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The Main Team of Miraculers of Miraculous: The Phoenix Rises. Starts with Morgan but continues to grow.

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    Morgan François 

Arcana: Justice

Morgan François, The main character of the story.
  • Action Girl: When she acquires the Arctic Fox Miraculous she starts kicking ass barely a page later.
  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Has long black hair and has a hard exterior.
  • Anti-Hero: Especially given what the story is based on. Morgan is cynical, prone to getting in fights, and initially refuses the call to heroism. However, we see in the intro she has a genuinely heroic spirit.
  • Asian Airhead: Downplayed. While she's not remotely dumb, she's still an immature Cloud Cuckoo Lander.
  • Asian and Nerdy: Is a Japanese, dean's list scoring Cloud Cuckoo Lander with absolutely zero social skills.
  • Badass Adorable: Is fairly soft on the eyes and is a caring person below her aloof exterior, and can still kick-ass in both identities.
  • Berserk Button: Two words: Green beans. Upon seeing them she flips the plate and asks if Marvin's high.
  • Break the Cutie: Was originally a nicer kid with good grades before her false conviction. Everything went to hell after that...
  • Broken Ace: Was once a top-scoring student with a clean record. Then the incident happened and she was reduced to a pariah with a criminal record sent to a Sucky School.
  • Broken Bird: Was falsely accused of stalking, had her life ruined, was put under house arrest and is clearly soured by the experience.
  • Byronic Hero: Fits most of the checklist, obviously as she is a brooding and rebellious Anti-Hero.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Occasionally falls into this. Her rebellious nature also leads her to behaviors such as writing her name in marker over her desk and dumping entire boxes of Goldfish crackers into the bathtub.
  • Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Could hardly be a bigger one to Marinette who is upbeat, optimistic, well-regarded by her friends, outgoing, and still socially awkward. Morgan on the other hand, is bitter, cynical, despised, reserved, yet still a reasonable individual.
  • Cop Hater: With good reason. Her response to first seeing Tundraa is "Call the Ghostbusters! Call the FBI! Call the police even though I hate them!"
  • Cowboy Cop: While not a law enforcement officer per se, tries playing this in order to stop Julian. Needless to say, it doesn't end well for her.
  • Cute Bruiser: Is a petite, friendly girl by day and a rough melee fighter by night.
  • Cute and Psycho: Is petite and attractive along with having a reputation of being a violent stalker. Subverted rather quickly given that the accusations were horseshit and she's actually a nice person.
  • The Cynic: She doesn't have a high opinion of the human race. Given her friend from High School betraying her, her experience with the police, and all of the other morons she deals with on a daily basis, can you really blame her?
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Was once a normal kid before her attempt at foiling a kidnapping earned her half a Glasgow Grin, a criminal record, half a year under house arrest, no friends from her old life and a one way ticket to the middle of nowhere.
  • Does Not Like Spam: Or Marvin's green beans in this case, crosses over with Berserk Button when she lays eyes on them.
  • Expy: As a black-haired Ordinary High-School Student who's forced to move across the country after being falsely accused of assault and leads a team of supernatural vigilantes, Morgan is more or less a female version of Ren Amamiya/Joker from Persona 5.
  • Foil: Marinette is frequently criticized as being a stalker towards Adrian, yet is rarely reprimanded for it within the show proper. Here Morgan is falsely accused of being a stalker and the beginning of the story and goes through shit for it.
  • Friendless Background: Was actually a normal student before the false testimony against her got her branded a pariah and forced her to spend half a year under house arrest. Moving to a different state doesn't help matters either.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Deconstructed, she got her scars after her scuffle six months ago. However, given her (false) criminal record, they serve as a black mark upon her reputation.
  • Glasgow Grin: Sports half of one she acquired in the prologue.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: Moonlights an ice-themed Henshin Hero at night, but by day is known only as the "psycho stalker transfer student".
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Max. It's noted that he's a fairly tall individual while Morgan is one of the shortest characters seen.
  • Insane Troll Logic: Tries eating crayons because they were named after foods like "granny smith apple".
  • Inscrutable Oriental: Is of Japanese and Korean descent and has a very aloof demeanor.
  • Knight in Sour Armor: Very bitter about the world for good reason, yet refuses to stand by in the face of evil.
  • The Leader: Is the leader of Team Arctic.
  • Loners Are Freaks: Is an aloof person and has a criminal record.
  • Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: The loner part largely comes from her pariah status, but fits this trope.
  • Mythology Gag: Is of Korean, Japanese, and French descent; all three of which are nations where the original cartoon is produced.
  • No Social Skills: Downplayed. While she's not completely lacking in social skills, they've clearly atrophied over the course of her house arrest and pariah status, given her social awkwardness and difficulty making friends.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She is the shortest of the five members of Team Arctic. Nevertheless, she's the most experienced fighter of the team.
  • Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Described as having fair skin and jet black hair.
  • Rebellious Spirit: Built one up over time, as a Cop Hater and an Adult Hater she earned from her experiences.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Has red eyes, a criminal record and is a fierce fighter.
  • Refusal of the Call: She originally didn't want to be a hero, going as far as to mail the Kwami to another country.
  • Reluctant Hero: She originally wanted nothing to do with being a superhero, due to her cynicism.
  • The Shut-In: Enforced prior to the story due to her six-month long house-arrest.
  • Spider-Man Send-Up: A major influence for the series was Spider-Man, particularly the Raimi films. Morgan is a teenager dealing with a handful of friends, financial woes, life changes, family, bullies, and school at the same time. Later on, she acquires a superhero persona and chooses to use it for good.]
  • Twofer Token Minority: Is half Japanese and quarter Korean and French.
  • Womanchild: Is virtually a legal adult yet has several immature behaviors. She wears plaid pajama pants and crocs in public, enjoys childish foods like chocolate milk and poptarts, does a high school book report on The Cat in the Hat, hates authority figures, and unapologetically watches PBS Kids in front of Marvin in the living room.

As White Shadow

  • An Ice Person: Gains ice powers.
  • Cool Sword: Uses a machete as her weapon, and has ice powers.
  • The Cowl: Indirectly. While White Shadow presents herself as an ideal hero, below the mask she's a cynical loner scorned by those around her.
  • Large Ham: Unlike the quiet Morgan, White Shadow's persona is that of a campy superhero.
  • Light Is Good: In contrast to her dark civilian attire, White Shadow has a mostly white and pale grey outfit and is regarded as a hero.
  • Required Secondary Powers: Averted. Her outfit resembles arctic-ops gear, revealing she's not immune to her own powers.

    Max Russell 

Arcana: Temperance

Max Russell, an every-man.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Willing to go to great lengths to keep a roof over his family's head.
  • Butt-Monkey: Is constantly caught up with the superhero antics of the series as well as the school having it out for him.
  • Contrasting Sequel Main Character: While the main duos have a vastly different relationship, Max serves as one to Adrian from the original. While both have Abusive Parents and are the male members of a super duo, Max comes from a middle-class household, is fairly average in popularity, and has a light-colored alter-ego.
  • Cool Big Bro: Despite not getting along, is this to Haley as he does care for her and appreciate her help.
  • Deuteragonist: Compared to Morgan, being the one with the second most POV chapters and segments.
  • Expy: Of Bowser Junior from SuperMarioLogan, as both are the rebellious leaders of a Comic Trio.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Leon, as both have been friends since middle school and are frequently partners in their antics.
  • Mellow Fellow: Despite his disdain for authority, is a fairly go-with-the-flow person.
  • Only Sane Man: Morgan and Clay are Cloud Cuckoo Landers, Kiku is the uptight head of the student council, and Leon is a hot-headed rebel, leaving Max to be the only one to keep them all in check.
  • Part-Time Hero: Has to balance even more than Morgan in this regard.
  • Sidekick: As the second to wield a Miraculous, becomes this to Morgan, of a sort, as he's never seen fighting without her.
  • Tempting Fate: After seeing Ladybug and Cat Noir fight an akumatized villain, he states he'll never have to deal with that.
  • Token White: Is the only white kid on the main four. Subverted when Clay joins much later.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Burnt mac and cheese, given that's what his brothers usually make.
  • Unlucky Everydude: An otherwise ordinary student constantly caught in the Miraculous hijinks.
  • Wacky Parent, Serious Child: His father is a lazy bum who only watches a sitcom all day while he is the straight man of his group.

As The Falchion

  • Aura Vision: His main ability as he can see the weak spots on the enemy and has heightened senses.
  • Shout-Out: His persona bears more than a passing reference to Altair from Assassin's Creed.

    Leon Turner 

Arcana: Chariot

Leon Turner, Max's best friend.
  • Acrofatic: Is fairly heavyset but more than capable of kicking ass.
  • Anti-Role Model: Is not a bad kid but certainly not someone to model oneself after.
  • Babysitter from Hell: Tries to babysit half a dozen kids at once from his small apartment. He's banned from the job for life the next day.
  • Became Their Own Antithesis: Subverted. Max calls out Leon for using the Miraculous to steal isn't so different from the damn pigs seizing and selling property during unlawful arrests, snapping him out of his behavior.
  • Big Fun: Is a heavyset and partygoing individual.
  • The Big Guy: The largest and most athletic member of the team.
  • Book Dumb: Kiku regards him as this, and his book report on Harry Potter in Chapter 5 only cements this.
  • Catchphrase: Says "dude" in every other sentence.
    • Another one that shows up is "MORGAN,PLEASE!!!".
  • Cool People Rebel Against Authority: Thinks this and espouses this, hence why he quickly befriends Morgan.
  • The Ditz: He's one of the dumbest characters entire story.
  • Expy: Of Joseph Hisfriendfromschool and Black Yoshi from SuperMarioLogan, sharing the former's status as the main character's best friend who constantly says "dude" and the latter's criminal antics.
  • Hidden Depths: It's later revealed that he genuinely is trying to clean up his act.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While not exactly a Jerkass, he does mooch off of Max from time to time. However, it's shown he is really willing to stick out for his friend.
  • Lovable Jock: A member of the football team and a good friend.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Max's blue, being hothead and rebellious compared to Max's cool demeanor.
  • Soul Brotha: Is African American and one of the more popular and cool kids in school.
  • You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: How Max calls out Leon for using his Miraculous to steal for personal gain.

As Hothead

    Kiku Yoshikuro 

Arcana: High Priestess

Kiku Yoshikuro, the president of the student council and resident stick-in-the-mud.
  • Academic Alpha Bitch: How she comes off as sometimes. Subverted later in the story when she befriends Morgan.
  • Asian and Nerdy: Is head of the student council, has high grades, and loves stuffed animals and pop music.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: Is leader of the student council and a powerful Miraculer.
  • Brainy Brunette: Has black hair and is at the top of the class.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Starts off as the condescending, rules obsessed leader of the student council before opening up to the rest of the team.
  • Expy: In Max and Leon's dynamic fills the same role as Cody Nutkiss.
  • Foil: While both her and Morgan are dark-clad Japanese females, they contrast in numerous ways. Kiku has short straight hair while Morgan has long wavy hair. Kiku is a mature Academic Alpha Bitch with a spotless record while Morgan is very immature and has a (false) criminal record.
  • Go-Getter Girl: Also serves as this as she takes great pride in her extracurricular activities and making Dean's List each semester.
  • Hidden Depths: Presents herself as the stoic head of the student council but is actually a girly nerd in her room. A more serious example is how reluctant she is to move away for college.
  • The Lancer: Serves as this to Morgan most of the time, as her by-the-books attitude often conflict with Morgan's loose cannon tactics.
  • Rich Bitch: Is from a well-off family and is an Academic Alpha Bitch.
  • Silk Hiding Steel: Presents herself as the reasonable, restrained member of the smart kids but quickly reveals she is able to stand up to villains in the series.
  • Student Council President: Is the president of the student council and won't let you forget it.
  • Team Mom: Quickly becomes this, as she is easily the most responsible and mature member of the team of Adult Haters.

As Mantis Lord:

     Clay Wagner 

Arcana: Moon

Clay Wagner, a student at Waterloo.
  • Acrofatic: Is described as "big-boned" but is a capable fighter using the Jackal Miraculous.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Writes a fanfic for a kid's cartoon featuring gore, cosmic horror, and other explicit material.
    • Also, in his backpack Morgan finds a messy sketchbook, Manga, a switchblade, and used toilet paper.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Clay is a... unique individual, but no less useful to the team with his combat skills, quick wit, and niche knowledge.
  • Conspiracy Theorist: Spouts one at least once per chapter, and was put at the back of the class for including them in his school papers.
  • Eccentric Artist: Is an artist and quite possibly the craziest character thus far.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Despite playing a larger role later, is introduced in chapter 3.
  • Expy: Of the classmate from high school who got the author into Miraculous in the first place.
    • Other influences for his character include Shrek and Yusuke.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: It's made very clear the rest of his team is not very pleased with his antics and demeanor.
  • The Quiet One: Sits at the back of class and doesn't interact much with other students at the beginning of the story.
  • Loners Are Freaks: In full effect, given his fanfics, demeanor, and of course the Noodle Incident.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: Takes an innocent kid's show and turns it into a grimdark.
  • Nonconformist Dyed Hair: His hair is dark brown with blonde tips, and he makes it very clear his war on social mores and authority figures.
  • Noodle Incident: The "incident" that got him in anger management was so bad Mr. Leahy couldn't even say it out loud. For reference, Morgan was on the radar for (falsely) being charged for stalking and possession of weapons.
  • The Pig-Pen: Chapter 20 clearly establishes him as having no sense of personal hygiene.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed. While not evil per se, he is very much an anti-social rebel who's dreaded by most of the school.

As Anubis

Confidants

    Marvin Wilson 

Arcana: Emperor

Marvin Wilson, Morgan's caretaker while she attends Waterloo High.
    Moof Wilson 

Arcana: Magician

Marvin's adoptive daughter hiding in the basement.
  • Break the Cutie: Outright Exaggerated. Her backstory starts with her being abused by everyone at her school and ends with her as a shut-in terrified of the outside world.
  • Broken Bird: Even worse than Morgan.
  • Bungled Suicide: Marvin adopted Moof after she was found on the bank of a river three miles south of town after last being seen looking over a bridge. The implication is painfully obvious.
  • Fun Size: Is very short and absolutely precious.
  • Happily Adopted: Played With. While Moof has an entire cargo ship worth of emotional baggage, she's fairly comfortable under Marvin's care.
  • Knight of Cerebus: While not a villain in any sense of the word, her presence results in a significantly darker tone going forward.
  • Missing Mom: No info on her father is given while mother went missing when she was twelve. It only goes downhill from there.
  • No Social Skills: After stealing Marvin's car to get dinner and arriving at the drive through, she repeatedly honks the horn to get the attention of the cashier, then continues because she likes the sound.
  • Odd Name Out: Her name is revealed to come from "'Moof out of the way."
  • Parental Abandonment: While Catherine's fate is still a mystery, her vanishing is shown to have deeply affected Moof.
  • Redheads Are Uncool: Has dark red hair and suffers a mental breakdown upon seeing a handful of strangers.
  • Shrinking Violet: Used to be terrified of any human interaction.
  • Trauma Conga Line: Hers is probably as long as the width of the USA.
  • Walking Spoiler: For a background mystery up until chapter 9.
    Haley Russell 

Arcana: Fool

Haley Russell, Max's little sister.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Usually has a very short attention span, that is unless...
  • Berserk Button: Threaten to hurt her family and you will taste her fury.
  • Blue Is Heroic: Wears an indigo bandana and shirt.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Her immature demeanor and interests combined with her surprising willingness to stand up for her family.
  • The Cutie: Is short, childish, and deeply cares for her family.
  • Foil: While both are short, awkward younger siblings, her relation to her older sibling is the polar opposite of Moof's. Haley is an upbeat yet immature girl who returns from traveling from far away. Moof is a timid, contemplative recluse who finally leaves her basement after a very long time. Moof and Morgan immediately form a strong relationship while Max and Haley are more strained from their contrasting viewpoints.
  • The Fool: As shown by her Arcana, she's not a very shrewd, mature, or mild-mannered person. However, she's very friendly to those around her and has good luck as shown by her encounter with Dr. Cho and repeatedly surviving The Phoenix Mage's attacks unscathed.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The (very) foolish sibling to Max's man around the house.
  • Friend to All Children: Helped out at a daycare and clearly gets along the best with her two younger brothers.
  • Human Mail: Was literally mailed in a box to Max's house.
  • Kiddie Kid: Max's younger sister who still enjoys kids cartoons and movies.
  • Mama Bear: Despite her ditzy nature, cares deeply for her brothers in the place of their parents.
  • The Pollyanna: Is easily the most optimistic member of the team, as she keeps her idealism in spite of everything (yes, everything) around her.
    Luther 

Arcana: Wheel of Fortune

Luther Sullivan, an upstanding college student.
  • The Ace: A high-scoring student with respect from everyone around him.

    Nevermore 
Another superhero from one town over. Raven-themed.
  • The Ace: Far more experienced than Morgan in the field of superheroics, as the latter learns the hard way how outclassed she is.
  • Batman Parody: Is clearly modeled after the caped crusader given his basis on a dark, winged creature, his status as a veteran hero, and his stoic nature.
  • The Cape: In contrast to his dark attire, acts like a classical superhero.
  • Clever Crows: A raven-themed hero who is very good at his job.
  • Foil: Whereas Morgan/White Shadow is a light-clad hero on the outside with a deeply cynical, reluctant and grim demeanor, Nevermore is a black clad hero who still acts like a classical do-gooder.
  • Movie Superheroes Wear Black: Is a black-clad hero.
  • MacGuffin Guardian: of the Miraculous.
  • Mentor Occupational Hazard: More or less serves as the tutor, handler, and advisor to Team Arctic in the early chapters. then The Nightmare King shows up and fucks him up, leaving Morgan and co. on their own.
  • Put on a Bus to Hell: Hospitalized after his duel with the Nightmare King.
  • Sacrificial Lion: Even if he's not killed off, his gruesome defeat at the hands of the Nightmare King shows that these villains aren't fucking around.
  • Secret Identity: Luther.
  • Super-Empowering: As the one giving Morgan the Miraculouses for Max, Leon, and Kiku.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Gives his own spin on this in chapter 7.

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