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* EasilyForgiven: PlayedWith; Lila's decision to sacrifice her own sketchbook in order to save Marinette's from being destroyed plays a key role in the two coming to an accord and calling the truce that leads to their eventual friendship.
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* ShoutOut: After becoming closer, Marinette and Lila enjoy ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' together.
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** Lila repeatedly compares herself to Franchise/{{Batman}} and Marinette to Franchise/{{Superman}}. Later, she decides that Chloé serves as their Franchise/WonderWoman.
** After becoming closer, Marinette and Lila enjoy ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' together.
** Lila repeatedly compares herself to Franchise/{{Batman}} and Marinette to Franchise/{{Superman}}. Later, she decides that Chloé serves as their Franchise/WonderWoman.
** After becoming closer, Marinette and Lila enjoy ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' together.
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* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: Every time she transfers to a new school, Lila challenges herself by picking out one of the most popular kids present and deeming them to be her "rival", aiming to outshine and outperform them. She intentionally chooses people she believes will prove difficult to beat, like Marinette... which makes it all the more frustrating when she discovers she didn't ''have'' to sink much effort into turning their classmates against her.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: After her first outing as the new-and-improved Volpina, Lila remarks to Ladybug that Chat Noir's been sexually harassing her. When Ladybug defends him by simply stating that they're partners, Lila's reply causes the heroine to visibly wilt.
-->'''Ladybug:''' He's my partner.\\
-->'''Ladybug:''' He's my partner.\\
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Alya takes offense at Ladybug calling her blog a tabloid, the heroine retorts "Yes, tabloid. Why do you think I stopped working with you?"
* ArmorPiercingResponse:
** After her first outing as the new-and-improved Volpina, Lila remarks to Ladybug that Chat Noir's been sexually harassing her. When Ladybug defends him by simply stating that they're partners, Lila's reply causes the heroine to visibly wilt.
-->'''Ladybug:''' --->'''Ladybug:''' He's my partner.\\
* ArmorPiercingResponse:
** After her first outing as the new-and-improved Volpina, Lila remarks to Ladybug that Chat Noir's been sexually harassing her. When Ladybug defends him by simply stating that they're partners, Lila's reply causes the heroine to visibly wilt.
** After Alya finally looks into Lila's claims and outs her as a liar, she's stunned when Marinette coldly replies to the revelation by declaring "And yet she's a better friend than you ever were."
* HourglassPlot: Marinette was EasilyCondemned by her {{False Friend}}s, who turned upon her in hopes of currying favor with the seemingly better connected Lila. Lila finds out that their "friendship" isn't worth diddly squat and winds up bonding with Marinette instead. By the time the class [[LiarRevealed finds out about her lies]] and turns on Lila as easily and readily as they did Marinette, the two have become besties, and Marinette welcomes her to the back.
* LiarRevealed: Alya eventually starts paying attention to all the comments on her blog that called out Lila's blatant falsehoods, and she "exposes" her to the rest of the class.
* NeverMyFault: Alya only finds the motivation to ''research'' any of the claims she'd made on her blog after Ladybug makes clear that she stopped working with her because of that refusal to put any effort into verifying anything. She then attempts to pin all the blame for this lack of research onto ''Lila''.
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* OffTheTable: The shock of being fired as a hero and denounced as a journalist pushes Alya to finally do some actual journalism and figure out what happened. She finally takes seriously the comments on her blog calling Lila out as a liar, she reveals this to the class, and they all denounce her the next day at school. Marinette, however, makes it clear that she won't be their friend again and she'd rather stick with Lila and Chloé than endure her other classmates.
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* OffTheTable: The shock of being fired losing "her" Miraculous to Volpina and having her hero denounce her as a hero and denounced as a journalist "tabloid journalist" pushes Alya to finally do some actual journalism research and figure out what happened. She finally takes seriously start taking all the comments on her blog calling that called Lila out as a liar, liar seriously. While she reveals this to and the class, and they all rest of the class immediately denounce her the next day at school. Marinette, however, Lila, Marinette makes it clear that she won't be their friend again {{Easily Forgive|n}} them for how they turned against her in the first place and she'd would rather stick with Lila and Chloé than endure her other classmates.Chloé.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: After her first outing as the new-and-improved Volpina, Lila remarks to Ladybug that Chat Noir's been sexually harassing her. When Ladybug defends him by simply stating that they're partners, Lila's reply causes the heroine to visibly wilt.
-->'''Ladybug:''' He's my partner.\\
'''Lila:''' He's not acting like it.
-->'''Ladybug:''' He's my partner.\\
'''Lila:''' He's not acting like it.
-->'''Chloé:''' She got you too, huh. It's the eyes. Don't look her in the eyes.\\
'''Kagami:''' Yes. I, too, had declared Marinette my rival. Now I wear bunny pajamas and adorn avocado oatmeal face masks.
'''Kagami:''' Yes. I, too, had declared Marinette my rival. Now I wear bunny pajamas and adorn avocado oatmeal face masks.
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* HeelFaceTurn: After becoming Marinette's friend, Lila also becomes a better person. Marinette tests her by getting Lila backstage at a concert with lots of actual celebrities to see if Lila will post photographs and use the event for clout. Lila doesn't post the pictures and thus passes the test. Lila also encourages Ladybug to stand up to Chat Noir's sexual harassment and his refusal to support her in battle.
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* HeartbreakAndIceCream: The turning point in Marinette's burgeoning friendship with Lila comes when Mrs. Rossi cancels plans with her daughter. Lila shows up at the bakery to complain and ends up eating ice cream while watching reruns of ''Series/DoctorWho'', which turns into an impromptu sleepover.
* HeelFaceTurn: After becoming Marinette's friend, Lila also becomes a better person.Marinette tests her by getting Lila backstage at a concert with lots of actual celebrities to see if Lila will post photographs and use the event for clout. Lila doesn't post the pictures and thus passes the test. Lila also She encourages Ladybug to stand up to against Chat Noir's ongoing sexual harassment and his refusal to support her in battle.work with her, insisting that she deserves better than a millstone for a "partner".
* HeelFaceTurn: After becoming Marinette's friend, Lila also becomes a better person.
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* JawDrop: Lila's jaw goes slack when she realizes Ladybug is presenting her with the Foxtail Pendant.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: In order to gauge whether Lila is taking advantage of their friendship, Marinette arranges for all of her friends to spend her birthday backstage during one of Clara Nightingale's concerts. While Lila could have easily used the pictures she took during the event as "evidence" of all her high-profile claims, she honored Marinette's wishes to keep everything secret, unwittingly passing the test.
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* BefriendingTheBullied: Chloé was the only one who defended Marinette from Lila's bullying and even sought out Marinette's friendship. To Alya, this only confirmed that Marinette was a bully.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Lila is given [[EveryoneHasStandards much higher moral standards]] than is typical for Salt Fic fare; the story opens with her deciding to sacrifice her ''own'' sketchbook in order to save Marinette's work from being destroyed.
* AllForNothing: The whole reason Lila singled Marinette out in the first place was because she'd swiftly pegged the "everyday Ladybug" as one of the most popular and [[LovedByAll beloved]] students at Francoise Dupont. She was also convinced that Marinette saw ''her'' as a rival as well, given how she challenged all of her claims. Learning that Marinette legitimately didn't ''realize'' why she'd targeted her and had only called her out because she [[BerserkButton didn't like liars]] causes Lila to scream in frustration. Making this all the more frustrating to her is the realization that her "prize" was effectively ''worthless'', as her newfound "friends" were [[FalseFriend anything but]].
* BefriendingTheBullied: Chloé was the only one who
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* BullyTurnedBuddy: Lila stops lying about and otherwise bullying Marinette and eventually becomes her close friend.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As underhanded as Lila is, she balks when the class steals Marinette's sketchbook and offers to let Lila rip it up in retribution for the 'bullying' Marinette did to her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As underhanded as Lila is, she balks when the class steals Marinette's sketchbook and offers to let Lila rip it up in retribution for the 'bullying' Marinette did to her.
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* BullyTurnedBuddy: Lila stops lying about Chloé decided to pull a HeelFaceTurn and otherwise bullying side with Marinette after Alya and eventually becomes her close friend.
the rest of the class EasilyCondemned her; Lila later follows suit.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:As Lila might be underhanded as and manipulative, but there are lines she outright ''refuses'' to cross, including the destruction of private property.
-->Lila prided herself on still being able to look at herself in the mirror at the end of the day. Despite all she had done and would be willing to do; Lilais, was firm on what she balks when the class steals Marinette's sketchbook wouldn't do. Destroying someone's life work; something they had spent months and offers months on, something that had nothing to let Lila rip it up in retribution for the 'bullying' Marinette did to her.do with Lila, was going too far.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
-->Lila prided herself on still being able to look at herself in the mirror at the end of the day. Despite all she had done and would be willing to do; Lila
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* BefriendingTheBullied: Chloe was the only one who defended Marinette from Lila's bullying and even sought out Marinette's friendship. To Alya, this only confirmed that Marinette was a bully.
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* BefriendingTheBullied: Chloe Chloé was the only one who defended Marinette from Lila's bullying and even sought out Marinette's friendship. To Alya, this only confirmed that Marinette was a bully.
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* OffTheTable: The shock of being fired as a hero and denounced as a journalist pushes Alya to finally do some actual journalism and figure out what happened. She finally takes seriously the comments on her blog calling Lila out as a liar, she reveals this to the class, and they all denounce her the next day at school. Marinette, however, makes it clear that she won't be their friend again and she'd rather stick with Lila and Chloe than endure her other classmates.
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* OffTheTable: The shock of being fired as a hero and denounced as a journalist pushes Alya to finally do some actual journalism and figure out what happened. She finally takes seriously the comments on her blog calling Lila out as a liar, she reveals this to the class, and they all denounce her the next day at school. Marinette, however, makes it clear that she won't be their friend again and she'd rather stick with Lila and Chloe Chloé than endure her other classmates.
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** Lila (and Chloe) Chloé) eventually determine that Marinette should start marketing her designs. They assist her by modeling for her (along with Marinette's other friends) and her design career takes off. Lila also begins helping Marinette by covering for her when Marinette needs an excuse as to why she's not around, or when Marinette has to babysit but doesn't have time.
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* BefriendingTheBullied: Chloe was the only one who defended Marinette from Lila's bullying and even sought out Marinette's friendship. To Alya, this only confirmed that Marinette was a bully.
-->'''Alya:''' Of course. Bullies belong with bullies.
-->'''Alya:''' Of course. Bullies belong with bullies.
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* MonsterClown: Lila's first mission as (the heroic) Vulpine is to fight a clown-themed akuma who turns people into balloon animals.
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* MonsterClown: Lila's first mission as (the heroic) Vulpine Volpina is to fight a clown-themed akuma who turns people into balloon animals.
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** Marinette (as Ladybug) also later lends Lila the fox Miraculous, allowing her to become Volpina for real and to fight alongside Ladybug.
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** Marinette (as Ladybug) also later lends Lila the fox Fox Miraculous, allowing her to become Volpina for real and to fight alongside Ladybug.
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Lila Rossi is a ruthless and competitive girl who prides herself on overcoming the most powerful opponents she can find. When she moved to Paris she identified Marinette Dupain-Cheng as the most popular girl in school and set out to defeat her, using every underhanded trick in the book to steal her friends and triumph over her. But when Marinette's classmates offer to let her do something truly evil to Marinette, Lila finds herself torn. And then, following a subsequent conversation with Marinette herself, Lila embarks on an unexpected journey which may bring the two of them closer than Lila would ever have thought possible.
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Lila Rossi is a ruthless and competitive girl who prides herself on overcoming the most powerful opponents she can find. When she moved to Paris she identified Marinette Dupain-Cheng as the most popular girl in school and set out to defeat her, using every underhanded trick in the book to steal her friends and triumph over her. But when Marinette's classmates offer to let her do something truly evil to Marinette, Lila finds herself torn. And then, following a subsequent conversation with Marinette herself, Lila embarks on an unexpected journey which that may bring the two of them closer than Lila would ever have thought possible.
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* ShoutOut: After becoming closer, Marinette and Lila enjoy Franchise/DoctorWho together.
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* ASharedSuffering: Marinette and Lila commiserate over their classmates' AllTakeAndNoGive behavior.
* ShoutOut: After becoming closer, Marinette and Lila enjoyFranchise/DoctorWho ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' together.
* ShoutOut: After becoming closer, Marinette and Lila enjoy
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* UnknownRival: Lila set out to overthrow Marinette and become the most popular girl in school, mostly just to test herself. Marinette had no idea Lila even wanted that; she figured Lila was just telling lies and stealing her friends out of hatred. When Lila learns that Marinette hadn't even noticed what Lila was trying to do, she screams in frustration.
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* UnknownRival: Lila had set out to overthrow Marinette and become the most popular girl in school, mostly just to test herself. Marinette had no idea Lila even wanted that; she figured Lila was just telling lies and stealing her friends out of hatred. When Lila learns that Marinette hadn't even noticed what Lila was trying to do, she screams in frustration.
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* YouCanKeepHer: Marinette eventually offers Lila a truce: she'll let Lila keep the rest of the class as 'friends' so long as Lila just leaves Marinette out of things and doesn't lie about her anymore. Lila agrees.
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* YouCanKeepHer: Marinette eventually offers Lila a truce: she'll let Lila keep the rest of the class as 'friends' so long as Lila just leaves Marinette out of things and doesn't lie about her anymore. Lila agrees.agrees.
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* BullyTurnedBuddy: Lila stops lying about and otherwise bullying Marinette and eventually becomes her close friend.
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''[[https://unmaskedagain.tumblr.com/post/189380874732/archenemies-to-superfriends Archenemies to Superfriends]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfic by [[https://unmaskedagain.tumblr.com Unmasked Again]].
Lila Rossi is a ruthless and competitive girl who prides herself on overcoming the most powerful opponents she can find. When she moved to Paris she identified Marinette Dupain-Cheng as the most popular girl in school and set out to defeat her, using every underhanded trick in the book to steal her friends and triumph over her. But when Marinette's classmates offer to let her do something truly evil to Marinette, Lila finds herself torn. And then, following a subsequent conversation with Marinette herself, Lila embarks on an unexpected journey which may bring the two of them closer than Lila would ever have thought possible.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: As underhanded as Lila is, she balks when the class steals Marinette's sketchbook and offers to let Lila rip it up in retribution for the 'bullying' Marinette did to her.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: After Lila steals Adrien away, Marinette gets fifteen invitations to the school dance -- including three from other girls.
* FairWeatherFriend: Lila notes that she didn't even tell the class anything bad about Marinette. She just pretended to have celebrity connections so the class decided to pick her over Marinette, and then they convinced themselves Marinette was a bully in order to feel better about shunning her.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes:
** In an inverted example, Lila makes lots of 'friends' in the class but quickly grows to despise them when she learns just how easily they'll forsake Marinette, whom they had previously claimed to care about.
** Marinette later reveals that there were times when she couldn't stand the class either and went to hide in the library just to get away from them.
* HeelFaceTurn: After becoming Marinette's friend, Lila also becomes a better person. Marinette tests her by getting Lila backstage at a concert with lots of actual celebrities to see if Lila will post photographs and use the event for clout. Lila doesn't post the pictures and thus passes the test. Lila also encourages Ladybug to stand up to Chat Noir's sexual harassment and his refusal to support her in battle.
* ImmoralJournalist: Ladybug calls Alya out on having degenerated into just being a tabloid reporter who reports rumors and innuendo about Ladybug and Chat Noir being together even though they aren't.
* MonsterClown: Lila's first mission as (the heroic) Vulpine is to fight a clown-themed akuma who turns people into balloon animals.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Lila set out to overthrow and destroy Marinette, but all she wound up doing was convincing the classmates to abandon her, meaning they're no longer burdening her with endless requests for favors and support. Without them dragging her down, Marinette flourishes and becomes more popular and accomplished than ever.
* OffTheTable: The shock of being fired as a hero and denounced as a journalist pushes Alya to finally do some actual journalism and figure out what happened. She finally takes seriously the comments on her blog calling Lila out as a liar, she reveals this to the class, and they all denounce her the next day at school. Marinette, however, makes it clear that she won't be their friend again and she'd rather stick with Lila and Chloe than endure her other classmates.
* ShoutOut: After becoming closer, Marinette and Lila enjoy Franchise/DoctorWho together.
* {{Sidekick}}:
** Lila (and Chloe) eventually determine that Marinette should start marketing her designs. They assist her by modeling for her (along with Marinette's other friends) and her design career takes off. Lila also begins helping Marinette by covering for her when Marinette needs an excuse as to why she's not around, or when Marinette has to babysit but doesn't have time.
** Marinette (as Ladybug) also later lends Lila the fox Miraculous, allowing her to become Volpina for real and to fight alongside Ladybug.
* TakeThat: Lila mentions in a thought that she really hated how ''[[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice Batman V Superman]]'' ended.
* TurnInYourBadge: Ladybug fires all the existing heroes, including Chat Noir and Rena Rouge, and replaces them with real friends. Lila gets the fox Miraculous and becomes a new and improved Vulpine.
* UnknownRival: Lila set out to overthrow Marinette and become the most popular girl in school, mostly just to test herself. Marinette had no idea Lila even wanted that; she figured Lila was just telling lies and stealing her friends out of hatred. When Lila learns that Marinette hadn't even noticed what Lila was trying to do, she screams in frustration.
* WorthyOpponent: Lila sees Marinette as this.
* YouCanKeepHer: Marinette eventually offers Lila a truce: she'll let Lila keep the rest of the class as 'friends' so long as Lila just leaves Marinette out of things and doesn't lie about her anymore. Lila agrees.
Lila Rossi is a ruthless and competitive girl who prides herself on overcoming the most powerful opponents she can find. When she moved to Paris she identified Marinette Dupain-Cheng as the most popular girl in school and set out to defeat her, using every underhanded trick in the book to steal her friends and triumph over her. But when Marinette's classmates offer to let her do something truly evil to Marinette, Lila finds herself torn. And then, following a subsequent conversation with Marinette herself, Lila embarks on an unexpected journey which may bring the two of them closer than Lila would ever have thought possible.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: As underhanded as Lila is, she balks when the class steals Marinette's sketchbook and offers to let Lila rip it up in retribution for the 'bullying' Marinette did to her.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: After Lila steals Adrien away, Marinette gets fifteen invitations to the school dance -- including three from other girls.
* FairWeatherFriend: Lila notes that she didn't even tell the class anything bad about Marinette. She just pretended to have celebrity connections so the class decided to pick her over Marinette, and then they convinced themselves Marinette was a bully in order to feel better about shunning her.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes:
** In an inverted example, Lila makes lots of 'friends' in the class but quickly grows to despise them when she learns just how easily they'll forsake Marinette, whom they had previously claimed to care about.
** Marinette later reveals that there were times when she couldn't stand the class either and went to hide in the library just to get away from them.
* HeelFaceTurn: After becoming Marinette's friend, Lila also becomes a better person. Marinette tests her by getting Lila backstage at a concert with lots of actual celebrities to see if Lila will post photographs and use the event for clout. Lila doesn't post the pictures and thus passes the test. Lila also encourages Ladybug to stand up to Chat Noir's sexual harassment and his refusal to support her in battle.
* ImmoralJournalist: Ladybug calls Alya out on having degenerated into just being a tabloid reporter who reports rumors and innuendo about Ladybug and Chat Noir being together even though they aren't.
* MonsterClown: Lila's first mission as (the heroic) Vulpine is to fight a clown-themed akuma who turns people into balloon animals.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Lila set out to overthrow and destroy Marinette, but all she wound up doing was convincing the classmates to abandon her, meaning they're no longer burdening her with endless requests for favors and support. Without them dragging her down, Marinette flourishes and becomes more popular and accomplished than ever.
* OffTheTable: The shock of being fired as a hero and denounced as a journalist pushes Alya to finally do some actual journalism and figure out what happened. She finally takes seriously the comments on her blog calling Lila out as a liar, she reveals this to the class, and they all denounce her the next day at school. Marinette, however, makes it clear that she won't be their friend again and she'd rather stick with Lila and Chloe than endure her other classmates.
* ShoutOut: After becoming closer, Marinette and Lila enjoy Franchise/DoctorWho together.
* {{Sidekick}}:
** Lila (and Chloe) eventually determine that Marinette should start marketing her designs. They assist her by modeling for her (along with Marinette's other friends) and her design career takes off. Lila also begins helping Marinette by covering for her when Marinette needs an excuse as to why she's not around, or when Marinette has to babysit but doesn't have time.
** Marinette (as Ladybug) also later lends Lila the fox Miraculous, allowing her to become Volpina for real and to fight alongside Ladybug.
* TakeThat: Lila mentions in a thought that she really hated how ''[[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice Batman V Superman]]'' ended.
* TurnInYourBadge: Ladybug fires all the existing heroes, including Chat Noir and Rena Rouge, and replaces them with real friends. Lila gets the fox Miraculous and becomes a new and improved Vulpine.
* UnknownRival: Lila set out to overthrow Marinette and become the most popular girl in school, mostly just to test herself. Marinette had no idea Lila even wanted that; she figured Lila was just telling lies and stealing her friends out of hatred. When Lila learns that Marinette hadn't even noticed what Lila was trying to do, she screams in frustration.
* WorthyOpponent: Lila sees Marinette as this.
* YouCanKeepHer: Marinette eventually offers Lila a truce: she'll let Lila keep the rest of the class as 'friends' so long as Lila just leaves Marinette out of things and doesn't lie about her anymore. Lila agrees.
