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* ForgetfulJones: Kim is often shown as not very smart, but he is especially forgetful in "Syren," needing to be reminded to take off his swimming cap before going to the movies. Later, when he jumps into the flood waters for a swim, the author points out another memory lapse in the notes: "I'd like a pair of goggles so this nasty river isn't in my eyes, tbh." He does have swim goggles, but they are pushed up on top of his head.

* ForWantOfANail: [[ForWantOfANail/ScarletLady Has its own page.]]

*** Chat Noir/Adrien's worst qualities, such as his EntitledToHaveYou and ExtremeDoormat tendencies, have been almost completely cut out: he sincerely helps Marinette sort out her feelings for Luka despite his painfully obvious jealousy, and stands up to the toxic individuals in his life such as [[AbusiveParents his father]], [[AlphaBitch Chloe]], and [[ManipulativeBastard Lila]], calling out the latter two for their crap rather than trying to excuse or appease them, and pushing back against the former by dying his hair atrocious colors or threatening to out his atrocious parenting to the media. He also undergoes considerable CharacterDevelopment early in the story to become much more competent and professional than he was in canon.

* TheFaceless: Luka's first appearance at the end of "Reflekta" has his head above the panel, preventing readers from seeing it.

*** Chat Noir/Adrien's worst qualities, such as his EntitledToHaveYou and ExtremeDoormat tendencies, have been almost completely cut out: he sincerely helps Marinette sort out her feelings for Luka despite his painfully obvious jealousy, and stands up to the toxic individuals in his life such as [[AbusiveParents his father]], [[AlphaBitch Chloe]], and [[ManipulativeBastard Lila]], calling out the latter two for their crap rather than trying to excuse or appease them, and pushing back against the former by pushing back against the former by dying his hair atrocious colors or threatening to out his atrocious parenting to the media. He also undergoes considerable CharacterDevelopment early in the story to become much more competent and professional than he was in canon.

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*** Chat Noir/Adrien's worst qualities, such as his EntitledToHaveYou and ExtremeDoormat tendencies, have been almost completely cut out: he sincerely helps Marinette sort out her feelings for Luka despite his painfully obvious jealousy, and stands up to the toxic individuals in his life such as [[AbusiveParents his father]], [[AlphaBitch Chloe]], and [[ManipulativeBastard Lila]],

** Jalil to his father because [[ItMakesSenseInContext he won't let him use the museum's artifacts to make a ritual sacrifice]].

---> '''D'Argencourt:''' Centuries ago, the Black Knight ruled Paris with an iron fist. Until he was overthrown by a '''''commoner,''''' who used his gold to buy the loyalty of the lower class of Paris!\\

--->'''Kim:''' ''[reading Ondine's note]'' "I'm super in love with a boy who doesn't suspect anything." ''[laughing]'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Haha! That guy sounds like an idiot!]]

** Nooroo mentally mouths off to Gabriel at the end of "Sandboy".

** In "Intermission," you can see Alya pulling on Marinette's cheeks while Sabrina wonders about Chloé being Scarlet Lady's fan.

* GenderFlip: In their first appearance in the comic, Marc Anciel is established to go by they/them pronouns, and is either nonbinary or genderfluid.

* GilliganCut: Kim praises Max in "The Gamer" for acting calm and collected despite the crushing defeat handed to him. Cut to Max, who's internally screaming.

** "Reverser" has [[spoiler:Master Fu transforming into Jade Turtle so he can let Chat Noir give out a Miraculous without having to go all the way back to where he keeps the Miracle Box, instead using his shield to access the Miraculous. He explains that he can't stay transformed for too long because it causes pain in his old age, but since all three heroes had been affected by the Akuma, he thought it was necessary in this instance]].

* GoneHorriblyRight: Mireille enters the weather girl contest simply to try and leave her comfort zone and was never interested in winning. When she apparently [[LandslideElection wins by a landslide anyway]] ([[spoiler:due to the producers rigging the contest in her favor]]), Aurore, the runner-up, gets akumatized into Stormy Weather and traps Mireille in ice.

*** After Marinette's boobytrapped diary box clamps around Sabrina's wrist, Sabrina mouths off at Chloé--who made her steal Marinette's diary in the first place--for the first time. Then, when Chloé scoffs at and refuses to believe her when she explains what happened (despite the box being visibly latched to Sabrina's wrist), Sabrina outright ''yells'' at her.

*** Chloé refusing to pull her weight in the group physics projects in "Evillustrator" and claiming she's Sabrina's OnlyFriend (thus dismissing all the kindness the rest of the class has shown her) pushes Sabrina past her RageBreakingPoint. She gives her "friend" a scathing TheReasonYouSuchSpeech and has to be restrained by Marinette from starting a fistfight. Though she "forgives" Chloé by the end, [[spoiler:she makes clear that this is Chloé's last chance]].

** Hawk Moth can't help but do this when Kung Food's minions get cheese crumbs in Marinette's eyes after he specifically told them not to harm her, as Chat Noir's BerserkButton is pressed. AGAIN.

** After Stormy Weather shows up at the park, Marinette is so focused on comforting Manon that she misses [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/184255534474/adrien-have-you-heard-of-ducking-for-cover Adrien transforming into Chat Noir]] right behind her.

** Parodied in "Lady Wifi" when Marinette immediately recognizes that the titular akuma is Alya while Nino wonders how she can possibly tell. Marinette stares at him in disbelief, as Lady Wifi visibly resembles Alya and talks like her, too. She finally [[DeadpanSnarker deadpans]] that it's because of her phone charm, to which Nino responds, "Whoa, you're right." Adrien can barely restrain himself from laughing at his friend's obliviousness.

** It takes three months for Gabriel to notice that his son has started wearing a ring. Adrien is utterly unimpressed when he finally comments on it.
** Lila completely misses that Marinette, Nino, and Alix are mortified about her "knowing" Scarlet Lady, even though they are standing right behind her. Alya, Rose, and Kim also don't notice.

-->'''Mr. Kubdul:''' Jalil, you're not using museum artifacts to perform a '''''sacrificial ritual!''''' For several reasons!\\

--->'''Ondine:''' I'm super in love with a boy who doesn't suspect anything.\\
'''Kim:''' That guy sounds like an idiot!\\
'''Ondine:''' ''[thinking]'' You're not wrong.
** Nathalie thinks up a snide remark at Gabriel's expense, which she keeps to herself.
--->'''Nathalie:''' Look at it this way: at least [Adrien]'s admiring the smart [[spoiler:Marigold]] and not the incompetent leader, Scarlet Lady.\\
'''Gabriel:''' Scarlet Lady is '''not''' incompetent! She's the slipperiest of the whole group!\\
'''Nathalie:''' Of course, sir. ''[thinking]'' Because if she was an idiot, you'd be the guy losing to that idiot.

'''Nooroo:''' ''[thinking]'' You haven't even managed to get the Miraculouses you're invested in, you flop.

** During her argument with Chloé inside Rogercop's car, Marinette tells the akuma that Chloé should be arrested for not wearing a seat belt. Chat Noir arrives to rescue the two girls soon after, though he accidentally causes one of the rear doors to swing open and Chloé to fall out, as unlike Marinette, she wasn't strapped in.

* ForceFeeding: In "Syren", Scarlet Lady tells Marigold and Chat Noir that they can save the day without her since they won't tell her their secrets. They react by force-feeding her the power up potion and saying they would go without her if they could.

** In "Vanisher", [[spoiler: Chloé is separated from everyone else including Tikki by the villain and unable to transform into Scarlet Lady. Master Fu tells Tikki that she'll have to use the WorldHealingWave by herself, which will have consequences, though not as big as if she used Lucky Charm by herself]]. Master Fu also promises he will send help. It's finally time for [[spoiler:Marinette to make her debut as Marigold the Bee hero]].
** The following episode, "Riposte", shows that [[spoiler:Tikki going to visit Master Fu when she realizes that Chloé won't be able to transform]] is an example of this trope, [[spoiler:as one of the rules she tells Pollen is to not visit the Guardian by herself unless her holder can't transform]].
** "Princess Fragrance" ends with [[spoiler:Marigold deciding that she and Chat Noir need to take Scarlet Lady's earrings after Tikki gets sick and Marigold believes that Scarlet Lady is irresponsible enough to let Chloé steal her. [[RightForTheWrongReasons Even if it isn't the full truth]], the fact that the Ladybug hero easily lost her kwami (as far as the other heroes know) and also wasn't willing to get her healed is a big cause for concern]].
* GoingForTheBigScoop: Alya's motivation as in canon. The reason Marinette gets involved in the first akuma battle is so she can get Alya out of there, because she believes Alya is ''freaking insane''.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Mireille enters the weather girl contest simply to try and leave her comfort zone and was never interested in winning. When she apparently [[LandslideElection wins by a landslide anyway]] ([[spoiler:due to the producers rigged the contest in her favor]]), Aurore, the runner-up, gets akumatized into Stormy Weather and traps Mireille in ice.
* GotVolunteered: During Mr. Pigeon's siege, Chat suggests to Marinette that they might be able to lure him into a trap. Scarlet immediately 'thanks' Marinette for 'volunteering'.
* GreenEyedMonster: PlayedForLaughs; Hawkmoth is ''incredibly jealous'' upon seeing the heroes get powered-up forms, pouting over how ''unfair'' it is and later [[ImagineSpot imagining]] what his own transformation would look like.

** Parodied in "Lady Wifi". While Marinette immediately recognizes that the titular akuma is Alya, Nino wonders how she can possibly tell. Marinette stares at him in disbelief, as Lady Wifi visibly resembles Alya and talks like her too. She finally [[DeadpanSnarker deadpans]] that it's because of her phone charm, to which Nino responds, "Whoa, you're right." Adrien can barely restrain himself from laughing at his friend's obliviousness.

---> '''D'Argencourt:''' Centuries ago, the Black Knight ruled Paris with an iron fist. Until he was overthrown by a '''commoner''', who used his gold to buy the loyalty of the lower class of Paris!\\
'''Adrien:''' ''(thinking)'' If some guy giving '''money to the poor''' while your ancestor ruled with an 'iron fist' caused a '''revolution'''... then maybe your ancestor was kind of a '''dick'''.

** During her argument with Chloé inside Rogercop's car, Marinette tells the akuma that Chloé should be arrested for not wearing a seatbelt. Chat Noir arrives to rescue the two girls soon after, though he accidentally causes one of the rear doors to swing open and Chloé to fall out, as unlike Marinette, she wasn't strapped in.

* GilliganCut: After witnessing Max's loss in "Gamer", Kim praises him for acting calm and collected despite the crushing defeat handed to him. Cut to Max, who's internally screaming.

** Happens to Sabrina as well after Chloé getting Roger fired over a minor slight opens Sabrina's eyes to how awful of a "friend" Chloé really is. In "Reflekta," Sabrina finally has enough of Chloé's shit and refuses to lock Juleka in the bathroom, forcing her to do her own dirty work.

** Parodied in "Lady Wifi." While Marinette immediately recognizes that the titular akuma is Alya, Nino wonders how she can possibly tell. Marinette stares at him in disbelief, as Lady Wifi visibly resembles Alya and talks like her too. She finally [[DeadpanSnarker deadpans]] that it's because of her phone charm, to which Nino responds, "Whoa, you're right." Adrien can barely restrain himself from laughing at his friend's obliviousness.

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: In this fic, "Pixelator" isn't the first time the mayor and Jagged Stone met but neither of them remembers any previous meetings. The mayor claims he only remembers "the important people" and Jagged, upon being reminded by Penny that the mayor is Bob Roth's friend, says it's no wonder he erased the mayor from his memory.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: While the rest of the class is calling out Chloé for her behavior in "Zombizou," Sabrina declares that she doesn't have the right to take her angst out on others "just because your mom forgets ''your'' birthday". This causes Chloé to ''instantly'' drop her "better than all of you" attitude to snap defensively at her.

** During "Rogercop", when Adrien discovers Plagg with Chloé's bracelet, you can see little text bubbles of Alya insulting Chloé as she stands up for Marinette.
** During "Reflekta", you can see Alix smirking at all the chaos caused from Adrien shoving Chloé off him.
** In "Syren", when the akuma flies to Ondine, there is a man cleaning in the background who notices and runs off.
** In "Intermission", you can see Alya pulling on Marinette's cheeks while Sabrina wonders about Chloé being Scarlet Lady's fan.
** After Jagged Stone drops his tablet on XY's head, you can see the akuma that will akumatize Jagged into the titular "Guitar Villain" fluttering by, and a hotel staffer looking at it nervously.
** Also from "Guitar Villain", while [[spoiler:Marigold]] freaks out about all the stuff she has to deal with once she transforms back, Chat is calmly asking Jagged for an autograph.
** In the background at the party in "Despair Bear", Chloé tries to get Butler Jean to put Mr. Cuddly away before everybody sees it.
** In "Silencer", while Chloé is going on about Marinette's designs being hard for Bob and XY to copy, Luka quickly accepts his akumatization in the background.
** As Mme. Bustier is accepting Hawkmoth's offer to become "Zombizou", Chloé tiptoes past her to reach the stairs, side-eyeing her the whole time.
** While Alya and some of the other girls freak out over the picture of Marinette and Adrien in "Gorizilla", Kagami is aggressively blasting Alix with a water gun while Ondine looks on nervously.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Mireille enters the Weather Girl contest simply to try and leave her comfort zone and was never interested in winning. When she apparently wins by a landslide anyway ([[spoiler:due to the producers rigged the contest in her favor]]), Aurore, the runner-up, gets akumatized into Stormy Weather and traps Mireille in ice.

* GrewASpine: In "Reflekta", Sabrina finally has enough of Chloé's shit and refuses to lock Juleka in the bathroom, forcing her to do her own dirty work.

** Chloé completely misses the fact that the reason The Bubbler agreed to play a slow song was for [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/185550356054/always-check-your-surroundings-before-forcing-your Adrien to dance with Marinette, not her]].
** Parodied in "Lady Wifi." While Marinette immediately recognizes that the titular akuma is Alya, Nino wonders how she can possibly tell. Marinette stares at him in disbelief, as Lady Wifi visibly resembles Alya and speaks like her too. She finally [[DeadpanSnarker deadpans]] that it's because of her phone charm, to which Nino responds, "Whoa, you're right." Adrien can barely restrain himself from laughing at his friend's obliviousness.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: On the second page of "Vanisher," when Chloé arrives in class, she does so by slamming the door, causing someone to yell. As she talks about how hard her morning was, everyone can be seen still looking towards the door. [[spoiler:It's because they can't see or hear Chloé and are wondering why the door seemingly slammed by itself]].

** There's an EasterEgg in "Intermission": [[spoiler:the titles of each of the pages is the name of a Miraculous power, and they are in the order that they were planned to appear in the comic at the time of writing]]. [[spoiler:This reveals that not only are the Fox, Turtle, Dragon, Snake, Horse, and Monkey Miraculous going to be used, but that the Mouse Miraculous will also be used ''before'' the aforementioned ones, which happens in "Puppeteer." [[spoiler:In that episode, Marigold's doll gets taken by the titular akuma, so Adrien tells her to detransform while he temporarily gives out another Miraculous, unknowingly giving it to her civilian identity, Marinette]].

** In "Ikari Gozen," Chat Noir and Marigold have a conversation about how Scarlet Lady has three known powers and wonder if that means they might have other powers, too. At the start of "Zombizou," Master Fu mentions that the Grimoire says something about Miraculous users being able to manifest new powers when they most need it. [[spoiler:These both foreshadow the climax of the latter episode, when Marigold unlocks a new power from her panic after Scarlet Lady is infected]].
** Towards the end of "The Mime", Mylène suggests that the girls should go out to the water park. The next episode is "Gorizilla", which involves the girls going there.

** In "The Collector," Lila tells Marinette that her lies started "as a defense - new kid syndrome or whatever." However, they became fun once she realized how far she could push it.
** Kagami's mother states (while akumatized) in "Ikari Gozen" that the reason she forbids Kagami from having friends is because her own friends abandoned her after she became blind.

* GetOut: Adrien orders a fighting Scarlet Lady and Volpina, along with Marinette, out of his room so he can turn back into Chat Noir.

** In "Prime Queen," Lila mentions needing cash for Mme. Bustier's present, foreshadowing the next episode, "Zombizou," when said birthday takes place.

-->'''Mr. Kubdul:''' Jalil, you're not using museum artifacts to perform a '''sacrificial ritual!''' For several reasons!\\

** Scarlet Lady flips a double bird at Lady Wifi (which she blocks) after the latter implies Scarlet is in a relationship with Chat Noir.

** Adrien flips off Scarlet Lady after she tries to make fun of him and [[spoiler:Maotif]] for being "gross".

** Chat promising to help Marigold regain her voice after teasing Scar about losing hers causes the Ladybug heroine to angrily flips him off.
* FollowThatCar: With those exact words, Adrien tells his driver to pursue Kagami in "Riposte", unwittingly running both himself and Marinette into akuma danger.

* ForgetfulJones: Kim is often shown as not very smart, but in "Syren" he is especially forgetful. He has to be reminded to take off his swimming cap before going to the movies. Later, when he jumps into the flood waters for a swim, the author points out another memory lapse in the notes: "I’d like a pair of goggles so this nasty river isn’t in my eyes, tbh." He has swim goggles, but they are pushed up on top of his head.

* ForWantOfANail: [[ForWantOfANail/ScarletLady Has its own page.]]

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: While the rest of the class is calling out Chloé for her behavior in "Zombizou", Sabrina declares that she doesn't have the right to take her angst out on others "just because your mom forgets ''your'' birthday". This causes Chloé to ''instantly'' drop her "better than all of you" attitude to snap defensively at her.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Mireille tells Aurore that she only joined the Weather Girl contest as a means of leaving her comfort zone and was never interested in winning, [[spoiler:especially since the producers rigged the contest in her favor]].

* GreenEyedMonster: PlayedForLaughs; Hawkmoth is ''incredibly jealous'' upon seeing the heroes get powered-up forms, pouting over how ''unfair'' it is and later [[ImagineSpot imagining]] what his own transformation could look like.

* FixFic: The writer has set out to fix as many inconsistencies in canon as she can, despite the AU setting. She's also decided on an actual order and timeline, which can be found [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/185088503999/hi-there-just-curious-what-order-of-the-episodes here]]. Said order itself fixes a few things that didn't make sense in canon; for example, [[AdaptationalLateAppearance "Pixelator," "Guitar Villain," and "Princess Fragrance" not taking place until]] ''[[AdaptationalLateAppearance long after]]'' [[AdaptationalLateAppearance "Volpina"]] makes Lila's lies about knowing Jagged Stone and Prince Ali more believable to the class.
** In canon "Mr. Pigeon," after Marinette proves that she designed her hat and that Chloé copied her, the latter simply storms off to complain to her father. Here, Nathalie, Gabriel, and Principal Damocles collectively call Chloé out on her plagiarism, as well as her pathetic attempt to scapegoat Sabrina by claiming it was her idea, which ends with Chloé being both disqualified and banned from all future contests.
** Jalil's inaccurate statements about Egyptology were attributed to ArtisticLicenseHistory and being SadlyMythcharacterized in the show. Here, Alix instead lampshades and calls her brother out on his multiple [[InUniverseFactoidFailure In-Universe Factoid Failures]].
** Unlike in the canonical "Rogercop," Marinette invoking EveryoneIsASuspect due to a lack of evidence otherwise is ''NOT'' portrayed as being just as bad as Chloé's baseless accusations. Moreover, Adrien is shown to be heavily concerned about Marinette being accused and Sabrina's father being fired, whereas in canon, he was more distracted by his self-pity.
*** In the show, Marinette rather harshly points out that Sabrina is also a suspect and should have her bag searched due to being seen handling the bracelet in Nino's video. In the webcomic, her expression is much kinder, and she simply asks Sabrina if she still has it.
*** Nathaniel is cleared as a suspect immediately after his sketch of the bracelet is noticed, [[AdaptationalIntelligence with him pointing out that he never left his seat]].
*** Sabrina is actually shown going into HeroicBSOD over her "best friend" Chloé getting Roger fired on a petty whim, whereas she wasn't nearly as bothered by this in canon. Later, StatusQuoIsGod is averted, as Sabrina visibly has difficulty getting over what Chloé did, [[spoiler:marking the beginning of her HeelFaceTurn and her gradually ending her [[ToxicFriendInfluence toxic friendship]] with Chloé]].
*** KarmaHoudini [[AdaptationalKarma is also averted]], as Mayor Bourgeois forces Chloé to apologize to Marinette. Chloé's expression says it all.
*** Though it doesn't get brought up until several episodes later in the comic, it's revealed that Roger and Sabrina [[spoiler:looked into things and learned that the mayor never had the authority to fire him in the first place, something that Roger later rather gleefully informs Chloé of]].
** The class explicitly state in "Darkblade" that they only attended Chloé's campaign launch for the free stuff that was being given away and never had any intention of voting for her, the class bully, over Marinette, their friend. Additionally, Chloé is left at a loss for words when Ms. Bustier asks her if she had tried to bribe her classmates for their votes after an AccidentalPublicConfession from Chloé.
*** Adrien privately notes that D'Argencourt's description of the Black Knight ruling Paris "with an iron fist" and being overthrown by someone who apparently gave money to the poor implies that D'Argencourt's ancestor wasn't really as heroic as D'Argencourt paints him.
** In "Gamer," instead of Marinette being portrayed as being in the wrong for not taking the tournament seriously and selfishly competing for a spot in the tournament when Max wanted it more, she explicitly points out to Alya that she would only get to compete in the tournament by being the best and earning a spot fairly in tryouts.
*** Marinette rushes to meet Alya at school to work on a report in canon, only to find Alya recording the video game tournament. So why didn't Alya reschedule? In this version, both find out about the tournament at the same time, and Marinette points out how worked up Alya is about it despite only just having learned about the tournament.
*** Max is the one who has a HeelRealization about his poor sportsmanship and apologizes to Marinette in the end. Moreover, multiple people, including [[VillainHasAPoint Hawk Moth and Scarlet Lady]], point out to him that he lost to ''two'' people and that he exclusively took his anger out on Marinette.
*** In the show, Adrien gave up his spot in the tournament so that Marinette wouldn't have to on the grounds that she was the best player and deserved to represent the school, even though he did it so Max, who placed in third behind him, could compete. Here, he drops out because he's bad at co-op and only got a higher score than Max in tryouts because they were one-on-one, thus removing the hypocrisy in his actions. In addition, Max initially protests on the grounds that Adrien earned his spot fairly, showing he really has learned his lesson about being a GracefulLoser.
** Canon "Timebreaker" had Alix learn a lesson about how she shouldn't have given her watch to someone else to look after, as it was her own responsibility, which comes off as a BrokenAesop due to how she likely would've damaged her watch had she carried it with her while skating. Here, her friends state that it's their fault, not hers, that they weren't more careful with the watch, and Alya points out that Alix ''was'' being responsible by making sure her watch was in a safe place before racing.
*** Alix's friend are shown to be much more proactive in trying to make things up to her, thinking up of various ways they can help fix the broken watch.
*** Rose [[AdaptationalIntelligence runs away from Timebreaker]] instead of approaching the akuma out of concern
*** In canon, Marinette apologizes for not being at the bakery when Nadja arrived to give Nadja her cake, and her parents gently scold her for it (though to be fair, they didn't know she had left the bakery and thought she was up in her room). In the comic, they know about Marinette's absence and instead reassure her that it wasn't her fault, pointing out that Nadja shouldn't have demanded she be given her cake twenty minutes before the scheduled time after arriving early without notice, especially when she knew the bakery was closed for a personal day.
** Unlike the canonical "Simon Says," Nathalie and Nino [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse don't just disappear mid-episode]]. [[spoiler:They (and Marinette) are captured by the army of minions and taken to the TV studio, where Nathalie uses her martial arts skills (as seen in "Felix") to take part in the fight and save Gabriel from trying to fly off the building]].
** In "Befana," the ice-cream vendor asks Gina "You're not gonna ride back together?" when Marinette runs off to get to her party, causing Gina to look blank. The author adds, "Will never understand why Gina didn't give Marinette a ride."
** "Kung Food" has Marinette actually know Chinese, and her struggles with the language barrier stem more from nervousness than inexperience.
** "Evillustrator" has Marinette and Sabrina getting some of their schoolwork done together, partly due to the former not having to run off to transform when the akuma shows up at the library. Sabrina also witnesses the akuma visit Marinette's bedroom and her agreement to go out with him, unlike her canon counterpart, who thought that Marinette just left her to do all the work without a good reason.
*** The comic also fixes the sad situation of nobody apparently knowing or caring about Nathaniel going missing on his birthday. In this version, after getting akumatized, he blows off birthday plans he made with Alix in favor of romancing Marinette, which is shown to greatly annoy Alix. He also tells Marinette that he doesn't tell many people about his birthday anyway due to not wanting all the attention.
*** The above episode also follows up on Nathaniel after his akumatization - he is shown to feel really embarrassed over having asked Marinette out on a date, as he wouldn't have done that in any other circumstance.
*** Sabrina might have gone back to being Chloé's friend at the end of the episode like in canon, but here, [[spoiler:she firmly tells Chloé that this is her last chance]].
** "Vanisher" gives the titular character [[spoiler:a different appearance rather than just Sabrina but invisible, as well as a few other powers]]. More importantly, [[spoiler:StatusQuoIsGod is soundly averted, with Sabrina ending her "friendship" with Chloé for good]].
*** In the flashback, when Chloé tries to crash Nadja Chamack's interview with Jagged Stone, the rockstar recalls her antics in "Kung Food" and tells Nadja about them, all of which get broadcast on live TV.
** In "Riposte," the illegal "corps-a-corps" shoving that Kagami does is called out by Marinette, even though it is ignored by the fencing master. Additionally, Marc points out that Kagami's suggestion to disconnect her and Adrien from the scoring machines for "more freedom" means giving up an impartial judge. This means that [[CheatersNeverProsper Kagami deserved to lose]], even if the final call on who gets the point is biased.
*** Canon portrayed Marinette as being responsible for Kagami's akumatization due to her making a biased call in Adrien's favor, even though Marinette explicitly said she couldn't be sure and was never actually proven to have made the wrong call. Here, D'Argencourt ignores Marinette after she tries to analyze Kagami's rule breakage instead of providing a quick answer when asked who won the bout, and it's instead Chloé who makes a biased call, stating in no uncertain terms that Adrien was the winner.
*** D'Argentcourt's role in Kagami's akumatization is also emphasized; had he recognized Kagami's "corps-a-corps" and called off the bout when he was supposed to (or listened to Marinette when she tried to tell him that), he likely would've avoided the situation of Chloé being one of the only witnesses to the end of the bout.
** A small example happens in "Syren," where the fact that the Couffaines live in a houseboat is acknowledged, with Anarka and Luka using it to save Juleka and the rest of the class (aside from Marinette, Adrien, and Kim) from the flood.
** Kim isn't interested in Chloé, here, and his akumatization in "Dark Cupid" is caused by Chloé ruining his attempt to ask Ondine out when she mistook his Valentine's Day gift for Ondine as being for her instead.
*** Max deconstructs Ms. Bustier's faith in TrueLovesKiss, pointing out most examples from fairy tales aren't consensual.
*** Chloé fails to trick Adrien's fans into thinking she's his one true love, as here, she shoddily forges his signature on a poster instead of tricking him into signing it. The fans immediately recognize it isn't his signature and even call her out on her pathetic lie.
** There are three different defenses the heroes use against Puppeteer's dolls in this AU: keep the doll away from her (Chat), destroy the doll (Scar), or detransform so you don't look like the doll ([[spoiler:Marigold]]). Only the first defense was tried in canon, and it was not done very well: Chat's and Ladybug's dolls were eventually captured for a NearVillainVictory. Here, the author has the heroes hide the Chat Noir doll before fighting Puppeteer, and the end tags call out Ladybug for not doing the same in canon. (In fact, Ladybug did way worse, because the Chat Noir doll was already taken -- she brought her '''own''' doll to the fight!)
** From a tag in "Pixelator": "lol i had to fix that weird time stream problem of Jagged and the Mayor 'first' meeting here somehow! XD." In both canon and this AU, they had already judged a cooking show together in "Kung Food," and Jagged Stone gave an interview at the hotel shortly before Sabrina's akumatization into Vanisher. The webcomic explains that the mayor only bothers to remember "important" people, while Jagged Stone says he erases Bob Roth's friends from his memory.
*** When [[spoiler:Marigold]] makes a deal with Pixelator to free half his captives in exchange for the location of Jagged Stone, she is shown thinking, "Chat Noir probably got hit as a civilian. Hopefully this will free him." The tag notes say, "It was never really 'explained' why Ladybug went with this deal with Pixelator in canon, so this is my interpretation."
** When Princess Fragrance is defeated, Prince Ali gets Rose's name from Chloé when she suggests he "ditch Rose" and go with her. The author says in a tag: "still laughing at Ali somehow knowing Rose's name in canon despite no one saying it."
** In "Despair Bear," both Chloé and Marinette accuse each other directly and publicly of calling in the false fire alarm. In canon, Marinette's friends keep her from "stooping to her level" and accusing without "solid proof." The author says in a tag note, "yeah we're doing away with the pointless comparing of Marinette and Chloé in this episode it was so pointless and went nowhere."
*** Instead of just giving Chloé an ultimatum about ending their friendship, [[spoiler:Adrien flat out declares they are no longer friends]] after her stunt with the fire alarm. [[spoiler:He isn't fooled by her half-hearted attempts to win him back, either, and does ''not'' forgive her in the end]].
** Adrien being OutOfFocus for much of "Silencer" is here explained as him wanting to compete alongside his friends in the contest but being ineligible due to contractual reasons. Nevertheless, Kitty Section keeps him in the loop when they make their shocking discovery, and he does his best to help them by informing his father that Bob Roth, one of Gabriel's business partners, is a plagiarist. He's rewarded by being given his own Kitty Section costume at the end.
*** Jagged Stone gets a PapaWolf moment when he makes a surprise appearance at the end, demanding to Bob Roth that they talk about the latter threatening Marinette (Jagged's "favorite designer") and Kitty Section ([[spoiler:whose members include Jagged's two kids]]).
** Due to Marinette not being obsessed with Adrien, here, she immediately suggests Luka as Jagged Stone's new guitarist in "Desperada." It probably helped that Jagged was practically offering the job to Luka directly, given how specific his hints were.
*** Adrien doesn't have a crush on any of the superheroes, so he doesn't waste time trying to impress anyone as Aspik. Instead, he purposely misuses Second Chance to get revenge on Scarlet Lady, knowing that his repeated "failures" will give him an excuse to never be called on again and help him better maintain his secret identity as Chat Noir.
*** Canon never explained how the heroes knew they were under the Eiffel Tower while in the sewers. Here, it's stated that signs indicating what parts of the sewer are under the Eiffel Tower zone were installed due to how often the tower gets destroyed in akuma fights (which is actually close to TruthInTelevision, as there are street signs in Parisian sewers).
*** Though Jagged Stone still fires Vivica [[DisproportionateRetribution simply for eating his cereal and drinking Fang's milk]], the reveal that his real motive was to [[spoiler:create an excuse to spend time with his kids]] makes him come off as much more sympathetic.
** The comic does away with Marinette and Kagami's romantic rivalry over Adrien (partly because Marinette [[LovesMyAlterEgo is more interested in Chat Noir]]), so there are no tensions between them at all when they get paired up in "Ikari Gozen."
** In canon, Jagged Stone is shown to have abandoned Anarka and their children because he was afraid of being a father, making one of the nicer (if a bit eccentric) characters on the show come off as a huge jerk. Here, it's established that [[spoiler:due to a misunderstanding that Bob Roth orchestrated, Anarka initially didn't tell Jagged about Luka and Juleka and also didn't let him see them, and an earlier episode has Penny mention that he pays child support for the twins]].
** In canon "The Mime," Marinette steals Alya's phone, gets away with it, and ends up dropping it into garbage when she foolishly tries to re-create the deleted video. Here her theft is immediately caught by Myléne, who suggests a much more sensible plan to recover the video.

* ForWantOfANail:
** The premise: what if Master Fu put the Miraculous in Marinette's purse instead of her room?
** Another factor is that instead of getting revenge on Marinette by putting gum in her chair, Chloé instead decides to steal from her purse, and ends up with the Miraculous, and thus becoming the titular NominalHero. This leads to numerous changes in Chloe's character:
*** Due to all the praise she gets as Paris' alledged protector despite the fact that Chat Noir does all the work, Chloe's already massive ego swells even more, causing her to become much more selfish and unpleasant.
*** This ramps up the abuse she puts on Sabrina, which she has a hard time taking or justifying even with her meek and servile personality. On top of the class noticing this and offering Sabrina emotional support, [[spoiler: it pushes Sabrina into eventually cutting off her friendship with Chloe]].
** On Adrien's front, having to deal with Scarlet Lady's incompetence and lazyness forced him to step up his game as a hero, and Scar's entitled and abusive behaviour towards him have made him grow more cynical and jaded, which, like Chloe, snowballed into bigger changes around him:
*** Adrien is much less tolerant of Chloe's behavior, in part because of Chloe getting worse, and part because Chloe reminds him of Scarlet Lady on a subconscious level. Like with Sabrina [[spoiler:he eventually stops considering Chloe his friend]].
*** Adrien is also way less meek and way more rebellious when dealing with his father, successfully forcing Gabriel into giving him more freedom by threatening to do something that would harm Gabriel's brand, such as dying his hair green or pink.
*** Since he's not in love with his superhero partner, Adrien quickly falls in love with Marinette upon noticing her bravery, kindness and resourcefulness.
** In the "Lady [=WiFi=]" adaptation, as Chloé actually ''is'' the Ladybug hero here, Alya doesn't accuse her of being Scarlet Lady. Instead, she suspects Marinette.
** "Copycat" flips who's unable to make it to the statue unveiling, as D'Argencourt refuses to let Adrien slip away from his fencing lessons, while the more fame-motivated Chloé naturally makes sure she has plenty of time not just to attend, but to doll up ahead of time. This also gives Théo a chance to confess his feelings directly to his crush, only for Scarlet to bluntly reject them.
** A bonus panel in "Darkblade" shows Marinette already entertaining the possibility of running for Class President without being pushed into it by anyone since she doesn't have the Ladybug duties in this AU.
** In canon, Marinette pretends to have been knighted by Darkblade to hide the fact she's Ladybug. In this fic, Darkblade really gets her under his command and Chloé hides her secret by claiming she was calling for Scarlet Lady, as she's too prideful to pretend she was caught.
** Due to being Scarlet Lady, Chloé decides that she's got better things to do than hang out at the library; thus, she misses Max's tournament.
** Instead of saying she's only better than Adrien at [=UMS3=] because of her amulet, Marinette suggests it's because he's not used to being a team player. He actually accepts her theory. [[spoiler:As a result, Adrien steps out of the tournament to give Max a spot. Adrien says it's because he believes Max to be a better team player]].
** In "Reflekta", Chloé has already alienated Sabrina to the point the latter refuses to help her and Chloé decides to get Juleka out of the way herself. Chloé even hopes Juleka will become an akuma so she can show off as Scarlet Lady.
** "Reflekta" has [[spoiler:Marinette using the Cat Miraculous, much like she canonically does during Reflekta's ''second'' outing. Because she's only a temporary hero, she isn't nearly as cautious with her identity]].
** Reflekta is defeated [[spoiler:more easily with a functioning Cat hero (Marinette/Maotif) in the game. She uses her InnateNightVision to catch the villain in the dark, rather than a flash camera Lucky Charm.]]
** In "Timebreaker", since Marinette doesn't have a crushing schedule as a hero, she is on top of her obligations about the race and keeps her parents informed, and thus doesn't have to lie when her father calls about the customer's early arrival. Additionally, since Marinette's parents know about her planned absence from the shop, the twenty-minute-early arrival of Mrs. Chamack is treated as an [[UnsatisfiableCustomer unreasonable demand]] rather than something to blame on Marinette.
** Also in "Timebreaker", [[spoiler:Chloé/Scarlet Lady is the one who ends up affected by Timebreaker's powers rather than Chat Noir, due to her incompetence. As a result, it's Chat Noir who follows Timebreaker into the past and gets blamed for the watch's destruction in the new timeline.]]
** "Timebreaker" also has how [[spoiler:seeing Timebreaker causes Chloé to drop the watch without being told by a future hero to put it down]].
** In canon, [[spoiler:Marinette needs Tikki's confirmation that Future Ladybug is really her future self. In this fic, Adrien believes his future self without Plagg's confirmation because Future Chat Noir calls Scarlet Lady the same way he does. (Plagg seems to confirm the other Chat Noir also, because he shows his face right away)]].
** In "Simon Says", Marinette is able to attend the show Nino is participating in because without the superhero duties she had in canon, she hasn't missed as much school and therefore hasn't been grounded.
** Also in "Simon Says", since Nino doesn't rely on Scarlet Lady like his canon counterpart relies on Ladybug, he challenges [[spoiler:"supermodel, Adrien Agreste, and ladyblogger, Alya Césaire"]] instead of Ladybug and Chat Noir.
** In "Volpina", Marinette doesn't miss Lila's first lying name-drops, no doubt because her schedule isn't encumbered with superhero business as it is in canon.
** In "Volpina", it's Chloé and not Marinette who follows Adrien and Lila. In canon, Marinette doesn't appear in front of them until after Lila tosses away Gabriel's book and she appears as Ladybug. In this fic, Chloé interferes as her civilian self as soon as Lila tells Adrien she also likes superheroes.
** Originally, Adrien never looks in his bag after Lila steals his book, enabling her to use it in her deception. Here, Plagg immediately informs him that she stole it, and he only goes to meet with her in order to get it back.
** Adrien also knows from the very beginning that the tale about Scarlet Lady saving Lila was a lie [[SuddenlyShouting "Because Scarlet Lady would]] '''[[SuddenlyShouting never]]''' [[SuddenlyShouting go out of her way to save]] '''[[SuddenlyShouting anyone!]]'''".
** In "Volpina", instead of simply calling Lila out on her lies like Ladybug did in canon, Scarlet Lady [[spoiler:throws Lila into a nearby fountain]].
** Also in "Volpina", Marinette [[spoiler:finds and returns the lost grimoire to Adrien immediately, not knowing anything about it except that it's an interesting book about heroes. She is present when Volpina comes to visit Adrien.]]
** In canon, when Volpina threatens to drop Adrien, Ladybug needs Chat Noir's reassurance that the "Adrien" held hostage is an illusion. In this fic, [[spoiler:Scarlet Lady doesn't suspect it's an illusion but is certain she'll "catch him or bring him back with the Miraculous Cure"]].
** In canon, Ladybug figures out how to use the lucky charm to defeat Volpina. [[spoiler:Scarlet Lady just wants to use it to work on her tan and only defeats Volpina by sheer luck]].
** In canon, Ladybug visits Adrien at the end of "Volpina" and they have a conversation through his bathroom door. Here, Scarlet Lady comes to Adrien's window and blows him a kiss. He presses a button and slams the security shutters in her face.
** [[spoiler:Adrien and Plagg are the ones who bring the book to Master Fu instead of Marinette and Tikki]].
** In canon, Marinette lies to Master Fu about where she found the grimoire, protecting Adrien. In this version of "The Collector", Adrien immediately admits it belongs to his father. He says later to Plagg, "Him being a supervillain almost makes '''too''' much sense. It's practically cliché."
** In canon, Adrien doesn't defy his father's decision to pull him from school as punishment for stealing the book. In this fic, he takes advantage of the fact that at least one of his friends has personal ties to reporter Nadja Chamack to threaten to give his father bad publicity over his decision. Because of this, Gabriel decides to just ground Adrien for a month.
** In canon, Lila, out of fear of having her social life ruined, [[TheShutIn locks herself in the house]] and fools her mother into thinking the school is closed after the events of "Volpina". Here Marinette, not being the Ladybug heroine, talks her out of it and explains her classmates don't hate her. In "La Befana", it leads Lila to [[spoiler:attend Marinette's birthday party]].
** In "Evillustrator", Marinette's lack of superhero duties means that she doesn't leave Sabrina to work on their school project by herself after Chloé abandons them. When Evillustrator comes to Marinette's bedroom to ask her on a date, Sabrina is already over at her home (the two of them having left school early after his attack at the library) and witnesses it, and understands that Marinette was cornered by the supervillain.
** Also in "Evillustrator", Chat Noir watches out for the villain much more closely due to not relying on Scarlet Lady, and sees him leave Marinette's room, prompting him to come and ask her if she's alright.
** In "Vanisher", because Sabrina has lost more and more faith in Chloé over the course of the comic, and because they don't dress up as superheroes like they do in canon because Chloé ''is'' one of them, Sabrina's akumatization [[spoiler:not only gives her a different look, but different powers as well.]] And while in canon she just annoyed Chloé, here she has more of a grudge, and [[spoiler:makes her unable to be seen or heard by anyone but Vanisher herself.]]
** Also in "Vanisher", instead of pretending to be Ladybug while dressed up as her, Chloé talks about how Scarlet Lady is her best friend.
** In canon, Adrien doesn't officially meet Tikki until the third season. In this comic, he meets her [[spoiler:at Master Fu's when he goes there for advice on how to stop Vanisher, Tikki having gone there to tell him that she can't transform Scarlet Lady]].
** In canon, Marinette takes part in the fencing tryouts in "Riposte" for a chance to be closer to Adrien. Here, she does so because [[spoiler:she's just become Marigold and thinks that a place in the school could help her get better at fighting akumas, especially since the power of the Bee Miraculous is one that is used directly on people]].
** Also in "Riposte", Chloé shows up to watch the fending tryouts and declares Adrien the winner of the match between him and Kagami without a second thought, while in canon Marinette really wasn't sure who won.
** Because both Adrien and Marinette follow Kagami to her car (to advocate for a rematch and another chance for her to join the fencing team), they [[FollowThatCar both get into Adrien's car to follow her]] and are in position to be attacked by Riposte.
** With three heroes to keep her busy, Riposte doesn't find the opportunity to isolate the hero who knows where Adrien is supposedly hidden, so she is defeated without ever attacking the sarcophagus.
** After probably hearing of Marinette's akuma-fighting exploits from Juleka, aiding Marinette's "escape" to go for help, and witnessing the superhero team squabbling, Luka is inspired to lead his friends in direct action against Captain Hardrock.
** In "Syren", Scarlet Lady doesn't bother to help save Paris from an escaped animal rampage since it isn't an akuma attack; and because no one has been given the Fox Miraculous yet, Char Noir and Marigold have to stop it without the use of an illusion.
** Adrien arrives at the theater slightly later than Marinette did in canon, with Marinette and Alya waiting outside for him after the others went in. This allows them to see the rising flood waters while still outside.
** In "Dark Cupid", Marinette knows (or thinks she knows) that Adrien's poem is for her alter ego.
** Kim sets out to deliver a Valentine's gift of jewelry to the girl he likes, but he has chosen Ondine and not Chloé.
** Instead of tricking Adrien into signing a poster so she can trick his fangirls into thinking she's dating him, Chloé forges his signature and the fangirls don't fall for the trick.
** Adrien sees the modified poster.
** [[spoiler:Marigold]] ends up getting hit by one of Dark Cupid's arrows instead of Chat Noir.
** Sabrina doesn't need Dark Cupid's influence to take a picture of Chloé in a humiliating situation and Lila is there taking pictures as well.
** In "Animan" the titular villain is easily defeated thanks to [[spoiler:Marigold's Venom]]. It helps that they also forewent their canon plan of trying to trap him in a small box and just went straight for the bus idea.
** In "Puppeteer", because Adrien already knows Master Fu, [[spoiler:he saves Marigold from being controlled when her doll is taken by telling her to detransform and sit out this battle while he gives another Miraculous to someone else to fill in for her. He chooses Marinette, not knowing that she ''is'' Marigold. This works anyway because this AU has a rule that a person can only be transformed and controlled from their civilian identity if Puppeteer and/or Hawkmoth knows it]].
** In "Pixelator" [[spoiler:Marigold]] only gets her right hand digitized, not [[AnArmAndALeg most of her right arm]] as in canon, probably because moves with a top are different than with a yo-yo.
** In "Guitar Villain" Chloé calls for a cute pizza delivery guy as a "back-up" in case Adrien can't make it. This is Luka, whom she had a chance to see because she was active in "Captain Hardrock".
** Kagami attends the event that Prince Ali is visiting for in "Princess Fragrance", resulting in her eventually being brainwashed and [[spoiler:Marigold]] having to fight her in addition to Chat Noir.
** In "Despair Bear", instead of giving Chloé an ultimatum, Adrien just says they're "not friends anymore". One of the tags for that page even reads "no ultimatums just a break up we're so proud of our boy".
** Adrien and Nino join the sleepover in "Sapotis" to help cheer up Alya after [[BrokenPedestal the events of the previous episode]], while also bringing Chris over. This results in the akumatized twins kidnapping Chris for telling on their antics.
** In the same episode, [[spoiler:Adrien is the one who chooses the Fox Miraculous to give to someone. After being called out for having Marinette in mind again, he gives it to Nino instead of Alya]].
** In "Anansi", Alya, Nino, Marinette, and Adrien work together to beat Nora at arm wrestling, resulting in Anansi kidnapping Nino instead of Alya so that she won't have a friend to rely on to help her, which leads to [[spoiler:Alya receiving the Turtle Miraculous]].
** In "Troublemaker", Marinette is shown to have pictures of Chat Noir on her bedroom wall instead of his civilian identity. Adrien himself is also thrilled when he finds out.
** Also in "Troublemaker", Chat Noir doesn't have an embarrassing failed attack at the door of the bakery because [[spoiler:Marigold]] is there to call out to him from the roof. He also prevents [[spoiler:Marigold]] from having her Miraculous taken.
** [[spoiler:Because Marinette's Miraculous is bigger, she winds up with Troublemaker's hand stuck to her head after using glue on it]].
** In "Silencer", a vacuum cleaner Lucky Charm isn't used to catch the stolen voices because [[spoiler:Marigold tricks him into summoning Venom for her with her voice rather than Lucky Charm with Scarlet Lady's voice]]. Instead, the hero uses a net to catch the voices with.
** In the canon version of Desperada, Adrien wanted to please Ladybug as Aspik, but failed to save her despite trying many times. Here, [[spoiler: he decides he will ''intentionally'' do badly so that he won't get called on again, and after the first time Scarlet Lady gets captured, he decides to take advantage of the Second Chance and watch it happen over and over for his own enjoyment]].
** "Ikari Gozen" has Marinette being happy to get Kagami as her game partner, and instead it's Chloé who tries to sabotage their attempts at winning. [[spoiler:It's also Chloé who gets captured by the villain instead of Kagami, who moved out of the way]].
** Because repeat akumas don't happen often (aside from the Enchanted Florist), not many people know that it's possible to be akumatized more than once as they do in canon, as demonstrated by people's reactions to Jagged and Anarka being re-akumatized in "Crocoduel".
** In "Prime Queen", it's Lila instead of Alya who babysits Manon. Marinette is on top of her time commitments (and she asked her parents not to volunteer her for babysitting after "Troublemaker"), so she got Lila the job in advance of the interview and didn't have to trick Lila into it like she did Alya in canon.
** In canon "Zombizou", it's Alya and other classmates who suggest throwing the akuma's main target (Chloé) to the zombies to "give them what they want," and Ladybug who defends her. Here, Scarlet Lady suggests throwing Marinette to the zombies, and the class strongly objects.

* GuileHero: In "Reflekta," Adrien [[spoiler:gets himself zapped by the villain while hidden in a locker, with Plagg holding his ring]]. Plagg promptly [[spoiler:passes the ring to Marinette so she can pick up the fight in Adrien's stead]]. [[spoiler:The transformed Adrien's reaction in a later scene shows he was not expecting Plagg to do this; he probably expected Plagg to give him back the ring so he could transform over the Reflekta form]].

** Chloé completely misses the fact that the reason the Bubbler agreed to play a slow song was for [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/185550356054/always-check-your-surroundings-before-forcing-your Adrien to dance with Marinette, not her]].
** When Marinette immediately recognizes that Lady Wifi is an akumatized Alya, Nino wonders how she can possibly tell. Marinette stares at him in disbelief before [[DeadpanSnarker deadpanning]] that it's because of her phone charm.

** Two happen in rapid succession in "The Pharaoh": nobody notices the black butterfly fluttering past as Scarlet Lady and Adrien try to figure out where the Ladybug/Black Cat materials are, and Alix and Marinette fail to notice Adrien ducking around a corner to transform.
** Adrien, Marinette, and Alix walk right by the display of Chat Noir-related statuary (large black cats with Plagg's whisker style) while discussing how he suspects his friend lied to him about there being anything related to the superhero there.

* FauxHorrific: While several things that Adrien uses to get his father to back off could be a genuine problem for Adrien's modeling career, Gabriel reacts the same to the idea of Adrien wearing a silly T-shirt to a major modeling gig or dying his hair as he does to Adrien wearing crocs.

** In "Rogercop", mentions are made of an upcoming mayoral election (with the adults witnessing the Parents Day fiasco taking Mayor Bourgeois' ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem attitude as a reason not to vote for him). The following episode, [[ElectionDayEpisode "Darkblade"]], covers the election itself.
** When Lila first declares that [[CelebrityLie she's best friends with Scarlet Lady]] in "Volpina", Alya immediately snaps up her cell phone and starts recording. Later, when Scarlet publically humiliates Lila in the park, she's among the witnesses. Compared to her peers, Alya's expression is more puzzled than sympathetic towards Lila's plight, and she accepts Scarlet's excuse with relative ease, as she winds up having a [[ItsPersonal personal reason]] to be okay with how harshly she was dealt with: [[spoiler:she posted her lies on the Ladyblog]].
** When Adrien talks to Fu about getting the book back, he mentions that, due to being grounded, he won't be able to make it to Marinette's birthday party, and Alix later sends Lila a bunch of messages to invite her to the party. The next episode is going to be "Befana".
** When Scarlet Lady doesn't show up to fight Kung Food until the last minute due to Chloé being tied up and unable to transform until Chat Noir rescues her, Marinette ends up helping Chat fight against the akuma's brainwashed minions and once again using the Lucky Charm against him, which Adrien tells Master Fu about after (as well as bringing up her temporarily using his Miraculous against Reflekta). This seems to be what convinces Fu to [[spoiler:give Marinette the Bee Miraculous]].
** In the last page of "Evillustrator", Chloé guilts Sabrina into giving her another chance to be her friend, which the latter says will be the last chance. [[spoiler:the next episode is "Vanisher", where Sabrina is akumatized after falling out with Chloé again]].
** There's an EasterEgg in "Intermission": [[spoiler:the titles of each of the pages is the name of a Miraculous power, and they are in the order that they were planned to first appear in the comic at the time of writing. This reveals that not only are the Fox, Turtle, Dragon, Snake, Horse, and Monkey Miraculous going to be used, but the Mouse Miraculous will also be used ''before'' the aforementioned ones, which it is in "Puppeteer" when Marigold's doll is taken so Adrien tells her to destransform while he temporarily gives out another Miraculous, and unknowingly gives it to her anyway]].
** In "Puppeteer", Chloé and Tikki mention the work experience field trip to be held at the hotel, suggesting "Pixelator" will be the next episode.
** In "Prime Queen", Lila mentions needing cash for Mme. Bustier's present, foreshadowing the next episode, "Zombizou", where said birthday takes place.
** In "Ikari Gozen", Chat Noir and Marigold have a conversation about how Scarlet Lady has three known powers, and wonder if that means they might have other powers too. At the start of "Zombizou", Master Fu mentions that the Grimoire says something about Miraculous users being able to manifest new powers when they most need it. [[spoiler:These both foreshadow the climax of the latter episode, where Marigold unlocks a new power from her panic after Scarlet Lady is infected]].

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: In this fic, "Pixelator" isn't the first time the Mayor and Jagged Stone met but neither of them remembers any previous meetings. The Mayor claims he only remembers "the important people" and Jagged, upon being reminded by Penny that the Mayor is Bob Roth's friend, says it's no wonder he erased the Mayor from his memory.

** In "The Collector", Lila tells Marinette that her lies started "as a defense - new kid syndrome or whatever" but it became fun once she realized how far she could push it.
** In "Ikari Gozen", Kagami's mother states (while akumatized) that the reason she forbids Kagami from having friends is because her friends abandoned her after she became blind.

** Hawkmoth can't help but do this when Kung Food's minions get cheese crumbs in Marinette's eyes after he specifically told them not to harm her, as Chat Noir's berserk button is pressed. AGAIN.

** When Marinette immediately recognizes that Lady [=WiFi=] is an akumatized Alya, Nino wonders how she can possibly tell. Marinette stares at him in disbelief before [[DeadpanSnarker deadpanning]] that it's because of her phone charm.

** Adrien, Marinette and Alix walk right by the display of Chat Noir-related statuary (large black cats with Plagg's whisker style) while discussing how he suspects his friend lied to him about there being anything related to the superhero there.

** Lila completely misses that Marinette, Nino and Alix are mortified about her "knowing" Scarlet Lady, even though they are standing right behind her. Alya, Rose and Kim also don't notice.

** Both Lila and Chloé miss Adrien's not so happy facial expression when asked if he likes Scarlet Lady.
** In "Vanisher", Chloé's butler doesn't wake her up, she has to go to school by herself after her driver doesn't show up to take her there, and neither the teacher nor the class make note of her late arrival. It isn't until [[spoiler:her father declares her missing on live TV]] that she realizes [[spoiler:she's been turned invisible]].
** On a rooftop with almost no cover, Riposte looks right at Adrien, demanding that he not run away from fighting her. Somehow, [[spoiler:Marigold]] gets him away without Riposte making a move or saying anything. Somehow her focus must have been distracted by Scarlet Lady making a speech, saying, "Come, my prince, I'll take you far away from this dangerous girl."

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: On the second page of "Vanisher", when Chloé arrives in class, she does so by slamming the door, causing someone to yell. As she talks about how hard her morning was, everyone can be seen still looking towards the door. [[spoiler:It's because they can't see or hear Chloé, and are wondering why the door seemingly slammed by itself.]]

** In "The Gamer," instead of Marinette being portrayed as being in the wrong for not taking the tournament seriously and selfishly competing for a spot in the tournament when Max wanted it more, she explicitly points out to Alya that she would only get to compete in the tournament by being the best and earning a spot fairly.
*** Related to the above, Max is the one who has a HeelRealization about his poor sportsmanship and apologizes to Marinette in the end. Moreover, multiple people, including [[VillainHasAPoint Hawkmoth and Scarlet Lady]], point out to him that he lost to ''two'' people and that he exclusively took his anger out on Marinette.
*** Marinette rushes to meet Alya at school to work on a report in canon, only to find Alya recording the video game tournament. So why didn't Alya reschedule? In this version, both find out about the tournament at the same time.

** In "Befana," the ice-cream vendor asks Gina "You're not gonna ride back together?" when Marinette runs off to get to her party, causing Gina to look blank. The author says, "Will never understand why Gina didn't give Marinette a ride."

** From a tag in "Pixelator": "lol i had to fix that weird time stream problem of Jagged and the Mayor 'first' meeting here somehow! XD." In canon, they had already judged a cooking show together in "Kung Food," and Jagged Stone gave an interview at the hotel in "Antibug." Here, the mayor says he only remembers "important" people, and Jagged Stone says he erases Bob Roth's friends from his memory.

** Adrien being OutOfFocus for much of the episode is explained as him wanting to compete alongside his friends in the contest but being ineligible due to contractual reasons. Nevertheless, Kitty Section keeps him in the loop when they make their shocking discovery, and he does his best to help them by informing his father that Bob Roth, one of Gabriel's business partners, is a plagiarist. He's rewarded by being given his own Kitty Section costume at the end.
*** Jagged Stone gets a PapaWolf moment when he makes a surprise appearance at the end, demanding to Bob Roth that they talk about the latter threatening Marinette (Jagged's "favorite designer") and Kitty Section (whose members include Jagged's two kids).

*** Though Jagged Stone still fires Vivica [[DisproportionateRetribution simply for eating his cereal and drinking Fang's milk]], the reveal that his real motive was to create an excuse to spend time with his kids makes him come off as much more sympathetic.

** Marinette to Hawkmoth while she [[ShutUpHannibal screams at him to stop playing the victim]].

** Zoe Rapporte does this during a news report about her "Nth akumatization", angrily claiming that it was because of how much people annoyed her.
** Luka flips of Chloé as he's being akumatized.
** Scar angrily flips off Chat he promises to help Marigold regain her voice after teasing Scar about losing hers.

* GuileHero: In "Reflekta", Adrien [[spoiler:gets himself zapped by the villain while hidden in a locker, with Plagg holding his ring. Plagg promptly passes the ring to Marinette so she can pick up the fight in his stead. The transformed Adrien's reaction in a later scene shows he was not expecting Plagg to do this. He probably expected Plagg to give him back the ring so he could transform over the Reflekta form.]]