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The story of the current Cat Miraculous holder, Adrien Agreste (aka Cat Noir) from Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
Background[]
Adrien is the first-born son to Gabriel and Emilie Agreste. However, Emilie, along with her sister Amelie, were infertile, and despite the best medical efforts money could buy from their parents, they could not be helped to undo this and allow them to have children. That all changed when Emilie suggested to use the Peacock Miraculous, despite its damaged condition, to create a sentimonster that would also be part human by being born naturally in her womb. Despite his concerns of doing this after reading about the consequences of using a damaged Miraculous, Gabriel agreed, and the Graham de Vanily twin rings that served as Gabriel and Emilie's wedding rings became the object infused with the Amok created from the Peacock Miraculous to give creation to Adrien. Once placed in Emilie's womb, he developed like a normal human baby, and was born nine months later. Though Emilie and Gabriel were happy to have a child now, a jealous Colt Fathom, Amelie's husband, wanted one as well, and despite the risks, Gabriel agreed to loan him the Peacock Miraculous in return for hiring Placide I.T., also known as "Gorilla", as Gabriel's bodyguard to watch over Adrien. Thus, Amelie was able to give birth to Adrien's cousin, Felix.
However, the consequences for using the Peacock Miraculous while it was damaged began to take their toll on Emilie and Colt, and their health began to deteriorate, leading to Colt's death, while Emilie fell into a permanent coma, leaving Adrien and Gabriel devastated. Before she slipped into her coma, Emilie had recorded several video messages to encourage Gabriel and Adrien to let her go and move on with their lives, wanting them to be happy and not live with the grief of not having her in their lives anymore. While Adrien was able to overcome his grief and move on from his mother's passing, Gabriel couldn't, becoming obsessed with acquiring the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous to summon Gimmi and wish to bring Emilie back to life so the family could be whole again, using the Butterfly Miraculous for evil instead of good, like all the Miraculous were designed for, becoming the supervillain Hawk Moth to terrorize Paris as he sought out the Miraculous needed to use the Ultimate Miraculous Absolute Power to bring Emilie back. This also caused Gabriel to become overly protective and keep Adrien inside the family mansion, rather than let him be able to go out and make friends, even go steady with Marinette Dupain-Cheng as boyfriend and girlfriend, as all Gabriel wanted was to have Emilie back in his and Adrien's lives before he would truly allow Adrien to be happy, even if it meant ruining Adrien's life to do it.
Season 1[]
Season 2[]
In the season finale, Cat Noir and Ladybug face their toughest battle yet when Hawk Moth Akumatizes everyone that had been an Akumatized supervillain in the past to attack them together. Not even their allies in Rena Rouge, Carapace, and Queen Bee are immune as they too are Akumatized into Rena Rage, Shell-shock, and Queen Wasp. Despite the odds being against them, Ladybug and Cat Noir are able to work out a plan that allows them to destroy Hawk Moth's cane, undoing the Akumatizations all in one single blow, restoring everyone to normal, including Rena Rouge, Carapace, and Queen Bee. However, before they can take Hawk Moth into custody and unmask him, and Ladybug takes back the Butterfly Miraculous, they are stopped by a new Peacock Miraculous user, Mayura, who allows Hawk Moth to escape, and when he transforms back into his civilian identity, Ladybug and Cat Noir lose the trail as a result. Now with Hawk Moth still on the loose, and aided by another Miraculous user in Mayura, things have gotten a lot harder for Ladybug, Cat Noir, and the rest of their French Miraculous Superhero Team.
Miraculous Shanghai[]
Adrien travels to Shanghai with his father as Gabriel intends to open a new store there. However, he allows Adrien to go out and explore, but assigns Placide I.T. to keep an eye on him. Adrien later discovers that Marinette is in town as well, to celebrate her great-uncle Wang Cheng's 60th birthday.
When Marinette goes missing later while trying to recover her stolen items, Adrien becomes Cat Noir to search for her, and even leaves a voicemail for Ladybug in case she's in town as well. When Ladybug gets the voicemail, she meets up with her partner, and they head after Hawk Moth and King Cash, an Akumatized villain made from a crooked antique store owner named Cash.
Joined by Fei, they manage to prevent Hawk Moth from gaining possession of the Prodigious, which ends up in Fei's hands, allowing her to become Ladydragon. After King Cash is de-Akumatized, Hawk Moth furiously Akumatizes the guardian spirit of the Prodigious, Mei Shi, into Yan Luo Shi, but realizes too late his error as Yan Luo Shi escapes to cause chaos in Shanghai. When Hawk Moth tries to order him to stand down or have his power revoked, Yan Luo Shi attacks and makes him vanish in anger for trying to order him around. When Ladydragon later flees in shame upon realizing what Yan Luo Shi said about her and the Prodigious was right, Cat Noir tries to use Cataclysm on Yan Luo Shi, but meets the same fate as Hawk Moth.
Luckily, teamwork by Ladybug and Ladydragon sees Yan Luo Shi de-Akumatized, and Ladybug uses her Miraculous Ladybug to reverse the damage and revive Hawk Moth and Cat Noir. Afterwards, as Mei Shi entrusts the Prodigious to Fei and she becomes Ladydragon full-time, Cat Noir and Ladybug depart separately to meet back up at Wang Cheng's Thousand Delights to celebrate Wang's 60th. While there, Marinette botches an attempt to speak Mandarin Chinese, and Adrien offers to give her some lessons when they get back to Paris. When Marinette also fumbles her English out of attraction to Adrien, but panicking over not wanting to go steady with him just yet until she is prepared, she turns away from Adrien while blushing in panic.
Season 3[]
In the episode "Cat Blanc", when Marinette attempts to leave a gift from herself to Adrien, but tries to do it quickly by becoming Ladybug so she can be in and out as fast as possible, she's too late and is seen by Adrien, who puts two and two together upon seeing the gift and figuring out Marinette is Ladybug. After Gabriel forces Marinette to break up with Adrien under threat of removing him from school, he attempts to Akumaztize her, but Adrien, transforming into Cat Noir in full view of Marinette and Nathalie, destroys the Akuma with Cataclysm, thus revealing his secret identity to Marinette and Nathalie, who notifies Gabriel, who decides to use this to his advantage. Unfortunately, when Gabriel lures Marinette and Adrien to his mansion, he reveals to Ladybug and Cat Noir the comatose body of Emilie, and himself as Hawk Moth, putting Adrien in an extreme state of emotional distress. Seizing the chance, Gabriel Akumatizes Cat Noir into Cat Blanc, hoping to maximize his use of the Cat Miraculous' use of destruction and Plagg's power to get the Ladybug Miraculous from Marinette if Adrien wants his mom back. However, Hawk Moth underestimates Adrien's emotional stress, and unable to use Cataclysm against his girlfriend or his father due to the sadistic choice presented to him, Cat Blanc turns it on himself, resulting in an apocalyptic explosion of the Cataclysm's energy, killing not just Marinette/Ladybug, Gabriel/Hawk Moth, and Emilie, but all of Paris and possibly the entire Earth as well, as the recoil also splits the Moon in half. Traumatized by what happened, and unaware of Ladybug's fate, Cat Blanc struggles to come to terms with what he did, soon losing his sanity due to the isolation he was now suffering because of his powers.
Having sensed this and how she will cease to exist if this dark future is not prevented, along with everyone else, the older Bunnyx summons Ladybug from the past to try and undo what happened. As the past Ladybug is sent to the apocalyptic future and meets Cat Blanc, when she is knocked into the flood waters engulfing Paris, she soon finds the petrified, if not incinerated, remains of her future self and Hawk Moth, with herself looking like she tried to reach out to Cat Blanc before meeting her untimely end. Upon trying to touch her own future self's remains, they crumble to ash almost instantly. Horrified by this revelation, and hearing Bunnyx pleading for her to hurry before the future is irreversible, Ladybug attempts to fight Cat Blanc, but is overpowered due to him having full use of Plagg's powers without any restraints. When he requests she hand over the Ladybug Miraculous so he can undo his mistakes, the moment Ladybug refuses, Cat Blanc prepares a Mega Cataclysm so huge and powerful, it could wipe out not just the Milky Way, but the whole universe as well, to the horror of Bunnyx. Seeing no other alternative, Ladybug surrenders, and Cat Blanc powers down his attack once he sees her throw up the white flag. However, as Ladybug approaches him, she attempts to kiss him and calls him "Cat Noir", but in a moment of clarity, as he tells her he is not Cat Noir anymore, he points to his bell, hinting that is where the Akuma that transformed him has been hiding all along. Seizing the moment, Ladybug grabs it, destroys it, and purifies the Akuma, restoring Cat Blanc back to Cat Noir. After the two talk for a bit, Ladybug is summoned by Bunnyx back to the Burrow, where she still needs to undo the event that would cause the bad future in the first place.
Figuring out it was her gift to Adrien that caused it, Ladybug travels back to just after her past self dropped the gift off, and quickly uses her Lucky Charm to erase Marinette's name on the card before using Miraculous Ladybug to repair the damage, thus saving older Bunnyx and everyone else from the grim fate that would've befell them. When Adrien comes in and finds her, Ladybug says the gift is from some fans of Adrien's from Brazil, thus ensuring the bad future of Cat Blanc is avoided.
In "Ladybug", Gabriel and Nathalie attempt to use their Catalyst/Scarlet Moth strategy again against Marinette, her classmates, parents, and the school faculty after Marinette is wrongfully expelled by Lila, but Nathalie's declining health from using the damaged Peacock Miraculous forces Gabriel to abandon the plan. Behind his back, she becomes Mayura and created a Sentimonster clone of Ladybug to terrorize Paris, forcing Cat Noir and the real Ladybug to confront her. When they manage to free the Sentimonster Ladybug by giving her the object with her Amok in it, Cat Noir is happy to have two Ladybugs helping him, but Mayura releases the Amok, destroying the Sentimonster Ladybug, to Cat Noir and the real Ladybug's horror. Infuriated, he charges Mayura, but Hawk Moth arrives to protect her, and rubs salt in the wound by taunting Cat Noir and Ladybug over getting "sentimental over a sentimonster". Cat Noir is soon taken hostage by Hawk Moth, but Ladybug captures Mayura, forcing both to release their hostages to fall to their deaths, and thus allow Hawk Moth and Ladybug to rescue their respective partners, allowing the villains to escape. Cat Noir calls Ladybug out on her choice, but both then think about the Sentimonster Ladybug, and realize that the Peacock Miraculous being used for evil is even worse than using the Butterfly Miraculous for evil.
Miraculous New York[]
Adrien heads to NYC with his father and bodyguard for an impending Franco-American Friendship Festival that is also being attended by Marinette and her class with Caline Bustier unable to join them as she just learned she was pregnant, so Olga Mendeleiev takes over chaperoning them. During the flight, they are introduced to the United Heroez, including their younger members Uncanny Valley and Sparrow, when they arrive to save the aircraft from being attacked by wanted American supervillain Techno-Pirate. Later, when Techno-Pirate appears to cause trouble again, Marinette and Adrien become Ladybug and Cat Noir to help when they realize Techno-Pirate has been Akumatized into Techlonizer, but during their fight, joined by Uncanny and Sparrow, Cat Noir accidentally hits Uncanny with an errant Cataclysm when she took the hit meant for Ladybug after Cat Noir was flung at her by Techlonizer with his Cataclysm still active, critically wounding the cyborg daughter of Majestia, but alerting her and Knightowl to the situation. Though Ladybug saves Uncanny with her Miraculous Ladybug, which Majestia is grateful for, Knightowl is furious with Ladybug and Cat Noir for their interference in United Heroez matters, and Sparrow for disobeying her orders. When Knightowl demands that Ladybug and Cat Noir hand over their Miraculous, the French Miraculous Duo flee for the sewers instead, even as Knightowl furiously orders them to come back. They soon learn that, with them not in Paris to protect it, Mayura had unleashed a sentimonster on the city, causing widespread damage, before dispersing it, rendering any chance to reverse the damage with Miraculous Ladybug useless. Horrified by what he did to Uncanny, and leaving Paris unprotected, Adrien renounces Plagg and the Black Cat Miraculous and decides to return home to Paris under his father's orders in shame and disgrace, despite Marinette's pleas to come back as she loves him.
During the flight home, Adrien is suddenly surprised by the arrival of Uncanny, who explains that they need Cat Noir's help back in New York to stop Techno-Pirate, having once more become Techlonizer and now packing the Eagle Miraculous to become Miraclonizer, incapacitating the adult United Heroez by using the Eagle Miraculous' power of Liberation to remove their ethnical restraints, causing them to go berserk with their powers now that they were no longer restrained by their ethnical beliefs. Adrien is hesitant, but when Uncanny plays back Marinette's confession to her that she can't be Ladybug without her partner in Cat Noir, Adrien is motivated again to head back to NYC to help her and having brought Plagg and the Black Cat Miraculous with her, Uncanny gives them to Adrien, and they head back to NYC, with Cat Noir warning Uncanny that he has to be back on the plane before it lands, or his father is going to be suspicious of his whereabouts.
Reuniting with Ladybug and Sparrow, and learning that Miraclonizer is in the Statue of Liberty, having turned it into a missile silo to launch one of the U.S. nuclear missiles he acquired with Victory's nuclear football as POTUS, they duped Doorman to provide them a way in, and after a difficult fight, Sparrow gets the Eagle Miraculous away from Miraclonizer, turning him back into Techlonizer, and using it herself, Sparrow becomes Eagle and undoes the effects of Liberation on the adult United Heroez, and just in time. The nuke is launched, but Majestia manages to intercept it and hurl it into the Sun, preventing a potential World War III, while Knightowl, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Uncanny, and Eagle de-Akumatize Techno-Pirate, and he is handed over to the authorities to be taken to prison. Deeply grateful to the French Miraculous Duo, Uncanny, and Eagle for their efforts, Knightowl apologizes for her earlier anger, praises their younger members for their heroics, and Ladybug entrusts the Eagle Miraculous to Sparrow, knowing it is in safe hands with her. Majestia also thanks Ladybug and Cat Noir for inspiring Uncanny and Eagle, and the French Miraculous Duo share their trademark "Pound it!" fist-bump with Uncanny and Eagle. The Friendship Festival goes on after that, and an ice sculpture is made to honor Ladybug, Cat Noir, Uncanny, and Eagle for their heroics. Also, even though she knew Ladybug and Cat Noir's civilian identities as Marinette and Adrien, Uncanny erases the knowledge from her databanks to keep their secrets safe.
Season 4[]
In "Mr. Pigeon 72", Adrien is at the pool to film an ad for his father with Mr. Ramier's pigeons, but his allergies are messing up the take. After Marinette and Kagami surprise him with having somehow gotten inside the pool despite Placide I.T. guarding the door, they quickly take their leave since it was clear Marinette was there to try and hook Kagami and Adrien back up, if not try to profess her own affection for Adrien herself. Unfortunately, Adrien falls victim to being affected by once more Akumatized Mr. Pigeon, leaving Plagg to help Ladybug defeat him without Cat Noir's aid. After Adrien is restored to normal, he finds Marinette later using the umbrella he left with her at the start of the school year. She tries to return it, but he tells her to keep it while he leaves with Placide to see Marinette at school tomorrow.
In "Wishmaker", Adrien is at the Paris Career Expo and meets up with Marinette and Luka. Luka tries to offer some words of wisdom to Marinette and Adrien to help them out of their funk about what to do with their future careers, and even plays his violin for them. However, Alec Cataldi, who is there collecting interviews for his new show, soon enters a state of deep sadness from remembering a childhood trauma. Sensing his vulnerability, Shadow Moth Akumatizes him into Wishmaker, giving him the power to make anyone's childhood dream come true. As Marinette and Adrien turn into Ladybug and Cat Noir to face him, realizing the threat he poses to exposing their secret identities, Ladybug recruits Luka and allows him to become Viperion again to use his Second Chance in the event Ladybug or Cat Noir are exposed. Unfortunately, that ends up being the case when Ladybug is the first to be affected and turns back into Marinette to live out her childhood dream, exposing her as Ladybug to Shadow Moth. Viperion quickly resets with Second Chance, but Cat Noir, talked into being struck himself by Wishmaker, is then affected, reverting back into Adrien, forcing Viperion to use Second Chance again. On the third go-around, Viperion's warnings allow Ladybug to have someone else take the hit meant for her, allowing that person to subdue Wishmaker, allowing her and Cat Noir to acquire his Akumatized object, destroy it with Cataclysm, purify the Akuma, and undo the damage with Miraculous Ladybug. After then giving Alec a Magical Charm to protect him from being Akumatized again, Cat Noir and Ladybug retreat before their Miraculous time out and they revert back. Ladybug later is returned Sass and the Snake Miraculous by Luka, but when she asks him about what happened during the fight with Wishmaker, he assures her their identities are safe, lying to her as, due to Second Chance, he still knew Ladybug was Marinette and Cat Noir was Adrien. Back home, after looking at a photo of his mother Emilie, Adrien decides to take Luka's advice to heart and look towards the future, but not without laughing as Plagg tries to see how a camembert concert sounds to him with a stethoscope.
After Ladybug is forced to protect all of the other Miraculous from Shadow Moth now that their bearers' public identities were known to him, when she and Cat Noir are facing off with Strikeback, a much more powerful and dangerous Sentimonster, along with the Akumatized villain Risk, unknown to either Adrien or Marinette, Adrien's cousin, Felix, uses the Dog Miraculous he was given by Ladybug to secretly make a deal with Shadow Moth: The securing of the Miraculous inside the Miracle Box for the repaired Peacock Miraculous. Despite suspecting a catch, Shadow Moth makes the deal, and Felix makes good on his end of the bargain, using the Dog Miraculous' Fetch ability to steal Ladybug's yo-yo that was connected to the Miracle Box right out from under Ladybug's nose after tagging the yo-yo with the ball provided by the Dog Miraculous. By the time Ladybug realizes she took a huge risk and it backfired, it is too late to intervene. Shadow Moth gets the Miraculous, surrenders the Peacock Miraculous to Felix in return for the Dog Miraculous, and redubs himself "Monarch" as he delivers an ultimatum to all of Paris that he will continue threatening the city until Ladybug and Cat Noir surrender their Miraculous to him. Ladybug collapses in devastation and begins crying over her failure, as this means now she and Cat Noir are back to where they originally started: Just the two of them against Hawk Moth, with no additional members of the French Miraculous Superhero Team to back them up anymore.
Season 5[]
Seeing Ladybug demoralized at losing the Miraculous to Monarch, Cat Noir assures her that he and all of Paris still support her and will help continue the fight to get the Miraculous back. Once they get back the Rabbit Miraculous, with a little help from Bunnyx to prevent Monarch from tampering with the space-time continuum, Cat Noir and Ladybug continue to thwart Monarch's plans, but during one fight, when captured by Cat Noir and Ladybug and about to be exposed as Adrien's father Gabriel while losing the Miraculous and Kwamis back to Ladybug, Monarch forces Cat Noir to do the unthinkable, and use his Cataclysm on Monarch, resulting in Gabriel being infected with a deadly necrosis that would slowly kill him as his body dissolved and disintegrated from the ability's effects, yet he does his best to avoid revealing this doomed fate of his to Adrien, while trying to use the borrowed time he now had to be a better father to him. Also, since he escaped with Ladybug's Lucky Charm still wrapped around him, she couldn't save him and undo the damage with Miraculous Ladybug, leaving Gabriel to suffer a slow, agonizing, painful death as a result.
However, since Gabriel had possession of the Graham de Vanily twin rings that contained Adrien's Amok due to his origins as a sentimonster through when Emilie used the Peacock Miraculous while it was damaged to create Adrien and then give birth to him naturally, Gabriel could force Adrien to do as he said if Adrien tried to refuse, especially when it came to his growing romance and relationship with Marinette Dupain-Cheng.
In "Jubilation", when Principal Damocles is Akumatized again into the stronger Darker Owl with the Pig Miraculous' power of Gift/Jubilation, he manages to affect both Ladybug and Cat Noir with it, causing them to be trapped in a dream where they beat him, defeat Monarch, Ladybug recovers the Miraculous, and then she and Cat Noir decide to get married, with the rest of the restored French Miraculous Superhero Team, the United Heroez, and Ladydragon attending their wedding. They then continue to defend Paris, even after having children, but all the while, Ladybug is constantly plagued by her Lucky Charm, an alarm clock, disrupting the dream, before she finally realizes the truth, and manages to snap herself and Cat Noir out of Jubilation's effects. Furious at the deception, Cat Noir attacks Darker Owl in a blind fury, and nearly takes Damocles' life with Cataclysm before Ladybug intervenes, calming him down to destroy the Akumatized object, freeing the Megakuma for Ladybug to purify, and then undo the damage with Miraculous Ladybug. When Ladybug meets up with him later, they wonder if the dream that they were afflicted with by the Pig Miraculous' power was legit, or Monarch twisted the power in some way to benefit him in getting his hands on the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous, since getting married and having kids sounded pretty weird. They're left to ponder it over for some time while a frustrated and angry Monarch plans his next move to ensure he gets the Miraculous to complete his deepest desire.
In "Determination", to try and help restore hope to the people of Paris, Grevin Museum curator Veronique prepares to open a new exhibit with wax figurines of the French Miraculous Superhero Team joining those of Ladybug and Cat Noir already on display, replacing those of the Akumatized supervillains that were there previously, such as Lady Wi-Fi, Princess Fragrance, and Reflekta. However, Chloe, angered at Queen Bee not being there and Vesperia was, again uses her father Andre's power as Mayor to force Veronique to keep the exhibit closed under threat of shutting down the wax museum due to a phony hygiene violation if she goes ahead with opening the exhibit anyway. Monarch takes advantage of Veronique's heartbreak and despair and Akumatizes her into Manipula, using her brochures to bring the wax figurines of Team Miraculous to life to fulfill her wish of restoring hope to Paris. Ladybug and Cat Noir are forced to fight the wax figures of their allies to recover pieces of the Megakuma in the brochures before confronting Manipula at City Hall, where she had taken Andre and Chloe hostage with the wax figures of Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Minotaurox. After beating their own wax figures, Ladybug and Cat Noir are overpowered, but thanks to Cat Noir's encouragement, Ladybug finds a way to incapacitate Manipula, allowing her to collect the rest of the Megakuma, purify it, use Miraculous Ladybug to repair all the damage, including restoring the wax figures to the museum unharmed and immobile again, and restore Veronique to normal, before convincing Andre to permit the exhibit's opening after all, much to Chloe's silent fury at not getting her way once more.
At one point, Gabriel/Monarch tries to take control of Tomoe's new spaceship and its A.I., A.D.A., while also creating the illusion of a giant asteroid heading for Paris. Marinette and Adrien are forced to become Cosmobug and Astrocat to split up and stop both plans, but thanks to using Second Chance through the Snake Miraculous, Monarch could keep resetting things until it worked in his favor. However, doing so accelerated his Cataclysm wound until he collapsed from nearly suffering a heart attack due to it spreading to his internal organs, stopping his plan from the very start before he could try again, rendering it a moot point, and leaving him with even less time left before his death.
Later, Adrien's cousin Felix, now going by the alias Argos after he acquired the Peacock Miraculous, attacks the Diamonds Dance where Gabriel was with Tomoe and Kagami, using his Sentimonster Red Moon to banish Tomoe and Gabriel to an unknown fate. After he does the same to everyone else in Paris, maybe the world, even snapping away Ladybug, he shows his efforts to Kagami and Adrien, but they are furious with him, demanding to know where Marinette is. Showing where he left her for her own safety, Argos is horrified when he finds Marinette is not there, and he can't bring her back by using his powers. Enraged, Adrien orders his cousin to return everyone, including Gabriel, Tomoe, and Marinette, at once. Remorseful, Argos complies, and Marinette, after reverting back from Ladybug, reunites with a relieved Adrien and Kagami. Argos, guilt-ridden by his actions caused by his anger at his uncle, releases Red Moon before breaking down in tears. Unknown to Adrien, Argos/Felix would use this as a means to help Adrien and Marinette in the future to stop Monarch/Gabriel by revealing his real identity to Marinette/Ladybug.
As time when on, Chloe was then able to force her father into resigning as Mayor of Paris, regretting all the actions he had done against the people of Paris, especially at Marinette's school due to Chloe using him as leverage to keep all her classmates, and the faculty, under her thumb under threat of disproportionate retribution if they wronged her in the slightest, allowing her to take over, supported by Gabriel, Tomoe, and Lila/Cerise.
In "Revolution", When she secretly makes a deal with Monarch behind everyone's backs to be Akumatized as Queen Mayor, using Tomoe's police robots to enforce her corrupt control of Paris by having them imbued with the powers of the Ox, Rooster, Horse, Bee, and Turtle Miraculous, she makes the lives of everyone in Paris that ever wronged her in even the smallest way a living nightmare as she banished them to her special "detention" maze to be imprisoned forever. When Adrien refuses to become her Deputy Mayor under threat of blackmail with Chloe telling Marinette of Adrien's impending departure to London, secretly a plot by Gabriel and Tomoe to get Adrien and Kagami out of Paris for their endgame called Operation Perfect Alliance, Chloe sends him to the maze as well. However, Adrien and Marinette are able to conceal themselves to allow their transformations into Ladybug and Cat Noir to be hidden, before going after Chloe after freeing everyone else from the maze. However, she captures them and prepares to expose their true identities to all of Paris as their transformations were about to revert back due to using Lucky Charm and Cataclysm, triggering their delayed time-outs to change back. However, Alya and the other members of Team Miraculous rally the people of Paris to rise up in revolt against Chloe thanks to Ladybug's encouragement, and Ladybug and Cat Noir are able to override the time limits on their Miraculous transformations through sheer willpower, allowing them to stay in their superhero forms indefinitely and use Lucky Charm and Cataclysm without needing to revert back to recuperate, much to Gabriel/Monarch's fury when he sees it before retreating with Lila and Tomoe, leaving Chloe to fend for herself against the angry mob of Parisians coming for her head. Even Chloe's own mother Audrey flees upon seeing things go sour for her daughter. After Chloe is stripped of her mayoral sash, which contained the Megakuma that turned her into Queen Mayor, before Ladybug can give her a Magical Charm to render her immune to future Akumatizations, ex-Mayor Bourgeois steps in to see to punishing his daughter himself to atone for his past mistakes, including divorcing his wife Audrey and banishing both of them from Paris indefinitely, sending them back to New York in disgrace.
Despite this victory, Adrien returns home, only for Gabriel to order him to pack his things as he is leaving Paris for London that night. As Adrien calls Marinette and breaks the bad news to her, she surprises him when she speeds onto the airport tarmac to say goodbye to him in person, sharing a kiss that is only broken up by Placide I.T. and an airport technician ordered by Gabriel to separate them. Marinette watches heartbroken as Adrien leaves Paris forever. When Chloe then calls her later to break this secret to her as a final attempt to bully her, Marinette shuts her up, reveals she already knows about it, and shatters whatever pride and ego Chloe had left with telling her off and calling Chloe the "utterly ridiculous" one before hanging up, leaving Chloe to collapse in tears at having truly lost everything, including her favorite bully victim in Marinette when she stood up to her and told her off, turning her own catchphrase back on her.
Despite having to live in London now, Adrien still tries to help Marinette by sneaking back into Paris as Cat Noir to confront his father, until he decides he is in no state of mind to assume the mantle of Cat Noir anymore, especially after being affected by Gabriel's Akumatized self, Nightormentor, and his dust, causing Adrien to have a nightmare of the dark Cat Blanc future, cradling the petrified Ladybug in his arms before she crumbles to dust and ash, much to his devastation, and sends Plagg and the Cat Miraculous back to Marinette to protect her as Gabriel/Monarch launches his endgame with Operation Perfect Alliance, turning anyone wearing an Alliance Ring produced by Tomoe into Miraculized to hunt down Ladybug and Cat Noir under the surmise of rescuing the kidnapped Adrien and Kagami.
After Marinette defeats Gabriel as Bug Noire and disarms him of the Butterfly Miraculous, she attempts to reason with him, showing him the last video from Emilie she made for Nathalie, before she slipped in her coma, asking him to stop living in the past and trying to bring her back, and focus on the future with taking care of Adrien, as she never wanted to be brought back in the first place, having accepted her fate, and needed Gabriel to accept it as well. Guilt-ridden and ashamed of how his actions have ruined Adrien's life because of his obsession to bring Emilie back so Adrien would have both parents in his life again, and now with his body only hours away from crumbling to ash because of the Cataclysm's necrosis, Gabriel uses his last ounces of strength to use what access he had to the Miraculous he possessed to disarm Marinette of the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous, fuse Tikki and Plagg into their combined form of Gimmi, Kwami of Reality, and asking Marinette to not tell Adrien of his father's evil acts, instead requesting that Adrien just remember him as trying to be a good father, Gabriel sacrifices himself to heal Nathalie of the same effects Emilie suffered from using the Peacock Miraculous while it was damaged, so while Gabriel and Emilie ascend to the afterlife to be together again in death, Gimmi uses her powers to destroy and re-create the universe per Gabriel's wish.
Fast forward one month later, and while Gabriel is now hailed as a hero for taking Monarch down with himself, Paris is now becoming more eco-friendly under Miss Caline Bustier as its new Mayoress, Adrien is back in Paris living at his family's estate once more with his aunt Amelie, cousin Felix, and a healthy Nathalie, with all his classmates, including his fellow Miraculous users, having a pool party there, quite the opposite of what Adrien dealt with when his father was still alive, Tomoe has taken over Gabriel's business, and Adrien's relationship with Marinette is stronger than ever as they share a kiss that is not interrupted this time. Marinette also returns to Adrien the Graham de Vanily twin rings containing his Amok, so he won't have to worry about being controlled by anyone in possession of them ever again, allowing him to truly be free. Also, after Marinette restored all the Miraculous that Gabriel surrendered to her back to their original states with the Miraculous Grimoire and her duties as Guardian of them, she returned them to their rightful owners in Team Miraculous on a permanent basis to ensure they don't fall into evil hands again. Thus, joined by Rena Rouge, Bunnyx, Ryuko, Purple Tigress, Vesperia, Miss Hound, King Monkey, Viperion, Minotaurox, Carapace, Argos, and the rest, Ladybug and Cat Noir resume their duties with protecting Paris from threats, just like before.
Unknown to them, Lila Rossi/Cerise Bianca had recovered the Butterfly Miraculous, and under the new alias of "Iris Verde", was planning on using it and become the next Hawk Moth, but was attacked by an unseen force that caught her by surprise, leaving her fate unknown.
Miraculous Paris[]
In the special, "Miraculous Paris", Adrien comes to help Marinette as she and a parallel Gabriel, known as Betterfly for using the Butterfly Miraculous for good and not evil, are fighting parallel versions of Marinette and Adrien, using their Miraculous for evil as Shadybug and Claw Noir. To help them escape for the moment, Betterfly Kamikotizes Cat Noir into Celesticat to allow them to escape, before later explaining things to them about the parallel universe he is from, and how all the Miraculous are in the ownership of The Supreme, who ensures only he decides who gets Miraculous to use, like Betterfly, Shadybug, and Claw Noir. Moved by his story, Adrien and Marinette agree to help him, and set a trap for Shadybug, Claw Noir, and Monarch.
After Monarch retreats due to being unable to attack Ladybug, or Ladyfly, due to being given the parallel Butterfly Miraculous to become Ladyfly, and Cat Noir due to them being protected by the Kamikotized parallel Gabriel as Guardian Angel, Adrien learns of his parallel self still in mourning for his mother Emilie, similar to Adrien's own father Gabriel, and encourages him to look beyond that and reform, even try befriending the parallel versions of Adrien and Marinette's friends who are part of the prime French Miraculous Superhero Team. His words convince Claw Noir, and together with Shadybug, who was also convinced to reform by Ladyfly, they both renounce their evil service to The Supreme and become Paw Noir and Ladybug, joining Betterfly's Resistance against The Supreme. After Prime Ladybug, as Ladybiquity, stops Monarch from trying to steal the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous from several parallel universes, she, Alya, and Cat Noir see off Betterfly, Paw Noir, and Ladybug as they return to their own parallel universe through a portal provided by Alya as her own Kamikotized superhero self, Ubiquity, to prepare for their war with The Supreme.
Miraculous London[]
Taking place during the final moments of "Re-creation", Bug Noire travels to London to free Adrien and Kagami from their solitary confinement. When she frees Adrien, thanks to the Gorilla, Placide I.T., unlocking Adrien's room for her before she could destroy the door with Cataclysm, she breaks the bad news to him that Gabriel died stopping Monarch, which was only half true. Bug Noire and Nathalie knew the truth of the matter, but knew if Adrien found out his own father was Monarch, it would destroy him, and Gabriel asked Marinette to promise him that Adrien would never know the truth, no matter what. No matter how much it pained her, Bug Noire remained loyal to her promise to Gabriel. Devastated to learn of his father's sacrifice, Adrien blames Bug Noire for not trying to use her Miraculous Ladybug to save him and breaks down crying in grief and anguish. Kagami comforts him as a heartbroken and saddened Bug Noire returns to Paris. The Gorilla is also pained and saddened of learning of the death of his benefactor who hired him to protect Adrien.
| “ | Adrien: Ladybug?! Bug Noire: Uh...uh... Adrien: My father's not here? Why aren't you saying anything? Bug Noire: Your father...your father was... (Adrien gasps in horror, realizing something terrible has happened to his father) Bug Noire: Was...a hero. Your father was a hero. (Adrien and Placide I.T. are horrified, realizing Gabriel is dead. Kagami simply lowers her head and tries to avoid eye contact with Adrien) Bug Noire: The truth is...Monarch was forcing your father and Mrs. Tsurugi to work for him. He forced them to design the Alliance Rings in order to turn the entire world against me and Cat Noir. If they said "no", Monarch threatened to go after you and Kagami. Adrien: But I saw your ladybugs fly by. Which means you defeated Monarch. Bug Noire: I did face him, in your home. He...he had taken Nathalie and your father hostage. And I fought as hard as I could, but...he was too mighty and, Monarch had too many powers, too many Miraculous. He severely injured me. I couldn't stop him from taking the Miraculous of the Ladybug and the Black Cat. Monarch was about to make a wish, and that's...when your father...that's when your father became a hero. At the last minute your father pounced on Monarch, seized the Miraculous, and made a wish in his place. He saved Nathalie's life and mine in exchange for Monarch's life, and his own. (Bug Noire approaches Adrien as Kagami and Placide I.T. look on in sorrow. When she tries to take his hand, he shoves her away in heartbroken anguish.) Adrien: Why didn't you save him?! And even if something had happened to him, aren't your magic ladybugs supposed to repair everything?! This is impossible! YOU HAVE TO BE WRONG!! Bug Noire: (faced wracked with guilt and remorse) I swear I tried everything! Adrien: (Looking at the Black Cat Miraculous and the Turtle Miraculous Alliance Ring on Bug Noire's fingers) If he hadn't locked me in here...I could've saved him... Bug Noire: Believe me, there's nothing you could've done. Adrien: Dad... Bug Noire: That's why your father had sent you and Kagami here to London. To protect you. (Adrien continues to sob in grief as Kagami comforts him) Bug Noire: I'm so sorry. There was no good way of telling you all of this. (kneeling as she tries to offer her support as well) But I wanted to be the one to say it before you found out some other way. I'm...(eyes welling up with tears)...I'm so...so sorry, Adrien...I... Kagami: Thank you, Ladybug. Surely you have many other things to deal with. Bug Noire: (wiping her eyes) Yes...(turns to leave, but looks back one last time at Adrien before departing and returning home, her face wracked with guilt and remorse) |
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| ~ Marinette's half-truth/half-lie to Adrien to keep Gabriel's identity as Monarch a secret per his last request |
When the Gorilla, Adrien, and Kagami return to Paris themselves on the Startrain, Kagami is reunited with her mother Tomoe, while Adrien is reunited with a healthy Nathalie, who comforts him as he mourns the death of both his mother and father now, before then being comforted by Marinette, who was also there to welcome him home to Paris. Ladybug also went before the public and press before Adrien, Kagami, and Gorilla returned to Paris to spin the cover story she and Nathalie created that said Gabriel died stopping Monarch once and for all, making him a hero. She also, as Bug Noire, saw to destroying any and all evidence of Gabriel's evil acts so Adrien would never find out the truth, including the apparatus that he kept the Kwamis imprisoned in, and Emilie's old cryo-pod, which is destroyed with Cataclysm now that it was no longer needed with Emilie's body in the afterlife with Gabriel. The rest of The Crypt is also destroyed, permanently sealing it so no one, not even Adrien, ever finds it.
After Marinette stops Lila/Cerise from destroying the timeline and the universe by learning of her true identity as Ladybug and using Gimmi to make a wish, she sends Plagg and the Black Cat Miraculous back to Adrien to become Cat Noir again. Joining Ladybug later to overlook the Eiffel Tower, the two Miraculous superheroes share a hug as they apologize to each other over not being there to support the other regarding recent events before they prepare for whatever threat comes with the new Hawk Moth, with Cat Noir apologizing to Ladybug for not being there to help her beat Monarch, and her apologizing for not being able to tell him the whole story, but Cat Noir reassures her they'll get the Butterfly Miraculous back "just like old times", especially later when he learns of the restoration of the French Miraculous Superhero Team to full strength since Ladybug got the rest of the Miraculous back from Monarch.
Season 6[]
Adrien attempts to finally enjoy being able to be girlfriend and boyfriend in "The Illustrhater", but Marinette's own controlling nature and paranoia about the wellbeing of the other Miraculous users prevents her from relaxing and doing so, ruining a chance to go to the movies with Adrien, and also leaving him with paying the bill at the restaurant they ate at as well. Sensing something wrong with Marinette, when he sees Ladybug go after Polymouse to help her, he becomes Cat Noir to investigate further, finding Ladybug doing Polymouse's job recovering a ball for some kids that rolled under a van. After she retreats to a roof, Cat Noir follows her to ask her if something is wrong, but a paranoid Ladybug tries to deny it, but does a poor job hinting at her controlling nature getting the better of her.
It is later when she is trying to help out a sanitation worker with collecting trash or recycle bins as Cat Noir still tries to reason and talk to her that she's finally snapped back to her senses when Rena Rouge contacts her to yell at her that Paris is under siege from an Akumatized supervillain and they need Ladybug and Cat Noir's help. Meeting up with Rena and Carapace, they find them facing the Akumatized supervillain Illustrhater, a young girl named Maya that the new Hawk Moth Akumatized due to her despair and sadness. Unable to reason with her due to being influenced by the new Hawk Moth, once Ladybug summons her Lucky Charm, regrouping with Cat Noir, Rena, and Carapace, they work out a strategy for getting close enough to disarm her of the Akumatized object for Cat Noir to destroy with Cataclysm. Thanks to teamwork from Carapace, Rena, and Ladybug, Cat Noir is able to get possession of Illustrhater's sketchpad and destroy it with Cataclysm for Ladybug to then capture and purify the Ultrakuma that is released before using her Miraculous Ladybug to repair the damage. Afterwards, they speak to Maya about what she remembers from speaking with the new Hawk Moth, but what information she can provide to them is not much for them to go on. Nevertheless, Ladybug gives Maya a Magical Charm to protect her, and allows her to share a "Pound It!" fist bump with the four Miraculous users.
Later, Marinette is finally able to settle down and enjoy a date at the movies with Adrien, falling asleep while resting on his shoulder, with him able to do the same now that they both know that they can relax when the city is not under siege by an Akumatized supervillain as the other members of Team Miraculous have it covered.
In "Sublimation", Adrien has been spending time with a new friend from Belgium, Sublime, who has a pair of prosthetic legs. Feeling jealous or wanting to make a good first impression to Sublime, Marinette tails her at every opportunity, even eavesdropping on Adrien and Sublime when they are talking later, with Marinette being one of the things they discuss. It is when Sublime notices Marinette eavesdropping on her as she asks Adrien to pick up her homework for her that Adrien reassures her that Marinette's antics are her way of trying to make new friends and to just accept it. Sublime takes Adrien's advice to heart when dealing with Marinette later, even when Marinette pretends to be Akumatized and then appears during Sublime's trial as Ladybug, resulting in Sublime's prosthetic legs being severely damaged. Later, Adrien is called by Ladybug as she needs his help, and has Plagg turn him into Cat Noir to assist against Sublimation, Sublime's mother Caroline Akumatized by Chrysalis, rescuing Bob Roth, who was going to be Sublime's sponsor, but now was being targeted by Sublimation for refusing to do so after Ladybug ruined Sublime's trial and busted her prosthetic legs in the process. Because of Bob's ungratefulness for saving him and trying to tell the truth that Ladybug and Cat Noir are being exploited since they are not being rewarded or paid for protecting Paris, Cat Noir drops him in a dumpster, quipping that his attitude stinks. After Ladybug willingly lets herself and Cat Noir be hit by Sublimation's power, to Sublimation's shock, neither Ladybug, nor Cat Noir, are affected, as they are already the best in their abilities. As a result, Chrysalis retaliates through Sublimation with sending Anti-kumas to try and depower the Miraculous Duo, causing Cat Noir to be unable to use his Cataclysm when he is affected by one, forcing Ladybug to destroy the Akumatized medal to free the Ultrakuma for her to catch and purify. When Cat Noir then reminds her to use her Miraculous Ladybug to repair the damage from Caroline/Sublimation, Ladybug realizes that no damage was ever inflicted on Paris by Sublimation as, looking at her reflection in her Lucky Charm makeup compact's mirror, Ladybug realizes that everything that happened today was all her fault, and no one else was to blame for it as it was her fault Sublime busted her prosthetic legs, and her fault that Caroline got Akumatized to begin with. All because she was worried about being a good friend to Sublime as Marinette and fearing ruining her relationship with Adrien if she wasn't.
Returning to Olympic Stadium with Caroline and Bob after Cat Noir reverted and transformed again to get rid of the Anti-kuma's effects on him, Ladybug apologizes to Sublime for being responsible for Caroline being Akumatized and ruining her trial, repairs the medal and Sublime's legs with Miraculous Ladybug, and gifts Caroline a Magical Charm to protect her before Cat Noir shares a "Pound It!" with Ladybug and Sublime's family before the Miraculous Duo take their leave. After Marinette apologizes again to Sublime as herself after doing so as Ladybug, her friendship with Sublime improves for the better, including hanging out together with Adrien.
Unknown to Adrien, Sublime did get a sponsor after refusing Bob Roth, but it is his father Gabriel's former partner, Tomoe Tsurugi.
In "Daddycop", Marinette has been preparing a dinner for her and Adrien, but when she later tries to get him fitted for his suit for it, he reveals that he won't be able to attend, to her shock and heartbreak, before he explains he did not want to ruin her girls movie night with the female members of Team Miraculous just for him. Despite all her efforts to convince him to change his mind, it doesn't work. Later, Adrien comes to Marinette's aid as Cat Noir when Ladybug and Sabrina are being targeted by the brainwashed citizens of Paris by Sabrina's father, Lt. Roger Raincomprix, Akumatized into Daddycop by Chrysalis to avenge the heartbreak he saw in his daughter. Turning into Astrocat to distract Daddycop, Astrocat soon is once again affected by one of Chrysalis' Anti-kumas, but is saved by Ladybug with her Lucky Charm, who takes over as Cosmobug to keep Daddycop distracted while, after recovering, Cat Noir regroups with Miss Hound and Pegasus to prepare a trap for Daddycop. As Cosmobug approaches the Arc de Triumph, Pegasus uses Voyage to open a portal for Daddycop to fly through, allowing Miss Hound to tag his cruiser with Fetch, recall it, and have Cat Noir destroy it with Cataclysm, reducing it to a rusted wreck and freeing the Ultrakuma for Ladybug, after rescuing Lt. Raincomprix and reverting back from Cosmobug, to catch and purify before restoring everyone to normal with Miraculous Ladybug and gifting Lt. Raincomprix a Magical Charm before sharing a "Pound It!" with Cat Noir, Miss Hound, and Pegasus.
Later, Marinette shares her 100th kiss with Adrien at school after Sabrina shows off her new appearance to show she's fully put Chloé behind her, much to the positive reaction from the rest of Team Miraculous. Adrien responds with sharing their 101st kiss, showing their relationship growing stronger every day.
In "Werepapas", Adrien's life is put in conflict when he is visited by both his maternal and paternal grandparents: Lord and Lady Graham de Vanily, Emilie's parents, and Johnny and Gabrielle Grassette, Gabriel's parents. To make him feel more comfortable, Marinette infiltrates the meeting between the grandparents as a maid to try to support Adrien, and she quickly shows hostility upon see the behavior of Lord Graham de Vanily, but helpfulness to Johnny Grassette. The Graham de Vanilies want Adrien to move to London to live with them, but the Grassettes have alternative options. Lord Graham de Vanily providing a contract and offering to pay Johnny off only adds more fuel to the fire since Johnny was still defiant to accept Lord Graham de Vanily's money, even after Gabriel and Emilie married and Emilie renounced her family to live in Paris with Gabriel. This tension comes to a head when Lady Graham de Vanily is picked out by Chrysalis to be Akumatized as Ringmaster and turns Lord Graham de Vanily and Johnny into the Werepapas, forcing them to fight against their will. Worse, the object Chrysalis infected with the Ultrakuma was the Graham de Vanily rings that contained Adrien's Amok due to his Sentimonster origins with the Peacock Miraculous when Emilie used it while it was damaged. With Adrien unable to help her or become Cat Noir without raising suspicion as he remains trapped in a large trophy during the fight, Ladybug is forced to fight Ringmaster without him, especially when she sends Lord Graham de Vanily and Johnny to attack her together against their will. Using her Lucky Charms to protect herself, she then uses a scarf she summoned to force Ringmaster to become the target for her victims, forcing her to try and call them off, but giving Ladybug enough time to disarm her of the rings, tie all three up, and send them back down to the estate below, but once she has the rings, Ladybug faces a conflict: Destroy them and risk releasing Adrien's Amok as well, killing him, or allow Lady Graham de Vanily to remain Akumatized to protect him. Finally making up her mind, Ladybug breaks the rings with her yo-yo, but to her surprise, only Chrysalis' Ultrakuma comes out, and no Amok. She quickly catches and purifies it, then uses Miraculous Ladybug to fix all the damage, returning the Graham de Vanilies and Johnny safely back to the mansion unharmed, and also revealing Adrien to be alright after the rings are repaired and he's revealed to be safe once the trophy vanishes, much to Ladybug's relief. After gifting Lady Graham de Vanily a Magical Charm to protect her, Ladybug takes her leave. As Adrien goes to look for her, Ladybug retreats to his room and reverts back into Marinette for Adrien to find, both relieved that the other is alright. Afterwards, back in the dining room, Marinette brings in Nathalie, and Adrien tells both pairs of his grandparents that he wishes to remain in Paris with Placide I.T., Nathalie, Marinette, and all his friends, and be free to make his own decisions at his age. Understanding his choice, all four of his grandparents agree, and Adrien promises to visit them from time to time, which they also accept and agree on, as they will also visit each other when possible.
While all this is happening, flashbacks show Adrien with his mom Emilie, even as her health deteriorates from using the Peacock Miraculous while it was damaged. When Gabriel returns from one of his excursions to try and find the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous to help Emilie, but came up empty-handed, he ignores Adrien, while Nathalie comforts him, as a wheelchair-bound Emilie watches from upstairs before returning to her room.