Characters / Miraculous Ladybug: Chloé Bourgeois

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Heroes (Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Adrien Agreste, Félix Fathom, United HeroeZ) | Kwamis | School Characters | Villains (Hawk Moth, Chloé Bourgeois, Lila Rossi, Akumatized Villains – Season 1, Akumatized Villains – Season 2, Akumatized Villains – Season 3, Akumatized Villains – Season 4, Akumatized Villains - Season 5, Amokized Sentimonsters) | Assorted Civilians

Chloé Bourgeois (Queen Bee)

Akumatized forms: Antibug (Chloé), Queen Wasp (Queen Bee), Miracle Queen (Queen Bee), Queen Banana (Chloé), Penalty (Chloé), Sole Destroyer (Chloé), Queen Mayor (Chloé)

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Voiced by: Marie Chevalot (FR), Selah Victor (EN) ^{Foreign VAs}  Jun Hae-Ri/전 해리 (KOR), Einas Sabri (ARA), Ana Esther Alborg (ES), Annie Rojas (MEX), Talya Barkai/טליה ברקאי (HEB), Hermann Lilla (HUN), Milena Suszyńska-Dziuba (P), Maria Camões (EP), Bruna Laynes (BP), Siri Bergsten (SW), Claudia Scarpa (ITA), Johana Krtičková (CZE), Tatjana Etimova/Татяна Етимова (BUL), Gabrielle Pietermann (GER), Arisa Sakuraba (J), Sanja Popović and Ivana Tenjović (SER, usual and one line in "Antibug", respectively), Monika Mihajlović (CRO), Agnes Fasting (NOR)

"Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!"

The daughter of the Mayor of Paris, she goes to school with Marinette and Adrien. Chloé has a huge, shameless crush on Adrien. As a result, he is possibly the only person in the entire school (make that the entire city) that she treats nicely. Everyone else (especially Marinette and Sabrina, Chloé's "best friend", as well as her half sister, Zoé) has suffered from her selfish, vain, domineering, entitled, and petty attitude. However, she idolizes Ladybug, and being one of the only friends Adrien had growing up, it has made it difficult for Adrien to so much as confront her about her nasty attitude.

At the end of "Style Queen", she accidentally gets her hands on the Bee Miraculous and temporarily becomes a bee-themed "superhero" named Queen Bee. She becomes a recurring ally for Team Miraculous, but is eventually suspended for publicly admitting her "secret" identity. Hawk Moth takes advantage of her resentment and entitlement to convince her to defect to his side at the end of "Heart Hunter", and she is stripped of the Queen Bee position permanently. From this point on, she becomes an enemy of Team Miraculous, willingly getting herself and others akumatized on Hawk Moth's behalf to sow chaos throughout Paris, which ultimately culminates in her getting exiled from the city as the most hated person there in "Revolution" after a final defeat.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: To Adrien, who chafes under her affection and fangirling. Immensely ironic, as she isn't much impressed with Cat Noir (his superhero identity).
• Abusive Offspring: Due to her father being a pushover, Chloé treats him like a slave, and constantly berates and insults him.
• Aesop Amnesia:
  • Chloé is the type of person who never truly learns her lesson. Just when she starts to feel bad for causing misery and she makes an effort to improve herself, in her next appearance, she goes back to being a bitch. In the season 3 finale, Ladybug realizes that Chloé will never stop being a horrible person and kicks her off the team.
  • This also works against her as an antagonist. She repeatedly teams up with villains who are far more clever than her and have betrayed her on a number of occasions. Because she is so hyper-fixated on getting what she wants, she ignores these betrayals until it happens again, where they get everything they need out of the deal and leave her to face the consequences alone.
• All for Nothing: By "Revolution", Chloé's karma finally comes crashing down on her after years of bullying other characters and getting away with it: after being permanently replaced as the Bee Miraculous holder by her own half-sister and doubling down on her nastiness, Chloé's akumatization into Queen Mayor turns her into the most hated person in Paris, her father, whom she's been treating like a doormat most of her life, finally grows a spine and disciplines her by sending her away to live with her mother outside of Paris, and Adrien and Sabrina, the two actual friends she had in her life, decide that enough is enough and cut ties with her permanently beforehand. Chloé's basically left all alone with no friends, no power, no influence, and not even a parental figure with her life, as Audrey makes it clear she's not going to make Chloé's stay with her a pleasant experience.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Invoked. In "Derision" she tells Adrien that they belong together because of their money and social status, and that she wishes he was more like her, someone willing to use their money and social status to bully and make fun of "nobodies".
• All Take and No Give: Her friendship with Sabrina in a nutshell, with Chloé as the "take" part of the equation. However, she occasionally subverts this.
• Alpha Bitch: She's catty, petty, mean, and prone to throwing her father's name around to ensure she gets her way. Her outfit is even reminiscent of a bee. It's playing with in that unlike most examples of this trope, she's definitely not popular and pretty much everyone at school hates her for being such a bitch. The only reason she has power over her classmates is because her father is the mayor. When Marinette tries to bluff her way into the hotel where Chloé lives by claiming to be one of her friends, the doorman refuses to admit her on the grounds that Chloé doesn't have any friends.
• Ambiguously Bi: Although she has a crush on Adrien, she's shown to be very close to Sabrina despite their toxic friendship, and her comment to one of Adrien's Instagram posts might raise some questions as well◊.
• Animal Motifs: Bees — She wears a black-striped shirt with a yellow jacket, her bedroom wallpaper has honeycomb-like designs, and she can be considered a queen bee. Fitting given her (temporary) status as the Bee Miraculous holder.
• Annoying Laugh: She has a very annoying, fake-sounding laugh.
• Anti-Hero: While Chloé Bourgeois is a big fan of Ladybug, her rather toxic personality makes her a very poor hero. This is demonstrated in "Queen Wasp", where she tries becoming a superhero with the Bee Miraculous just so she can impress her aloof, emotionally abusive mother by staging a runaway train catastrophe, putting dozens of people in danger in the process. After a heart-to-heart from Ladybug she gets significantly better and proves she can be a team player as Queen Bee, but she's still the most impulsive and arrogant of the group. She loses the Hero part entirely at the end of season 3.
• Anti-Role Model: She is a textbook example of how not to behave in the earlier seasons, and again after her Face–Heel Turn in the season 3 finale.
• Ascended Fangirl: Chloé receives the Bee Miraculous at the end of "Style Queen", albeit by accident. In a later episode, Ladybug chooses Chloé as the one who gets to use the Bee Miraculous of her own volition, though she soon revokes it because Chloé's identity being public knowledge makes her a liability. It doesn't end well.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Like all Miraculous, the Bee Miraculous was created to use their kwamis to make heroes, its special power "Venom" being able to paralyze one person using the stinger on their spinning-top. In the hands of Chloé Bourgeois however, this is more of a subversion if nothing else, using "Venom" for the first time to paralyze a train conductor to stage a fake catastrophe to stop. The season 3 finale subverts it even further, as after her Face–Heel Turn Chloé is undisputedly a bad person.
• Battle Tops: She uses a trompo to fight as Queen Bee.
• Bat Signal: She installed a Bee Signal on top of her house to let Ladybug know she is available to be a hero.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Implied. In a flashback to her early childhood, Chloé's mother unexpectedly left her. This event greatly saddened her, but at some point, she befriended Adrien who complimented her teddy bear, a gift from her mother. This hints that Adrien is Chloé's main Morality Pet because of the fresh kindness he showed to her after her mother's abandonment.
• Betty and Veronica: She's the Veronica to Marinette's Betty for Adrien's Archie. She ends up losing in a grandoise fashion.
• Beyond Redemption: After betraying the heroes to Hawk Moth at the end of Season 3, Marinette loses all hope in trying to redeem her. Throughout Season 4, she loses any heroic traits she displayed earlier and begins doubling down on her toxic behavior, even cutting the closest thing she has to a remaining Morality Pet (Adrien) out of her life. Things get even worse in Season 5 after she forms her alliance with Lila and works with her to ruin Marinette and Ladybug; she throws away any chance of patching things up with Adrien, loses the last friend (Sabrina) she has due to mistreatment and going too far with her schemes, and under Lila's urging and influence, goes on a scorched earth rampage of abusing her power and privilege against her enemies, even pulling a coup d'etat with help from Lila, Gabriel and Tomoe to become Mayor following her father's resignation. This, however, ultimately ends with her being deposed, stripped of all her power, abandoned by her allies, utterly hated by all of Paris, and exiled by her father to a miserable new life with her more tyrannical and controlling mother.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Zig Zagged. Chloé made Marinette's life miserable every chance she gets and ends up being attacked by an Akumatized villian, usually one with a grudge against her, or she becomes one herself with Hawk Moth manipulating her. While she does become the central antagonist in "Revolution", she was ultimately a pawn of the series Big Bads and gets abandoned by them in the end.
• Big Sister Bully: Chloé's cruel behavior extends to her younger half-sister Zoé after the latter decided to drop the Jerkass Façade and befriend Marinette. She refuses to share her luxury with her and constantly tries to send her back to New York.
• Black-and-White Insanity: As seen in "Sole Crusher" and "Derision", Chloé sees the world as two categories of people: the rich people like her who should get everything they're entitled to and the "poor" people like Marinette who only exist to suffer at the expense of the rich people's amusement. The idea of Adrien falling in love with a "baker girl" is something Chloé struggles to comprehend and she ultimately deems him a "traitor".
• Blatant Lies: She enjoys getting her classmates into trouble, and will often accuse them of things she knows they didn't do. She also sometimes lies about being very good friends with Ladybug and Cat Noir.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Chloé is a spoiled, rude teenage girl who believes she is entitled to whatever she wants.
• Break the Haughty:
  • She does not take it well when her idol Ladybug refuses to take her advice during a battle and then calls her a liar, which results in her getting akumatized. When Adrien threatens to end their friendship, however, this time, she's outright shocked and sulking.
  • Her life falls into a downward spiral from the moment she betrays the team to Hawk Moth to obtain the Bee Miraculous. When that plan falls through, she's expelled from the Queen Bee position permanently, and the rest of the class now despise her for her actions. This only drives her to double down on her nastiness, willingly getting herself akumatized to get revenge on Ladybug and allying herself with Lila to make Marinette's life more miserable.
  • The fifth season starts hammering the nail in when Chloé ultimately loses Adrien's friendship after he gave her every chance to redeem herself and realizing she's proud of causing pain to others. Her Only Friend Sabrina soon followed, having tolerated being mistreated for years and Lila being the new bestie but saw Chloé helping Lila sabotage their classmates' futures to hurt Marinette as the last straw as she works with Marinette to expose the scheme. Sabrina's "betrayal" of Chloé effectively and finally destroys their friendship, thus leaving the latter completely friendless, and Ms. Bustier, who had done her best to see the good in Chloé, decides to keep a closer eye on her from then on.
    • In "Collusion" and "Revolution", still in contact with Lila, Chloé goes full-on scorched earth on everyone she feels has wronged her, going as far as to abuse her father's status further to get Ms. Bustier fired simply for trying to reason with her. But her father is shown to have grown tired of appeasing her and others by giving them what they want, and eventually resigns as Mayor. Lila talks Chloé into accepting an offer from Gabriel (who unbeknownst to her, played a big part in her father's resignation) to become interim mayor and outlaws all heroes and villains, but allows herself to be akumatized into "Queen Mayor" in an act of total hypocrisy and uses Gabriel's security robots to capture everyone who has ever got on her bad side while turning her admiration into a regime. She also tricked Ladybug and Cat Noir into using their special abilities to publicly expose their identities and end their hero careers once they de-transform, only for the plan to fall apart when the heroes learned to maintain in their hero forms indefinitely and rally the citizens to fight back. In the end, Chloé is deposed, left universally despised by all of Paris, abandoned by Gabriel and Tomoe (who flee to keep their plans hidden), as well as Lila (who got what she wanted from their arrangement), and loses her mother's respect while being exiled from Paris with her. Looking at her contacts in her Alliance Ring on her way out, rather than call Sabrina to mend things between them, Chloé instead calls Marinette to taunt her about Adrien leaving. But she instead ends up at the receiving end of Marinette's scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech, which finally breaks Chloé's pride and ego.
• Bright Is Not Good: Downplayed. Chloé's main color palette is made of white and yellow, but she is a Spoiled Brat and a remorseless bully instead of being an evil antagonist, at least until the end of Season 3.
• Brutal Honesty: While she is not at all adverse to lying, Chloé is more likely to tell the most blunt and hurtful version of the truth — and that includes what she only believes is the truth.
• Bullying a Dragon: When a supervillain shows up, Chloé will usually insult them. Needless to say, it never ends well for her.
• Bullying the Disabled: In a flashback from "Derision", she's seen making fun of Juleka's stuttering.
• The Bully:
  • "Origins Part 1" shows us that Chloé has been bullying Marinette for at least 4 years^note it's mentioned that they've been in the same class for four years in "Origins", and given that Chloé's awful treatment of Sabrina goes back even further, it's not unreasonable that she's been antagonizing Marinette for the same time span; and this was before Adrien showed up.
  • A staggering proportion of Akumas can be traced directly back to her, and the whole class knows it. Hell, even Hawk Moth knows it, and once sent out an Akuma to simply hang around in Chloé's general vicinity because he knew she was sure to provide him with a suitable victim eventually. Consequently, when a person gets akumatized, their first goal is usually to seek revenge upon Chloé. Laser-Guided Karma? Maybe, but Ladybug always saves her regardless. This is likely at least partially because she doesn't ever do something a sane person would consider worth killing over, but akumatized people are all at least a little crazy.
• Cain and Abel: She's the Cain to her half-sister Zoé's Abel. Despite the latter's best attempts to get along with her, Chloé grows to despise her and tries to get her shipped back to New York. When her father refuses and makes it clear that he won't let Chloé hurt her sister, Chloé furiously declares her hatred of Zoé.
• Card-Carrying Villain: By the time of "Gabriel Agreste", she proudly sees herself as evil. In “Adoration”, she also shamelessly admits to being a bully, calling Marinette an “anti-bullying party pooper”.
• Cassandra Truth: When she tries to tell Ladybug where Vanisher's akuma is, Ladybug doesn't listen to her because she wasn't completely honest with her earlier in the episode.
• Catchphrase Insult:
  • Her main catchphrase is "Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!", which is directed at someone or something. It's implied in "Style Queen" to have been borrowed from her mother.
  • She constantly calls people losers.
• Character Development:
  • In "Despair Bear", Chloé puts a little more effort into treating her classmates decently (albeit with ulterior motives). She also shows more courage than she's shown against other akumas.
  • In "Zombizou" Chloé owns up to her mistake of forgetting Miss Bustier's birthday and not getting her a present. Also, Chloé sacrifices herself to an akuma to allow Ladybug to defeat the Villain of the Week.
  • In "Malediktator", after a disastrous attempt at being a superhero, Chloé creates a video of herself pretending to be Queen Bee and Ladybug. She is laughed out of the class because of it and decides to leave Paris. Later, as a result of the humiliation, she opens up to Ladybug, admitting she knows no one likes her and that she feel useless. Seeing this, Ladybug offers her the Bee Miraculous and a chance to redeem herself... and she shines. Afterwards, Chloé has seemingly Took a Level in Kindness.
  • In "Miraculer", she outright negates the Akuma and shrugs off the Demonic Possession from Hawk Moth's Akuma. You can say whatever you want about her, but in that moment, she was a full-fledged Determinator. She also does something very rare for her when she openly refers to Sabrina as her friend while trying to de-akumatize her.
  • In "Ladybug", when Marinette is framed (by Lila) for stealing answers for a test and also Lila's charm, while Chloé doesn't stand up for Marinette, she also doesn't accuse her nor does she take Lila's side, as opposed to when she instantly accused Marinette of stealing from her in "Rogercop" and tried having her expelled. And when a big number of akumas invade the locker room where everyone's at and possess several people, Chloé instantly shields Sabrina from the Akumas, further showcasing her genuinely caring for Sabrina.
  • In "Heart Hunter" and "Miracle Queen", she proves that character development isn't always for the better. After being suspended from the team due to her identity being public, Hawk Moth convinces her to betray the heroes, and she [outs the other temporary Miraculous wielders and cuts ties with Ladybug for good.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: She steals one of Marinette's designs and tries to pass it as her own, not noticing that Marinette had hidden her signature in the design.
• Childhood Friend: Of Adrien. She was one of the few friends he had growing up.
• Childish Older Sibling: Chloé is Zoé's older half-sister and is still a spoiled Kiddie Kid.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: "Collusion" ends with Chloé becoming the Mayor of Paris after her own father resigns, even though she's a 14 year old girl. Fortunately, it doesn't last.
• Class Representative: Downplayed. She becomes Lila's deputy in "Revelation" after they manage to beat Marinette in the new elections for class representative.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Don't even think of pulling the moves on Adrien, as she's not above sabotaging the competition if she needs to. She even goes as far as to willingly akumatize herself after her (prompted by Lila) attempt to make Marinette back off from Adrien by bullying her ends up with herself getting humiliated instead.
• Closet Geek: Chloé adores Ladybug, enough to dress up like her when she is alone in her room. In "Antibug" we find out she runs around her hotel dressed as Ladybug with Sabrina as Cat Noir, pretending to catch one of the butlers they're having pretend to be a villain.
• Co-Dragons: As of "The Battle of Miraculous" she is this to Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch alongside Nathalie Sancoeur, Lila Rossi and Tomoe Tsurugi.
• Color Motifs: Yellow, as she is always seen in her trademark yellow sweater and the color can represent anger, which fits Chloé's antagonistic personality. Also, all of her supervillain identities have yellow skin and a black-and-yellow costume, except Antibug and Sole Destroyer.
• Crocodile Tears: She's big on fake crying - the Bad "Bad Acting" type.
• Daddy's Girl: Chloé is doted on by her father and she genuinely loves him.
• Deal with the Devil: In the season three finale, motivated by her resentment towards Ladybug ignoring her, Chloé makes a deal with Hawk Moth to be akumatized in her parents' place. Then in "Revolution", Chloé cuts a deal with Monarch to use Miraculous powers through her robots, but is unaware of his identity as Gabriel, along with the fact that he and Tomoe are planning to betray her the moment Ladybug and Cat Noir are captured.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Chloé deconstructs a lot of stock mean girl and bully tropes:
  • Chloé Bourgeois is a deconstruction of the Alpha Bitch and Spoiled Brat. Chloé Bourgeois is the rich, beautiful daughter of the Mayor of Paris and exploits her father's authority to get away with almost anything. The only reason she has any power at all in school is because of her father, whom she and her mother pressure into abusing his political power. Unlike most examples of the Alpha Bitch, Chloé's definitely not popular and is pretty much hated by everyone at school. She alienates herself from her classmates with her bossy attitude, bullying nature, and how she gets away with it. Unlike the regular Alpha Bitch, who has her own Girl Posse or group of cool friends, she only has two friends, one of whom she treats as a personal slave. The other is only friends with her because of a mix of pity and the fact she was one of his few childhood friends growing up—but has his limit and one point he threatens to end their friendship unless she shapes up. But she refuses to listen and both friends eventually break ties with her as a result. Another reason why Chloé is unpopular is her immaturity; being used to getting everything she wants when she wants it, and having her father clean up her messes with no consequences, Chloé has no impulse control at all. Even when it's in her best interest to be a little nice, like to get her classmates to like her or to stop people from being akumatized, she can't stop being cruel for not getting her way. "Revolution" takes Chloé's self-destructive choices to their logical conclusion.
  • Chloé also serves as one for the Lovable Alpha Bitch. Season 2 reveals that Chloé has a neglectful mother who she wants to impress. However, even when at her most sympathetic, Chloé remains a Spoiled Brat who causes a lot of akumatizations, and it's increasingly shown that she only wants to be Queen Bee for the fame. When Marinette kicks Chloé off the team for being a liability, she immediately joins forces with Hawk Moth. Just because someone has the potential to become a better person, it doesn't mean that they will, especially if they've spent years being a bully.
  • She also serves as one for The Unchosen One. Season 2 has her become the superhero Queen Bee after gaining the Bee Miraculous. However, she only gained the Bee Miraculous by essentially stealing it, as Marientte never intended to give it to Chloé. Chloé's first outing is a complete and utter disaster, and she ends up exposing her identity. Marientte initially sympathizes with her Freudian Excuse and lets Chloé remain Queen Bee. Regardless of sympathy, Chloé is still a poor superhero, often being The Load in team battles, not thinking how being a publicly known hero could hurt her in long run, and it's made clear that she only likes being Queen Bee for the fame. Marientte realizes that Chloé is a liability and removes her from the team. Though Marientte's heart was in the right place, allowing Chloé to remain Queen Bee was ultimately a Horrible Judge of Character.
  • She also deconstructs characters who repeatedly suffer from Aesop Amnesia and often is a Karma Houdini. Because Chloé often gets away from all the misery and strife she puts upon others, she subsequently never truly learns the lesson that her actions have consequences. This ultimately causes her to receive negative character development and gradually become worse and worse, eventually becoming an outright villain.
• Designated Victim: Not surprising considering the very large amount of Akumas that were created as a result of her Alpha Bitch tendencies.
• Enemy Mine: In "Animaestro", she teams up with her archrival Marinette to sabotage what she thinks is a romantic moment between Adrien and Kagami.
• Entitled Bastard:
  • While she genuinely adored Ladybug (and Cat Noir by extension), she still acts very rude, entitled, and demanding whenever the duo have to protect or rescue her; rudely demands they hurry up whenever she's been targeted by an akumatized victim (that she usually created), complains about rescues she doesn't like, and almost never thanks them afterwards. She also never shows remorse for creating the akumatized victim to begin with (which is often), even when Ladybug calls her out on it, yet feels no shame in demanding Ladybug save her anyway.
  • Her Face–Heel Turn is even caused by this trait, as she feels entitled to the Bee Miraculous and resorts to villainy in order to reclaim it. When she discovers that Ladybug has chosen a new wielder for it, Vesperia, she's furious about being replaced and calls the latter a weak knockoff, believing that she is the only one worthy of the Bee Miraculous.
• Entitled to Have You: Fitting with her Entitled Bastard attitude, Chloé often refers to Adrien as her "boyfriend" despite Adrien clearly saying he thinks of her as a friend, often invades his personal space despite his obvious discomfort, and threatens any would-be romantic interests to stay away from him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Her relationship with her parents is toxic, but Chloé genuinely wants her mother's approval and cares for their safety. One of the conditions of Face–Heel Turn in season 3 finale is having Hawk Moth un-akumatize her parents to take their place as a Miraculous-powered villain.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In "Derision", Chloé is clueless why Adrien, coming from high-class family like herself, is upset over her terrorizing Marinette for years and doesn’t understand why he doesn’t enjoy bullying people beneath their status like she does.
• Face–Heel Turn: While it's pretty up in the air whether Chloé ever really was a "good" person, she was undoubtedly making progress up until she willingly allows Hawk Moth to akumatize her and turns against the heroes.
• Fallen Heroine: Chloé was never a saint by any stretch of the imagination, but she falls very far from grace when she betrays the heroes and exposes them to Hawk Moth. Doesn’t help that she is remorseless and continues to act like an Entitled Bastard.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Selfishness. It's what causes a number of Akumatizations and why many people don't like her. Even in her debut as Queen Bee, despite wanting to impress her mother, she chose to risk the safety of train passengers so she could rescue them. This and her refusal to return the Bee Miraculous makes Ladybug furiously chase her down to get it back and makes her a laughingstock on the news.
  • Entitlement. Her stubborn belief that the Bee Miraculous is hers and hers alone ultimately leads her to betray Ladybug out of frustration, willingly allow herself to be akumatized, [reveal the other Miraculous holders' identities, and try to kill Ladybug and Cat, all to keep her Miraculous. This costs her the privilege of being Queen Bee permanently and be replaced by Vesperia.
  • Impulsiveness. Chloé repeatedly makes poor impulsive decisions that negatively effects others. And as a result of her other flaws, aside from not learning the consequences of her actions, she continues to act impulsively and foolishly.
• Fearless Fool: Unless danger is right in front of her nose, Chloé is blind to her own mortality. Combined with her obsession with Ladybug, Chloé will usually leap into the centre of danger to get close to her idol when the smart thing to do would be running.
• Foil:
  • To Marinette — Marinette is clumsy and shy when it comes to her crush on Adrien, but she is a good friend and a humble, nice girl; Chloé is vain, rude, and treats her friend Sabrina like a servant, but she is also very straightforward in love. As Queen Bee, she has more than a few similarities to Ladybug. She is a black and Primary-Color Champion with a bug-based Animal-Themed Superbeing whose weapon is a string-drawn toy that allows her to travel via propulsion (her spinning top) and her miraculous can be considered a predominantly feminine accessory (a comb) with a feminine kwami (Pollen). While it is shown that she has improved as a hero in "Malediktator", her moral compass is still much more questionable than Marinette's.
  • To Adrien — Both of them are Marinette's wealthy, blond classmates with a Missing Mom who have some kind of relationship with Marinette. Adrien is a Nice Guy who has had a restrictive life because of his smothering father, he is (unknowingly) in love with Marinette as Ladybug, but even in her civilian ego, he considers her a friend; Chloé is a Spoiled Brat jerkass who has more freedom than is healthy for her due to having an overly doting father; and she absolutely loathes Marinette, with the Origins episodes revealing she bullied Marinette four years prior to the story.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Unlike the other miraculous holders, Chloé was never intended to be given the Bee Miraculous. Her first outing as Queen Bee is an unmitigated disaster where she attempts to create a situation where she could play hero and publicly outs her secret identity. This foreshadows how Chloé is unfit to be a superhero. It also hints to the reason behind her eventual Face–Heel Turn, as Chloé only really wants to be Queen Bee for the fame.
  • Marinette only allows Chloé to remain Queen Bee due to sympathizing with her Freudian Excuse. How many fans felt this explanation was insufficient to allow her remaining a superhero considering her actions during the first outing and her being an unrepentant bully for years. She was often seen as Unintentionally Unsympathetic. Indeed, after Chloé's Face–Heel Turn, Word of God would state that this was an Intentional Audience Reaction, and that Marinette allowing Chloé to remain Queen Bee was a Horrible Judge of Character.
  • In "Stormy Weather 2", she declares "Once a villain, always a villain!" She's not talking about Aurore, she ends up referencing herself in the long run.
• Frame-Up: She frames Marinette in multiple episodes of different misdemeanors and even crimes such as starting a fire alarm, theft, faking school forms and physical assault.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Early in Season 2, it's implied that Chloé needs to be the centre of attention because her mother left when she was little, and she hasn't had emotional growth since. A seeming throwaway line in "Zombizou" supports this even further: Chloé gets surprisingly defensive when Sabrina mentions her mom. Season 3 onwards displays that Chloé is a mean regardless of her mommy issues. Even Mylène states in "Derision" that Chloé being abandoned by her mom when she was little doesn't justify her constant bullying of Marinette.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Not one of her classmates genuinely likes Chloé due to her bullying nature and how she gets away with it. The only exceptions are Adrien and Sabrina, but even they have their limits with her bratty behavior — Adrien (with more and more Character Development) expresses his dislike over Chloé's personality while Sabrina has moments where she bites back at Chloé. By the end of "Confrontation", both of them have ended their friendships with Chloé and by the end of "Revolution" the entirety of Paris has come to despise her after her brief term as interim mayor.

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• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: In Chloé's penthouse, a teddy bear and a giant ladybug can be found on her bed. Her absolute favorite childhood toy is a yellow teddy bear named Mr. Cuddly.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She is mostly a spoiled rich girl who is very clingy around her crush Adrien. However, in early seasons, she wants to be a superhero like her idol Ladybug, secretly imitating Ladybug's moves when she's alone, and in the episode "Frightningale", she is shown to be a very skilled gymnast who's able to do acrobatics.
• Glory Hound: As Queen Bee, she's willing to endanger an entire subway train full of civilians so she can get glory as a superhero and impress her mother. Word of God states that Chloé's heroic actions are only for the fame; "She doesn't do good things to be altruistic, but to receive recognition."
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Has a one-sided one with her maternal half-sister Zoé. Chloé is the prissy, stuck-up, fashionable one while Zoé is more artistic and down-to-earth. Zoé wants to get along with her sister, but Chloé refuses unless Zoé does exactly as she tells her. When Zoé ultimately decides to be her own person rather than bend to her sister's whims, Chloé angrily declares that they'll never get along.
• Godzilla Threshold: Becomes this later in Season 3. Because her identity has been blown, Hawk Moth has Mayura ready to steal the Bee Miraculous in case Ladybug asks for her help. Because Ladybug knows this, she only resorts to asking her help when her group is really outmatched.
• Goggles Do Nothing: She always wears sunglasses on top of her head, but she's hardly ever seen actually using them. Averted, however, in "Malidictator" and "Reverser", where she is seen wearing them.
• Gold Digger: She states in "Dark Cupid" that she likes the fact Adrien is rich. And in "Princess Fragrance", she also hit on Prince Ali, who's wealthy as well. It's a bit odd considering that Chloé herself is already a billionaire.
• Good Feels Good: She confesses to Ladybug that she loved serving a purpose greater than her own whims. It doesn't last.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She especially becomes one once Adrien's relationship with Marinette takes off, as seen in "Cat Blanc" and "Deflagration".
• Hard Truth Aesop:
  • Chloé's character arc has the moral of "Sometimes, giving someone the benefit of the doubt is the wrong choice and second chances only work if the person is willing to become a better person". Marinette allowing Chloé to remain Queen Bee because of her Freudian Excuse would, in many other shows, be the start of Chloé's redemption arc. But since Chloé has been an unrepentant bully for years and almost never learns her lesson, it plays a key factor in her Face–Heel Turn. Chloé becomes entitled to being Queen Bee for the fame instead of actually helping people, and when the privilege is revoked for entirely understandable reasons, she immediately sides with Hawk Moth.
  • Redemptions don't always work out. Sometimes, even if someone has the potential to be a better person, they can still slip back into their bad habits.
  • Sometimes spoiling a child is the worst thing a parent can do. While the show acknowledges that Audrey's mistreatment of Chloé is a large part of why she's the way that she is, it's shown that André only reinforces that bad behavior rather than making an effort to correct it. Chloé is so spoiled that she lacks empathy, and most of her Pet the Dog moments usually revolve around her in some way (i.e, her attempting to be nicer in "Despair Bear" is due to Adrien threatening to end their friendship, and her wanting to be Queen Bee is more for the fame as opposed to helping others).
• Hates My Secret Identity: She absolutely loathes Marinette but is a huge fan of Ladybug, at least until she betrays her in the season 3 finale.
• Hated by All: Since she bullies almost everyone she meets, Chloé is despised by all of her classmates except Adrien and Sabrina, and by the end of Derision, Adrien ends his friendship with Chloé for refusing to give up her bullying ways and he now hates her, too. In "Malediktator", Mr. Damocles, Mr. Haprèle, and Chloé’s classmates (except Adrien) even throw a party to celebrate after she tells them she’s moving to New York. In "Revolution", she earned the ire of every Parisan before being exiled.
• Hate Sink: Oh, boy. Chloé is truly a nasty piece of work. Her actions include stealing someone else's design in a contest, breaking other people's possessions (while blaming everyone else), and using her father's status to get others into trouble. She is also very clingy towards Adrien, who clearly doesn't return her affections. Worst so far is how she treated Kim. After he confessed to her on Valentine's Day, she sent out a picture of him being rejected to everyone in their class for no reason other than to humiliate him. Add this to her nasty treatment of Marinette on a regular basis (revealed in "Origins Part 1" to have been going on for at least four years), and it's easy to see why she's so hated. Even Word of God confirmed that she's supposed to be this trope together with Lila Rossi. This appeared to start changing in the second season onwards when she gets a Freudian Excuse, demonstrates she has some standards, steps up as a more heroic character and Lila quickly demonstrates she is a much greater evil. But she ultimately goes back to being this in the Season 3 finale, when she betrays the heroes and joins Hawk Moth, with official statements confirming that the redemption tease was always a fake-out as Chloé refuses to change her ways. Season 4 just reinforces her as this, as she's shown as a sadistic person willing to murder people in order to save herself ("Sole Crusher", "Optigami") or even over some minor inconveniences ("Penalteam"). Even the other Hate Sink, Lila, notices this and exploits her under the guise of an evil alliance in Season 5 that ends with Chloé becoming utterly hated by everyone in Paris.
• Hero's Evil Predecessor: She's this to Zoe, being the previous holder of the Bee Miraculous before betraying the group and joining Hawk Moth, leading to Ladybug expelling her from the team and permanently removing her miraculous. She's extremely bitter upon learning someone else (unknowingly her half-sister) has taken her position as holder of the Bee Miraculous.
• Her Own Worst Enemy: Chloé's selfishness, warped sense of entitlement, impulsiveness, and inability to learn her lesson are ultimately the biggest reasons she can never be liked by anyone or trusted to be a hero. It was only a matter of time before she fell from grace, earning her status as the most hated person in all of Paris. By the time she is exiled from Paris near the end of the fifth season, Chloé has pretty much lost everything as a result of her self-destructive attitude and actions.
• Heroic Bystander: Gradually evolves into one. In "Startrain", although she doesn't have a Miraculous, she manages to help out by getting everyone's attention and calmly warning them of the Akuma in their midst.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In "Zombizou", in one of the very rare moments of genuine goodness from Chloé, she lets herself be infected by a brainwashed Cat Noir coming Ladybug's way in order to save her, as even she knows that Ladybug's the only person capable to save everyone.
• Heroic Willpower: In "Miraculer", she becomes the first person to ever reject an Akuma, regardless of it happening before or after being fully transformed.
• Hero with an F in Good: Chloé's arrogance, mixed with her general lack of experience and the fact that she's mostly interested in using her heroic status to win her mother's affection and become famous, makes for a pretty terrible superhero. She largely gets over this in "Malediktator" where she becomes much more competent after swallowing her pride, though she's still far from perfect. She loses the "Hero" part completely by the season 3 finale.
• Hidden Depths:
  • She finally gets some in "Despair Bear". When her childhood stuffed bear is given to her by her butler, she remembers her childhood as a little girl, where we see her playing with Adrien, being given the teddy bear by her father, watching her mother leave, and crying her eyes out while clutching the teddy close to her. Adrien himself has stated that she can be nice at times, though she probably has trouble showing it.
  • "Frightningale" shows that Chloé is a very skilled dancer and gymnast, which she attributes to her father being able to hire very good teachers for her. Had she refrained from her usual clinginess around Adrien (and therefore avoided enraging Marinette), she could have gotten the part, as she was on a level above the other auditionees (not that that's saying much).
  • "Malediktator" reveals that she's fully aware that people don't like her and is one of the reasons she wanted to leave Paris with her mother.
  • Despite her clingy treatment of him, a few episodes make it clear that Chloé really does care about Adrien and values her friendship with him.
• Hopeless Suitor: She has a crush on Adrien, but he doesn't see her as anything more than a friend. He takes her constant physical affection in stride, but sometimes he is just embarrassed.
• Hotel Hellion: Chloé lives in the luxury hotel her father owns, and often has the staff on his payroll participate in her Ladybug LARPing.
• Hypocrite:
  • In "Oblivio" she laughs at Alya and Nino for playing Super Penguino, even though Sabrina reveals later in the same episode that they also play the same video game together.
  • In "Stormy Weather 2", while picking on Aurore, she says "Once a villain, always a villain" due to her being akumatized before. She conveniently forgets that not only has she herself been akumatized three times by this point, everyone in the conversation other than Marinette has been akumatized at least once.
  • Throughout season 5 she keeps blaming Ladybug for "selling Paris over to the villains", something she claims Queen Bee would've never allowed to happen, even though that's exactly what she did as Queen Bee in "Miracle Queen" and did again as Queen Mayor in "Revolution".
    • In "Revolution", she called out Adrien for cluelessly following his dad without question. But she also happens to be a pawn to both Adrien's dad (as Monarch) and Lila.
• Icy Blue Eyes: She has blue eyes and is a spoiled, bullying jerkass.
• I Just Want to Be Special: As shown in "The Queen's Fight," thanks to her abusive mother, Chloé believes deep down that she's an unexceptional person, and all her ploys for attention are desperate attempts to prove she's special. Her desperately wanting to be the hero eventually leads her to join Hawk Moth in order to remain Queen Bee. It ultimately costs her being Queen Bee instead.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Chloé is selfish and narcissistic, but as shown in "Malediktator", her lack of friends aside from Adrien and Sabrina and how everyone on the school hates her makes her feel useless. Chloé also did initially want to be a hero alongside Ladybug and felt the need because she was insecure, but her flaws were stronger. Her selfishness, narcissism, and inability to acknowledge her faults or handle rejection poison her insecurities and warp them into entitlement; she should be the only Miraculous Holder.
• Irony:
  • She adores Ladybug (or at least used to), someone she unknowingly makes miserable on a daily basis at school.
  • Her claim of "Once a villain, always a villain" to Aurore also applies to herself come the season 3 finale and the seasons that followed.
  • Chloé had twice wanted to previously move to New York with her mother to get away from her troubles, but was unable to do so either time due to unforeseen circumstances. But the opportunity to leave with Audrey opens up again in "Revolution", just not as the happy occurrence she had hoped for due to her mother being upset over her tarnishing the Bourgeois family name during her short-lived regime. It's also worth noting that for all of her attempts to exile her sister Zoé back to New York, Chloé ends up being the one exiled in the end.
  • Chloé had tried for years to leave Marinette friendless, break her spirit, and ruin her life with her bullying. By the end of "Revolution", as Marinette scathingly points out, her own actions have left her as the one with no friends, her spirit broken, and her life ruined.
  • During her time as a hero, Chloé was frustrated about rarely being given the Bee Miraculous due to her identity being publicly known, and grew too impatient and resentful of this. Ironically, her actions and betrayal at the end of season 3 sets off a chain of events that results in Marinette eventually giving all the Miraculous to their holders permanently, with Chloé not being one of them.
• It's All About Me: She's affronted when other people don't take notice of her and her opinions. It's what ultimately has her join forces with Hawk Moth, when Ladybug won't give her back the Bee Miraculous for a while.
• Jerkass: She's a spoiled, spiteful, egotistical bully and she gets even worse after season 3.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Downplayed. Chloé has brought good points on certain subjects from time to time, but it is dependent on the situation and the circumstances surrounding it.
  • While having Alya suspended in "Lady Wifi" was clearly overkill, Alya did take a photo of her locker without her permission.
  • During the battle against Vanisher, she turns out to be correct when she tells Ladybug the location of Vanisher's akuma, but Ladybug ignores her. The issue was when she was questioned, she lied by omission that she was responsible for Vanisher's akumatization, and recklessly tried to involve herself in the fight when she had no combat capabilities.
  • She called Ladybug out for continuously picking other heroes over her throughout Season 3. While it's understandable for her to be upset, she put herself in that situation by publicly outing her identity, which made her liability for heroics that Hawk Moth and Mayura exploited.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: While she was always a mean, selfish Alpha Bitch, she seems to slowly get better in Season 2. Then she betrays the other heroes by revealing the identities of the temporary Miraculous Holders and joining Hawk Moth at the end of Season 3.
• Karma Houdini: While she's often the butt of jokes caused by the Akumatized villain, she's seemingly never been punished by the school for her often downright malicious actions. This is somewhat justified by the fact that she's the mayor's daughter and throws his position around in order to get her way. One particularly egregious example includes her getting caught stealing Marinette's hat design red-handed, by one of the few people who have enough influence to not be intimidated by the mayor, Adrien's father. She also never gets punished for falsely accusing Marinette for stealing her bracelet and attempting to have her arrested, despite a police officer who nearly got fired because of her antics discovering the bracelet in her purse later on. The most egregious instance is in "Queen Wasp", where she gets away with paralyzing a subway driver, endangering dozens of innocent lives, just so she can play hero. "Despair Bear" kinda subverts this, however, when Chloé goes too far and makes a prank call to the fire department because Marinette and her dad were the center of attention, resulting in Adrien threatening to end their friendship. Seasons 4 and 5 deconstruct this by showing that being completely insulated from consequences has only emboldened her and caused her to escalate her malicious behavior, starting with her Face–Heel Turn.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: After her Face–Heel Turn in the season 3 finale, Chloé loses the Queen Bee position permanently and finds that since her parents have reconciled, she's stuck in Paris, where most of the people she knows have come to despise her. In "Queen Banana", Adrien loses his patience with her antics and tells her to apologize to their class, where she angrily renounces their friendship and leaves her with just a single "friend" in Sabrina.
  • After spending years thriving on her family's power and connections to make people miserable, and keep herself out of trouble for it, Chloé is finally hit with all the bad karma she's put out in the fifth season. "Derision" and "Confrontation" have Adrien and Sabrina both renounce their friendships with Chloé for the lengths she's gone to break Marinette. Then in "Collusion" and "Revolution", after abusing her privilege to get her teacher fired and then abusing her position as mayor, Chloé becomes universally hated by the entirety of Paris, is abandoned by her allies, and personally exiled by her former pushover father to live with her self-absorbed mother (who blames her for their family name being ruined and vows to take control of her life) after losing said position and all other power. The final nail is Chloé's once-favorite punching bag Marinette, whom she tried to break for years, giving her a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech that breaks her spirit.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: In most of the episodes Chloé appears in, she gets menaced by a supervillain or suffers some other misfortune, but she deserves every bit of it since she constantly bullies people. In fact, many akumatized villains attack her because she bullied them when they were a civilian, which led to them getting akumatized in the first place.
• Kick the Dog: She is responsible for the Akumatization of at least 20 people due to bullying them until they reach their breaking point. On a more consistent basis, she treats her closest friend Sabrina like dirt.
• Kick the Morality Pet: In "Despair Bear", Adrien makes Chloé promise to be nicer otherwise they can't be friends, which works for a while. However, in "Queen Banana", she gets furious when Adrien asks her to apologize and ends their friendship.
• Kiddie Kid: With her spoiled attitude, bad temper, and lack of any work ethic, Chloé acts more like a kindergartener than a middle schooler. This is especially prominent in the episode "Despair Bear," where she cuddles with her childhood teddy bear and sucks her thumb when Adrien threatens to stop being her friend.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Very downplayed, but "Despair Bear" and "Zombizou" show that she does have a heart very deep down, sowing the seeds for this trope, as does her later heroic stint as Queen Bee. Subverted hard by the end of Season 3, where she's revealed to be a Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk.

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• Manipulative Bastard: In "Derision", Chloé is revealed to have talked Kim into pulling a trauma-inducing prank on Marinette.
• Mean Boss: Her nastiness is only compounded by how poorly she treats the help; "Despair Bear" reveals that she doesn't even care to learn her butler's name even if he's been around since her childhood. She also acts like a mean boss to her sidekick, Sabrina, who she usually treats more like a slave than a friend.
• Meaningful Name: "Bourgeois" is a French word used to designate a well-off person. Nowadays, it's often used with a pejorative connotation, implying that the person is arrogant and scorns others because of his/her wealth. Fitting for a wealthy Alpha Bitch.
• Misaimed Fandom: In-Universe, it's implied that she admires Ladybug and Cat Noir more because they're powerful and popular than because they're heroes. Her attempts at "heroism" end up giving her cover to indulge her attention-seeking tendencies and ego, while being hailed as a hero for opposing Hawk Moth. Ultimately, Chloé's inability to grasp the real reasons why the heroes are so admired end up torpedoing her career as Queen Bee even before she joins Hawk Moth's side.
• Moral Myopia: Chloé does appear to understand the difference between right and wrong...when it applies to other people. Applied to herself, Chloé's ethics diminish into "Bad and Good for Me." Justified because it is implied Chloé has been raised to believe that the wealthy and powerful are Above Good and Evil.
• Narcissist: She's obsessed with looking good, but this unfortunately doesn't extend to caring that she's hurting other people in the process. Hell, her idea of an art masterpiece is a selfie collage about herself. Further confirmed in "Heart Hunter" when the titular villain refutes her claim of not loving anyone with "You love yourself".
• Nerves of Steel: Surprisingly. She's the target of a lot of villains' ire, but more often than not she'll talk back to them and maintain her haughty air, sometimes treating her grim predicament as a minor annoyance.
• Never My Fault:
  • She tends to be the cause of so many of her classmates getting akumatized. These include mocking Nathaniel for having a crush on Marinette, cruelly rejecting Kim's love confession and then taking a picture of his humiliation, and dropping Alix's family heirloom. Granted, that last one was an accident, but she refuses to apologize for any of those scenarios, since from her point of view, she did nothing wrong.
  • Finally averted at the end of "Zombizou", where she admits to forgetting Miss Bustier's birthday and sabotaging Marinette's gift out of jealousy.
  • While it takes some prodding from Ladybug, she also averts it in "Malediktator", admitting that she was to blame for her father's Akumatization.
  • Taken to egregious levels when she grows impatient about receiving the Bee Miraculous, willingly sides with Hawk Moth to get it, and initially ruins all the other temporary heroes chances of returning in the process. She refuses to acknowledge that she willingly outed herself to the public (even if to impress her mother), which allowed her to be exploited and left her loved ones endangered. She views it as Ladybug “betraying” her, when in reality Ladybug is trying to protect her and it's entirely Chloé’s own fault she’s never going to be Queen Bee again.
  • She's furious that Ladybug would dare choose a new Bee Miraculous holder over her, completely ignoring the above and she still claims it Ladybug and Vesperia's fault that she can't use her Miraculous anymore.
• Nobody Touches the Hair: Chloé is extremely protective of her blonde locks, to the point that her idea of a worst case scenario is a bad hair day. Just to put it into perspective, she lives in a world where magical supervillains are real. And a large majority of them have a personal grudge against her specifically.
• No Sense of Personal Space: She can get very clingy, especially with Adrien.
• No Social Skills: It's easy to miss because she is a villainous example, but having "throw your weight around" as her hammer and an inability to recognize social cues all display that Chloé has no idea how to interact with real people.
• Not Brainwashed : As of the season 3 finale she doesn't shy away from embracing the Akuma's powers of her own free will.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: For the first few seasons, she's an obnoxious, hateful asshole but still ultimately just a school bully, doing things like ruining school photo days and getting people unfair detentions. Even when she's the villain of the week, she's more of a pawn for more intelligent foes. However, for all she's petty and not that bright, she's still very capable of doing real damage, nearly taking over the city with an army of mind-controlled miraculous holders and actually taking over the city with an army of robots.
• Only Friend:
  • Was this to Adrien before he started attending public school. This is the main reason—if not the only reason—why he still maintains a friendship with her, despite often being disgusted by her behavior. Him threatening to end it after she makes a prank call to the fire department actually leaves her speechless, and causes her to try being nice to people in an effort to fix it. While this threat seems to work for a short time, it ultimately comes crashing down in season 4, when in "Queen Banana", Adrien asks Chloé to apologize for her behavior towards the other students, reminding her of the promise she made to him. She angrily refuses, declaring their friendship to be over. Adrien later renounces any chance at reconciliation in "Derision" when she refuses to make amends with Marinette for her bullying.
  • She states that she's this to Sabrina, saying that if it weren't for her, Sabrina would have no friends at all, which is probably why the latter allows herself to be treated as a servant. In reality, the deeply toxic nature of their relationship is why Sabrina is socially isolated. Averted starting in "Confrontation" after Sabrina finally goes against her and exposes her and Lila's scheme, resulting in the end of their friendship.
  • She becomes Lila's only "friend" to be aware of her wicked nature (which is exactly the reason why she's friends with her in the first place). However, this friendship is clearly only for the benefit of the girls' own shared wicked goals as neither expresses any affection or feeling for the other. In "Revolution", when the tide turns against them, Lila abandons Chloé; to protect herself and focus on her own goals, leaving her to be de-akumatized, deposed, and exiled from Paris.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Played straight in "The Collector", as Chloé cries for the first time when Gabriel threatens to take Adrien away from school.
  • Downplayed, but the fact she actually goes out of her way to try and be nice to others so as to repair the relationship between her and Adrien tells you how much she values it.
  • She shields Sabrina from the Akuma in "Ladybug". It's both an indicator of how dire she realizes the situation is, it's one of the rare times she does a genuinely heroic thing with no expectation of attention.
  • Recieving a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Marinette while being sent away from Paris for her actions in "Revolution" causes her to cry, having an apparent Heel Realization with the knowledge that her actions have ensured that things will never go back to the way they were.
• Out of Focus: In the first half of Season 2; she does get some much-needed Character Development in "Despair Bear," but that's followed by a long stretch of episodes in which she's barely present.
• Pet the Dog: She shields Sabrina from the akuma in ''LadyBug'', it's one of the rare times she does a genuinely selfless deed.
• The Paralyzer: As Queen Bee, her special power is Venom, which allows her to temporary paralyze a person. As Queen Wasp, this power is enhanced by having her control a swarm of wasps instead of just using her weapon and she can use it multiple times instead of just once. This power is once again enhanced as Miracle Queen, where she can not only paralyze people with her swarm of wasps, but also mind control them.
• Picky Eater: Refuses to touch any food considered "common", such as pizza.
• Plastic Bitch: Implied. She's a Rich Bitch and people accusing her looks of being plastic surgery is apparently a Berserk Button for her.
• The Poorly Chosen One: While she's a competent enough fighter, her massive ego and desire for attention lead her to blow her identity, making it too dangerous to both her and the Bee Miraculous to continue letting her be Queen Bee. She outright turns coat in order to keep the Bee Miraculous for herself.
• Privilege Makes You Evil: Her overall motivation on making Marinette's life miserable.
• Prophetic Names: Chloé's name comes from an Ancient Greek word meaning "sprout." The ultimate fate of a sprout is to bloom and grow into a plant, foreshadowing her Character Development from a puerile bully to a hero. But ultimately Averted.
• Properly Paranoid: Chloé initially rejects Monarch's offer of an alliance, since he left her high and dry while she was Sole Destroyer. But is talked into it by Lila.
• Punny Name: Chloé - a stuck up, arrogant jerkass who frequently uses the privilege of her social status to get out of trouble - has the surname "Bourgeois."
• Put on a Bus: She leaves Paris in shame together with her mother by the end of "Revolution".
• Rage Quit: She attempts to do this at the end of season 3 after being clearly outed as a turncoat to Hawk Moth's side, claiming she will go join her mother in New York to get away from Ladybug... Only to find her mother isn't going back to New York as she's rekindled her relationship with her husband, the Mayor. Chloé is pissed at this, to say the least.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She ends up on the receiving end of one from Marinette during her final attempt to bully her over Adrien's departure in "Revolution": Marinette completely shuts her down and tells her that she already knows about it (having just witnessed it after the two shared their first kiss), adding that she knows Adrien loves her, and finishing that Chloé no longer has any power over anyone or anything anymore, and that she is the "utterly ridiculous" one. This ends up shattering Chloé's spirit and makes her realize that she has finally hit rock bottom as she breaks down in tears.
  Marinette: Be quiet, Chloé! I already know your little secret. I know it because Adrien told me. I also know that he loves me and there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing! You've lost any and all power over us. You're the one who's ridiculous, Chloé. Utterly ridiculous. Enjoy your trip.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: During her stint as Queen Bee, she's a superheroine, but she's still a jerkass Alpha Bitch and an entitled brat. Ultimately, Hawk Moth preys upon her not-quite overcomed flaws to convince her to turn on Ladybug.
• Refused by the Call: Chloé was never meant to receive the Bee Miraculous, but discovered it when Ladybug dropped it in "Style Queen". In the follow-up episode "Queen Wasp", she reveals her identity as a Miraculous-wielder by transforming in public. While Ladybug lends it back for temporary use in "Malediktator" and "Heroes Day", "Miraculer" reveals that the heroes have agreed that Chloé's lack of a Secret Identity has made her and her loved ones a target for the villains, and they basically bar her from the team. Chloé doesn't take this well upon being told, leading her to make a Face–Heel Turn in order to remain Queen Bee.
• Reluctant Retiree: She resents her unwanted retirement so much that she even joins Hawk Moth when he offers her "her" Bee Miraculous. As a consequence she loses it for good.
• The Resenter:
  • Ladybug continues to ignore Chloé's offers to help, since using her as hero could risk Chloé being exploited by the villains (which is indeed Hawk Moth's plan). Overtime, Chloé grows more and more frustrated. When Ladybug finally makes it clear that it would be to dangerous for her to become Queen Bee again she alienates her so much that she even rips her photo with Ladybug apart and declares that she doesn't want to play as Ladybug anymore. In the end her anger becomes so great that she betrays Ladybug and joins Hawk Moth.
  • Despite Zoé's numerous attempts to get along with her estranged sister, Chloé repeatedly refuses any efforts to get along with her unless she follows her orders. As Zoé continues to grow closer to her new classmates and receives recognition for her acting talents, Chloé becomes furious that her "loser half-sister" is getting more attention than her. These feelings of jealousy ultimately lead to her being akumatized again in "Queen Banana", compounded even further when she learns that her former role as the Bee Miraculous holder has been taken up by Vesperia (who unbeknownst to her, is her sister).
  • Taken to even greater lengths in season 5 when Chloé keeps telling everyone, including Ladybug herself, that she's the one responsible for losing all the other Miraculous from the Miracle Box for not allowing Queen Bee to remain a hero.
• Rich Bitch: Her father is the mayor of Paris as well as a prominent hotelier, and she treats all her peers as if they are beneath her.
• Royal Brat: While she's not actual royalty, her father is the mayor of Paris, so she is often referred to as a princess. And she's as bratty as they come.

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• Sadist: "Sole Crusher" makes it clear she takes genuine joy out of making other people miserable, believes Marinette only exists to entertain her with her suffering, and actively plots ways to hurt Marinette.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Chloé is the mayor's daughter, and gleefully exploits this fact to its fullest potential.
• Secret Identity:
  • Defied Trope. She proudly proclaims to the world that she is Queen Bee the second she gets a chance. Nadja even lampshades it by noting her "not-so-secret identity".
  • This actually gets her in trouble in "Miraculer". With her identity being public knowledge, Hawk Moth and Mayura are able to plan around her insecurities by sending Lila in to make her vulnerable to being akumatized. It is noted at the end of the episode that letting her continue to be Queen Bee is probably too much of a gamble.
• Security Blanket: Mr Cuddly, her favorite teddy bear. As a child, she used to hug it whenever she felt upset or sad. Even now, the plushie still means a lot to her, though she's understandably embarrassed when her classmates find out.
• Selective Obliviousness: Despite her callous Alpha Bitch attitude, it is implied that Chloé keeps insisting that "everyone just loves her" in "Evillustrator" (and again in "Antibug") because she genuinely believes it. Eventually subverted in "Malediktator" where she admits that she's aware that nobody likes her and wants to leave Paris because of it.
• Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: She'll tell anyone that's listening that Adrien is her boyfriend, even when Adrien himself doesn't agree.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Her half-sister Zoé is much nicer than her.
• Smug Super: As Queen Bee and Queen Wasp, her Alpha Bitch personality remains intact, to the point where she considers herself better than Ladybug and Cat Noir, despite the latter two having a better superheroing track record. In "Miraculer", her pride as a superhero is so great it causes her to resist Hawk Moth's attempt to akumatize her]].
• Skewed Priorities: When about to be boiled alive in "Kung Food," she complains about her hair and clothes becoming greasy. Lampshaded when Kung Food tells her it's the least of her worries.
• Smug Snake: Chloe is a bully and acts very smug when mocking people.
• Spoiled Brat: She's very used to getting her way because of her father's influence, and is prone to throwing tantrums or doing petty things if she doesn't. Hawk Moth takes advantage of this in the season 3 finale to turn her over to his side.
• Stupid Evil: Downplayed by the evil part (before her Face–Heel Turn), and played completely straight by the stupid part. She's a jerkass whose constant acts of petty spite and cruelty have gotten more people akumatized than any one person, yet she never changes her ways even out of self-preservation.
• Teens Are Monsters: An Alpha Bitch and Spoiled Brat whose entitlement issues led her to willingly aid a magical terrorist and try to get people killed over petty reasons.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: After Ladybug takes back the Bee Miraculous from Chloé and tells her she’s never going to give it to her again, Chloé decides that if Ladybug won’t let her be a superhero, she’ll stop making any effort to be good and go back to bullying people and doing whatever she wants, acting even worse than before and becoming a Card-Carrying Villain.
• Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed at first. While she's not evil, Chloé is the only jerkass student (if not with Sabrina) in the class (at least until Lila comes). She's also this with the heroes, being the "Token Jerkass Teammate" to their Ideal Heroes. It's both played straight and dropped after the season 3 finale, in which she becomes a full on villain but is also ousted from the team.
• Too Dumb to Live: Whenever Chloé encounters a supervillain, she’ll usually treat them with the same disrespect that she treats everyone with, no matter how many times it backfires on her.
• Took a Level in Badass: In "Despair Bear", she actually helps Ladybug take down the akuma instead of running in fear. Ladybug even refers to her as her and Cat's sidekick. She even saves Ladybug from being hit by a Cataclysm from a mind-controlled Cat Noir, by grabbing Cat's belt and pulling him back at exactly the right moment. She eventually becomes even more so upon getting her hands on the Bee Miraculous.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: It all starts in the season 3 finale, where she reaches her breaking point and willingly joins Hawk Moth to get revenge on Ladybug for not letting her be a superhero. In seasons 4 and 5, she becomes even worse than she was in season 1:
  • In "Sole Crusher", she locks Sabrina in a locker, forces her to run after her limo while carrying her bag and uses the entire Dupain-Cheng family as human shields against her akumatized half sister (which she later does to Zoé as well against their akumatized mother in "Optigami"). She even attempts to manipulate the titular villain into murdering her own classmates in order to save herself, which is only stopped by Marinette and Cat Noir intervening.
  • In "Queen Banana", she breaks off her friendship with Adrien after he reminded her that he can't remain friends with her if she keeps bullying his other friends. As Queen Banana she's ambigously Not Brainwashed. Afterwards she also refuses to keep the Magical Charm from Ladybug that would protect her from Akumas after witnessing Ladybug giving the Bee Miraculous to a new holder (Zoé tricks her later on into accepting the Magical Charm by claiming that it's from their mother).
  • In "Gabriel Agreste", to get back Adrien's friendship, she records a video of their classmates badmouthing Adrien's father, which she attempts to show to Gabriel in order to convince him to pull Adrien out of school, so she could isolate him from all of his other friends and force him into an abusive relationship with her. After getting captured by The Collector, she claims under the influence of his powers that she only did this to hurt Marinette For the Evulz.
  • In "Penalteam", she outright summons Shadow Moth to akumatize her and threatens to kill her prisoners (which include a pregnant woman) if the heroes fail to defeat her, all over not being benched in a soccer game. At the end of the episode, she joins a Villain Team-Up with Lila, in order to plot together against the people they hate (namely Marinette and Ladybug).
  • In "Deflagration", she once again accepts an Akuma willingly in order to get revenge on her classmates and half sister after her attempt to humiliate and bully Marinette over getting together with Adrien ends up with Zoé standing up against her and herself getting humiliated in front of the whole cafeteria, her willingness to get akumatized leading to Monarch almost winning by allowing him to steal the Miraculous from Alya and Zoé before they can transform.
  • In "Derision", it's revealed just how much Chloé used to torment Marinette before the show started, playing cruel pranks on her, getting her unfairly punished, trying to leave her friendless and at one point even getting Kim to orchestrate another vicious prank on her while she was confessing her feelings to him, which gave her trauma that still affects her dating life and subsequently her relationship with Adrien to this day and even gave her a strong enough panic attack to make her vulnerable to Akumatization in this very episode. Unsurprisingly Chloé's still unapologetic about all of it, which leads to Adrien cutting out any possibility to ever reconcile their friendship for good.
  • In "Adoration", she cruelly unfriends Sabrina on Lila's behalf for not wanting to help them to frame Marinette for theft, which leads to Sabrina getting akumatized. Afterwards, she teams up with Vanisher in order to incriminate Marinette of stealing various items, which almost leads to her getting expelled from school again (or Zoé getting sent back to New York after she took the blame for the theft) before the ruse is finally uncovered by the heroes.
  • In "Confrontation", she helps Lila in her scheme to fake their classmates' career forms to frame Marinette of ruining their futures to further alienate her. But Sabrina, whom they forced to forge the fakes, refuses to participate and informs Marinette of the scheme, and the two successfully expose Chloé and Lila with a counter-plot. While Chloé uses her father to avert expulsion and ultimately forces Mr. Damocles to resign as principal, her friendship with Sabrina is officially destroyed for good and Ms. Bustier vows to be tougher on her. But Chloé remains in connect with Lila after she left the school on her whim and assumed another identity.
  • In "Collusion", Chloé, under direction from a now-underground Lila/Cerise, goes scorched earth on her enemies. She starts by abusing her father's power to force the new principal Ms. Mendeleiev (who is more spineless than Mr. Damocles) to unjustly expel Marinette and fire Ms. Bustier. Then, after Gabriel Agreste publicly ruins her father with edited footage of him confessing to his misdeeds for refusing to approve on of his and Tomoe Tsurugi's plans, she, facing a Karma Houdini Warranty for everything she's ever done with her father possibly being forced out of office, accepts an offer to become interm Mayor and Gabriel's puppet, which becomes official after André indeed resigns as mayor near the end of the episode.
  • In "Revolution", after having superheroes and villains outlawed in Paris, Chloé hypocritically breaks her own law, by striking a deal with Monarch to akumatize her into give her the power of multiple Miraculouses, which she uses along with robots supplied to her by Gabriel to imprison everyone who has ever defied or stood up to her or whom she just plain doesn't like, including Marinette, Adrien, and even her father. She also erects statues of herself everywhere and shuts down her classmates' attempts to protest against her. Later, she traps Ladybug and Cat Noir and tricks them into using up their special powers in order to publicly expose their identities and end their hero careers once they de-transform. However, Ladybug and Cat Noir's bravery in the face of the situation causes them to unlock the ability to stay transformed after using their special powers, and the former successfully inspires the citizens of Paris to revolt against her tyranny. In quick succession, Chloé is de-akumatized, ousted as mayor, abandoned by her allies, and is exiled by her father to live with her mother, who holds her responsible for the ruin of their family name and reputation and vows to be harder on her than ever before. And most of all, her final attempt to regain some control over things by calling Marinette to taunt her over Adrien's departure to London completely backfires, as Marinette (who had already learned of it and shared her first kiss with him just prior) quickly shuts her down and coldly tells her that she has lost all power over everyone and everything, and that she is the one who is "utterly ridiculous", before hanging up. This ends up finally breaking Chloé's spirit and she can only break down crying over her losses, having finally realized and paid the the price for her evil ways.
• Trademark Favorite Food: It has been mentioned more than once that Chloé likes sushi.
• Tragic Keepsake: Downplayed. Her bee-colored, diamond-eyed teddy bear from when she was a toddler and from back when her mother was still around. However, her mother isn't dead, just very neglectful, making a Chloé a "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl.
• Transhuman Treachery: She's the character with the highest number of Akumatizations from the show after Mr. Ramier (and also with the most overall akumatized forms) and a good chunk of those were voluntary on her part.
• Troll: Chloe’s a smug, obnoxious jerk who really enjoys making people mad.
• Trumplica: She is a wealthy blond who dresses in gold and is spoilt, spiteful, immature, and abuses her power and privileges. After she Took a Level in Jerkass all of these traits were ramped up, and Astruc even compared her to Trump.
• Tsundere: She is a cold-hearted bitch most of the time but "Zombizou" proves that Chloé actually does have a heart after all — she's just very selective about who she shows her softer side to (aside from Adrien and possibly Sabrina). It's strongly implied that this is connected to her Missing Mom.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: In "Collusion", with the help of Cerise, Gabriel and Tomoe, she takes her father's place as the Mayor of Paris after he resigns from the position. However, she ends up losing this position in the next episode, "Revolution".
• The Unchosen One: Unlike Alya and Nino, Chloé was not originally chosen by Ladybug to receive her Miraculous, and just happened to stumble upon it after it was knocked out of Ladybug's hands. Eventually graduates out of this, when Ladybug decides to give her another chance. Ultimately it's subverted, as she proves she has no right to wield the Miraculous after she betrays the group.
• Ungrateful Bastard: She cares little for the fact that Sabrina has been following her every order since elementary school and still treats the other girl like her servant. In "Kung Food" Chloé complains that Ladybug took too long to rescue her and threatens to tell everyone. Ladybug roughly drops her with a sarcastic "Oops" in retaliation.
• The Un-Smile: She gives a couple of these in "Revelation" as Lila tries to promote her as her deputy for class rep.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She is such a mean person that she is often the cause of somebody else turning into an Akuma. This is to the point that when Hawk Moth learns in "Despair Bear" that she's inviting all her classmates to a party so she can prove how nice she is, he sends an Akuma in advance, knowing full well she'll make someone vulnerable to it. It does inevitably happen, but since Chloé is actually trying to be nice for once, Hawk Moth gets frustrated that it's taking longer than usual.
• Upper-Class Twit: Despite her father's money and influence, Chloé has very little in the way of social tact or work ethic. Sabrina has done all her homework since they were in elementary and her father's influence usually cleans up any mess she makes.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The reason Adrien can't truly push her away. When they were children, she became one of his first friends after she reached out to him with genuine kindness and the memory of it is strong enough for him that he wishes to maintain their bond even if it's become somewhat twisted on her end. Subverted when Adrien learned in "Derision", that Chloé tortured Marinette for years.
• Villain Team-Up: As of "Penalteam" she teams up with Lila Rossi in order to plot together against Marinette.
• Villain Has a Point: Double Subverted. While her reasons for being a hero are not altruistic, Chloé does explain in the third season finale that the only reason she sided with Hawk Moth willingly in the first place was because Ladybug kept picking other backup heroes while she advertised her availability.
• Wealth's in a Name: She's a Rich Bitch, and her surname "Bourgeois" is a term used for the snobby, apathetic middle class.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Common among children when one parent leaves, Chloé idolizes her mother even though Audrey abandoned her, and is so desperate for her approval that she would reveal herself to be Queen Bee. Not earning Audrey's approval is enough to cause Chloé to become akumatized again.
• What You Are in the Dark: Stripped of her power, exiled from her hometown of Paris as the most hated person there, and stuck under her controlling mother's thumb while leaving forever, Chloé thumbs through her contacts and stops on Sabrina, seemingly intending to reach out to the one person she could call a friend. But she instead scrolls to Marinette to take one last shot of cruelty on her way out. It doesn't pan out that way, but demonstrates that, even at her lowest point, Chloé's instinct is to make someone else suffer to validate herself.
• Willing Channeler: As of the end of "Heart Hunter", Chloé gets akumatized willingly through the fourth and fifth seasons.
• Yes-Man: Ironically, after destroying her friendship with her former servant Sabrina, she becomes this to Cerise in "Collusion" and "Revolution", even repeating all her lines from her through an earpiece.

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