History Recap / ScarletLadyS1E5LadyWifi

This proves to be the tipping point; while Sabrina and Kim wonder why Chloé went so far and Marinette races to school (having accidentally slept in), Alya gets contacted by Hawk Moth. When he declares that he can help her unmask Scarlet Lady, she blithely declares that she already ''knows'' whom she is; she just has to prove to Chloé and the rest of the world that Marinette Dupain-Cheng is their heroine.

* BadLiar: {{Downplayed}}; Mme. Bustier dismisses Sabrina's suggestion that Chloé might be in the bathroom not because it's a weak bluff, but because she can't imagine Chloé willingly using a ''public'' restroom.

* CrocodileTears: Chloé sheds these while insisting that Alya's attempt to break into Marinette's locker without permission was a transgression of privacy that corrupted Marinette's very "essence."

** Though she and Marinette had already exchanged combinations, Alya didn't consider how it might look for her to snoop through her friend's locker without express permission (though, in fairness, it's not like the school even bothered notifying Marinette and getting her involved before doling out Alya's punishment). She also doesn't think anything of telling Hawk Moth that his ''sworn enemy'' Scarlet Lady is none other than her best friend.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Alya's eagerness to prove her theory spurs her to try accessing Marinette's locker, which leads to her being akumatized and ''telling Hawk Moth'' whom she thinks Scarlet Lady is.

* UnwittingPawn: {{Downplayed}}; Kim witnesses Chloé confronting Alya in front of Marinette's locker and gets pulled into the principal's office, where she uses him as a LivingProp during her dramatics.

* MythologyGag: Alya thinks one of her classmates is Scarlet Lady because she sees them carrying something ladybug-themed. She later remarks that she thinks Marinette would make a good superhero, even sketching a red and blacks-spotted costume over a photo of the latter that looks very much like Ladybug's costume in canon.

!![[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/186102029564/i-dont-know-why-you-thought-alya-would-give-you-a Episode 5 - Lady Wifi - Tales of Alya the Journalist]]

!!Episode 5 - Lady Wifi - Tales of Alya the Journalist

!!Episode 5 - Lady [=WiFi=] - Tales of Alya the Journalist

As class lets out, Marinette goes to retrieve something from her locker, while Sabrina pulls Alya aside to ask if she happens to know where Chloé disappeared to. Smirking, Alya suggests she might have IBS, disgusting Sabrina. Then they go to check on Marinette, only to witness her taking what appears to be a red and black-spotted yo-you out. Gasping, Alya immediately drags Sabrina aside, declaring this means that ''Marinette is Scarlet Lady!''

Unwilling to deal with this, Sabrina deflects to Nino, who proves... less than receptive to the idea. After all, he witnessed just how nasty she can get at the tail end of the Bubbler incident, coming back to himself in time to see how cruelly she treated Chat Noir. Despite his skepticism, Alya decides that the best way to prove her theory is by breaking into Marinette's locker for more evidence, rather than just wait for Marinette and ask her directly.

Unfortunately for her, Chloé heard about her theory from Sabrina. The next morning, the two girls tail Alya and Nino, with Chloé snapping a photo of Alya trying to access Marinette's locker. Kim gets dragged into the mess as they haul Alya off to the principal's office, where Chloé demands she be punished for her gross invasion of privacy. Damocles somewhat reluctantly gives Alya an hour's detention, but swiftly upgrades that to a week's suspension after Chloé invokes her father's name.

This proves to be the tipping point; while Sabrina and Kim wonder why Chloé went so far and Marinette races to school (having accidentally slept in), Alya gets contacted by Hawk Moth. When he declares that he can help her unmask Scarlet Lady, she blithely declares that she already ''knows'' who she is; she just has to prove to Chloé and the rest of the world that Marinette Dupain-Cheng is their heroine.

Marinette arrives, and Nino brings her and Adrien up to speed, explaining how she got suspended thanks to Chloé. To his confusion, Adrien reacts just as poorly to the notion that Marinette is secretly Scarlet Lady as ''Chloé'' did... and he's even more confused when Lady [=WiFi=] hijacks the television in their classroom and Marinette immediately recognizes the new akuma as Alya. How can she tell? According to her, her phone charm is a dead giveaway.

Class is canceled, and Marinette returns home while Adrien notes that Lady [=WiFi=] is likely to target her. Plagg teases him about the possibility that he's been crushing on Scarlet Lady all along, privately noting how his holder's completely forgotten that Marinette couldn't ''possibly'' be his 'partner'. (Much like how Chloé seems to have forgotten that she stole the Earrings from Marinette in the first place.)

Upon arriving, Chat Noir is horrified to see Marinette playing with a spotted yo-yo while wearing a matching mask. As he laments the discovery, the real Scarlet Lady shows up, furiously berating him. While they're arguing, Lady [=WiFi=] teleports in and abducts her bestie, taking her to Chloé's room. After failing to find her there, she dramatically unmasks Marinette in a live broadcast to all of Paris... right before the ''actual'' spotted superheroine shows up, much to her shock and confusion. Scarlet Lady taunts her misconception, and Lady [=WiFi=] swears that she'll rip her mask right off her smug face.

Locking down the whole hotel, she nearly manages to prove true to her word, getting her hands on both corners of her adversary's mask and nearly tugging it free before Chat Noir intervenes. Sneering about how ''romantic'' his attempt to save his partner is proves to be the wrong move, as Scarlet Lady flies into a blind rage. Chat Noir exploits this to go after the tower; realizing she'll be screwed if he takes it down, Lady [=WiFi=] pursues, but isn't able to prevent him from tagging the tower with his Cataclysm.

Both Scarlet Lady and Marinette arrive on the roof shortly thereafter, just in time to witness Lady [=WiFi=] pinning Chat Noir down. Snatching the yo-yo away from a shocked Scarlet Lady, Marinette swiftly snares the akuma's raised wrist, knocking her phone free and stomping on it to free the butterfly inside. As Marinette shouts at Scarlet Lady to catch it, Chat Noir dizzily remarks that she'd make a ''much'' better ladybug.

Alya then apologizes to Marinette for her actions as Lady [=WiFi=]; since she doesn't recall anything that happened while she was akumatized, she's shocked to learn that her bestie really ''isn't'' Scarlet Lady after all. Why did she have a yo-yo, then? Well, that's all for her 'project', which she reveals to Alya the next day: she made child-sized accessories based off of both heroes, including models of both of their weapons. She's also learned some tricks to teach Manon and the other kids she babysits.

While Ella and Etta test out the fruits of their labor, Alya apologizes for letting her imagination run away with her and forgetting what happened with Stoneheart. Still, she insists that Marinette would make a ''wonderful'' hero, showing her a photo that she's sketched a mock-up costume over. Marinette laughs at the notion, dismissing the idea, though... maybe it would work if she had her bestie by her side the whole time.

Elsewhere, Adrien tearfully declares to his own photograph that he'll never doubt Marinette again, while Chloé screams in frustration, having encountered a mysterious spate of bad luck... one that has Tikki chuckling gleefully as she helps herself to some Dupain-Cheng chocolate chip cookies.

* AllForNothing: PlayedForLaughs in a bonus panel where Marinette complains about how she rushed to school after oversleeping, only for class to get canceled after Alya's akumatization, leaving her feeling like she wasted a perfectly good opportunity to get caught up on her rest.
* AnswerCut: When Bustier asks Sabrina where Chloé and Adrien are, we cut over to a shot of Chat Noir fighting some tentacled akuma[[note]]WordOfGod implies it might be [[AuthorAvatar Zoe the Enchanted Florist]]'s first Akumatization[[/note]] while Scarlet Lady is fixing her lipstick.
* AskAStupidQuestion: When Nino wonders how Marinette is able to tell that Alya was akumatized into Lady [=WiFi=], Marinette blandly deadpans that she recognized her phone charm.

** Firstly, her mistaken belief that Marinette could be Scarlet Lady utterly ''enfuriates'' Chloé, fueling her determination to see Alya punished by the principal.
** Then, as Lady [=WiFi=], she steals Chloé's phone and uses it as one of her many passages through the locked-down hotel.
** On top of all that, she insinuates that Scarlet Lady and Chat Noir are ''romantically entangled'', sending the spotted superheroine into an utter fury that turns her legs into a whirlwind of ''PAIN''.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Lady Wifi 'unmasks' Marinette as Scarlet Lady, Marinette yells at her that she doesn't even ''like'' Scarlet Lady. Lady Wifi says they need to work on Marinette's self-confidence.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: It's repeatedly pointed out that all the drama could have been avoided if Alya had simply ''talked to Marinette'' rather than leaping to conclusions and going to extremes to prove her presumptions right. Or, for that matter, had anyone involved recalled that Marinette had been present during Scarlet Lady's debut ''and'' was kidnapped by Stoneheart.
-->'''Marinette:''' Y'know, I could've told you this stuff if you'd ''asked'' me. Or used your own ''memory''...
* CrocodileTears: Chloé sheds these while insisting that Alya's attempt to access Marinette's locker without permission was a transgression of privacy that corrupted her very ''essence''.

** While she and Marinette had exchanged combinations, Alya didn't consider how it might look for her to access her friend's locker without express permission. She also doesn't think anything of telling Hawk Moth that his ''sworn enemy'' Scarlet Lady is none other than her best friend.
** It's also repeatedly pointed out that everyone is overlooking how Marinette was ''present for Scarlet Lady's debut'', as well as how she had to be saved from Stoneheart. Even '''Adrien''' (who had to rescue her when Stoneheart tossed her away) forgets this!
* DisproportionateRetribution: Chloé manipulates the circumstances and gets Alya suspended from school for a full ''week'', all because she feels insulted by the blogger mistakenly believing Marinette is Scarlet Lady instead of her.
* DramaticIrony: The whole conflict stems from Marinette being mistaken for the ladybug heroine, with several characters declaring she'd make a wonderful superhero... all while blissfully unaware that Marinette was ''meant'' to have the Earrings all along. (Save for Tikki and Chloé, though the latter blatantly ignores that little factoid.)
* EveryoneHasStandards: Both Kim and Sabrina are bewildered by Chloé's treatment of Alya, with Sabrina specifically noting that she hadn't expected her to demand such a severe punishment.
* EvilIsPetty: Chloé gets Alya disproportionately punished just because the latter thought Marinette was Ladybug.

* LaserGuidedKarma: It's implied that Chloé's misfortunes during the denouncement are due to her misusing her powers as Scarlet Lady.
* MythologyGag: Alya thinks one of her classmates is Scarlet Lady because she sees them carrying Ladybug-themed stuff.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: One notable side-effect of Lady [=WiFi's=] antics was that Alya's mother learned about the one-week suspension and was enraged that she hadn't been contacted before it was handed down, leading to the punishment being lifted.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Chloé invokes her father's name in order to pressure Principal Damocles into severely punishing Alya.
* SelfServingMemory: As Tikki angrily points out, Chloé should be aware that Marinette was ''meant'' to have the Earrings, as she stole them from her purse herself. Chloé completely tunes this reminder out.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Nino suggests Alya to either call Marinette or just wait for the next day so she can ask directly. Unfortunately, Alya's lack of patience pushes her to access Marinette's locker.
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Alya's eagerness to prove her theory spurs her to try accessing Marinette's locker, which leads to her akumatization and ''telling Hawk Moth'' who she thinks Scarlet Lady is.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Sabrina had ''no idea'' Chloé would react so ''violently'' upon hearing about Alya's theory.
* UnwittingPawn: {{Downplayed}}; Kim witnesses Chloé confronting Alya in front of Marinette's locker, and gets pulled into the principal's office, where she uses him as a LivingProp during her dramatics.
* WhatTheHellHero: Tikki angrily confronts Chloé over how she got Alya suspended for a week out of sheer pettiness. Chloé brushes her off, claiming Alya 'deserved it' for ever believing Marinette could measure up to her.

* AnswerCut: When Bustier asks Sabrina where Chloé and Adrien are, we cut over to a shot of Chat Noir fighting some tentacled akuma[[note]]Given that the tentacles have thorns, it might actually be vines[[/note]] while Scarlet Lady is fixing her lipstick.

Unwilling to deal with this, Sabrina deflects to Nino, who proves... less than receptive to the idea. After all, he witnessed just how nasty she can get at the tail end of the Bubbler incident, coming back to himself in time to see how cruelly she treated Chat Noir. Despite his skepticism, Alya decides that the best way to prove her theory is by breaking into Marinette's locker for more evidence.

* AnswerCut: When Bustier asks Sabrina where Chloé and Adrien are, we cut over to a shot of Chat Noir fighting some tentacled akuma while Scarlet Lady is fixing her lipstick.

* SelfServingMemory: As Tikki points out, Chloé should be aware that Marinette was ''meant'' to have the Earrings, as she stole them from her purse herself. Chloé completely tunes this reminder out.

** It's also repeatedly pointed out that everyone is overlooking how Marinette was ''present for Scarlet Lady's debut'', as well as how she had to be saved from Stoneheart. Even '''Adrien''' forgets this!