalker with a Celeb Crush.
- Ascended Fanboy: Wayhem is a huge fan of Adrien, to the point he may have a crush on him. And by the end of "Gorizilla", the two become proper friends.
- Badass Bystander: He unhesitatingly throws stones at Gorizilla when he abducts Adrien, sprays some perfume in Gorizilla's nose to sabotage his tracking ability, and acts as Adrien's Body Double to distract Gorizilla.
- Body Double: Late in "Gorizilla", he pretends to be Adrien in order to distract the titular villain and prevent Paris from finding out Adrien is Cat Noir.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Appears as a gag in "Glaciator", before returning with a larger role in "Gorizilla".
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While Wayhem just seems like a Loony Fan, he's brave enough to pose as Adrien to distract Gorizilla. Before that, he blasted Gorizilla in the nose with deodorant, eliminating his main advantage.
- Identical Stranger: Looks almost exactly like Adrien, except with brown hair. No longer the case as of "Gorizilla", in which he and Adrien finally meet.
- By the time "Party Crasher" rolls around, Wayhem has dyed his hair blonde, seemingly to imitate Adrien. It's more of a very light brown than true blonde though.
- Loony Fan: His obsession with Adrien puts Marinette's to shame.
Harry Clown
Akumatized form: Psycomedian
Voiced by: Franck Dubosc (FR), Ben Diskin (EN)
A famous comedian who performs talent shows at Grand Palais and tries to help set Marinette up with Adrien.
- Foreshadowing: He calls his old friend Gabriel "Gabi" which in season 5 is later shown to not be a nickname, but is actually Gabriel's original first name.
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's pretty much a carbon copy of his French voice actor.
- Remember the New Guy?: Despite never appearing or even being alluded to before (or after) his debut episode, Marinette knows him well enough because he's a regular customer at her parent's bakery.
- Shipper on Deck: Like most of the characters, Harry supports the idea of Marinette and Adrien being an item, as shown when he says that Marinette is "a little bit crazy" about Adrien.
Alec Cataldi
Akumatized form: Wishmaker
Voiced by: Franck Tordjman (FR), André Gordon (EN)Foreign VAs
A television show host and co-worker of Nadja Chamack.
- Ambiguously Brown: His skin is tanned, and he doesn't have anything that could point to a specific ethnicity except an Italian surname.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He got one in "Wishmaker", where we found out that he was bullied for having afro hair. As a result, he shaved his hair and turned into a No Sympathy TV host who mocks people so he can inflict the pain he felt.
- Distressed Dude: In "Kwamibuster", the titular villain threatens to drop a safe with him inside off the roof of the TV station to lure in Ladybug and Cat Noir. Ladybug manages to save him literally just in time.
- Economy Cast: Apparently, all of Paris' TV entertainment is hosted by him, with his co-worker Nadja filling for the news.
- Funny Afro: "Wishmaker" reveals that, as a child, he had a huge, dark-pink one that was even larger than him. But he was bullied for it, and thus shaved it off and became the jerkish TV host he is today.
- Good Costume Switch: After being de-akumatized, Alec takes a new career path of encouraging others towards self-love and living their dreams. In this new persona, he has a stage costume that's like a vibrant gold version of Wishmaker's, including a staff-like microphone and further contrasted with a voluminous blonde wig.
- Innocently Insensitive: Alec has a habit of being unintentionally insensitive to competitors, which tends to lead or at least contribute to the akumatizations of said competitors.
- His first line to Aurore in "Stormy Weather" after her loss.Alec: Man, [Mireille] crushed you, eh? Better luck next time! …What's the big deal? You only lost by half a million votes!
- He was also rather unfair to Simon in "Simon Says".
- He seems to have learned nothing in "Kwamibuster".
- His first line to Aurore in "Stormy Weather" after her loss.
- Jerkass Realization: Alec realizes that the reason he was akumatized was that he made a career of tearing people down out of pain from when the same was done to him as a child.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Alec is insensitive and unsympathetic to any of his contestants that lose, but knows when to get serious when someone's life is endangered and gets along well with his co-workers. Though his experiences in "Wishmaker" inspire him to turn his show into one about living your childhood dreams, thus dulling the "jerk" aspect.
- Keet: He acts quite energetic when hosting his shows.
- Large-Ham Announcer: He presents his shows with much enthusiasm.
- No Sympathy: He shows no sympathy towards the people who lose on one of his shows.
- Perpetual Smiler: Always seen with a big grin on his face while on the air.
- Stupid Evil: Or in this case, Stupid Jerkass during "Wishmaker". The show he hosts revolves around insulting people for their professions, even though he knows there's a supervillain running amok taking advantage of people's negative emotions. Alec antagonizing people for no legitimate reason on live TV is just begging for an Akuma to come try to tear his head off, and it's quite frankly a miracle he doesn't trigger an Akumatization in someone else.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Partially. Even if he had no direct hand in Aurore, Simon, Wang or Ms. Mendeleiev's Akumatizations, his Innocently Insensitive attitude towards them certainly didn't help.
Froggy
Akumatized form: Risk
♪ "I'm Froggy, here I come! I'm not afarid of anyone" ♪
Voiced by: Mela Lee (EN)
A little boy who rides his tricycle around and is tired of the dangers his parents warn him about.
- Fearless Fool: Gabriel chose to akumatize him due to his lack of fear making him perfect for an adversary that would make Ladybug take risks.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name is unlikely to be Froggy, but his parents still call him that.
Veronique
Akuamtized form: Manipula
Voiced by: Laura Post (EN)
The head of the Grévin Wax Museum.
- Everyone Has Standards: Similar to Ms. Bustier, Veronique does not wish to be akumatized over her disappointment.
- Fangirl: Of Paris’s superheroes, to the point she is devastated when the Mayor (acting on behalf of Chloé) tries to shut down her superhero exhibit.
- Heroic Willpower: Attempted. She tried to resist the Akuma till Monarch promised her that he'll stop akumatizing people and he'll bring all the other heroes back if she manages to bring him Ladybug's and Cat Noir's Miraculous.
- Nice Girl: She's a kind woman who was willing to help the heroes with their plan to catch Monarch in "Destruction".
Kouki
Akumatized form: Kikou
- Ambiguously Brown: Has dark skin, but nothing is said about his ethnicity.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": He wears a necklace with a big golden "B" on it. While it might've initially stood for "Boubi", which was planned to be his French name, it remains a mystery what it stands for in the final show.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Implied. After his de-Akumatization, Nora tells him he's gone crazy "again," implying that losing his temper is a common occurrence for him.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Lighter skin tone aside, him being a big guy that's festooned in necklaces, bracelets and rings makes him strongly resemble Mr. T.
- Social Media Is Bad: His Akumatization was caused by Nora posting a humiliating edited photo of him on social media.
Other civilians
Prince Ali
Prince Ali is the crowned prince of the Achu Kingdom.
- Chick Magnet: Both Rose and Chloé think he's handsome.
- Foil: To Adrien — Both are nice, rich kids who would like to behave like other kids their age. Both are also suffocated by their busy schedule and lifestyles. However, while Adrien has an outlet as Cat Noir, Ali doesn't.
- Friend to All Children: Implied. He volunteers at children's hospitals.
- Nice Guy: He is kind and fun-loving.
- Pretty Boy: He is very slim with soft features. Instant Chick Magnet!
- Shout-Out: His name is a reference to one of the characters in Scheherazade's stories in One Thousand and One Nights.
- Tuckerization: Prince Ali is named after Thomas Astruc's brother.
- The Wise Prince: Even though he only met both girls one day, Prince Ali was able to tell that Rose was a kind girl, while Chloé was not.
Mr. Hessenpy
The head of the Paris Fire Department.
- Hidden Depths: He turns out to be a music fan in Party Crasher.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: As a child, he dreamed of being a firefighter and a cowboy.
- Only Sane Man: Often acts as the voice of reason.
- When Mr. Damocles keeps the school behind to force out an apology for wasting the fire chief’s time, Hessenpy points out that Damocles is doing the same by forcing an apology.
- He is able to tell Lila is lying about her injuries by actually looking at her body and determining she’s just fine.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: When Marinette explains why she feels the need to spy on Lila, he lends her aid in constructing a ladder out of trash cans and provides her with a helmet.
Lila's mothers
Ms. Rossi
Lila's Second Mother
Click here to see Lila's third mother
A trio of women, each being duped by Lila/Cerise into believing she is their daughter.
- Ambiguous Situation: It is currently unknown how Lila manipulated three adult women and managed to string them along with her deception, whether one of these women is indeed her biological mom, if all of them have adopted her, or they were all tricked into believing that she's their biological daughter.
- No Name Given: Lila's second and third mothers aren't named.
- Parental Obliviousness: They all seem to be completely unaware of their daughter's negative qualities or of each other's existence, and they all buy into her lies.
- Parents as People: Each of them seems to love Lila, but they're being horrifically manipulated by her.
- The Speechless: Lila's third mother is mute and communicates through sign language.
- The Unreveal: We never Ms. Rossi's reaction to Lila's lies being exposed, expulsion from Dupont, and subsequent disappearance to fall back on her Cerise identity.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: Ms. Rossi's job as a foreign diplomat keeps her too busy to spend time with her "daughter" very often.
- Workaholic: Ms. Rossi spends far more time on her job than at home with her "daughter".
Mr. Banana
"Stay peachy!"
Voiced by: Bryce Papenbrook (EN)
A man who, for whatever reason, always wears a banana costume and appears as a minor character in some episodes.
- Anthropomorphic Food:
- He's not actually this, but his costume is that of a giant banana with eyes and a mouth.
- Finally actually becomes this in "Wishmaker", because apparently his childhood dream was to be a cucumber.
- Character Catchphrase: "Stay peachy!" is revealed to be his in "Kwamibuster".
- Early-Bird Cameo: Before becoming a minor recurring character in the third season, he made a cameo in the second season episode "Anansi", being accosted by Nora under the mistaken belief that he was an Akuma.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Even while he's participating on Alternative Truth, he's known only as Mr. Banana. This may be intentional on his part if you assume that he wears the banana costume to hide his identity for some reason.
- Expy: Being thus far a one-note character based solely on the innate silliness of bananas may make him one to Banana Joe.
- Riddle for the Ages: What does he look like under his costume? We may never know.
- Suddenly Voiced: He had his first appearance in "Anansi", but spoke for the first time in the series in "Kwamibuster".
Anne-Jeanne Théoxanne du Bocquale
- The Beastmaster: She has a call which can tame her T-Rexes.
- Didn't Think This Through: She questions whether it was the best idea to bring the dinosaurs back to life, since four T-Rexes will burn through her food budget.
- Fossil Revival: She is responsible for bringing four T-Rexes back to life. "Hack-San" implies she utilized a formula developed by Markov to do it.
- Mad Scientist: Reviving four T-Rexes is one thing. Choosing to hybridize them with pigeons so they can fly is the kind of reckless experiment that leads one to question her common sense, especially when a supervillain with the power to control pigeons exists.
- Punny Name: Her initials and last name (A-J T. du Bocquale) sound like the French expression "agité du bocal" note , which refers to a hyperactive, quirky or loony person.
- Reed Richards Is Useless: Downplayed - she's somehow brought four T-Rexes back to life, and Bob Roth does offer to buy them to put in an amusement park in a Shout-Out to Jurassic Park, but much like Max's creation of Markov, one would figure the fact that she's brought dinosaurs back to life would cause a bit more of a stir within the Miraculous Universe than a one-off appearance for the first minute of "Rocketear".
Socqueline Wang
Voiced by: Laura Préjean (FR), Ryan Bartley (EN)
A former schoolmate and friend of Marinette who inadvertently attracts Monarch's attention by dressing up as Ladybug.
- All Asians Know Martial Arts: She's a French Chinese girl who knows Taekwondo. She's good enough at it that she can enter in and throw a kick just short of Chloé's face by less than an inch.
- Big Sister Instinct: She used to act like a protective big sister to Marinette when both were still going to the same school.
- Establishing Character Moment: Her first scene has her rescue Mr. Damocles, as the Dark Owl, from falling from a great height, cementing her as a Nice Girl with a passion for acting like Ladybug.
- Foil: To Chloé: they're both fans of Ladybug (or used to be in Chloé's case) who admire her greatly to the point they'd cosplay as her and even pretended to be her at one point. However, while Chloé always hated Marinette (Ladybug's civilian self) and even used to bully her relentlessly, Socqueline used to be Marinette's best friend before she went to high school and would even try to protect her as much as she could against Chloé's bullying.
- Genki Girl: She's pretty lively, talking enthusiastically about Adrien.
- Identical Stranger: A slight subversion as she doesn't look exactly like Marinette, but is still has a good likeness to her especially in the Ladybug costume. "Derision" sees Marinette having resembled her a little bit less last year due to instead wearing her hair in a bun, so Marinette may have consciously wore her hair in emulation of Socqueline thereafter.
- I Just Want to Be Special: She dresses up like a superhero in hopes that Ladybug and Cat Noir will recognize and commend her for her heroic actions.
- I Warned You: Exactly what she tells Chloé in the flashback from "Derision" in order to make her leave Marinette alone.
- Nice Girl: While she and Marinette were in the same class, when Chloé bullied Marinette, Socqueline would stand up for Marinette.
- Old Friend: It's mentioned she used to be an old friend of Marinette before departing for high school.
- Remember the New Guy?: She was Marinette's best friend and the only one willing to stand up for her against Chloé pre Origins; however, she's not mentioned in the series until season 5, as she moved on to high school the prior year.
Lian, Kang, and Jiao
Voiced by: Anatole Yun (FR), Aleks Le (EN)Foreign VAs
A group of boys in Shanghai that befriend Marinette, Adrien, and Fei.
- Amazon Chaser: They spend the special antagonizing Fei because they know she stole Marinette's stuff, though in the final scene when Fei has had her Heel–Face Turn, they blush after watching her play the accordion, much to her confusion.
- Ascended Fanboy: In-universe, they recognize Adrien as a famous model and later get to eat dinner with him, befriend him, and attend the grand opening of an Agreste clothing store in Shanghai.
- Badass Bystander: Despite seeming like normal civilians, they apparently held off the three thugs going after Fei and Marinette well enough (presumably until more help arrived) that Cash had to go after the duo by himself and the trio's no worse for wear when they reappear.
- Flat Character: They don't have much personality other than being Nice Guys who get mistaken for bullies by Marinette while they try to return her kwagatama. They also have the gumption to try being a vigilante group.
- Nice Guy: Upon seeing Fei pickpocketing Marinette, they immediately call her out in public and chase after her to get Marinette's stuff back.
- Not What It Looks Like: Marinette sees them chasing Fei and assumes they're bullying a random girl.
- Poor Communication Kills: Due to a language barrier, Marinette mistakes them for being bullies who are harassing her and Fei, not understanding that they're trying to help her get her stuff back from Fei.
- Suddenly Bilingual: After spending the entire special unable to talk to Marinette due to a language barrier, they suddenly know enough French at the end to explain to her that they were trying to return her kwagatama.
- Though given Marinette is half Chinese and just kept running away without saying anything or making it clear she couldn't understand them, it's possible they just assumed she spoke their language and was just not responding and didn't realize there even was a language barrier until later on.
- Vigilante Militia: They call themselves the "Street Vigilantes" to explain their motives throughout the special, and clearly exhibit a sympathetic sense of priorities when they help Marinette and Fei against three thugs threatening them while audibly saying that Fei's stealing was still wrong before helping her anyway.
