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| “ | Sass, Scales Slither! | „ |
| ~ Luka during his transformation into Viperion. |
| “ | That's nice of you, sir, but my life is already filled with music. And I might have a brand new song to write. | „ |
| ~ Luka Couffaine |
| “ | You’re the most extraordinary girl, Marinette. As clear as a musical note and as sincere as a melody. You’re the music that’s been playing inside my head since the day we first met. | „ |
| ~ Luka as Silencer, using XY's voice to speak with Marinette. |
Luka Couffaine is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Kagami Tsurugi) of the Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir franchise. He is Juleka's older twin brother. In season 3, he receives the Snake Miraculous from Ladybug, which, when inhabited by the kwami Sass, can transform him into Viperion, a snake-themed superhero.
He was voiced by Andrew Russell in English, Maxime Baudouin in the original French version, and Yūichirō Umehara in Japanese (who also voiced Goblin Slayer).
Appearance[]
As a civilian, he has aqua eyes and medium-length black hair that includes dyed teal blue tips. His lips are pale pink, and he has a Roman nose.
As Viperion, he wears a black and cyan suit, appearing to be slender and muscular. His suit has a snake texture along with the same kind of underbelly like a snake and he has a cyan-colored mask around his eyes. His weapon appears to be a harp or lyre.
Personality[]
In contrast to his younger sister Juleka, Luka has a calm and mysterious personality. He is adept at reading other people's emotions and claims he can express them better with music than with words. He is also a very kind and generous person, which especially shows when he's around his crush Marinette.
Despite his kindness, the episode "Silencer" shows that his niceness does have its limits when Bob Roth and XY plagiarized his and Marinette's band's song and costume, followed by Bob threatening to use his power in the music industry to make Marinette look like the plagiarist, causing him to get angry enough to be akumatized.
Powers and abilities[]
As a civilian[]
Luka is excellent at playing his guitar. In "Frozer", he's also good at ice skating and is also fairly strong as he can lift Marinette Dupain-Cheng with ease.
Luka can also play the guitar since he was a baby.
As Viperion[]
Like all Miraculous wielders, Viperion has enchanted abilities like speed and strength, and most notably agility, being able to jump much higher than either Ladybug or Cat Noir. His weapon is his lyre. His special ability is called Second Chance, which allows them to mark a place on his bracelet and use it to go back in time after an undesirable outcome occurs. Using Second Chance triggers his Miraculous' failsafe to revert him back to Luka after approximately five minutes, but if he can overcome this failsafe through sheer willpower, as Ladybug and Cat Noir demonstrated in "Revolution", he can remain transformed as Viperion and use Second Chance repeatedly without needing to revert back to recuperate.
Biography[]
Season 2[]
In "Captain Hardrock", Luka and Marinette first meet and Luka quickly develops romantic feelings for her. He also helps to hide Marinette from his mother after she is akumatized.
Season 3[]
In "Silencer", Luka is akumatized by Hawk Moth into the voice-stealing supervillain Silencer. Luka even confesses his feelings to Marinette as both Silencer and himself.
In "Desperada", Ladybug gives Luka the Snake Miraculous in order to help defeat Vivica, who was akumatized by Hawk Moth into the titular villain. He meets the kwami Sass, the snake kwami, and transforms into Viperion for the first time.
In "Party Crasher", Master Fu lends Luka the Snake Miraculous to help defeat the titular akumatized villain, after which he presumably returned it to Fu.
Miraculous New York[]
Season 4[]
In "Truth", he gets akumatized again. This time into the titular villain due to obsessing over what Marinette is hiding, because of her secret heroic actions as Ladybug. Using his abilities, he learns that his favorite rocker Jagged Stone is his biological father who confirms it.
In "Wishmaker", he is recruited by Ladybug and Cat Noir to help defeat the titular villain as Second Chance is the only hope they have of preserving their secret identities if Wishmaker manages to hit them with his attacks and forces them to revert back to their civilian identities to live out their childhood dreams, thus exposing them to Shadow Moth. When Ladybug is the first to be hit thanks to Viperion deflecting one of the attacks, causing it to hit her instead and force her to revert back to Marinette to live out her childhood dream of being a magical knitting fairy in real life, horrified that he inadvertently exposed Ladybug to Shadow Moth, Luka quickly uses Second Chance to reset. This time, he saves Ladybug, but Cat Noir is demoralized enough by Wishmaker to allow himself to be hit, reverting him back to Adrien, exposing him to Shadow Moth. Again, Luka is forced to use Second Chance to reset, and this time, warning Ladybug of the incoming attack, she uses the civilian she was talking to as a human shield, so he ends up being affected instead, and is able to subdue Wishmaker, allowing Cat Noir to destroy his Akumatized object and return him to normal. However, due to the effects of Second Chance, Luka now knew Ladybug and Cat Noir's secret identities as Marinette and Adrien, but lies to Ladybug to avoid sending her into a panic if she knew he had knowledge of their civilian selves.
Season 5[]
In "Jubilation", Viperion is among the superheroes attending Ladybug and Cat Noir's wedding in the dream caused by Gift/Jubilation when they are fighting Darker Owl in reality.
In "Determination", to try and help restore morale to Paris because of losing Viperion and the other heroes, Grevin Museum curator Veronique has a wax figurine of Viperion made, alongside those of the rest of the team, in hopes of helping to boost hope. When Mayor Bourgeois, under Chloe's influence again, refuses to let the figures be displayed, Veronique is Akumatized by Monarch into Manipula, bringing the wax figures of Viperion and the others to life to try and make Manipula look like a hero by bringing the team back.
However, Luka later realizes that if he gets Akumatized, he could expose Marinette and Adrien as Ladybug and Cat Noir to Monarch since he still knew of their secret identities since "Wishmaker". To protect them, he chooses to flee Paris, joined by his father, Jagged Stone, and Jagged Stone's secretary Penny. Some time after that, he, Jagged, and Penny join Grandmaster Su-Han and are trained in Mira-Kung Fu by him to become members of the Guardians.
In the season finale, "The Final Day", Monarch launches his endgame with Operation Perfect Alliance, first creating nightmares for everyone as Nightormentor, including Luka, then using the Alliance Rings to turn anyone wearing them into Miraculized soldiers to hunt down Ladybug and Cat Noir, and attack anyone who is aligned with them. As Luka, Su-Han, Jagged, Penny, and the other Guardians try to fight the Miraculized in South America, Bunnyx arrives to take them to Paris to help out there. Joined by the United Heroez and Ladydragon, they do their best to fight the Miraculized, and Luka reunites with Juleka, but it proves to be a losing fight, as Knightowl and Ladydragon are overpowered, Luka succumbs to his nightmares from Nightormentor, and Majestia returns to report having found no sign of Ladybug or Cat Noir. Thankfully, before they are overrun, as seen in "Miraculous World London", Ladybug uses her Miraculous Ladybug to undo all the effects of Operation Perfect Alliance, including Nightormentor's nightmares, saving everyone. Afterwards, realizing it is too dangerous to keep all the Miraculous together under her watch, after she restores the Miraculous back to their original forms before Monarch's modifying of them, Marinette decides to entrust Sass and the Snake Miraculous to Luka full-time, along with returning Roaar and the Tiger Miraculous to Juleka, allowing them to become Viperion and Purple Tigress again permanently, restoring the French Miraculous Superhero Team to full strength for dealing with the new Hawk Moth in the future.
Season 6[]
In "El Toro de Piedra", Luka is currently living in Brazil, but is able to establish a webcam link with the rest of Kitty Section in order to perform a concert for Mayoress Bustier as thanks for her service as their teacher. However, it appears that the equipment for the link is proving to be very unreliable as they keep losing contact with Luka. As a result, when it is time for the concert proper, the link fails again, and Luka can't reestablish it on his end. To that end, he encourages his twin sister Juleka to perform on her own, and encouraged by Rose, Juleka puts on an amazing performance.
In "Mister Agreste", in a flashback, Luka says goodbye to Juleka and his mom as he prepares to leave Paris for Rio de Janeiro to keep Ladybug and Cat Noir's secret identities safe. Ladybug and Cat Noir watch, but as soon as his taxi departs, Cat Noir goes to the airport, reverts back to Adrien, and attempts to convince Luka to stay, but Luka assures him it is for the best to protect Ladybug and Cat Noir from Monarch. In another flashback, when Marinette entrusts the Snake Miraculous and Sass to him again, Luka becomes Viperion, sets his Second Chance, and then confesses to knowing Ladybug and Cat Noir's secret identities and how he is moving to Brazil to protect them from the new Butterfly Miraculous holder, and the risk of him becoming akumatized since he still loves Marinette, but if he lets that joy of Adrien and Marinette being together finally turn to jealousy, he could be akumatized and expose them. After saying that, he then uses Second Chance, and lies to her on the replay, saying he has a new girlfriend in Brazil, leaving Marinette happy for him.
In a nightmare that Marinette has, she's on the Liberty as Gabriel's voice reminds her of her promise to him, and after escaping the reporters from her interview where she lied to them as Ladybug, takes cover in a bedroom, where Luka appears to console her and ask what's wrong. As Marinette confesses to him that Gabriel was Monarch, Luka is suddenly replaced by an enraged Adrien who, furious to learn that his father was the one who gave Paris and the world so much grief, ends his relationship with her before being akumatized as she tries to stop it in futility before waking up in shock.
Later, Ladybug comes to Brazil to see Luka, borrows Sass and the Snake Miraculous, unifies them with Tikki and the Ladybug Miraculous, becoming Viperbug, and prepares Second Chance, before confessing to Luka the truth that Gabriel Agreste was Monarch. In a moment of concern for Marinette's well-being, Luka asks for the Ladybug Miraculous, but not willing to part with it after telling him the truth, Viperbug activates Second Chance, and then returns the Snake Miraculous and Sass to Luka on the replay, lying to him that she'll be okay and for him to stay safe in Brazil.
At the start of "Revelator", Viperion is with the rest of the team as, under Cat Noir and Ladybug's guidance, they attempt to unlock their adult Miraculous powers through sheer willpower. While some fail and need to recharge their Kwamis and transform again before resuming, everyone manages to successfully unlock their adult Miraculous powers and enable their ability to stay transformed indefinitely before manually reverting back by saying their power down catchphrase. To celebrate their accomplishment, Ladybug dubs the team, "The Miraculers", which they all agree on.
Trivia[]
- Luka Couffaine is the sixth person to become to a Miraculous holder who was also an akumatized villain, following Nino Lahiffe in "The Bubbler" and Alya Césaire in "Lady Wifi", Lê Chiến Kim in "Dark Cupid", Max Kanté in "Gamer", and Chloé Bourgeois in "Antibug", but excluding Gabriel Agreste\Hawk Moth, who akumatized himself in "The Collector" into the titular villain.
- His English voice actor, Andrew Russell, also voiced Jaken in Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon.
- He's one of three members of the French Miraculous team that uses a musical instrument as a weapon. In this case, his Lyre. Pigella with her tamborine and Rena Rouge with her flute being the other two.
- Due to the battle with Wishmaker, Luka is the only one of the French Miraculous Team to know that both Ladybug & Cat Noir are Marinette & Adrien. But thanks to his powers, they don't know that he knows.
- Yet he doesn't know that his twin sister is Purple Tigress.
External Links[]
- Viperion on the Near Pure Good Wiki
- Viperion on the Miraculous Ladybug Wiki
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