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  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • Nick Fury's fear of the potential consequences of a SHIELD agent with vital top secret intel getting akumatized ended up bearing fruit in canon with "Backwarder", where Hawk Moth akumatized Master Fu's old lover by complete chance and she promptly volunteered extremely damaging information to him, and "Migration", where merely attempting to akumatize Luka gave away that he knows Ladybug and Cat Noir's secret identities and completing the akumatization would likely have resulted in Hawk Moth actually learning their identities.
    • This fic analyzes how Ladybug and Chat Noir's Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World routine would absolutely wreck their personal lives, unnerving everyone discussing it (especially Tony). The duo would eventually suffer the effects of this in canon; in particular, their inability to tell anyone they're heroes ended up costing them their romances with Luka and Kagami, respectively.
    • Tony's analysis on Hawk Moth's theoretical Motive Decay proved to be chillingly accurate in light of the season 5 premiere, which saw the villain squander a golden opportunity to achieve his stated objective in order to pursue revenge against Ladybug.
    • One of the discussed reasons as to why Nick Fury refuses to allow the Avengers to help with the Hawk Moth problem is that the mere thought of any of them (especially the Hulk) being controlled by Hawk Moth is the stuff of nightmares. Not only does Tony's akumatization prove him right, but one of Miraculous' specials saw Hawk Moth manage to take control of a New York-based superhero team partly based on the Avengers and cause apocalyptic mayhem as a result.
    • At one point, Tony jokes about Hawk Moth targeting toddlers. The fic was initially written and published before the introduction of August, a toddler who ended up akumatized by Hawk Moth at least five times.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • While talking about how Alix was akumatized into Timebreaker, Marinette theorizes that Hawk Moth might have been interested in the fancy pocketwatch Alix had gotten for her birthday. The fic was written a few years before season 3, which would reveal that the watch is actually a disguised Miraculous.
    • Towards the end of the story, Tony tells Adrien that it's only a matter of time before someone makes a "Ladybug and Chat Noir"-themed fashion line, and asks if he thinks he can pull off a leather catsuit. Adrien responds confidently and with a cat pun. In season 2 of the show, Adrien had to dress as Chat Nor for a music video, and was terrified that the costume would expose his secret identity (Marinette was in the same boat with the Ladybug costume), and in season 3 we learn that Adrien did voice work as Chat Noir for the animated movie about them.

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