YMMV / Cut My Life Into Pieces, This Is My Last Resort

• Catharsis Factor: Adrien's scathing exposure of Lila's true nature to the class and later Chat Noir's vicious Curb-Stomp Battle to Volpina.
• Magnificent Bastard: Hawk Moth, civilian identity Gabriel Agreste, is the Arch-Enemy of Ladybug and Chat Noir, the latter secretly being his own son Adrien, who seeks to use their Miraculous to resurrect his comatose wife Emilie. After one of his Akumas seemingly kills Marinette, Hawk Moth chooses to use less destructive Akumas to prevent it from ever happening again. And the event also causes him to reflect on how bad of a father he's been, striving to treat Adrien better. Eventually, he learns that Lila Rossi has been sexually harassing Adrien. After angrily firing her, he takes the opportunity to Akumatize her. Using his Scarlet Moth mode, he creates other Akumas to distract the heroes from her while using her ability to create illusions to weaken Chat Noir using his grief over Marinette's death. If she or the other Akumas actually get the Miraculous from the weakened heroes, he wins, if not, they've angered Chat Noir enough to become Akumatized, giving Scarlet Moth his Miraculous anyway. This only fails due to Marinette actually having only faked her death, therefore being able to calm Chat down as Multimouse. Afterwards, he approaches Adrien with the Peacock Miraculous. Sincerely apologizing to Adrien for Marinette's death, and offering to resurrect her as well. After Adrien refuses, he proves to be very understanding. And even in defeat, Gabriel manages to negotiate with the heroes as the Guardians heal his wife to turn himself in in exchange for a reduced sentence, eventually reconciling with Adrien and Emilie, ending the story on a mostly high note. Intelligent, adaptable, and ruthless but not without a conscience, Gabriel proves to be a genuinely compelling antagonist.
• The Woobie: Several examples:
  • Adrien becomes consumed with guilt over what happens to Marinette, and nearly drives himself insane to get justice for her. To say nothing of the absolute wringer Hawk Moth, Catalyst, and Volpina put him through for his trouble.
  • Marinette qualifies as an Iron Woobie. In just the first chapter, it's shown that she's been all but phased out by her classmates save Adrien, Alya, and Nino. And she's under constant pressure from Hawk Moth's Akumas. And later after faking her death, she's forced to watch the people she loves suffer because of her lies. And yet she soldiers on anyway to carry out her mission.
  • Gabriel himself qualifies as a Jerkass Woobie. He's devastated by the thought that his Akuma has killed someone. And even considers retiring and giving up entirely, but decides he's come too far to give up now. This causes him no shortage of grief.