Ladybug and Cat Noir are now outlaws. They must be hunted down and taken into custody immediately.
"Rogercop, I am Hawk Moth. This city needs a true ruthless righter of wrongs, and that is where you come in... Ladybug and Cat Noir must be destroyed if you want to attain ultimate retribution! You will seize Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses for me!"
—Hawk Moth
Parent's Career Day at Marinette's school gets interrupted after Plagg accidentally steals Chloé's new bracelet, and everyone is a suspect. After Officer Roger refuses to arrest Marinette without proof, Chloé's father fires him. Roger soon seeks revenge as akumatized Rogercop.
Tropes:
- Artistic License – Law Enforcement: Mayor Bourgeois fires Officer Raincomprix for refusing to break the law at Chloé and the mayor's demands, only to hire Roger back at the end of the episode and promote him to Brigadier. When the episode was released, Brigadier was the second-lowest French Municipal Police rank, given after four years of service as a Gardien-brigadier
. Moreover, at the time, Brigadiers with two years of service in their rank are eligible for promotion to Brigadier-chef principal. Roger Raincomprix has been a police officer for fifteen years already, so he should've long already attained the rank of Brigadier and had likely already been promoted above it, meaning Brigadier would more likely be a demotion. Additionally, while the Municipal Police is under the direct authority of the mayor, it's extremely unlikely that the mayor would have the power to unilaterally give promotions (which normally involves a lengthy process of registering on an annual promotion table that will be reviewed by a committee) or dismiss an officer from the force without just cause. Lastly, at the time the episode came out, Paris didn't even have a Municipal Police, with the Paris Police Prefecture instead being a detachment of National Police that reports directly to the Ministry of the Interior and which the Mayor of Paris has no power over. - Banana in the Tailpipe: While caught in Rogercop's grip, Cat Noir swings his staff into the tailpipe of Rogercop's car. In a more realistic application than usual, this only causes the car to backfire, but it's enough to make Rogercop stumble and give Cat an opportunity to slip free.
- By-the-Book Cop: Roger refuses to break the law even when the mayor orders him to.
- Continuity Nod: Marinette's dad mentions that he could receive a request to bake a cake in the shape of the Eiffel Tower.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Once again, the local police are no match for Cat Noir.
- Dramatic Irony: Neither Adrien nor Marinette knows how right Cat Noir is when he's teasing Ladybug:Cat Noir: I'd stick around, but then you'd see me without my mask, and you wouldn't be able to resist me.
- Double Standard:
- Marinette points out that Chloé immediately accused her of stealing the bracelet and demanded her bag be searched simply because Marinette had tripped near Chloé's desk but isn't doing the same to Sabrina when the latter had been filmed holding the bracelet earlier.
- On the flipside, after repeatedly stating that the thief must be someone in the room and that she and her classmates are all equally guilty, Marinette tries to insist Adrien couldn't be the thief simply because of her crush on him.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: When Plagg gets stuck in the bracelet, it takes a considerable amount of effort for Adrien to be able to free him. Later episodes would establish that kwamis have intangibility powers that work on everything except for magical objects, meaning he could have just phased through the bracelet instead of needing Adrien's help.
- Everyone Is a Suspect: Invoked by Marinette, who points out that the "evidence" she stole the bracelet isn't much stronger than the evidence against anyone else. Unfortunately, everyone else sees it as her making baseless accusations just like Chloé did.
- Flying Car: Roger's police car is affected by the akuma too, becoming a futuristic flying car and taking to the air to try and lose Cat Noir and Ladybug.
- Gullible Lemmings: The police go right along with Rogercop's obviously illegal takeover, and then follow his orders without question.
- Hypocrite:
- When Marinette invokes Everyone Is a Suspect, Tom Dupain tells her to stop and leave everything to the adults... none of whom did anything earlier when the mayor fired Officer Raincomprix for refusing to conduct an illegal search on Marinette (not to mention how the adults have failed to do anything about Chloé for years).
- Despite insisting that Everyone Is a Suspect due to the absence of evidence, Marinette tries to arbitrarily dismiss the possibility of Adrien being the thief because of her crush on him.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Labybug appeals to Rogercop with this, trying to convince Sabrina's father that he's a fundamentally good person who shouldn't be following the commands of a sinister overseer. He is shaken by her words, but he can't fight what's become of him.
- Incredibly Obvious Bug: The tracking device that Rogercop attaches to the mayor's car is fairly small but has a blinking light on it.
- Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Downplayed. Rogercop uses his laser cuffs to arrest people, then compel them to carry out whatever "sentence" he passes with a blow of his whistle.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The whole Rogercop mess is started when Plagg mistakes Chloé's bracelet for a box of Camembert and sneaks into her bag to get it. He then ends with the bracelet stuck on his head when Marinette trips on Chloé's bag which leads to: a.) Chloé accusing Marinette of theft, and b.) Cat Noir temporarily unable to deal with the akumatized Officer Roger until Adrien finds a way to remove the bracelet from Plagg's head.
- No Badge? No Problem!: Rogercop enforces the law despite being fired. Of course, it's his own brand of justice.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Marinette's father claims this is the case, stating that she accused all her friends of being thieves, just as Chloé did to her.
- "Oh, Crap!" Smile: Cat Noir briefly sports one when Rogercop declares him and Ladybug outlaws and sics the cops on them.
- Papa Wolf: Mayor Bourgeois is having none of Rogercop's nonsense... until the akumatized cop uses Chloé against him, anyway.
- Police Are Useless:
- Roger's attempts to calm Chloé down and refusal to illegally search Marinette for the missing bracelet just gets him fired by the mayor.
- The police just go along with a robot cop taking over the city, fighting Ladybug and Cat Noir on his orders.
- Rage Against the Legal System: Rogercop aims to arrest the mayor for abuse of power and then usurp his position to claim total control of the city of Paris to ensure justice prevails. Admittedly, Roger was only fired rather than wrongly imprisoned, but the general idea of the trope still applies.
- Rank Up: Officer Roger earns the rank of Lieutenant at the end of the episode.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons:
- Marinette suggests that Chloé's bracelet might've simply rolled out of her purse, which is more or less what happened: it was stuck on Plagg's head when he rolled out of the bag.
- Max and Kim posit the idea that Adrien might've stolen the bracelet; he was also in Nino's video and has vanished since then. They were right in that Adrien had something to do with the disappearance of the bracelet, even if he didn't steal it and only left the room to try and get the bracelet off of Plagg's head.
- Robo Cam: Seen in shots from Rogercop's POV, homing in on targets.
- The Scapegoat: When Plagg accidentally steals Chloé's bracelet, she is quick to accuse Marinette of stealing it with no evidence to her claim, her father firing Roger when he refuses to unlawfully search Marinette's belongings for it.
- Shaped Like Itself: Roger gripes that the mayor expecting him to break the law is "just criminal." Well, yes.
- Ship Tease: While filming the class presentation, Nino briefly focuses on Marinette and winks at her.
- Shout-Out:
- The villain resembles RoboCop with a hint of Judge Dredd. He even declares that he is the law, a nod to Dredd's catchphrase.
- Cat Noir attempts to give Ladybug an upside-down kiss before she lets go of the rope holding him.
- Skewed Priorities: Chloé doesn't even seem to realize she's been kidnapped due to being more focused on getting Marinette arrested for the alleged theft of her bracelet.
- Super Cop: Rogercop is a villainous and Knight Templar example. He possesses the ability to fire hand cuffs that hijack the bodies of those they get placed on and a flying car that can drive itself.
- Villain Has a Point: While he goes way too far in his methods, Rogercop is right that Mayor Bourgeois is guilty of abusing his position.
