History Webcomic / ScarletLady

''Scarlet Lady'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' RoleSwapAU [[{{Yonkoma}} 4-Koma]] fan comic written and drawn by zoe-oneesama on Website/{{Tumblr}}. The first part can be found [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/182147189889/who-did-this-episode-1-part-1-previous-next-ep here]], with the master post for the series [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/179738705194/scarlet-lady-au-master-post here]] and the index for the comic parts (starting from Season 1) [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/scarlet-lady-index-season-1 here]]. Updates are every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

A fan-made novelization of the comic (written with permission from zoe-oneesama) can be found [[https://at.tumblr.com/milarqui/scarlet-lady-the-novel-directory/h3pxc22dypvd here]].

* "Origins Part 2": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/182790688664/its-not-good-to-suppress-your-true-feelings Tales of Chat Noir the Exhausted]]

* "Volpina": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/628002714685767680/maybe-read-the-room-better-lila-episode-16-part Tales of Lila the Fox]][[note]]Originally titled "Lila the Liar," but Liar was crossed out and "FOX" was written next to it.[[/note]]

* "Despair Bear": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/673397708939264000/damn-you-and-your-logic-this-isnt-the-last-youve Tales of Jean-___ the Butler]][[note]]Chloé's bear covers the second part of Jean's name, which [[NoNameGiven has never been confirmed in canon]].[[/note]]

%%*"Sandboy": Tales of ___ the Sleepwalker[[note]]Similar to the above episode, the boy's head covers the part of the title where his name should be since his actual name is also unknown.[[/note]] "Reverser": Tales of Marc the Writer "Party Crasher": Tales of Wayhem the Fun Guy "Frozer": Tales of Phillipe the Ice Skater [[/note]]Most of the title is hidden behind Phillipe.[[/note]] "Frightningale": Tales of Clara the Pop Star "Intermission 3": Tales of Marinette the Bee "Malediktator": Tales of André the Mayor[[note]]Most of the title is hidden behind André.[[/note]] "Style Queen": Tales of Audrey the Fashion ____[[note]]The last word of the subtitle is hidden behind Audrey's head.[[/note]] "Queen Wasp":

* "Volpina": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/628002714685767680/maybe-read-the-room-better-lila-episode-16-part Tales of Lila the Fox]][[note]]Originally titled "Lila the Liar," but Liar was crossed out and Fox was written next to it.[[/note]]

* "Kung Food": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/635980055440474112/destroying-gifts-marinettes-anti-love-language Tales of Wang Cheng the Chef]][[note]]The "Wang" part of the title is covered, but the author confirmed it is there in response to a question. The reason given for hiding it is that "it was only ever confirmed on Twitter and is never stated in the show."[[/note]]

* "Vanisher": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/641957067685609472/how-to-traumatize-your-kwami-in-one-step-episode Tales of Sabrina the Invisible]][[note]]The header picture is different from the normal style in two ways. First, Sabrina appears in a frilly white dress. The author commented, "I definitely deviated from my usual fashion rule in the header, but I wanted to be extra." Second, a black-gloved hand is reaching down to Sabrina from the corner, showing the debut of a new major character.[[/note]]

* "Despair Bear": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/673397708939264000/damn-you-and-your-logic-this-isnt-the-last-youve Tales of Jean-___ the Butler]][[note]]Chloé's bear covers the second part of Jean's name, which has never been confirmed in canon.[[/note]]

A fan-made novelization of the comic (written with permission from zoe-oneesama) can be found [[https://at.tumblr.com/milarqui/scarlet-lady-the-novel-directory/h3pxc22dypvd here]].

%%"Gorizilla": Tales of ___ the Bodyguard[[note]]The Gorilla's hand covers the part of the title where his name should be, [[NoNameGiven since his actual name is unknown]].[[/note]] "Sandboy": Tales of ___ the Sleepwalker[[note]]Similar to the above example, the boy's head covers the part of the title where his name should be since his actual name is also unknown.[[/note]] "Reverser": Tales of Marc the Writer "Party Crasher": Tales of Wayhem the Fun Guy "Frozer": Tales of Phillipe the Ice Skater [[/note]]Most of the title is hidden behind Phillipe.[[/note]] "Frightningale": Tales of Clara the Pop Star "Intermission 3" Tales of Marinette the Bee "Malediktator": Tales of André the Mayor[[note]]Most of the title is hidden behind André.[[/note]] "Style Queen": Tales of Audrey the Fashion ____[[note]]The last word of the subtitle is hidden behind Audrey's head[[/note]] "Queen Wasp":

''Scarlet Lady'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' RoleSwapAU fan comic written and drawn by zoe-oneesama on Website/{{Tumblr}}. The first part can be found [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/182147189889/who-did-this-episode-1-part-1-previous-next-ep here]], with the master post for the series [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/179738705194/scarlet-lady-au-master-post here]] and the index for the comic parts (starting from Season 1) [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/scarlet-lady-index-season-1 here]]. Updates are every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

* "Lady [=WiFi=]": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/186102029564/i-dont-know-why-you-thought-alya-would-give-you-a Tales of Alya the Journalist]]

* "Gamer": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/617220809098919936/your-literature-report-is-doomed-marinette-just Tales of Max the Pro Gamer]]

* "Crocoduel": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/695223367929872384/thats-a-fair-guess-episode-38-part-1-first Tales Of You Two Again?!]][[note]]Rather than show Jagged Stone and Anarka Couffaine, the header instead shows Fang with wings and a color palette based on his dragon appearance when akumatized with Guitar Villain.[[/note]]

''Scarlet Lady'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' RoleSwapAU fan comic written and drawn by '''zoe-oneesama''' on Website/{{Tumblr}}. The first part can be found [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/182147189889/who-did-this-episode-1-part-1-previous-next-ep here]], with the master post for the series [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/179738705194/scarlet-lady-au-master-post here]] and the index for the comic parts (starting from Season 1) [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/scarlet-lady-index-season-1 here]]. Updates are every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

''Scarlet Lady'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' RoleSwapAU fan comic written and drawn by '''zoe-oneesama''' on Website/{{Tumblr}}. The first part can be found [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/182147189889/who-did-this-episode-1-part-1-previous-next-ep here]], with the master post for the series [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/179738705194/scarlet-lady-au-master-post here]] and the index for the comic parts (starting from Season 1) [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/scarlet-lady-index-season-1 here]].

* "Vanisher": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/641957067685609472/how-to-traumatize-your-kwami-in-one-step-episode Tales of Sabrina the Invisible]][[note]]The header picture is different from the normal style in two ways. First, Sabrina appears in a frilly white dress. The author commented, "I definitely deviated from my usual fashion rule in the header but I wanted to be extra." Second, a black-gloved hand is reaching down to Sabrina from the corner, showing the debut of a new major character.[[/note]]

* "Troublemaker": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/682721218493874176/yeah-whats-one-more-thing-right-marinette Tales of Penny the Manager]]

* "Crocoduel": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/695223367929872384/thats-a-fair-guess-episode-38-part-1-first Tales Of You Two Again?!]][[note]]Rather than show Jagged Stone and Anarka Couffaine, the header instead shows Fang with a colour palette and wings based on his dragon appearance when akumatized with Guitar Villain.[[/note]]

%%"Gorizilla": Tales of ___ the Bodyguard[[note]]The Gorilla's hand covers the part of the title where his name should be, [[NoNameGiven since his actual name is unknown]].[[/note]] "Sandboy": Tales of ___ the Sleepwalker[[note]]Similar to the above example, the boy's head covers the part of the title where his name should be since his actual name is also unknown.[[/note]] "Reverser": Tales of Marc the Writer "Party Crasher": Tales of Wayhem the Fun Guy "Frozer": Tales of Phillipe the Ice Skater [[/note]]Most of the title is hidden behind Phillipe[[/note]] "Frightningale": Tales of Clara the Pop Star "Intermission 3" Tales of Marinette the Bee "Malediktator": Tales of André the Mayor[[note]]Most of the title is hidden behind André.[[/note]] "Style Queen": Tales of Audrey the Fashion ____[[note]]The last word of the subtitle is hidden behind Audrey's head[[/note]] "Queen Wasp":

%%"Gorizilla": Tales of ___ the Bodyguard[[note]]The Gorilla's hand covers the part of the title where his name should be, [[NoNameGiven since his actual name is unknown]].[[/note]] "Sandboy": Tales of ___ the Sleepwalker[[note]]Similar to the above example, the boy's head covers the part of the title where his name should be since his actual name is also unknown.[[/note]] "Reverser": Tales of Marc the Writer "Party Crasher": Tales of Wayhem the Fun Guy "Frozer": "Frightningale": Tales of Clara the Pop Star "Intermission 3" Tales of Marinette the Bee "Malediktator: Tales of André the Mayor[[note]]Most of the title is hidden behind André.[[/note]]

''Scarlet Lady'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' RoleSwapAU fan comic written and drawn by zoe-oneesama on Website/{{Tumblr}}. The first part can be found [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/182147189889/who-did-this-episode-1-part-1-previous-next-ep here]], with the master post for the series [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/179738705194/scarlet-lady-au-master-post here]], and the index for the comic parts (starting from Season 1) [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/scarlet-lady-index-season-1 here]].

In another universe, Master Fu decided to put the Ladybug Miraculous in Marinette's purse rather than her room. [[AlphaBitch Chloé]], still mad at Marinette for talking back to her, decides to rifle through her purse for something she can steal to take revenge. She ends up finding the fancy box the Miraculous is in and takes it, concluding that it's a family heirloom of some sort.

* "Origins" Parts [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/182147189889/who-did-this-episode-1-part-1-previous-next-ep 1]] and [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/182790688664/its-not-good-to-suppress-your-true-feelings 2]]: Tales of Chloé the Ladybug and Tales of Chat Noir the Exhausted

* "Volpina": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/628002714685767680/maybe-read-the-room-better-lila-episode-16-part Tales of Lila the Fox]][[note]]Originally titled "Lila the Liar" but Liar was crossed out and Fox was written next to it.[[/note]]
* "The Collector": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/631352738582822912/square-up-fu-episode-17-part-1-first Tales of Gabriel the TOP SECRET]][[note]]Originally titled "Gabriel the [[spoiler:Butterfly]]" but [[spoiler:Butterfly]] is obscured by a TOP SECRET stamp.[[/note]]

* "Kung Food": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/635980055440474112/destroying-gifts-marinettes-anti-love-language Tales of Wang Cheng the Chef]][[note]]The "Wang" part of the name is covered but the author confirmed it is there in response to a question. The reason given for hiding it is that "it was only ever confirmed on twitter and is never stated in the show."[[/note]]

* "Vanisher": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/641957067685609472/how-to-traumatize-your-kwami-in-one-step-episode Tales of Sabrina the Invisible]][[note]]The header picture is different from the normal style in two ways. First, Sabrina appears in a frilly white dress. The author commented, "I definitely deviated from my usual fashion rule in the header but I wanted to be extra." Second, a black-gloved hand is reaching down to Sabrina from the corner, showing the debut of a new major character. [[/note]]

* "Despair Bear": [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/673397708939264000/damn-you-and-your-logic-this-isnt-the-last-youve Tales of Jean-___ the Butler]][[note]]Chloé's bear covers the second part of Jean's name.[[/note]]

%%"Gorizilla": Tales of ___ the Bodyguard[[note]]The Gorilla's hand covers the part of the title where his name should be, [[NoNameGiven since his actual name is unknown.]][[/note]] "Sandboy": Tales of ___ the Sleepwalker[[note]]Similar to the above example, the boy's head covers the part of the title where his name should be since his actual name is also unknown.[[/note]] "Reverser": Tales of Marc the Writer "Party Crasher": Tales of Wayhem the Fun Guy "Frozer": "Frightningale": Tales of Clara the Pop Star "Intermission 3" Tales of Marinette the Bee "Malediktator: Tales of André the Mayor[[note]]Most of the title is hidden behind André.[[/note]]

[[AC:General examples]]

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* AbhorrentAdmirer:
** In "Copycat," when the titular akuma tells him that Scarlet Lady might have a crush on him (due to a misunderstanding), Chat Noir is '''horrified'''.
** "The Pharaoh" sees Adrien [[InternalReveal learning that]] Scarlet Lady is one of '''those''' type of fans when she glomps him from behind. [[OhCrap His expression]] says it all.
** Adrien has also started to see Chloé as one of these, as she absolutely refuses to accept that he has no feelings for her. Best shown in "Volpina", when Adrien looks mortified as Chloé {{Glomp}}s him from behind.
** In "Riposte," Adrien rebukes Chloé for loudly cheering for him at the fencing trials, calling it "disrespectful."
** As of "Guitar Villain," Luka also sees Chloé this way.
** XY is quickly creeped out by Scarlet Lady's crush on him.
* AccidentalPublicConfession:
** When Marinette is announced as the new class president, [[SoreLoser Chloé]] protests that she gave Jagged Stone [=CDs=] to the voters and asks about ''her'' votes. Ms. Bustier questions her about trying to buy votes.
** While dealing with Prime Queen, Scarlet Lady forgets that everything is being broadcast live, meaning that all of Paris has a chance to witness her [[spoiler:casually declaring that it ''doesn't matter'' if Alya drowns, since she can just bring her back to life once they win]].
* AccidentalTruth: When Kagami asks Adrien why he hasn't asked Marinette out yet, he describes a person that Kagami immediately identifies as Gabriel, but Adrien was talking about Hawkmoth. Given who the villain actually is...
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism:
** Being the Director for the class's movie in "Horrificator" goes ''straight'' to Nino's head, and he makes several thoughtless calls while trying to [[MeanBoss boss everybody around]]. He does at least apologize for his "directator" behavior after the whole akuma debacle.
** Along similar lines, Max assumes that he will ''easily'' beat everyone in the Ultimate Mecha Strike 3 tournament and is casually condescending to the other participants... right up until Adrien and Marinette both beat him.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In "Simon Says", Nathalie struggles to bite back laughter when the titular akuma makes Gabriel think he is a butterfly.
* AdaptationDeviation: The webcomic changes the circumstances of Jagged and Anarka's breakup so that [[spoiler:Bob Roth was directly responsible for destroying their relationship]]. [[spoiler:[[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/697767487327092736/in-light-of-the-recent-page-of-scarlet-lady-au The stated reason for this change was because the author felt that the original show's explanation, or lack thereof, made Jagged come off as a deadbeat loser who ran out on his children]]]].
* AdaptationNameChange: [[spoiler:In canon, Marinette uses the superhero name "Lady Noir" when wielding the Cat Miraculous. Here, she goes by "Maotif" (a pun on "mao," the Chinese word for "cat," and "motif").]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** While Marinette was a ShrinkingViolet before Alya and her victory as Ladybug gave her more confidence in-canon, here she's far more confident in herself, saving Alya from Stoneheart and helping Chat Noir even without a Miraculous. Her crush on Adrien also isn't as massive as it was in canon; she still likes him, but she doesn't obsess over him [[spoiler:and has stronger feelings for Chat Noir instead]]. In addition, while in canon [[spoiler:she is extremely strict about maintaining her secret identity as Ladybug, here she immediately and deliberately outs herself as Maotif to Chat Noir, since she expected her stint as a superhero to be a one-time gig]].
** Nathalie is far more of a ServileSnarker to Gabriel than she was in canon, and there's no hints of a SubordinateExcuse to be seen.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
** Nathalie is here a HypercompetentSidekick and ServileSnarker to Gabriel, with her SubordinateExcuse from canon completely absent.
** Since Lila becomes a LiarRevealed on her first day of school, her relationship with some of her classmates change:
*** Adrien was somewhat of an ally to Lila in canon, at least until he realized her true nature. Here, due to his JadeColoredGlasses, he immediately dislikes her intruding on his personal space, which is only cemented after her learns she stole his father's book from him, lied to him, and then threw the book away. He's among the few who refuse to forgive her even after she apologizes, which also causes her to give up on her romantic interest in him.
*** Marinette proclaimed that Lila was worse than Chloé in canon. Here, even after (or perhaps [[DisproportionateRetribution due to]]) seeing Lila outed as a liar by Scarlet Lady, she reaches out to her and eventually becomes her friend.
*** Similar to Adrien, even after most of the class welcomes Lila back, Alya still bears a grudge against her due to having posted Lila's lies on her blog. It's not until "Glaciator" that she finally buries the hatchet and asks Lila for an interview about why she hates Scarlet Lady.
*** Much like the rest of the class, Lila hates Chloé, and since they lack a common enemy here, it's unlikely they'll ever form their canon alliance.
** Alix, Lila, and Sabrina end up forming their own GirlPosse after the latter two's {{Heel Face Turn}}s.
** In this AU, Kagami and Ondine are close friends, enough so that the latter reveals her romantic interest in Kim to Kagami, who in turn thinks about maiming Kim if he breaks Ondine's heart. In canon, they are not shown to be even acquainted.
** Downplayed for Adrien and Luka, whose friendship is slightly more strained due to them both being aware the other also has a crush on Marinette.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the canon "Captain Hardrock," all the people who are chained together for "mutiny" just roll into the hold like logs. Here, we see reactions of embarrassment and concern, because each pair is at least a potential love interest. The author notes: "The Ship is a shipper."
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Downplayed with Vanisher, who in canon was basically just Sabrina turned invisible. In the header for her episode, she is given a beautiful white dress. [[spoiler:In the comic itself, she also has a different design.]]
* AdaptationalBadass:
** Due to Scarlet Lady being an incompetent [[TheLoad Load]], Chat Noir is forced to pick up the slack way more often.
** Vanisher is far more powerful than in her original appearance, complete with having new powers.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: Many characters become this due to the story being set in a WorldOfSnark:
** Adrien's bad experiences with Scarlet Lady quickly turn him into a DeadpanSnarker prone to ComicalOverreacting.
** Gabriel becomes a ButtMonkey due to his inability to control his now rebellious son. He's also shown to be much more exasperated by his akumas' incompetency and SkewedPriorities, occasionally even responding with a YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe reaction.
** Nathalie gets quite a few comical moments at Gabriel's expense due to being his HypercompetentSidekick and ServileSnarker. Additionally, her SubordinateExcuse from canon is replaced with a CargoShip between her and her tablet.
** Whereas her canon self was portrayed as a ManipulativeBitch, Lila is much less competent in this story and never treated as a serious threat, with her getting [[LiarRevealed outed as a liar]] on her first day and subsequently enduring a HumiliationConga. Soon afterwards, she makes a HeelFaceTurn and switches from lies to BrutalHonesty.
** Unlike in canon, Luka's calm and collected demeanor is only a façade. He's just as awkward as Marinette on the inside.
** Kagami has quite a few NotSoAboveItAll moments, even starting a contest with Adrien over which of them can be a bigger delinquent child.
* AdaptationalDumbass:
** [[JustifiedTrope Without Marinette]], the team of the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous users don't do nearly as well with the Lucky Charm clues as their canon counterparts do, to the point that ''multiple'' akumas are taken out by means of using the Lucky Charm as a ballistic or bludgeoning weapon, regardless of what they were supposed to do with it. The first case was Bubbler, but it's become a staple of akuma-fighting since then, to the point that Marinette eventually dubs it "the Chat Noir method." [[spoiler:After Marigold joins the team, this becomes less common, but they still occasionally resort to it]].
** In "The Pharaoh," Jalil makes the same statements about Egyptology as he did in canon. However, whereas those statements went unchallenged and were thus implied to be correct in the show, here, Alix immediately points out how they're all demonstrably inaccurate and reveals getting his facts wrong is a habit of her KnowNothingKnowItAll brother's.
** Similar to the above, Adrien and Kagami's bout in "Riposte" begins with the latter shoving the former off the mat, just like in the show. D'Argencourt likewise makes the same remark about the bout being "real fencing," despite Marinette pointing out to him (twice!) here that Kagami had in fact broken the rules by making physical contact with her opponent.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance:
** In canon, [[spoiler:Ella and Etta Césaire]] don't debut until "Santa Claws." In ''Scarlet Lady'', they appear in the finale of "Lady Wifi."
** In canon, [[spoiler:Marianne Lenore]] doesn't debut until the middle of Season 3. In ''Scarlet Lady'', they appear in [[spoiler:Season 1, during the finale of "Mr. Pigeon."]]
** In canon, [[spoiler:Marinette's Cat-Miraculous form]] didn't appear until "Reflekdoll." In ''Scarlet Lady'', the character debuts (ironically enough) in "Reflekta."
** In canon, [[spoiler:Luka Couffaine]] doesn't appear before season 2. In ''Scarlet Lady'', the character debuts in a bonus panel at the end of "Reflekta."
** Ondine doesn't appear before season 2 in canon. In the comic, she comes to cheer on Kim's race with Alix in "Timebreaker" and also helps with Marinette's birthday party in "La Befana." Additionally, her akuma episode, "Syren," happens before Kim's akuma episode, "Dark Cupid."
** Marc Anciel makes a first appearance in "Riposte" rather than in "Reverser," having been permitted to watch the fencing tryouts to help with their writing. Marc will be using gender neutral pronouns in this AU, identifying as nonbinary or genderfluid.
** [[spoiler:Marinette ends up becoming a temporary holder of the Mouse Miraculous in "Puppeteer."]]
* AdaptationalExplanation:
** The absence of Aurore merchandise in "Stormy Weather" here despite the Weather Girl contest having just ended is due to [[spoiler:the balloon seller being instructed to only make merchandise for Mireille, as Alec Cataldi had purposely rigged the contest]].
** Max missing his glasses in one scene in "The Bubbler" is explained as being due to his mother getting bubbled while cleaning them.
** An animation error resulted in Juleka wearing white in the original "Rogercop." Here, Juleka purposely got dressed up because it was Career Day.
** It's revealed that Anarka decided not to attend Career Day after hearing a cop would be there. There's no explanation for why so many other parents also weren't there, though.
** When Jagged asks Penny why he's signing autographs at Chloé's campaign launch in "Darkblade," she reminds him that he owed Bob Roth a favor after the latter's car was ruined by Fang. Though Jagged's disgruntled, he still thinks it was WorthIt.
** The class states that they only attended Chloé's campaign launch for the free stuff she was giving away and had no intention of actually voting for her.
** In "The Gamer," Marinette and Alya are confirmed to have learned about the video game tournament at the same time, hence why Alya didn't reschedule their study session. Additionally, Nino's dismally low score is here due to him only participating in the tournament to boost numbers.
** When Marinette asks Evillustrator why she's only now hearing about his birthday party despite them being friends and classmates, he informs her that he doesn't tell most people about his birthday due to not wanting all the attention, which also explains why he and Marinette are the only guests.
** It was never explained why Ladybug decided to make a deal with Pixelator in the show to free half his captives in exchange for taking him to Jagged Stone. When Marigold makes the same deal here, she justifies it by reasoning that Chat Noir got hit as a civilian and that she might be able to free him through the deal.
** In "Silencer," Adrien says he can't participate in Bob Roth's contest with Kitty Section because of a contract with his father, giving an explanation for why he was OutOfFocus in the episode that canon didn't.
** Jagged's real reason for firing Vivica here was to create an excuse to play music with his kids.
** Here, the reason why so many of Adrien's classmates entered the Friendship Day contest in "Ikari Gozen" was to prevent an obsessive fan or creepy old person from winning and meeting Adrien.
** In canon, Tomoe Tsurugi's motives for preventing Kagami from having friends aren't explored. Here, it's revealed that [[FreudianExcuse her own friends abandoned her after she was blinded]], and she believes that any friends Kagami makes will do the same.
** The heroes [[ForgotAboutHisPowers not using the Space powerups]] in "Crocoduel" is given the explanation of them having forgotten to bring the potions with them.
** "Zombizou" gives us an explanation for why Nathaniel suddenly disappears when the class are running away - he went to warn the art club, only for Zombizou to follow him there.
* AdaptationalGenderIdentity: Marc Anciel is portrayed as nonbinary and uses gender-neutral pronouns. In the show proper, Marc is a somewhat androgynous-looking boy and is referred to with masculine pronouns.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** {{Downplayed}} for Hawk Moth. As stated in EvenEvilHasStandards, while he still akumatizes his victims, he frequently expresses concern over their SkewedPriorities and DisproportionateRetribution and sometimes even seems to genuinely sympathize with them when they're upset for a justified reason.
** Also downplayed for Stormy Weather. She initially gets akumatized for the same SoreLoser reaction she had in canon, but her actions become ''slightly'' more justified when it's revealed that [[spoiler:the contest was rigged against her]].
** While canon has Lady Wi-Fi trying to prove Chloe to be Ladybug as a sense of a disgruntled fan, this Lady Wi-Fi doesn't have a problem with Marinette as Scarlet Lady and is much more cheerful with less words about "exposing" the real Scarlet Lady.
** Downplayed again with Lila. Though she's still the same person she was in canon to begin with, her grudge against the Ladybug hero is ''far'' less petty than it was in canon thanks to Scarlet Lady's NominalHero status. She soon drops her ConsummateLiar persona in favor of BrutalHonesty.
** In canon "Captain Hardrock," Anarka's music is loud enough to shake the entire street, making Roger's decision to ticket her somewhere between "defensible" and "justified." In this story, the noise complaint comes before she's played a single note due to Chloé spitefully filing a false claim, making her come off as much more sympathetic in this version.
* AdaptationalIntelligence:
** In "Rogercop," the police refuse to submit to Rogercop's authority when Mayor Bourgeois surrenders his power to him, as he is clearly an akuma. The tags note that the author normally tries to avoid this trope but considers the canon police to have been holding ''way'' too big of an IdiotBall to just let it slide.
--->#this is my rare rule break when it came to not going out of my way to make characters smarter than canon if I can't excuse it #but this was seriously stupid for these grown adults to turn on the Heroes of Paris that protect them from an emotional terrorist #on the orders of that very terrorist's minion!
** Marinette is more knowledgeable of the rules of fencing in "Riposte" here. She instantly recognizes Kagami's corps-a-corps against Adrien, correctly declares that the bout should be halted as a result, and later points out that Adrien leaving the mat is typically a penalty.
** In "Animan," the heroes completely forgo their canon plan of luring him into Marinette's home as a tiny animal and trapping him in a box, and instead go straight for trapping him in the bus instead. He still breaks out, but they quickly defeat him.
** In "Puppeteer," the heroes prevent the titular akuma from claiming any advantages by leaving the hero whose doll was captured (Marigold in this version) detransformed so they can't be used against the other heroes. Also, they make a point of hiding the doll Puppeteer didn't get instead of bringing it with them to the fight with her. This, along with other changes, turns the final confrontation into a CurbStompBattle in the heroes' favor rather than the NearVillainVictory it was in canon. The latter point gets lampshaded in the tags.
--->#never quite got why ladybug bought the chat noir doll to the fight like just hide it? [[note]]Though it was actually the Ladybug doll that got bought along in the original episode[[/note]]
** When offered the Snake Miraculous, Adrien realizes immediately that he won't be able to maintain two secret identities. Thus, he decides repeatedly mess up as Aspik on purpose (while also getting back at Scarlet Lady by shoving her into Desperada's line of attack) to create an excuse for why he shouldn't be called on again.
** In "Desperada," it turns out that [[spoiler:Luka and Juleka already know that Jagged Stone is their father, with the tags in the post that reveals it explaining that they figured it out from learning that Anarka stopped playing music with Jagged around the time she was pregnant]].
** Canonically, Mme. Bustier was oblivious to the fact that Chloé has been cheating to get through school and making Sabrina do all her schoolwork since grade school despite apparently having had the two as her students for even longer than that and Chloé even bragging about her plagiarism at times. Here, Mme. Bustier ''is'' aware of it and has known for ''years'' but [[AdultsAreUseless still chose not to do anything]].
* AdaptationalJerkass:
** Chloé takes part in multiple situations she was largely if not entirely absent from in the show. In such cases, she gets hit with this trope simply by appearing more and being her usual self:
*** She barges in on Adrien's photoshoot in the park in "Stormy Weather," shoving Marinette right into Manon in the process, and argues with the photographer when he decides against letting her model with Adrien. In canon, she didn't appear in the episode at all.
*** Chloé deliberately tries to prevent Adrien and Marinette from spending time together practicing for the Ultimate Mecha Strike 3 tournament, something she didn't concern herself with in canon.
*** Whereas she was absent in canon "La Befana," here, Chloé uses CrocodileTears to get Ms. Bustier to make the class invite her to the party they were planning. Moreover, upon learning it's Marinette's birthday party, she purposely tries to sabotage it instead of simply not attending.
*** In addition to her annoying antics during fencing tryouts in "Riposte," Chloé is the one who declares Adrien the winner in his bout against Kagami instead of Marinette. Moreover, whereas Marinette in the show stated upfront she wasn't sure, Chloé's call is blatantly biased.
*** Similarly, Chloé invites herself to the concert on the Liberty in "Captain Hardrock," then files a false noise complaint to Roger out of spite when she's kicked off the boat. She didn't do either of these things in the show.
*** She develops a small crush on Luka in "Captain Hardrock" and afterwards starts clinging to him and repeatedly violating his personal space, despite his obvious dislike of her. In canon, she had almost no interaction with him.
*** As with "The Gamer," despite not even appearing in the canon episode, Chloé tries to prevent Marinette and Adrien from spending time together in "Animan" in the comic.
*** Chloé helps Bob Roth and XY plagiarize Kitty Section, a scheme she had nothing to do with canonically.
** Alec Cataldi ''intentionally'' mocks Aurore about losing the Weather Girl contest and [[spoiler:rigged it against her in the first place]].
** Chloé at least had the excuse of her privacy being violated when she got Alya suspended in canon "Lady Wifi." Here, Alya instead tries to snoop through Marinette's locker, and Chloé gets Alya suspended simply because she's mad at the very ''idea'' that Alya suspects Marinette is Scarlet Lady.
** When Chloé's proven to have plagiarized Marinette in "Mr. Pigeon," rather than just immediately storm off, she tries to make Sabrina TheScapegoat by insisting it was all the latter's idea, which nobody believes.
** Unlike in the show, Sabrina enters HeroicBSOD due to her "best friend" getting her father fired. Thus, Chloé comes off as even more of a JerkAss than in canon, as she shows no concern for Sabrina when she angrily demands her friend give up her bag to be searched.
** Like in canon "Rogercop," Mayor Bourgeois fires Roger for refusing to break the law to satisfy Chloé's latest whim. However, [[spoiler:because it's later confirmed that the mayor doesn't actually have the jurisdiction to do this]], André comes off as a bigger SleazyPolitician than in the show, as not only is he abusing his mayoral position, [[spoiler:he's abusing power he doesn't even have]]. Additionally, while canon apparently had André try to make amends with Roger by giving him his job back and promoting him, [[spoiler:he almost certainly lacks the authority to do this as well in the comic]], meaning what was originally a heartwarming moment [[spoiler:is now just the mayor distracting Roger with a MotivationalLie and an EmptyPromise]].
** D'Argencourt's MoralMyopia is highlighted regarding his ancestor, the Black Knight. As mentioned in HistoricalHeroUpgrade, D'Argencourt considers his ancestor a noble, heroic figure even while describing him as a man who "ruled Paris with an iron fist" and laments that he was toppled by a commoner whom D'Argencourt accuses of buying the loyalty of Paris's lower classes. Adrien mentally lampshades that D'Argencourt's account just makes it sound like the Black Knight was a tyrant who was deservingly overthrown by someone who gave money to the poor. In addition, D'Argencourt comes off as more of a KnowNothingKnowItAll in "Riposte," as despite priding himself as a fencing master, he failed to recognize an illegal "corps-a-corps" Kagami commits (among other violations) against Adrien that even Marinette (who was new to the sport) noticed, instead praising the bout as "real fencing" and ignoring Marinette both times she tries to bring the rule breakages to his attention.
** Max's nasty and entitled behavior is emphasized more in "The Gamer," highlighting his condescending attitude towards his classmates and the [[IWasBeatenByAGirl sexist nature]] of his anger towards Marinette. As Gamer, he is shown taking [[EvilGloating a disturbing amount of glee]] in annihilating helpless civilians. Ultimately subverted when he later has a JerkassRealization about his poor sportsmanship and apologizes to Marinette, which he didn't do in canon.
--->'''Gamer:''' Nothing says "Best Gamer Ever" like gaining EXP from [=NPCs=] with no defensive capabilities!
** {{Downplayed}} with Mr. Kubdel, who all but outright confirms (via some SuspiciouslySpecificDenial) that the "youngest child inherits the watch" rule was, in this 'verse, made up to keep the watch away from [[TheUnfavorite Jalil]] - which is harsh but somewhat understandable, given that it's ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Jalil]]''.
** Though Nadja also showed up early to the bakery without notice and demanded she be given her cake twenty minutes before the scheduled time in canon "Timebreaker," here, her entitled behavior is emphasized. When Tom points out how early she is, she simply replies, "Yeah, and?" Sabine later also reveals Nadja knew that the bakery was closed for a personal day, implying Tom and Sabine were already doing Nadja a favor by having a cake ready for her that day, making her come off as an UngratefulBitch.
** In canon, Chloé dropped Alix's watch because she was startled by it going off near her. Here, she deliberately drops it out of spite.
** Downplayed with Adrien. He's among the few in the class who ''don't'' [[EasilyForgiven quickly forgive]] Lila after she's outed as a liar despite also seeing her get thrown into a fountain by Scarlet Lady, whereas in canon, he felt Ladybug just calling Lila out was too harsh. To be fair, though, here, he knows that Lila stole his father's book from him and then learns soon afterwards that she also threw it away rather than try to return.
** Roger gets hit by this in "Captain Hardrock." Thanks to Chloé, he arrives at the houseboat before the concert starts, tells them he received a noise complaint despite the fact they haven't played a single note, gets upset by Anarka calling him a "bootlicker," and hits her with a list of {{Felony Misdemeanor}}s and tickets.
--->'''Roger:''' No authorization to dock here, no concert! And the mess! And the decorations! A ticket for your attitude, for provocation, for my sea-sickness, and 'cuz I can!\\
'''Anarka:''' You bilge rat scum!\\
'''Roger:''' And one for name-calling!
** Gabriel changing his mind to allow Adrien to attend the concert on the Liberty seemed to be a genuine PetTheDog moment in the show. Here, he only did it to hide the fact that he's forgotten how to play piano due to not having done so in ten years.
** Penny physically kicks Vincent out of the hotel instead of just dragging him out. Later, when passing out concert tickets to the class, she also emphasizes how Chloé won't be getting one rather than just silently skipping over her.
** Jagged Stone in "Guitar Villain," before he is akumatized, assaults XY with his tablet. In canon he just threw it to Fang.
** Downplayed for André the ice cream man, who appears to have more old-fashioned views about love and is less open-minded than his canon portrayal. He doesn't (or won't) recognize that Juleka and Rose are a couple, had a nervous breakdown when Alix reveals she's aromantic, and seems to neither support nor understand the idea of polyamory. In the show, while he's shown remarking that Marinette and Kagami as a pairing would be "unusual" through the description of their ice cream flavor, he was still fine with making it for them if they wanted it, and a flashback also showed him making ice cream for what appeared to be a gay couple.
** In canon, Anarka was rather justified in her resentment of Jagged Stone for walking out on her and their children because he was afraid of fatherhood. Here, the reveal that [[spoiler:she purposely kept her pregnancy secret from Jagged and then prevented him from seeing Luka and Juleka]] makes her much less sympathetic. This ends up getting subverted in what turns out to be an example for a ''different'' character: [[spoiler:Bob Roth]]. [[spoiler:In canon, he had no involvement in Jagged and Anarka's breakup; here, he deliberately forged notes to the duo claiming that Anarka wanted nothing to do with Jagged (without mentioning her pregnancy) and that Jagged wanted nothing to do with Anarka (meaning she didn't deliberately hide her pregnancy and only prevented him from seeing the kids because she thought Jagged wanted nothing to do with them).]]
* AdaptationalKarma:
** Chloé gets hit with this in spades, facing more comeuppances for her actions that canon.
*** Instead of just losing the derby hat contest, Chloé gets called out for her idiotic attempts at both plagiarism and scapegoating Sabrina for it, running off crying after Principal Damocles, Gabriel, and Nathalie disqualify and ban her from all future contests. It's also implied that Sabrina and Adrien, her only friends, will grow further disillusioned with her due to this.
*** In "Rogercop," Mayor Bourgeois forces Chloé to apologize to Marinette for accusing her, and although Chloé isn't aware of it yet, she has done lasting damage to her friendship with Sabrina, who unlike canon is visibly still upset at the end about her supposed best friend getting her father fired. Lastly, though it won't get brought up again for some time, Chloé has set herself up for further humiliation once Sabrina and Roger [[spoiler:find out the mayor never even had the power to fire him to begin with]].
*** A couple brief examples in "Darkblade." Here, when Chloé tries to scapegoat Sabrina, her classmates call her out on her BlatantLies, with Alix pointing out that Sabrina only acts out when Chloé makes her. Ms. Bustier also asks Chloé if she had attempted to bribe her classmates when the latter makes an AccidentalPublicConfession at the end.
*** Sabrina snarks at Chloé and refuses to help carry out her schemes in "Reflekta," citing how badly it turned out for her when Chloé forced her to steal Marinette's diary. Adrien also pushes Chloé off of him when the class photo is taken, having gotten fed up with her bad behavior.
*** Sabrina finally reaches her RageBreakingPoint with Chloé in "Evillustrator," giving her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and having to be physically held back from attacking her by Marinette. Though she "forgives" Chloé at the end of the episode, she makes it clear this is Chloé's last chance.
*** Unlike in canon, where the Kung Food incident has seemingly been forgotten, here, Jagged Stone clearly remembers Chloé as "the little psycho who almost poisoned me when I judged World's Greatest Chef," and it comes back to bite her when he mentions the incident during a TV interview, guaranteeing far more public humiliation for Chloé than in canon, where she was simply revealed to have lied about being Ladybug.
*** Being "vanished" into a phantom world where she can't even interact with anything or anyone from the real world is clearly a much harsher retribution for Chloé than the comparatively mild harassment and akumatization she received in canon. More importantly, StatusQuoIsGod is decisively averted, with Sabrina permanently ending her toxic friendship with Chloé, leaving the latter without anyone to pawn her responsibilities off on.
*** Adrien straight up tells Chloé that they aren't friends anymore after her fire alarm stunt in "Despair Bear" rather than just giving her an ultimatum. He doesn't forgive her by the end either.
** Gabriel Agreste also gets hit with this, as Adrien is much more rebellious than in canon and frequently threatens to cause bad PR for his father (sometimes even following through on them) by dyeing his hair neon colors, ruining his diet, exposing Gabriel's bad parenting to the world, wearing tacky clothes in public, etc. if Gabriel tries to cut him off from his friends.
** A positive example of this occurs in "Lady Wifi," where the titular akuma's antics lead to Marlena Césaire learning about Principal Damocles administering DisproportionateRetribution against her daughter without even notifying her or Otis. The school subsequently rescinds Alya's suspension when Marlena calls to complain.
** Downplayed for Nadja in "Timebreaker," who gets called out on demanding that she be given her cake ahead of the scheduled time just because she arrived early. She apparently won't be getting favors from Tom and Sabine for a while.
** In "Volpina," Adrien angrily calls Lila out for stealing from him, lying to him about it, and then throwing Gabriel's book in the garbage, none of which he ever even found out about in canon. Additionally, Scarlet Lady soon outs Lila as a liar in front of the entire class by ''[[DisproportionateRetribution throwing her into a fountain in the middle of winter]]'', which also leads to Lila catching a cold.
** Played with in "Riposte." Here, it's explicitly noted that Kagami broke the rules in her bout with Adrien and prevented a fair call by suggesting they be disconnected from the machines. WordOfGod also confirms that Adrien was the winner, whereas it was more ambiguous in canon. All this makes the final ruling against Kagami seem much more deserved.
** Otis is sent home early in "Animan" due to his akumatization.
** Downplayed in "Silencer," where in addition to being tricked into making an EngineeredPublicConfession and having to offer Kitty Section a record deal to make up for it, Bob Roth also has to deal with a seething Jagged Stone, who is ''not'' happy that Bob threatened Marinette (Jagged's favorite designer) and Kitty Section (which has Jagged's two children among its members). [[spoiler:Jagged later quits Bob's record company after realizing the latter sabotaged the former's relationship with Anarka, thus costing Bob a major source of revenue.]]
* AdaptationalLateAppearance: The episode order is different from canon, which means that some of the villains appear later than others. For example, there are villains from the show's first season that don't appear until after "The Collector," the first episode of the show's second season. An interesting example is "Dark Cupid" which, while still taking place on Valentine's Day, happens ''after'' "Syren."
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The class doesn't come off as being sellouts in "Darkblade." In canon, they seemed to genuinely be swayed by Chloé's bribes to vote for her, the class bully, over their friend Marinette. Here, it's made clear that they were always going to vote for Marinette and only attended Chloé's campaign launch for the free giveaways.
* AdaptationalSexuality:
** Marinette is hinted to be bi, having the exact same reaction to Kagami unmasking herself as Adrien has.
** Kagami in canon is a rival for Adrien's love. In this, it's hinted she's a lesbian, considering her reaction to [[spoiler:Marigold]] in "Riposte," as well as "Intermission 2" and "Ikari Gozen."
** Aurore is either lesbian or bisexual. While she's part of Adrien's fan club like in canon, she's also completely smitten over by Kagami as shown in "Despair Bear." She might be only lesbian though, considering her reaction to Adrien is far more controlled and less...lovestruck than that of the other fan club members.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange:
** The comic starts out with one, with Chloé acquiring the Ladybug Miraculous, instead of the Bee one she used in canon.
** Vanisher's powerset is highly overhauled. [[spoiler:Aside from having a different design from canon, she can not only turn invisible but turn other people invisible too (as well as inaudible), which she does to Chloé. She can also [[MagicMirror merge in and out of reflective surfaces, effectively teleporting from one surface to another. This is how she comes into the classroom to mock Chloé]]. She can go back and forth between the real world and a [[PhantomZone parallel dimension where her victims can see the real world but not interact with it]].]]
** [[spoiler:Marinette is given the Bee Miraculous, instead of the Ladybug, although Master Fu meant to give her the latter before Chloé stole it.]]
** [[spoiler:Nino, in canon, is the turtle-themed hero [[BarrierWarrior Carapace]]; in the comic, he is given the Fox Miraculous and becomes [[MasterOfIllusion Foxtrot]].]]
** [[spoiler:The reverse happens with Alya, who is in canon the fox-themed heroine [[MasterOfIllusion Rena Rouge]] but in the comic receives the Turtle Miraculous and becomes [[BarrierWarrior Koki Marina]].]]
* AdaptationalSympathy:
** Chat Noir is hit with this in spades due to having to pick up the slack for his incompetent NominalHero of a partner while the latter takes all the credit.
** Here, Aurore is akumatized after Alec Cataldi intentionally mocks her about losing the Weather Girl contest. Moreover, it's later revealed that [[spoiler:Alec rigged the contest against her]].
** Alya was at least suspended for the punishable offense of snooping through Chloé's locker in canon "Lady Wifi." Here, she instead looked inside Marinette's locker after the two of them had already exchanged locker combinations, so she implicitly ''did'' have permission. Moreover, she's hit with a suspension without Marinette even being informed due to Chloé being angry Alya for merely ''suspecting'' that Marinette is Scarlet Lady, giving Alya a more sympathetic reason for her akumatization. The fact that she learns her lesson at the end and apologizes for not just asking Marinette also helps.
** Played straight for Marinette while inverted for Max in "Gamer." In canon, the former was called out for being selfish due to only competing in the tournament to spend time with Adrien and stealing Max's spot in the tournament without considering his feelings and how much he wanted to compete, with Max's akumatization blamed on her. Here, Max is instead portrayed as a SoreLoser who failed to qualify for the tournament fair and square and [[IWasBeatenByAGirl solely blames Marinette for it]] despite losing to ''two'' people. [[VillainHasAPoint Even the villains point this out to him]], and he apologizes after having a JerkassRealization.
** Inverted for Timebreaker. In canon, it was rather ambiguous whether Timebreaker or Ladybug caused Chloé to drop the watch in the second timeline, making the akuma seem somewhat justified in blaming the heroine. Here, it's clear that Chloé dropped the watch due to Timebreaker startling her, and even the akuma herself seems to realize this. Thus, her decision to [[NeverMyFault blame Chat Noir]] makes her much less sympathetic.
** A possible minor example for Simon Says, as it's implied here that Gabriel purposely caused his akumatization by setting him up for a fall in the gameshow.
** While Lila was introduced as the same ManipulativeBitch she was in canon, her akumatization and hatred of the Ladybug heroine is completely justified here, as Scarlet Lady responded to Lila's CelebrityLie by ''throwing her into a fountain'', which the class witnesses and Lila later catches a cold from. As Volpina, she is also shocked that Scarlet Lady doesn't care about civilians getting hurt, and she completes her HeelFaceTurn in "La Befana," attending Marinette's birthday party, apologizing to the class for lying, and switching to BrutalHonesty instead.
** {{Zigzagged}} for Kagami in "Riposte." On one hand, Kagami seems to have brought everything upon herself, as Marc notes that she gave up an impartial judge by suggesting that she and Adrien be disconnected from the machines. Marinette also points out that Kagami broke the rules by shoving Adrien off the mat, and that the bout should've stopped then and there. On the other hand, the final call against her is even more blatantly biased than it was in canon.
** In canon "Captain Hardrock," Anarka's gets into an argument with Roger over his justified decision to ticket her when her music shakes the entire street. In this story, the noise complaint comes before she's played a single note, with Roger even refusing to listen when she tries to explain herself.
** A minor example in "Guitar Villain." XY is still the same JerkAss he was in canon, but he didn't deserve to have a tablet dropped on his head by Jagged. Him being creeped out that Scarlet Lady is an AbhorrentAdmirer towards him also helps.
** Jagged has a more understandable reason for firing Vivica here: [[spoiler:he wanted to hire Luka as his guitarist and play music with his kids]], and he only used [[DisproportionateRetribution Vivica eating his cereal and drinking Fang's milk]] as an excuse.
** Tomoe has a FreudianExcuse for not wanting her daughter to have any friends beyond simply being strict: her own friends abandoned her after she went blind.
** "Crocoduel" reveals that instead of just walking out on his kids like in canon, [[spoiler:Jagged has always wanted to be part of Luka and Juleka's lives and that Anarka purposely prevented it and also hid her pregnancy from him due to Bob Roth here forging a DearJohnLetter claiming Jagged wanted nothing to do with Anarka and their children]].
** Inverted for Mme. Bustier, who is portrayed as a MisplacedKindergartenTeacher and Chloé's biggest enabler instead of the universally beloved CoolTeacher she is in canon. In "Zombizou," Marinette gives her a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech when the latter tries to convince her to forgive Chloé for ruining her gift, and after the titular akuma is defeated, [[spoiler:Marigold]] tells Mme. Bustier how misguided the latter's belief that negative emotions must be avoided is. Afterwards, [[spoiler:most of the class is revealed to consider Mme. Bustier a prime example of how AdultsAreUseless]], with Sabrina pointing out how her teacher knew about Sabrina doing Chloé's schoolwork for ''years'' and didn't do anything about it.
* AdaptationalVillainy
** As the story progresses, Chloé degenerates from self-serving to flat-out evil far faster than she did in canon; in "The Gamer," [[spoiler:she deliberately draws Marinette into the line of fire of an akuma to get her out of the way so she can have Adrien to herself]], while in "Reflekta" [[spoiler:she explicitly hopes that her cruelty to Juleka gets her akumatized so that she can show off]].
* AdaptationalWimp:
** Marinette is an ordinary student since she never got the Ladybug Miraculous in this timeline, though it's downplayed because she's still a BadassNormal who helps against the akumas. [[spoiler:She is eventually given the Bee Miraculous to make up for Scarlet Lady and becomes the beloved and noble Marigold.]]
** Chloé/Scarlet Lady is far less competent than canon Ladybug or even Queen Bee, because she doesn't bother to actually train or do any fighting, instead just using Lucky Charm and Miraculous Cure as needed.
** Heavily downplayed with Adrien/Chat Noir, who is shown in "Evillustrator" to be extremely claustrophobic and can't focus properly when the villain traps him and Marinette in a glass box, even when she tells him how they can escape.
* AdaptedOut: The AU's changes have (or will, by WordOfGod) result in several heroes and villains not appearing.
** For the villains, akumas from filler episodes (like Santa Claws and Gigantitan) will not be adapted, and some villains won't show because their plots simply wouldn't work. Since Chloé ''is'' the Ladybug hero here, she has no reason to become Antibug - that episode instead focuses on a revamped Vanisher. Dark Owl was defeated because Chat Noir and Ladybug trusted each other, while here Chat has an antagonistic relationship with Scarlet Lady. Timetagger and Chat Blanc won't appear because the author dislikes including time travel (Timebreaker gets a pass because she doesn't go ''that'' far back). Additionally, only a few of the villains from Season 3 will appear: [[spoiler:Silencer, Ikari Gozen, Desperada, and Party Crasher]]. [[spoiler:"Crocoduel" is being adapted, but doesn't count because it features two previous villains]].
** On the heroes' side, Bunnyx won't appear because of the aforementioned ban on time travel. Mister Bug won't appear because Adrien wouldn't want to give the earrings ''back'', and WordOfGod is that Alya and Nino will have their Miraculous swapped from canon, meaning that Carapace and Rena Rouge won't appear either. [[spoiler:An EasterEgg in "Intermission" reveals that in addition to the Dragon, Snake, Horse, and Monkey Miraculous being used, the Mouse Miraculous will also be used at some point (which turns out to be by Marinette in "Puppeteer"), while the others (aside from the Fox and Turtle) will likely be used by the same characters as in canon]]. Some Miraculous from after season 3 may appear but might not be used by the same people as in canon.
** In "Animan", Nino's crush on Marinette is nowhere to be found outside of a brief prank he pulled on Adrien at the start of the episode. Instead, he uses the zoo trip to hook up Marinette with ''Adrien''.
* AdultsAreUseless:
** During "Rogercop," Tom chides his daughter to let the adults handle the problem... and then proceeds to do absolutely nothing about it, with the other adults also proving completely unhelpful. This is {{Lampshaded}} by Marinette giving him a disbelieving, disgusted look, and later by Alya blowing off his attempt to call her out on her own inaction.
** Mayor André lets Marinette take charge of the defense efforts against Darkblade, too terrified to act himself.
** Zigzagged with Sabine between "Darkblade" and "The Gamer." In the former, she lets Sabrina up into Marinette's room, giving her the chance to steal Marinette's diary. However, when Chloé attempts to con her way into the bakery in the latter, Sabine is having none of it, recognizing her as her daughter's long-time bully. It's also implied that she learned from the last incident and is keen to avoid any repeats.
** "La Befana" opens with Chloé crying to Mme. Bustier about how the other students are excluding her from a party, and their teacher promptly scolding them, ordering them to invite her. This is despite the fact that they're discussing ''Marinette's birthday party'', which isn't being held at school.
** A few cases of Mme. Bustier being this in "Zombizou":
*** When Chloé vandalizes Marinette's gift for Mme. Bustier, the teacher's reaction is to say that she'll treasure it as the work of both Marinette ''and'' Chloé, and to ask Marinette to forgive the unrepentant Chloé. Marinette gives her a scathing WhatTheHellHero in response.
*** Juleka later notes that Mme. Bustier didn't do anything to prevent the class's picture from being taken despite ''knowing'' that Juleka was in the bathroom at the time.
*** Sabrina reveals that Mme. Bustier found out years ago that the former has been doing all of Chloé for her yet refused to step in.
* AnAesop: "Troublemaker" ends with Marinette learning the lesson that she shouldn't overextend herself. She tells her parents that she needs notice before being asked to babysit or help out at the bakery, since Jagged Stone's promotion and her duties as both class president and Marigold make her extremely busy.
* AffectionateParody: For the most part, the story follows the events in canon to a T while also [[LampshadeHanging poking fun]] at certain aspects of the show and calling out some of the characters' [[IdiotBall less than stellar decisions]].
* AlasPoorVillain: A minor example in "Rogercop"; after she watches Chloé tumble out of Rogercop's flying car (not knowing she transformed into Scarlet Lady), it's clear in her next appearance that Marinette was crying over her supposed death.
* AllForNothing: PlayedForLaughs; in "Ikari Gozen," Marinette, Kagami, and their friends join the scavenger hunt to lessen the chances of Adrien having to spend the day with a LoonyFan or a creepy older person. Not only does the rejection of Chloé's application imply that they screen for such fans, at the end, Freddie reveals the game has an age limit, meaning there wasn't any need to worry about an older person winning either.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Adrien wastes no time trying to save Marinette in both of his identities during "Gamer", much to Chloé's ire because [[spoiler:she is trying to use the akuma to kill Marinette]].
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Vanisher's new powers in this comic include making people not only unable to be seen or heard by anyone, but also unable to interact with anything unless she herself allows it. Chloé is the only person she uses it on, though.]]
* TheAnnotatedEdition: In this case, it's an annotated cartoon panel. In "Vanisher," Marinette gives out bee-themed ornaments as gifts to the girls in her class. There is a second image with pictures of faces pointing to each ornament, showing who got what.
* AnswerCut:
** In "Captain Hardrock", Lieutenant Raincomprix is asked who made the noise complaint. The next panel shows Chloé exclaiming "Yoo-hoo!".
** In "Silencer", Bob Roth asks where Scarlet Lady is and the next panel shows she's snuggling a tied up and very annoyed XY.
* AppealToVanity: Tikki usually has to resort to playing on Chloé's need for attention to push her into action. She often states that Chat Noir will get complete credit if she just lets him fight on his own (though it's not like Chloé does much when ''in'' action anyway).
* ArmorPiercingQuestion:
** PlayedForLaughs in "Stormy Weather" when Marinette recognizes Aurore and asks why she's at the park. The titular akuma responds by saying she's now Stormy Weather... followed by a beat as she wonders ''why'' she came to the park:
--->'''Auror:''' Wait, why '''did''' I come here? It's just balloons.
** Adrien asks about having a party in "The Bubbler":
--->'''Adrien:''' Did Father say anything about having a party?\\
'''Nathalie:''' He... doesn't think it's a good idea.\\
'''Adrien:''' But... why?\\
'''Nathalie:''' BECAUSE-!\\
''(beat)''\\
'''Adrien:''' You got nuthing.
** Marinette comes up with one when Alya phones her to say Chloé is using Jagged Stone to buy votes.
--->'''Marinette:''' Wait, what are you doing over there already?\\
'''Alya:''' Um...
** Sabrina gives Chloé a good one in "Reflekta" about the latter's photo with Adrien. Subverted in that Chloé is so delusional, she completely ignores it.
--->'''Chloé:''' I won't let her ruin my picture with Adrien!\\
'''Sabrina:''' The one where he pushes you off of him?
** Adrien manages to cover up the fact that he'd taken the grimoire to Master Fu with one. Gabriel is caught so off guard he drops the issue immediately and does not question Adrien's [[SeamlessSpontaneousLie claim that he]] [[RefugeInAudacity had the book all along]].
--->'''Gabriel:''' Why did you not say so before?\\
'''Adrien:''' Would you have listened?
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** In "Horrificator," while everyone else gives valid reasons as to why Chloé shouldn't take the lead role in the movie (she deliberately scared Mylène off so she could have the part), Adrien adds that she can't even remember the characters' names.
** {{Inverted}} near the end of "Darkblade." When Chloé protests that her classmates didn't vote for her despite accepting her [=CDs=], Kim and Max compare them to campaign buttons while Rose snaps about how [[spoiler:she abandoned them the moment Darkblade showed up]].
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Lampshaded in "The Pharaoh". When Jalil introduces his theory regarding Akhenaten and Nefertiti, Alix repeatedly snarks about how inaccurate his claims and theories are.
-->'''Jalil''': Papa, look, this is Akhenaten and Nefertiti. She died before him-\\
'''Alix''': She literally didn't.\\
'''Jalil''': -and Ra made her his goddess.\\
'''Alix''': He literally wouldn't.\\
'''Jalil''': Akhenaten offered up a new wife to Ra so his would be brought back to life.\\
'''Alix''': Dude, Egyptians would be super not into that. \\
'''Jalil''': This scroll details that very ritual - and only I have deciphered the hieroglyphics!\\
'''Alix''': Lieeeeees!\\
'''Jalil''': ''WOULD YOU STOP THAT?!''\\
'''Alix''': ''PEDDLE YOUR BAD FANFIC SOMEWHERE ELSE!''
* ArtisticLicensePolitics:
** Implied. When Mayor Bourgeios attempts to illegally confiscate Nino's phone in "Rogercop," Nino shouts that his parents won't vote for him once they've heard how he tried to steal from him, and the other adults seem to hint that they won't be voting for André either. In real life, Parisians don't vote for their mayor directly; instead, the mayor is elected by the Council of Paris.
** In the same episode, Mayor Bourgeois fires Roger and later hires him back with a promotion. At the time the comic episode came out, Paris did not have a Municipal Police, with the Paris Police Prefecture instead being a detachment of National Police that reports directly to the Ministry of the Interior. This trope is eventually subverted when Roger reveals in "Captain Hardrock" that he and his daughter discovered the mayor doesn't actually have the authority to fire him and presumably also lacks the authority to promote him as well.
* ArtisticLicenseSports: While Marinette correctly points out the bout should've been stopped due to Kagami's corps-a-corps shoving and that Adrien would normally be penalized for stepping off the mat, nobody else points out Kagami's other illegal moves, as turning her back to her opponent and, if we assume the fight followed canon, crossing her feet twice. There's also the fact that in fencing, a bout ends when one of the fencers retreats off the strip, yet Adrien and Kagami continued theirs all the way to the library, apparently without anyone attempting to get them to stop. To be fair, D'Argencourt seemed to have forgotten about the rules due to being too excited by the match being "real fencing," and everyone else who did recognize the various rule breakages likely realized it was futile trying to bring them up, given D'Argencourt ignored Marinette both times she tried to tell him. Adrien is also implied to have been focused more on looking good in front of Marinette during the bout and later seemed to feel Kagami deserved to join the team, regardless of the rule breakages.
* AscendedExtra:
** Alix in "The Pharaoh". In the original episode, she didn't appear at all; in SL canon, however, she has a far larger part, acting as the catalyst for Marinette and Alya to come to the museum and [[OnlySaneMan snarking at all the chaos that happens as a result]].
** Marc has an AdaptationalEarlyAppearance in "Riposte" where they watch the fencing tryouts for writing references (Chloé also watches because Adrien is there).
** In canon, Lila completely disappeared between "Volpina" and the season 2 finale. Here, however, she shows up again in the very next episode ("The Collector"), and it's implied that she'll make more appearances afterwards.
* AttackBackfire: A corrupted Marigold in "Dark Cupid" strike at Chat Noir with her top, only to miss and ruin Chloé's framed poster of Adrien instead. To Marigold's frustration, Chat Noir is very happy that the poster was destroyed, as he found it quite disturbing that Chloé had it.
* AttentionWhore: One of Chloé's motivations to play the hero is the idea of having all of Paris' attention.
* AuthorAvatar: The artist makes a cameo appearance at the start of "Princess Fragrance", as Zoe Rapporte, the Enchanted Florist.
* BackhandedCompliment:
** Lila claims to love Mme. Bustier's "morning compliment time" because it allows her to dish these to Chloe.
** Hilariously inverted in "Dark Cupid" by Rose under the Akuma's HatePlague, since her insults to Juleka sound more like disguised compliments, to the point that even Juleka wonders if she's supposed to feel offended.
--->'''Rose''': I hate how [[StatuesqueStunner tall]] and [[RavenHairIvorySkin gorgeous]] you are! Makes me sick!
* BadassNormal:
** Marinette might not have a Miraculous in this timeline, but she is still capable of ruining Hawk Moth's day when she gets dragged into akuma fights. "Timebreaker" reveals that [[spoiler:Sabine has forced her to take martial arts training because of her tendency to get caught up in Hawk Moth's plots, which she uses to good effect against the titular villain]].
** Nathalie demonstrates this in "Simon Says", much like how she was shown to be a skilled fighter in canon.
** Following the lead of Nathalie and Marinette, Nino also gets an ImprovisedWeapon and plays a part in distracting Simon Says.
* BatmanGambit: Predicting that [[spoiler:the Bee Miraculous]] will draw attention, especially from [[GoingForTheBigScoop Alya]], [[spoiler:Marinette [[CrazyPrepared spends an entire night creating several Bee-themed resin accessories]] to share with the girls of her class]]. That way, nobody suspects [[spoiler:the Bee Miraculous]] to be out in the open.
* BavarianFireDrill: Mayor André is eventually revealed to have pulled this [[spoiler:when he fired Roger in "Rogercop"; as Sabrina and Roger later found out after doing some research, that's actually outside the mayor's jurisdiction]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Chloé locks Juleka in the bathroom, she hopes the latter gets akumatized so she can show off as Scarlet Lady. Juleka's akumatized form shows up when she's trying to prevent Marinette from erasing the photo where she appears next to Adrien.
-->'''Chloé''': Why does an akuma have to come '''now?!'''
* BeingEvilSucks: In "Syren" Adrien and Master Fu discuss how Scarlet Lady is unhappy at being out of the loop about certain secrets; they have no sympathy for her. Fu says, "Well, sucks for her." The author compares this with what Chat Noir seemed to think in canon: "Or how certain people THINK canon Syren went LOL."
* BeleagueredAssistant:
** Tikki and, to a lesser extent, Sabrina, play this role to Chloé, constantly snarking at her vanity, selfishness, and stupidity.
** Nathalie has her moments where she acknowledges the stress of working for a ControlFreak fashion magnate-cum-supervillain, such as when she quietly prays not to get akumatized for not having a gift for Adrien ready in "The Bubbler" or mouths off at him when he attacks her in "The Collector".
* BelievingTheirOwnLies:
** Chloé suffers quite a bit from this, naturally:
*** She thinks she was meant to be the Ladybug Miraculous holder, that she's doing a magnificent job as a heroine, and that Adrien loves her. In truth, she stole the Ladybug earrings from the intended person (Marinette), she rarely (if ever) actually does anything beyond using Miraculous Ladybug to repair the damage caused, and Adrien increasingly see her as an annoyance and AbhorrentAdmirer.
*** In "Despair Bear," she thinks that throwing a party will prove she is nice and win Adrien back as her friend. Unlike in canon, Butler Jean doesn't really encourage this belief, saying only "Uh, sure" with a SweatDrop speech balloon. By the end of the chapter, she's wholly convinced herself that Adrien was the one that overreacted.
*** Chloé tries to trick Adrien's fan club into thinking she's his Valentine by forging his signature on a perfume ad poster of him. They immediately recognize the forgery and call her out on her lie, and the poster is next shown to have had the bottom portion, presumably including the signature, torn off. Nevertheless, Chloé seems to have genuinely started believing the poster was autographed by Adrien, as she continues to describe it as such to Chat Noir and Marigold when they are standing right in front of it and can clearly see there's no signature. She even has the ripped poster put in a ''24-carat gold frame'' and ''cries'' over it when it gets destroyed.
** Despite [[BrokenPedestal no longer respecting Scarlet Lady]] as a WorthyOpponent after witnessing her bossy attitude and SkewedPriorities in "Simon Says," Gabriel continues to deny her incompetence, as he doesn't want to admit to losing to an IdiotHero.
* BeneathTheMask: At the end of "Captain Hardrock," Gabriel responds to Adrien's request to play a duet with him by immediately allowing him to attend his friends' concert. His inner thoughts reveal he hasn't played in a decade and is afraid of embarrassing himself.
* BerserkButton:
** For Chloé, it's anyone ignoring her, anyone badmouthing her, and anyone who gets in the way of her "romance" with Adrien.
** For Adrien, it's hurting Marinette -- to the point that he ''almost transformed out in the open'' when the Bubbler sent her to space. Even Hawk Moth knows better than to tell his Akumas to go after her (at least before they go after Chat), and in "Troublemaker" he almost considers Akumatizing her but quickly switches to Penny, feeling relieved at doing so.
** Jalil ''really'' dislikes being corrected on all his wild claims about Egyptian mythology and history.
** Alya warns that her father Otis "gets so weird" when people engage him in front of the animals. This may be especially true of the new panther, since he "switched zoos with it."
* BigBadEnsemble: Hawk Moth is out for Scarlet Lady and Chat Noir's Miraculous, but [[VillainProtagonist Chloé]] is responsible for many of the Akumas (which she is aware of and uses to her advantage) and has no qualms abusing her Miraculous to sabotage anyone in her way despite being one of the "[[NominalHero heroes]]".
* BigEntrance: Alix shows up for her big race in "Timebreaker" via shoving Chloé out of the way, all the while sassing her for making fun of the others when ''she'' wasn't even invited.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** During the battle with Stoneheart, Marinette arrives just in time to get Alya out of the way of a flying soccer net.
** [[spoiler:Marinette wielding the Cat Miraculous]] saves Scarlet Lady from Reflekta.
* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:[[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/657806212139728896/the-akumas-not-going-to-deal-with-himself Chat Noir kissing Marigold looks like one, but it doesn't really count since Marigold doesn't remember it.]].]] However, [[spoiler:Kim kissing Ondine soon after does count.]]
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: WordOfGod is that this is why Roger believes Chloé's claims in "Captain Hardrock": he has a very [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/649747433600974848/how-is-sabrinas-dad-still-going-along-with simplistic sense of justice]] that he takes to the point of self-destruction.
* BlatantLies:
** Whenever one of her schemes is exposed, Chloé tries to foist the blame off on Sabrina by insisting it was ''her'' idea.
** "Gamer" sees her attempt to bluff her way into the bakery by claiming they have a project together. Sabine doesn't buy it.
** "Gamer" ''also'' has Scarlet respond to Chat's [[WhatTheHellHero "Scar, what the HELL?!"]] by claiming she just wanted to meet up with her ''sidekick'' in order to deal with the akuma, when in reality she was [[spoiler:deliberately leading Gamer right to them in hopes that he'd zap Marinette]].
** Chloé's account of what happened in the final confrontation with Evillustrator is completely fabricated, claiming that "Scarlet Lady handled it ''perfectly'' while Chat Noir wrecked my room!"
** Near the end of "Vanisher", [[spoiler:Marinette manages to avoid people suspecting her identity from seeing her wearing the Bee Miraculous by creating other bee-themed acessories and claiming that Marigold inspired her]]. Meanwhile, when Nino points out that Adrien's ring looks like Chat Noir's, the latter says that he's had it for years (even though it's only been several months), with a narration box in the corner of the panel saying "Just lies".
** In "Princess Fragrance" Chloé says that Kagami stole her "important bug plushie" but [[spoiler:Marigold]] doesn't buy it. (It was actually Tikki).
* TheBlindLeadingTheBlind: During "The Pharaoh", Alix tries to avert this by repeatedly refuting her brother's wild claims. The narrative commentary under Part 5 notes that "Alix had to shut Jalil up before he messed everyone up on tomorrow's test."
* BoringButPractical: At the end of "Vanisher", when Nino notes the resemblence Adrien's ring bears to Chat Noir's, Adrien tells a rather simple and straightforward lie that he's had it for years. Contrast Marinette, who comes up with a rather elaborate trick to ward off suspicion about her new bee-themed hair clip.
* BoundAndGagged: Marinette gets hit with a variation this in "Copycat." The titular villain first chains her up but doesn't gag her until after he realizes she posted his hideout's location on social media.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Upon first seeing Plagg, [[spoiler:Marinette]] panics and screams things like "Tiny cat!", "Mouse!", and "Tiny cat-mouse!".
* BrickJoke:
** When her boss attacks her as The Collector, Nathalie declares that "I'm going to hit you when you lose." She keeps her promise, giving him a nice ''smack'' on the back of the head.
** In "Kung Food", Hawk Moth tells the villain to get his slaves to attack Chat Noir first rather than Marinette, as doing the latter [[BerserkButton "never ends well"]]. A few pages later, when Alec attacks Marinette first and makes Chat angry, Hawk Moth's response is "Dammit, what did I tell you?".
* BrokenPedestal:
** It's a work in progress throughout "Copycat". At first, Théo blames his heartbreak over Scarlet Lady's rejection on Chat Noir; the more he sees her in action, the more that pedestal gets chipped away.
** Prior to "Simon Says", Gabriel/Hawkmoth was under the opinion that Scarlet Lady hanging back was to protect her earrings and viewing her as a WorthyOpponent. However, in this episode, he sees her up close for the first time and is... not impressed by her shallow, vain, bossy personality and her trying to butter him up to get close to his son.
** The first real cracks in Alya's admiration of Scarlet Lady come when she witnesses her dumping Lila into a fountain. While she reluctantly accepts Scarlet's excuse of ensuring that villains don't fall for Lila's claims and target her, it's clear that she's still shaken by the incident.
** More cracks are formed for more people in "Despair Bear" when Scarlet Lady proudly proclaims that she's best friends with Chloé. Not only that, but her incompetence leads to her getting possessed by Despair Bear and leaving her "sidekicks" to do most of the work in front of everyone.
** Alya’s fully breaks in “Anansi” when she [[spoiler: becomes [[BarrierWarrior Koki Marina]] and gets the same treatment as Chat Noir and Marigold.]]
* BruceWayneHeldHostage:
** In "Kung Food", Chloé gets captured by the akuma's minions as in canon. Tikki [[spoiler:was left behind in her purse and flies to her, thinking, "I hope Chloé doesn't anger the akuma and get killed before I get there."]] It gets even worse when [[spoiler:she is tied up and dangled over boiling soup as in canon, and Tikki can't untie her without letting her drop. It takes a rescue by Chat Noir before she can hide and transform.]]
** In "Vanisher" Chloé is effectively [[spoiler:kidnapped]] in the eyes of the world. While still [[spoiler:physically free, she is invisible, inaudible, and intangible to everyone, including Tikki]].
** In "Pixelator" both Chloé and Adrien are trapped in a void by the villain, leaving only [[spoiler:Marigold]] free to save them.
** In "Ikari Gozen", [[spoiler:the title villain accidentally imprisons Chloé instead of Kagami, meaning that she can't transform to esape without giving away her identity.]]
* BullyBrutality: Chloé doesn't usually get physically violent with her bullying targets in her civilian form, but she definitely has no problem attacking them when she is Scarlet Lady (exhibit A: Lila Rossi). She also loves to enrage them as Chloé in order to cause their akumatization so she can ''justify'' hurting them (and get additional bullying ammo after they are deakumatized), and in "Gamer," she even demonstrates that [[spoiler:when it comes to getting rid of obstacles to Adrien's affections, she is not above '''attempted murder''']].
* ButtMonkey: Nino gets hit with this trope in "Horrificator", being both physically and verbally harassed and having trouble commanding his classmates. For the most part, [[LaserGuidedKarma he deserves it]] due to his AcquiredSituationalNarcissism.
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* CallBack:
** Adrien's personal photographer is handling the class picture in "Reflekta," much to Chloé's utter disgust, as she remembers how he sassed her when they met back in "Stormy Weather."
** In "Timebreaker," when [[spoiler: Chat Noir follows the villain back in time, Past Adrien has to ask whom the former is, thinking he might be a villain like Copycat. Scarlet Lady alludes to this by asking "Did you get akumatized again?!"]].
** During the "Bubbler" incident, Gabriel is impressed by Scarlet's supposed strategy. When he gets to meet her firsthand during "Simon Says," he's taken aback by her shallow behavior and [[SkewedPriorities flirty comments about his son]]. He also winds up winded again when rushing back to his secret lair, just like he sounded when he akumatized Nino.
** Near the end of "Captain Hardrock," [[spoiler:Chloé tries to use her father to threaten Officer Raincomprix, who recalls the events of "Rogercop" and informs her that he and Sabrina found out the mayor doesn't have the jurisdiction to fire him]].
** In "Syren," after finding out that Chat Noir is keeping secrets from her, Chloé comforts herself by hugging Mr. Cuddly (her teddy bear that Adrien mentioned in "Horrificator").
** In "Dark Cupid," [[spoiler:Marigold]] is happy for Adrien's support, "even after you saw me at my newest and clumsiest," referring to the mistake she made when defending him from Riposte, which caused him to injure his ankle.
** In "Desperada," Chloé comes after Jagged Stone for compensation for the damage Fang did to her shoes at the end of "Silencer."
* CallForward: In "Troublemaker", Penny offhandedly mentions Jagged paying child support. This is in reference to "Truth", which reveals [[spoiler:Luka Couffaine]] is Jagged's child.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Since Marinette still lives in Paris, Hawkmoth's still active, and Chloé still causes several akumatizations by virtue of being [[AlphaBitch herself]], Marinette finds herself caught in the crossfire time and again.
* CasualDangerDialog: Chat Noir and Nino engage in some friendly banter while caught in Anansi's web.
-->'''Chat Noir:''' 'Sup dude.\\
'''Nino:''' Hey, howzit going.\\
'''Chat Noir:''' Oh, you know, just [[{{Pun}} hanging around]].\\
'''Nino:''' (lol) Hey, how come you don't Cataclysm the web?\\
'''Chat Noir:''' The web currently attached to our entire backs?\\
'''Nino:''' Ah.
* CatchphraseInterruptus: In "Princess Fragrance", Chloé complains to Tikki about being "stuck on the sidelines like some civilian".
-->'''Chloé:''' Ridiculous, '''''utterly-'''''\\
'''Tikki:''' Chloé
* CaughtOnTape: In "Kung Food", [[spoiler:it's revealed that Chloé was caught by a security camera while messing with the soup]].
* CharacterDevelopment: After her father is temporarily fired in "Rogercop," Sabrina develops the beginnings of a BrokenPedestal relationship with Chloé in "Darkblade," no longer hanging onto her friend's every word. In "Reflekta," she is barely responsive and also refuses to carry out Chloé's dirty work against Juleka, to the point where Chloé asks, "Seriously, what is with you lately?" [[spoiler:By the end of "Vanisher," their "friendship" is over for good]].
* CheatersNeverProsper:
** Like in canon, Chloé's attempt to cheat her way into winning the derby contest fails because the people she hired to make a derby based on the stolen design copied Marinette's name as well.
** Chloé tries to bribe her classmates so she could be re-elected as class representative but they still choose Marinette.
** In this comic, Max is relying on prewritten codes during his failed attempt to win a spot at the gaming tournament.
* TheChooserOfTheOne:
** Master Fu is meant to be this, as the Guardian, but things went a bit OffTheRails and he has no idea who Scarlet Lady ''is''.
** At the end of "Mr. Pigeon", [[spoiler:Marianne Lenore wonders if the Rooster Miraculous would be a good fit for Xavier Ramier]].
** [[spoiler:Adrien takes up this role for the first time in "Puppeteer" when he needs a hero to take Marigold's place after the villain steals her doll. He chooses to give Marinette the Mouse Miraculous because he doesn't know that she ''is'' Marigold]].
* {{Cliche}}: Adrien sees the idea of his father being a supervillain as practically this.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Pollen is ''not'' fine with [[spoiler:her holder Marinette]] using ''any'' other Kwami... except Tikki. But especially ''not'' Mullo. %% "Chloé to Adrien, duh!" is a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample, add context before returning it
* CollectiveDeathGlare:
** Marinette and every member of Kitty Section (even '''Rose'''!) sports a DeathGlare upon discovering that XY plagiarized them.
** During "Zombizou," after pulling Marinette outside to talk about her reaction to Chloé ruining her birthday gift, Ms. Bustier requests Alya to keep the class on track. Said "track" is everyone glaring daggers at Chloé, who can only nervously SweatDrop.
* ColorFailure:
** Both Chat Noir and Scarlet Lady turn white when confronted by Kung Food and his [[{{BFS}} giant pizza sword]].
** In "Prime Queen," Marigold loses her colors when Chat Noir confesses [[spoiler:that [[LovesMyAlterEgo he's in love with Marinette]]]].
* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** In "Lady [=WiFi=]", all of Marinette's attempts to tell the titular villain that she isn't Scarlet Lady fall flat.
--->'''Marinette:''' I don't even ''like'' Scarlet Lady.\\
'''Lady [=WiFi=]:''' Girl, we gotta work on your self-esteem.
** "The Pharaoh" sees Tikki attempting to convince Chloé to [[ThrowTheDogABone take Sabrina to see the Egyptian exhibit]] at the museum, as they could brush up on their history together. She mentions that there will also be some cool Ladybug-related stuff to see there... and Chloé immediately leaps to the conclusion that there's a brand-new Scarlet Lady exhibit, ditching her study date with Sabrina to hurry off to the museum.
** After Adrien sees that his earlier comment about how [[TemptingFate they're lucky they don't have to deal with an akuma]] is no longer applicable thanks to Rogercop arriving on the scene, Plagg expresses pride in his bearer being a 'true Black Cat'.
** While working together with Marinette to take down Gamer, Chat makes a pointed comment about how he knows he can rely upon her. Scarlet reacts more to the way he's flirting with Mari than to the implied insult aimed her way.
** When Chloé gets evidence of Marinette going to steal the ruined class photo, Tikki laments the notion that without her guidance, Marinette is becoming a criminal. ...Not really considering the fact that she's doing this for the greater good (so they can retake it with Juleka) or that her 'positive influence' has done ''absolutely nothing'' for Chloé.
** When Rose confronts Reflekta, she tells her that the Juleka she knows wouldn't attack people who didn't do anything to her. Reflekta takes this as a prompt to go after Chloé first since she's the one who wronged her initially.
** When [[spoiler:Maotif]] says Cat Noir "doesn't '''need''' powers to fight akuma" and uses [[spoiler:herself]] as an example by claiming to "do it all the time", Scarlet Lady, unlike [[AvertedTrope Cat Noir]], doesn't realize [[spoiler:Maotif is Marinette]].
** When Nadja shows up at the bakery and sees it closed, she phones Tom to demand the cake she ordered and asks "Yeah, and?" when he points out she's 20 minutes early.
** In "Kung Food", Chloé tells Tikki to shut up and fails to realize the latter only obeyed because she's bound to.
** In "Vanisher" Chloé yells at Tikki, "Where were you?!" and complains that there are ladybugs all over, not realizing Tikki did a difficult solo WorldHealingWave to rescue her from the akuma's power.
** In "Riposte", Argencourt is so excited about Adrien and Kagami's exciting match being "real" fencing that he ignores the latter's illegal moves.
** In "Princess Fragrance", Marinette sees Chloé with [[spoiler:Tikki and assumes Chloé stole Scarlet Lady's kwami.]]
** In "Crocoduel", Jagged Stone fails to realize his tour bus ruins any chances of making a sneaky entrance.
* CommonalityConnection: In "Animan", Nino and Alya realize they "have a lot in common".
-->'''Nino:''' An interest in video editing...\\
'''Alya:''' Really young siblings...\\
'''Nino and Alya:''' ''(Looking at Adrien and Marinette)'' Best friends that ditch them.
* ComplimentFishing: In "Gamer," Adrien does this during his practice session with Marinette. He praises her playing and says that he's no good, expecting a comforting reassurance. Marinette instead frankly tells him "That adds up," explaining that since he has only played alone, he's not used to working as part of a team. In the end, [[spoiler:this provides a good reason for giving his tournament place up to Max]].
* CompressedAdaptation: The comic doesn't go into too much details on the plots, mostly keeping its focus on Chloé, Adrien and Marinette, trusting its audience to have seen the show to know how some of the akumas came about, how they're defeated and the plot developments concerning Hawk Moth. The fun in the comic is seeing how they play out with Chloé as the main super heroine instead of Marinette. The only exception to this is the Vanisher chapter; the original episode used Vanisher as a simple setup to lead into Antibug, while Chloé ''is'' the Ladybug hero in this continuity and unlikely to be akumatized that way, so the comic creates a whole new story actually focusing on Vanisher instead.
* ContinuityNod:
** The misbehavior of Alec, [[spoiler: rigging the contest]] in "Stormy Weather", has given Aurore power over him, which explains why Nino was able to get on as a Challenge contestant in "Simon Says".
** In "La Befana", Plagg brings up the time Marinette was Maotif.
** In "Kung Food" Hawkmoth warns the akuma, "Make sure you get Chat Noir first. Attacking the girl never ends well." The experience of La Befana must be fresh in his mind.
** In "Evillustrator" Chat Noir leaves a message for Scarlet Lady that her supposed "best friend" is being targeted, and that "you might want to pretend to care for 5 minutes." This is based on his impression after Scar failed to show up in time to save Chloé from Kung Food's soup.
** Also in "Evillustrator", Chat Noir is surprised to find Scar facing off with the akuma at the hotel. When she says, "Obviously! My best friend, Chloé Bourgeous was in danger!" Chat replies, "Is that why you almost let her become '''soup''' last week?" This causes her to break out in a nervous sweat.
** The flashback in "Vanisher" shows that Jagged Stone hasn't forgotten about Chloé sabotaging the soup he was judging in "Kung Food", telling Nadja that she could have poisoned him. Sabrina was also wearing the hat Chloé gave her at the end of "Evillustrator", as well as the rose-shaped brooch which will become her akumatized object.
** When Chloé claims on TV that she is best friends with Scarlet Lady in "Vanisher", Sabrina asks, "Didn't you learn anything from Lila!?" She's referring to Lila's similar claim in "Volpina" that got her publicly attacked and humiliated.
** In "Riposte", Tikki and Plagg watch a TV image on Chloé's cell phone, showing [[spoiler:Marigold giving an interview with a sheepish grin, captioned "Bravo Marigold"]], which shows an event that was skipped over in "Vanisher".
** Also in "Riposte", all the girls in Marinette's class (except for Chloé) wear the bee accessories she made and gave out in the previous episode.
** In "Princess Fragrance", Marinette recognises [[spoiler:Tikki when she sees her with Chloé, as she'd previously met her in "Vanisher"]].
** In "Ikari Gozen", Chloé's application to the competition involving Adrien was denied, due to Gabriel banning her from his contests after what happened in "Mr. Pigeon".
** In "Crocoduel", when the class are surprised at the fact that you can be akumatized more than once, Rose points out that "that one florist" gets akumatized often, as was shown at the beginning of "Princess Fragrance".
* ContrivedCoincidence: In "Puppeteer" the author has Tikki request more cookies at just the right time so that Chloé will see Lady [=WiFi=] flying up to Marinette's room. She assumes it's to prove Marinette is Scarlet Lady again, which annoys her. Otherwise she might not have gone into action at all.
* ConvenientSlowDance: It's not convenient for Chloé in "Despair Bear" when she can find nobody to dance with at her party, but it's convenient that she drives Nathaniel to dance with Marc, so that they start to get together long before they did in canon.
* CoolMask: In "La Befana", Lila gives Marinette a Venetian carnevale mask for her birthday. She bluntly admits she wanted to get rid of it because it reminded her too much of Scarlet Lady.
* CorrelationCausationGag: In "Reflekta", Marinette thinks her pleas and flattery get the photographer to do a retake, when he actually does it for Adrien, who was whispering "please" behind her. A humorous version of ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou where the effect is influence (and his suspicions about Adrien's crush) rather than fear.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Alec, who not only rubs Aurore's loss in her face, but also [[spoiler:rigged the votes so that Mireille would win]].
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot:
** As Marinette notes, all Alya had to do to avoid the events of "Lady [=WiFi=]" playing out as they did was ''ask her'' about the suspiciously spotted object she saw her putting in her locker. Had she asked, Marinette would have happily told her that it was [[spoiler:part of some costumes she was making so the kids she babysits can play heroes]]. She also ribs Alya for forgetting about how she was taken hostage during the Stoneheart incident. In fairness, Nino was the one to make that suggestion first and Alya did attempt to call Marinette to ask her. But when all she got was a voice message, Alya opted for the locker ploy rather than just wait the following morning to ask her.
** After the defeat of Guitar Villain where Jagged points out anyone would want to work with the 'second best' musician Marinette questions why he didn't do that earlier.
* CrazyPrepared:
** As in {{Canon}}, Marinette has everyone's schedules plotted out on a board in order to make coordinating easier. When Alya ribs her for it in "Copycat", Marinette responds by pointing out that she forgot about the statue unveiling.
** Because her mother goes through her phone all the time, Kagami deletes any text messages and calls from her friends, and doesn't save their numbers, instead having them ''memorised''.
* CreatorCameo:
** The author's personal OC makes a cameo appearance at the beginning of "Princess Fragrance", having just been akumatized and defeated.
*** She also shows up as a background character in "Gamer" Part 7.
* CrocodileTears: Chloé fakes tears while convincing Sabrina to let her bum off their project, claiming she was traumatized by Evillustrator's attack. She palms an eyedropper just out of Sabrina's line of sight.
* CrushBlush:
** Théo gets one while talking to Scarlet Lady, and later while watching [[spoiler:Marinette call Scarlet Lady out... until Chat Noir steps in to shut that down]].
** Adrien and Marinette both get one during "Gamer" after they end up on top of each other after dodging the titular Akuma's attack.
* CurbStompBattle: Stormy Weather initially lays one down on Scarlet Lady and Chat Noir.
* CuttingTheKnot:
** The Lucky Charms are the same for each akuma as in canon, but because Marinette doesn't start off as the Ladybug superhero, there were many times when she wasn't around to figure out how to use the Lucky Charm. Chat Noir and Scarlet Lady usually can't come up with a good plan on their own, so they (mostly Chat Noir due to Scarlet Lady's laziness) often resort to just throwing it at the akuma or hitting the akuma with the Lucky Charm. It's eventually referred to as the "Chat Noir method".
** Scarlet Lady comes across ''two'' Chat Noirs in "Copycat." Rather than trying to SpotTheImpostor, she decides to just take them both in.
** Played with in "Pixelator," where the Lucky Charm object is a compact mirror. Marigold tells Scarlet Lady to use the above-mentioned "Chat Noir method," which the latter took to mean knockout the akuma by throwing the compact at him. However, Marigold really meant throw the Lucky Charm so Pixelator's beam is reflected back to him. Fortunately, Scarlet Lady's poor aim results in the Lucky Charm having just the right projectile path to make Marigold's actual plan work.
* DamselInDistress: Marinette becomes this in Chloé's place during the second Stoneheart attack.
* DeadpanSnarker: Adrien/Chat, Tikki, Sabrina... anyone who hangs out with Chloé/Scarlet Lady on a regular basis, really.
** In terms of people not in the above category, Alix gets some pretty good snark in whenever she shows up.
* DearJohnLetter: Anarka and Jagged both accuse the other of breaking up with them this way. [[spoiler:Turns out the letters were forged by Bob Roth.]]
* DeathGlare:
** Implied in "Copycat"; we don't get to see Chat Noir's face after he hears that Théo thought he and Scarlet Lady were an item, but whatever expression he turns towards his partner is enough to make her recoil with fright.
** We ''do'' get to see the look he gives Théo after he starts {{Crush Blush}}ing while watching [[spoiler:Marinette yell at Scarlet Lady]], which is enough to shut that down cold.
** Nathalie and Principal Damocles hit Chloé with a double-barrel death glare after she attempts to blame her plagiarism attempt on her best friend, throwing her under the bus to try and save herself.
** Ivan is ''not pleased'' when he learns Nino went behind Alya and Mylène's backs and wrote in a kiss scene between Adrien and Mylène's characters in their movie.
** Marinette gives Chloé a flat stare after she accuses her of stealing her bracelet, while Adrien and Tom have matching furious looks as they rise to their friend/daughter's defense.
** Adrien hits Chloé with a withering look after she traps Juleka in the bathroom, ruins the photo with her attempts to force herself onto his arm, then 'suggests' to the principal that they don't have time to retake it with so many other classes waiting for their pictures.
** Adrien is not happy when he finds out that Lila threw out his father's book on the Miraculous after she stole it from him.
* DeathIsCheap: It's mentioned in the author's notes that Miraculous Cure can bring people back from the dead, meaning death by akuma battle has no meaning. It's then deconstructed in the fact that this makes Scarlet Lady extremely indifferent towards civilians in danger.
* DeathOfAChild: In "Rogercop", the Mayor fears this [[spoiler:after the titular akuma presents him with his daughter's bag and declares that she was "punished for her crimes"]]. All he can do in the face of this is tear up, whispering a LittleNo.
* DeletedScenes: The author says, "I tend to skip over some scenes if I can’t think of a way to change it enough from canon and it’s not totally vital to the story, so I’ll imply it happened without showing it..." giving the example of a deleted fight scene in "Gamer" where the heroes won a mecha to control.
* DeliberateUnderPerformance: Adrien purposely messes up as Aspik over countless loops to create an excuse to not be called on again, which will allow him to better maintain his secret identity.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Pigeon Man on his Pigeon Roof with his Pigeon Friends gets a Pigeon Happy End!"
* DescriptionCut: While working on Marinette's surprise party, Alya says "She won't know what hit her!". The next panel shows Marinette waiting for Alya's phone call and saying "It's cute that they think they're subtle".
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Chloé is a frequent victim of this:
*** Chloé's decision to steal Marinette's work for the design contest. Not only does Marinette incorporate her name onto her designs, she points out that she has all the original sketches.
*** Chloé insults Marinette right as she's handing out free croissants on Career Day, sarcastically ordering her not to get her "Poor Grease" near her precious bracelet. Marinette responds by skipping over her entirely.
*** During "Gamer," Chloé attempts to con her way into the bakery by claiming that she and Marinette have a school project together. Not only does Sabine refuse to let her in, she points out that she's fully aware of how much Chloé's bullied her daughter over the years. (Not to mention what happened when she recently let ''[[ContinuityNod Sabrina]]'' in...)
*** Chloé complains about Reflekta, asking "Why does an akuma have to come '''now'''?", forgetting that she anticipated getting an akuma to fight when she locked Juleka in the bathroom.
*** Scarlet Lady chooses to follow [[spoiler:Marigold]] when the latter rescues Adrien from Riposte... leading the akuma right to where she hid him. The other heroine does a {{Facepalm}} upon realizing Scarlet's stupidity.
** Lila mixes this with DidntSeeThatComing in "Volpina." Her attempt to impress everyone by [[CelebrityLie claiming to be Scarlet Lady's BFF]] has more mixed results due to others having more experience with what the superheroine is ''really'' like. She also completely failed to consider what might happen if Adrien figured out that she'd "borrowed" his book and is caught completely flat-footed when he calls her out on the ContrivedCoincidence of her revealing her SecretLegacy to him right afterwards.
** PlayedForLaughs in Riposte's denouncement. Once everything's been resolved, Plagg points out to Adrien that by deciding to [[spoiler:convince D'Argencourt to let Kagami onto the Fencing Team]], he's unintentionally [[spoiler:sacrificed a chance to have ''Marinette'' join instead]]. Adrien's reaction makes clear that he hadn't thought about that.
** In "Troublemaker," [[spoiler:Marinette uses the same idea she had in canon - to put glue on her Miraculous so that Troublemaker will get stuck when she tries to remove it. However, since a comb is bigger than a pair of earrings, she has to use more glue and Troublemaker's hand ends up being stuck to her head until Scarlet Lady presumably does the Miraculous Cure]].
** During "Prime Queen," Nadja fails to consider that her guests can respond to her harassment by simply [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere getting up and walking out]] rather than being ''forced'' to answer her invasive and demanding questions.
** Prime Queen punches through the pizza box using the arm that has her akumatized object on it. Scarlet Lady and Marigold actually ''agree'' on how stupid that was.
* DisabilityImmunity: By being an unpleasant person, Scar fails to inspire Marinette to make a cute, representational doll of Scarlet Lady for the kids she babysits. She makes an ugly paper-bag doll instead, which Scar tears up in anger. This renders Scar immune from the Puppeteer's control.
* DisasterDominoes: Jalil shoves Scarlet Lady right into his sister Alix, who bumps into Marinette, who gets knocked into Adrien. Which Adrien doesn't mind so much, ''except'' it also causes Scarlet Lady to notice he's there.
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** In "Lady [=WiFi=]", Chloé finds out that Alya thinks ''Marinette'' is Scarlet Lady. She responds by snapping a photo of her getting into Marinette's locker, then makes a scene in the Principal's Office and railroads him into suspending her from school for a whole week. {{Discussed}} by Sabrina and Kim after they witness the whole debacle in the principal's office:
--->'''Kim:''' I just thought Alya was taking something from Marinette's locker.\\
'''Sabrina:''' And ''I'' thought Chloé just wanted to get her in trouble. I didn't know she wanted to go '''THAT''' far. Especially when Alya didn't even do anything to her.\\
'''Kim:''' Maybe Marinette can talk to the principal and get her a lighter sentence...
** A bonus panel for "Horrificator" implies that [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/190539279714/nino-you-might-want-to-slow-down-before-you-get Hawkmoth deliberately makes Mylène's akuma incapable of speech]] in response to her [[DeadpanSnarker sassing him]]. (One of the tags on said comic implies that Mylène thinks this is WorthIt.)
** "Rogercop" opens with Adrien implying to his father that because he broke his promise to come to Career Day, he's going to ruin his diet by binging on the croissants Tom and Marinette brought in. Gabriel swears to himself that he's "akumatizing the S**T out of someone now" purely to get back at his errant son.
** In "The Gamer":
*** Max wants to hurt Marinette because she ([[IWasBeatenByAGirl a]] [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain girl]]) beat him in a game. Hawk Moth even points out to Max that he was beat by ''two'' people.
*** Chloé tries to get Marinette zapped all because she was hanging out with Adrien.
** In "Volpina", Chloé reacts to Lila's [[CelebrityLie lie that she is friends with Scarlet Lady]] with extreme hostility (that Lila tried to approach Adrien with it [[BerserkButton didn't help]]) and assaults her in front of the whole class, tossing her into a nearby fountain.
** As in canon, Jagged Stone fired Vivica in "Desperada" because she ate his cereal and drank Fang's milk. However, it's implied in the comic that he actually just used that as an excuse to have Luka and/or Juleka play music with him, which Anarka calls him out on.
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: When Tikki tries to tell a jealous Chloé that Adrien is free to date whoever he wants, Chloé replies that of course he is, but only if it's her.
* DramaticIrony:
** In "Reflekta," both Scarlet Lady and Marinette recognize one of the akuma's victims as [[spoiler:Chat Noir]], ''not'' as [[spoiler:Adrien Agreste]]. This leads to Scarlet openly mocking them for getting zapped, blissfully unaware that she's [[spoiler:making fun of her crush]].
** "La Befana" has Mme. Bustier acting authoritative for once and scolding several students for bullying... pity that she's doing so in defense of Chloé, the biggest bully in her class. And forcing said students to invite her to Marinette's ''birthday party'', setting the stage for more problems.
** After posting Lila's claims on her blog without verifying anything hurt her credibility, Alya declares that she's going to be more careful from now on. Yet after the "Evillustrator" incident, she's shown interviewing ''Chloé'' and getting a [[SelfServingMemory hilariously biased version of events]].
** During "Guitar Villain," Chloé notes that Adrien's father might veto her plans to hang out with Adrien, prompting her to make a "backup plan." What she doesn't know is that Gabriel is actually ''forcing'' Adrien to spend time with her, as he agreed on his son's behalf.
** Near the end of "Zombizou," Mme. Bustier praises Scarlet Lady for being Chloé's best friend and not leaving her alone, not realizing that Chloé is truly friendless now. The author adds, "Why don't you actually reflect on WHY Chloé is alone?"
* DroppingTheBombshell: At the end of "Copycat":
-->'''Adrien:''' Is that ''Théo?!'' What is he doing [at school]?!\\
'''Nino:''' Dude, [[spoiler:[[YoungerThanTheyLook he goes here.]]]]
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: When Ms. Bustier tells her students about how kisses in fairy tales break spells through the power of love, Max contradicts this by pointing out that, in most cases, the kisses are done without the kissed person's consent.
* DudeWheresMyRespect:
** Chat Noir would just like some ''simple acknowledgement'' for his help in stopping the akumas, thank you very much. Too bad that Scarlet Lady tends to push all the work on him, then take advantage of his subsequent exhaustion to claim all the credit. Ironically, when Scarlet Lady describes her beloved Adrien to Théo as someone "beloved by all of Paris", he naturally assumes that she's talking about Chat Noir, and that he naturally gets that kind of acceptance because of his heroism. Fortunately, this begins to change for the better for Chat, with it being revealed at the end of "Troublemaker" that he's neck and neck with Scarlet Lady in the popularity polls. By the end of "Prime Queen," he's likely already surpassed her.
** A rare case where the above roles are flipped occurs in "Guitar Villain." Scarlet Lady saves Théo, and he thanks ''Chat Noir'' for it.
* DuelBoss: Pixelator is able to successfully trap Chloé and Adrien with his pictures, forcing [[spoiler:Marigold]] to deal with him one on one.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Sabrina sports these in "Darkblade," a sign that she she hasn't forgiven or forgotten Chloé's actions in the previous episode.
* DyeHard: InUniverse, Adrien temporarily dyes his hair lime green in "The Bubbler" as a form of rebellion against his dad. He considers doing pink or blue in "Captain Hardrock" after Gabriel forbids him from going to Kitty Section's concert. By "Anansi," Adrien has already amassed an entire ''collection'' of hair dyes, and he threatens to dye his hair pink if he isn't allowed to hang out with his friends.
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* EarlyBirdCameo:
** [[spoiler:Ella and Etta Césaire]] appear at the end of "Lady Wifi," wearing the masks that Marinette made for them.
** Pun not intended, but at the end of "Mr. Pigeon," [[spoiler:Marianne Lenoir makes an appearance, showing Xavier Ramier a pigeon sanctuary and secretly scouting him out as a potential Miraculous holder]].
** [[spoiler:Luka Couffaine]] makes a brief [[TheFaceless faceless]] cameo at the end of "Reflekta."
** Ondine arrives with Kim to watch his race with Alix in "Timebreaker"; Kim comments that he wanted at least ''one'' person there he could count on to cheer him on.
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: It's revealed that many of the students long ago realized Mme. Bustier's shortcomings, particularly [[AdultsAreUseless her refusal to discipline Chloé]]. However, prior to Marinette giving Mme. Bustier a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, they were all afraid of bringing it up due to the latter's reputation as the [[CoolTeacher "nice" teacher]].
* EmergingFromTheShadows: In "Vanisher," a shadowy intruder enters Chloé's room and says, "You won't see '''this''' one coming, Chloé," followed by an evil laugh. It's the titular villain, [[spoiler:even with the hexagonal-shaped head outline, because the author has redesigned the akuma]]. The author says, "there's a short mystery so I hope you'll look at the clues!"
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: In "Reflekta", [[spoiler:Marinette goes from BadassBystander to full-blown superhero when Plagg transfers the ring from the incapacitated Adrien to her]].
* EnemyMine: Defied. When Marinette reveals she hates Scarlet Lady, Volpina is visibly excited, but Marinette makes it abundantly clear that she hates Hawk Moth more before the akuma can even propose an alliance.
* EngineeredHeroics: Hinted at in "Reflekta"; after trapping Juleka in the bathroom, Chloé thinks to herself that she'll be ''lucky'' if this gets her akumatized, as it means that she'll get to 'show off as Scarlet Lady'.
* EntitledBastard:
** Chloé believes that she's entitled to Paris' love and affection, despite not really doing anything to earn it.
** Nadja declares that Chat Noir and Marigold ''have'' to 'admit the truth' about their speculated relationship during her live broadcast.
* EntertaininglyWrong:
** In "The Bubbler", Hawkmoth expresses [[VillainRespect respect]] for Scarlet Lady staying out of the fight, believing that she hung back in order to protect her earrings. As opposed to her just... not caring about all the guests being endangered.
** In "Princess Fragrance", Marinette sees [[spoiler:Chloé with Tikki]] and believes that [[spoiler:Chloé stole Tikki from Scarlet Lady (who irresponsibily lost her), not considering that the two might actually be the same person]].
** In "Sapotis", after witnessing Scarlet Lady's more unpleasant side in the previous episode, Alya thinks that since there have been multiple Ladybug heroes throughout history, the one she saw at Chloé's party was actually someone else.
* EpicFail:
** In "Stormy Weather," Scarlet Lady attempts to throw her yo-yo at the titular akuma... only to have it land barely a meter away from her. Chat Noir struggles not to crack up laughing.
** Upon presenting his film to Mayor André at the end of "Horrificator," Nino is promptly told to GetOut of the mayor's office, with his entry not even making it past the first round of the contest. He then wonders if that was because the movie was unedited and had no plot, characters, or story. Adrien snickers as Nino realizes this.
** In "Gamer," Nino's score is so low that Max wonders if it's the former's first time playing. Nino says he's just boosting numbers.
--->'''Nino:''' Dude, I'm only playing to boost numbers. Ain't nobody here for this tournament.
** Scarlet Lady immediately gets [[NonLethalKO KO'ed]] trying to pilot the mecha in a fight against Gamer.
** In "La Befana," Chloé tries to ruin Marinette's birthday party by hiding the gifts in a bush and unplugging the electronics needed for the music. The gifts are so poorly hidden that Sabrina easily recovers them, and she later just replugs everything back.
** Jagged Stone tries to sneak aboard the Liberty for Luka and Juleka's birthday party without Anarka knowing…after parking his tour bus on the dock.
* EspeciallyZoidberg: When Roger tells Mr. Ramier that feeding the pigeons is forbidden as a health and safety hazard, Mr. Ramier says "But not for me, right?" Roger just snaps "''Especially'' for you!"
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** The very first scene in the comic is Chloé fuming over Marinette standing up to her, then slipping her hand in her purse and stealing what she assumes to be a precious family heirloom.
** Jalil's introduction in "The Pharaoh" has him rudely shoving Alya out of his way without sparing so much as a ''glance'' towards her as he hurries towards his father.
* EurekaMoment: Scarlet Lady never figures out how to use her Lucky Charm object against the villain on her own. It's up to Marinette (if she's there) or Chat Noir to come up with a plan (and he oftentimes [[CuttingTheKnot just throws it at the akuma]]). There were exceptions in "Rogercop" and "Darkblade," but the author says, "Don't get used to it."
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Hawk Moth is often times quite miffed and/or concerned when his akumatized victims display SkewedPriorities while at other times being sympathetic when they make a fair point related to their akumatization:
*** Being a fashion mogul, he outright agrees with Aurore that Mireille's pajama ensemble is unprofessional.
*** Both he and the mayor are creeped out by [[EntitledToHaveYou Théo]]'s obsession with Scarlet Lady (who everyone is aware is underage), [[spoiler:both assuming he's significantly older than her]].
*** Hawk Moth finds Jalil's ramblings and obsession with proving his (gravely misinformed) theories regarding Egyptology grating, just like Jalil's family does, and he's quick to [[ThisIsGonnaSuck complain about having to deal with teenage hormones]].
*** While he was already planning on [[EvilIsPetty "akumatizing the s**t out of someone" for Adrien's rebellious streak]], even he is disgusted by the Mayor's abuse of power in "Rogercop," disliking how the Mayor fired Roger on the whims of a spoiled child.
*** Despite secretly being a supervillain, Gabriel finds plagiarism distasteful, as shown by his unimpressed expression when he notices that Chloé and Marinette have entered the same hat into the design contest. When Marinette proves that it was Chloé who copied her, Gabriel and Nathalie waste no time disqualifying Chloé and banning her from all future contests, with "Ikari Gozen" showing that he fully intends on enforcing the ban. Adrien even attempts to exploit this later on by informing his father of Bob Roth stealing from Kitty Section to try and help his friends.
*** Although he akumatizes him into "The Gamer" all the same, Hawk Moth finds Max's monomaniacal dislike of Marinette beating him to be excessive (he even points out to Max that he was beaten by ''two'' people).
*** In "Simon Says," he comes to [[BrokenPedestal lose a great deal of respect in Scarlet Lady]], who he once thought as a WorthyOpponent, for her bossy attitude, SkewedPriorities, and [[EntitledToHaveYou sense of entitlement to his son]]. While Gabriel briefly considers taking advantage of Scarlet Lady's interest in his son, when he brings up the subject with Adrien, he readily accepts his son's rejection of the idea. It is also PlayedForLaughs in the fact that Gabriel is relieved that Adrien also doesn't like her at all.
*** He agrees with Lila that Scarlet Lady is a terrible hero and very quickly finds her akumatized form, Volpina, one of his favorites to date.
*** Whenever he akumatizes someone from outside of Paris, he at least takes the time to explain himself instead of just taking control of them.
*** Because [[AlphaBitch Chloé]] is such [[HateSink an awful person]], he usually allows anyone with a personal grudge against her some slack by letting them [[AssholeVictim torment her first]] before prioritizing the Miraculous.
*** While he's still an asshole, he seems to treat Nooroo and Nathalie much better than Chloé treats Tikki and Sabrina. He actually shares meals with the two, lets Nathalie DopeSlap him without consequences for attacking her as Collector, and doesn't blame them for things going wrong.
*** Even Hawk Moth and Scarlet Lady are surprised that Animan wants revenge on kids for claiming to be able to outrun a panther.
*** During Puppeteer's akumatization, he's actually gentler since it's a little girl he's working with. For her sake, he goes along with her mentality and makes [[PetTheDog a small effort to comfort her when she inevitably gets overwhelmed]] (more like using a broom to brush a cat's back, but the thought is there). While he's not going to be winning any Father of the Year trophies, it's better than being the [[ParentalNeglect absent]] and [[AbusiveParent controlling]] ArchnemesisDad he's been in both canon and this AU.
*** Hawk Moth is weirded out by [[LoonyFan Vincent]]'s obsession with Jagged Stone, mentioning how glad he is to have kept Adrien home for so long.
** Volpina is shocked when Scarlet Lady doesn't care about the former's threat to make a building collapse and says that she can just bring back anyone inside who got hurt after defeating Volpina. The akuma responds that Scarlet Lady "really [is] a villain" and echoes the sentiment again when Scarlet Lady tells her to go ahead and drop ''Adrien.''
** La Befana calls Scarlet Lady out on her cowardice, claiming that she is going to turn her to coal for it (by contrast, she was going to turn Chat into an angel).
** While it helps [[KarmicTrickster with messing with Chloé]], Vanisher "vanishes" Chloé's clothing and accessories so the latter won't be running around naked. She also focuses on only [[AlphaBitch Chloé]] and doesn't "vanishing" any innocent people.
** Despite her LackOfEmpathy, bullying behavior, and enjoyment of other people's misfortunes, Scarlet Lady actually feels some secondhand embarrassment for Prime Queen when the akuma falls for the SchmuckBait that the heroes had set up, and while she does say that it's embarrassing that the plan worked, it's clear she wasn't trying to insult anyone in this case.
* EverybodyKnewAlready: Near the end of "Crocoduel," Anarka and Jagged awkwardly try to dance around telling Juleka that the latter is her father, only to learn that the entire city knows now, [[spoiler:and that Juleka in particular has always been aware of it]]. Somewhat justified, since Anarka and Jagged couldn't have remembered blurting out their secret for all of Paris to hear while akumatized.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Adrien's crush on Marinette is quite evident to others. Even Master Fu playfully refers to her as 'the girl you love'.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Sabrina may have been Chloé's lackey at the time, but she's confused and upset by Chloé's behavior in "Lady Wifi." As she admits to Kim, getting Alya in trouble was one thing, but getting her ''suspended''...? ''That'' caught her completely off-guard.
** Mayor Bourgeois indulges Chloé to the point he's willing to abuse his position to bend the rules for her. Nevertheless, he still forces her to apologize to Marinette for falsely accusing the latter of stealing Chloé's bracelet.
** Though she still goes through with sneaking into Marinette's room for blackmail material, Sabrina clearly feels guilty about taking advantage of Sabine's trust (with tears even welling in her eyes) when the woman gives her a bag of cookies as a pick-me-up.
** Ms. Bustier, who generally turns a blind eye to most of Chloé's antics, disappointedly asks her if she had tried to bribe her classmates for their votes after Chloé makes an AccidentalPublicConfession.
** Adrien angrily chews Lila out for stealing Gabriel's book from him and then using it to try and trick him into thinking she's a superhero. Nevertheless, he gets no joy from seeing Scarlet Lady throw Lila into a fountain immediately afterwards, even [[WhatTheHellHero calling the heroine out on it]].
** XY has no qualms about copying other artists' works, but even he doesn't seem to approve of Bob Roth physically grabbing Marinette when threatening her to keep quiet about the plagiarism.
** As much as Marigold hates Scarlet Lady, even she is shocked by Aspik pushing the Ladybug heroine into the path of Desperada's attacks.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** Despite being an awful hero and treating him poorly, Scarlet Lady doesn't understand why Chat Noir hates her or why he refuses to call her by her real name.
** Chloé gets hit with this in "Reflekta" when she can't understand why Sabrina won't make up for her weird behavior (read: getting fed up by Chloé's antics) by helping her prevent another picture from being taken.
** Scarlet Lady is confused over Chat Noir [[spoiler:and Marigold]] not wanting to sink Captain Hardrock's ship due to the fact she has hostages because they'll just come back with the Cure, not seeming to get that they wouldn't want people to drown even if they would be safe in the end.
* EvilIsPetty:
** How the AU begins; Chloé decides to steal from Marinette as payback for talking back to her, and ends up with the Ladybug Miraculous as a result.
** In "Lady [=WiFi=]", Chloé snaps a picture of Alya getting into Marinette's locker and goads the Principal into suspending her for a whole week purely because she's salty over the very ''idea'' that Alya thought Marinette could be Scarlet Lady instead of her.
--->'''Chloé:''' Too bad your friend Marinette ''isn't'' Scarlet Lady... or she ''might'' have saved you.
** Hawkmoth responds to Mylène snarking at him during her akumatization by rendering Horrificator incapable of human speech.
** In "Rogercop", after Gabriel fails to show up at Parent's Career Day, Adrien snarkily implies that he'll ruin his diet by helping himself to the free croissants. Gabriel's reaction?
--->''"Oh, I'm akumatizing the s**t out of someone now."''
** Max gets ''really'' angry that Marinette beat him, [[SkewedPriorities completely disregarding]] that it was both her and Adrien. Hawk Moth even points it out when Max gives his MotiveRant.
--->'''Hawk Moth''': Didn't you lose to ''two'' people...?
** Chloé, meanwhile, proves to be so petty that she not only trips Marinette ''as Scarlet Lady'', but actively aids Gamer in tracking her and Chat Noir by leading him on a merry chase.
** Chloé again in "Reflekta" as she refuses to let another picture be taken with Juleka in it, even though she was being pushed off Adrien in the first one.
** "Timebreaker" sees her snatching Alix's pocketwatch out of Adrien's hand, insulting its appearance. Upon hearing who it belongs to, she casually declares it worthless and tosses it right onto the racetrack. The narrative commentary underneath the strip implies that this is partly due to Alix knocking her out of the way while pointing out that she wasn't even ''invited'' to watch the race.
** In "Volpina", Adrien uses this to PullTheThread on Lila's lie that she's friends with Scarlet Lady. As he puts it, there's no way that Scarlet Lady could have "saved Lila's life personally" because Scar ''never'' tries to save '''anybody'''.
** Scarlet also gleefully subjects Lila to a HumiliationConga, wrapping her up in her yo-yo and sending her spinning into a nearby fountain.
** The conflict of "Kung Food" can be laid entirely at Chloé's feet, as the moment she learns that Cheng is related to Marinette, she decides to ensure he can't win the contest.
** Chloé's the one who files the noise complaint in "Captain Hardrock" after being refused entry, and rode along with the police simply so that she could ensure everybody saw she was responsible for reporting them and ruining the concert.
* ExactWords:
** At the end of "Timebreaker", Kim thinks he'll just have to "go one month of no dares" since it's December but Max reminds him that the terms of the bet he lost is that he can't dare anyone to do anything for the rest of the ''school'' year.
** In ''Guitar Villain'', when the titular villain makes his appearance, Chloe calls for Luka and Adrien to get her out of there. They comply by shoving her into an elevator.
* ExhaustedEyeBags:
** Adrien naturally develops visible bags under his eyes after stretches of dealing with akuma and other issues effectively by himself. According to the author, [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/189551228789/you-have-adrien-eye-bags-has-he-gotten-any-sleep he uses concealer]] to help hide them.
** Marinette has eye bags in "Vanisher" after she stayed up all night so she could [[spoiler:draw attention away from her identity as Marigold by making bee-themed accessories and pretending her Miraculous is one of them.]]
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* TheFaceless: Luka's first appearance at the end of "Reflekta" has his head above the panel, preventing readers from seeing it.
* FacePalm:
** 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.
** Master Fu reacts this way during "Syren" when Chat Noir justifies his decision to [[spoiler:reveal the Guardian's existence to Marigold without express permission]] by playing the friendship card.
* FailedASpotCheck:
** 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.
** 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.
** Marinette gets another turn at this in "Mr. Pigeon" when Officer Roger gets mobbed and carried away [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/188707701524/peripheral-vision-whats-that-episode-7-part-5 right next to her]] while she's busy sketching.
** 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.
** 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.
** When raiding Gabriel's hidden safe, Plagg completely misses the Peacock Brooch despite being right next to it.
** 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."
* FairPlayWhodunnit: Just barely. At the start of "Vanisher" the author says, "there is a short mystery so I hope you'll look at the clues." Vanisher is shown lurking in Chloé's room doing something sinister. In the second part we get a RedHerring when Chloé [[spoiler:bangs open a door: this is actually done by the akuma invisibly to mislead her]]. In the third part comes TheReveal that [[spoiler:Chloé has been cut off from the physical world and is actually in a PrisonDimension, so she can't actually open doors.]] The real clue is an AbsenceOfEvidence: [[spoiler:Chloé has her cell phone, it's charged, and her father is looking for her. If she were merely invisible and not cut off from the real world she would have gotten calls and texts from him.]]
* FantasyForbiddingFather: "The Pharaoh" parodies this; Jalil sees his father as one, but...
-->'''Mr. Kubdul:''' Jalil, you're not using museum artifacts to perform a '''sacrificial ritual!''' For several reasons!\\
'''Jalil:''' ''[[[FlippingTheBird flipping him off]]]'' Gawd, you just don't understand me dad!
* 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.
* FirstPersonSmartass:
** Ondine thinks up a snide remark at [[ObliviousToLove Kim's]] expense, which she keeps to herself.
--->'''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.
* 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.]]
* 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 "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 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 says, "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 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.
*** 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 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).
** 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 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]].
* FlatWhat: Chat Noir's reaction to learning that Marinette agreed to date Evillustrator is a deadpan "What."
* FlippingTheBird: This happens a lot.
** Marinette to Hawkmoth while she [[ShutUpHannibal screams at him to stop playing the victim]].
** Scarlet Lady flips a double bird at Lady Wifi (which she blocks) after the latter implies Scarlet is in a relationship with Chat Noir.
** Jalil to his father because [[ItMakesSenseInContext he won't let him use the museum's artifacts to make a ritual sacrifice]].
** Adrien flips off Scarlet Lady after she tries to make fun of him and [[spoiler:Maotif]] for being "gross".
** 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.
* FollowThatCar: With those exact words, Adrien tells his driver to pursue Kagami in "Riposte", unwittingly running both himself and Marinette into akuma danger.
* 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.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** 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]].
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* FreudianExcuse:
** 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.
* 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.
* AFriendInNeed:
** Despite not having a Miraculous, Marinette races to the scene of the first akuma attack in order to help Alya after seeing that she's on the scene.
** A [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/190953631789/are-you-still-amped-nino-episode-9-part-12 double dose]] in "Horrificator": Sabrina desperately searches for Chloé after her disappearance, not wanting to risk abandoning her when she might just be hiding rather than already caught. Marinette then sees Horrificator about to snatch her up and leaps into action, [[spoiler:getting caught in the process of getting her out of harms' way]].
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: When one of Alya's younger sisters tells the other younger sister Nino is "the guy all over" Alya's phone, the other sister asks if he's Alya's boyfriend. The tagline even mentions the trope.
-->'''Alya:''' U-hu- Wait, what?!
* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
** 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.
* GenderFlip: In their first appearance in the comic, Marc Anciel is established to go by they/them pronouns, and is either nonbinary or genderfluid.
* GetOut: Adrien orders a fighting Scarlet Lady and Volpina, along with Marinette, out of his room so he can turn back into Chat Noir.
* 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.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Marinette does this towards Hawk Moth's projection during her speech.
* GodzillaThreshold: Comes up a few times:
** 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 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]].
* 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 could look like.
* 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.
* 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.]]
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* HandWave: An animation error from the original version of "The Bubbler" that left Max without his glasses is given one; apparently, his mother was cleaning them for him when she got caught in one of the Bubbler's bubbles.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: Chat Noir and Scarlet Lady were this from the start, but [[spoiler: Marigold]] also taunts Scar with "Well, save us, '''hero'''", in front of a group of frightened civilian hostages. No wonder Luka [[spoiler: chooses to pick up a weapon and try to take their rescue into his own hands]].
* HeroWithAnFInGood: Chloé only does heroic things when it will benefit her and when Tikki forces her to.
* HeroicBSOD:
** Sabrina goes into one in "Rogercop" after Chloé gets her father fired from his job.
** Marinette gets one in "Timebreaker" when she realizes that [[spoiler:luring Scarlet Lady down from her perch by filming her ignoring an akuma fight has just gotten Scar tagged and destroyed by the villain]].
* HeroicBystander: Marinette, repeatedly. She may not have a Miraculous of her own, but she's good at [[GuileHero making do with whatever's she's got]].
* HeyThatsMyLine: Chloé's response to Tikki asking who the heck she is during their first meeting.
* HiddenAgendaHero: [[spoiler:Marianne Lenore]] is set up as one by the finale of "Mr. Pigeon". [[spoiler:The Ladybug and Black Cat's activation imply to her that Fu has returned, and she intends to scout out potential candidates for other Miraculous, starting with Xavier.]]
* HiddenDepths: The Gorilla is surprisingly good with kids, as evidenced with Manon.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: D'argencourt treats his knightly ancestor as a hero, and the person who overthrew his reign as a villain who bought the public's loyalty. Adrien thinks to himself that, if he ruled with an iron fist (D'argencourt's exact words) and was defeated by someone who gave money to the poor, that doesn't exactly paint a heroic picture of him.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: While trapping Juleka in the bathroom, Chloé actively ''hopes'' for her to get akumatized so she can 'show off' as Scarlet Lady. Reflekta's [[ItsPersonal grudge against her]] winds up torpedoing her attempts to stop Marinette from fixing the photo situation.
* HonorBeforeReason: PlayedForLaughs in "Rogercop"; even if it would make things easier for him, the titular akuma refuses to jaywalk.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: When Marinette betrays Evillustrator, the latter declares that the former is just like Chloé. The face Marinette makes in response causes Evillustrator to cower in fear.
* HypocrisyNod: At the end of "Simon Says", Alec complains about the unfair way Nino beats his second challenge.
-->'''Nino:''' Do you '''really''' want to talk about what's fair? After last week?\\
'''Alec:''' Uhhhh...
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Chloé demands to know who invited Lila to Marinette's birthday when the only reason she got to come was because Bustier forced the class to invite her.
** In a "Vanisher" flashback, Chloé tries to crash a Jagged Stone interview with Nadja Chamack by claiming to be Scarlet Lady's BFF, forgetting how she excused herself (as Scarlet Lady) for attacking Lila for the same claim. It is too dangerous for a civilian to do this, she said then.
** Riposte berates Adrien for breaking her rules and running away from her relentless assault. Kagami herself flagrantly and repeatedly broke the rules during her match with Adrien.
** A minor example when Desperada, upon seeing Jagged Stone offer her old job to Luka, accuses her former employer of replacing her with a school kid. Jagged reminds her that she's only two years older.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** When Chloé starts mocking Mylène for having a lullaby she uses to calm herself down, Adrien shuts her up with two words: "Mr. Cuddly."
** Ivan tells Chloé off for scaring Mylène and declares that she sucks. Chloé scoffs and asks who thinks that she sucks. ''Everybody'' immediately raises their hands, and she asks who asked them.
** In "Rogercop," Tom asks Alya what happened to Marinette, and the latter informs him that Chloé dragged Marinette off to the akuma. He's furious that she didn't try to stop them, but Alya nonchalantly retorts that [[AdultsAreUseless he didn't, either]].
** In "Riposte," when Chloé asks why no one has signed up for her BFF tryouts, her classmates all bring up bad things she did to them in the past, and she asks who asked them.
** When Master Fu catches Chloé spying on Marinette and Adrien, he tells her to step off ''his'' "spying tree".
** Lila laughs loudly at the idea of anyone exploiting her classmates for favors, something she knows she would have done if her lies had not been exposed.
--->'''Kim:''' So you lied about knowing famous people. It's not like you had us do your homework or carry your stuff!\\
'''Lila:''' HAHAHAHA! Yeah, who would do that?!\\
'''Lila:''' ''[Thinking, in a sweat]'' ''They can never know...''
** When Kagami shows up to demand a place in the fencing school, Chloé says, "Wow, what a noisy show off," all while Marc and Marinette give her raised eyebrows from her right and left, respectively.
** In "Princess Fragrance," Chloé mocks Rose's perfume, saying it smells like rotten fish. She has the same perfume in her locker, as Sabrina immediately reminds her.
** Hawk Moth declares in "Sapotis" that children should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want. Cue Adrien (who has lived under Gabriel's ControlFreak parenting his entire life) [[SneezeCut violently sneezing]].
** At the beginning of "Robostus," Pollen and Marinette comment on how weird it is for Max to have his best friend riding in his bag. Pollen makes these comments from the comfort of her best friend Marinette's bag.
** In "Ikari Gozen," Ryuko deliberately lets herself be captured by the titular akuma as part of Marigold's plan. Chloé, not knowing this, calls Ryuko a loser for getting caught, all while trapped inside Ikari Gozen after having been caught first.
* ICantDoThisByMyself: In "Reflekta," without the help of Sabrina, [[spoiler:Chloé is outwitted by Marinette, who manages to delete the incriminating video of herself and also to get away with the camera chip with the photo she wants to delete. Subverted, as Chloé ultimately refuses to admit how much she needs Sabrina.]]
* IKissYourHand: Chat Noir does this twice to Marinette in "Reflekta". Once while [[spoiler:she's Maotif]], and again when [[spoiler:she's returning the ring to him]].
* INeedAFreakingDrink: One of the bonus panels for "The Pharaoh" shows that this was [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/190223211254/plagg-is-being-disrespected-what-an-outrage Mr. Kubdel's reaction]] to witnessing his son's rampage as the titular akuma.
* IRejectYourReality:
** Despite stealing the Earrings from Marinette's purse -- and Tikki brightly greeting 'Marinette' when she first manifests before realizing that something was wrong -- Chloé has convinced herself that ''she'' was TheChosenOne right from the start. When Tikki attempts to remind her of this in "Lady [=WiFi=]", Chloé outright ignores her.
** "Reflekta" shows that she's so delusional about the nature of her relationship with Adrien that she obsesses over saving 'her photo with [him]'... despite the fact that said photo captures him ''shoving her off of him''. Sabrina pointing that out causes her to snap at her, angrily [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject changing the subject]] to her friend's 'weird behavior'.
** In "Simon Says", Chloé is watching a game show hoping to see Adrien even if "it's '''Nino''' who's being featured".
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: This is a RunningGag in the comic, where someone will make a disparaging comment about Chloé and she will only react to part of it. For example, when Marinette stands up to Chloé, she declares that "I'm standing up to ''ALL'' supervillains, and a lowlife like ''YOU'' is no exception! I'm done taking orders from you and your stupid ponytail, so '''sit down!'''" Chloé's utterly outraged that she insulted her ponytail.
* IWasBeatenByAGirl: Max takes being defeated by Marinette at [=UMS3=] ''much'' more personally than he does being beaten by Adrien, to the point that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Hawkmoth feels the need]] to remind him that he was beaten by ''two'' people, not just her.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode retains its original title, but adds a subtitle: "Tales of [Featured Character] the [Character Description]". Each page includes a header image of the featured character, either wearing their superhero attire or an outfit styled after their akumatized form.
* IdiotBall: In "Kung Food", Chloé has a firm grip on this when she sabotages Cheng's dish and [[spoiler:leaves her purse behind at his station]]. Not only is this [[spoiler:evidence of what she's done, Tikki is still inside, meaning [[BruceWayneHeldHostage dealing with the vengeful akuma is going to be a LOT trickier]]]]. The author comments, "Just because you treat the hotel as your whole ass house doesn’t mean you [[spoiler:leave your stuff everywhere]]!"
* IdiotsCannotCatchColds: In "Syren", Kim is proud that Max considers him too dense to catch a cold.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: In "Dark Cupid", Kagami doesn't outright say it but internally notes if Kim breaks Ondine's heart, she'll maim him.
* IgnorantOfTheCall: It's fairly clear to ''everyone'' that Marinette is a better superhero than Scarlet Lady, but she just sees it as helping with akuma attacks when Scarlet Lady won't.
* ImplausibleDeniability: Chloé for some reason insists Sabrina must be lying about getting her hand caught in a box while trying to steal Marinette's diary, even as Sabrina is yelling and waving her box-trapped hand right in front of her.
* InSpiteOfANail:
** The Lucky Charms are the same as in canon for each villain. The author has explained that Tikki does this intentionally as a way to spite Scarlet Lady, knowing that Marinette would have figured out how to use them, which she sometimes does even without being Ladybug. Even when she isn't around to come up with a plan using the Lucky Charm, the heroes manage to use it to defeat the akuma anyway, often by accident or by [[CuttingTheKnot simply using the object as a blunt force or ballistic weapon]].
** Marinette still makes her speech to Hawk Moth when he tries to pin the blame for his actions on the heroes, though Chat suspects that part of it is her venting about someone else.
** While she doesn't fight him as Ladybug, her involvement in the Stoneheart incident nevertheless fuels Marinette's resolve to stand up for herself more and not put up with Chloé's attitude problem anymore.
** Marinette and Adrien still fall for each other, even without the former being Ladybug, and the umbrella scene between them still happens.
** In the "Lady Wifi" adaptation, just like in canon, Alya wrongly assumes one of her classmates, in this case Marinette, is the Ladybug heroine after seeing her with a yo-yo, despite said classmate having a solid alibi during the Stoneheart incident. Nino also tries to disprove Alya's initial guess as to whom Scarlet Lady is by pointing out the major difference in personalities between the hero and the person Alya's accusing, though since Chloé is the hero, he has to point out that Marinette isn't bitchy ''enough''.
** Alya still gets sent to the Principal's office for snooping through another student's locker, even though the locker belonged to Marinette, who didn't know about what Alya did and wouldn't have been bothered even if she did knoe. Moreover, Principal Damocles still hits Alya with a week-long suspension after Chloé threatens to call her father if Damocles doesn't come down hard enough on Alya. It gets rescinded, however, after Alya's mother calls to complain.
** As in canon, only one of the heroes make it to the statue unveiling in "Copycat" while the other is kept busy due to their civilian life.
** Théo's akumatization is still triggered by [[GreenEyedMonster his jealousy of the Ladybug heroine and Chat Noir's supposed relationship]], even though pair can barely stand each other here. Rather than Chat deliberately lying about how close they are, Scarlet Lady describes Adrien to him, unaware that all of her gushing description could also be applied to her partner, with Théo leaping to the obvious conclusions.
** Even without Tikki's comment about Xavier, Marinette still decides to add feathers to her derby hat in "Mr. Pigeon."
** Despite Tikki being present in Chloé's purse to prevent him from looking for camembert, Plagg still ends up causing Chloé's bracelet to go missing after getting it stuck on his head in "Rogercop." In this case, however, it's because Tikki scares him off, with him flying right into the bracelet in his panic.
** Despite the webcomic depicting Mayor Bourgeois losing the support of all the adults present at Career Day in "Rogercop," he still wins re-election in "Darkblade."
** Marinette still runs against Chloé to become the next class president, though it's much less spur-of-the-moment.
** In spite of coming up with another theory for being better than Adrien at [=UMS3=], Marinette still gives him her amulet in "The Gamer."
** Though Sabrina refuses to do her dirty work for her in "Reflekta," Chloé simply traps Juleka in the bathroom stall herself.
** [[spoiler:Marinette still takes up the Cat Miraculous in a fight against Reflekta, only this time it's the first one]].
** [[spoiler:Marinette's first meeting with a kwami has her utter a very similar line to the one she did in canon: "Tiny cat! Mouse! Tiny cat-mouse!"]]
** In "Timebreaker," Ondine offers to hold the race banner for Marinette, so she doesn't nearly drop the watch. Chloé still snatches it and throws it so it gets broken. Then, in the second timeline, [[spoiler: she drops the watch in spite of not being told by any future heroes to put it down]].
** It's hinted that Gabriel knew here that the show was trying to trick him into appearing, but that he went along with it anyway, hoping to set a contestant up for a fall. Thus, Simon is still akumatized.
** Despite not being the Ladybug heroine, Marinette still visits the Agreste Mansion in "Simon Says" because she wasn't grounded, could attend the TV studio to watch Nino in the show, and avoided being hypnotized by the villain by hiding.
** Despite being more alert due to the heavy burden Adrien is saddled with, Plagg still [[FailedASpotCheck fails to notice]] the Peacock Brooch hidden inside Gabriel's wall safe.
** Lila still lies about knowing the Ladybug hero, only this time, the claim doesn't endear her to everyone (it horrifies Marinette, Nino, and Alix), as Scarlet Lady is nowhere near as nice.
** Adrien despises Scarlet Lady here, but due to Chloé butting in, Lila fails to pick up on this and remains under the belief that he has a soft spot for the Ladybug heroine, leading to her stealing the book on the Miraculous, lying to him about being rescued by the Ladybug heroine, and faking being the Fox heroine during her meeting with Adrien, all of which also happened in canon.
** The holder of the Ladybug Miraculous still spies on Lila and Adrien, but it's Chloé instead of Marinette. Additionally, despite seeing Adrien realize on his own that Lila is a liar and then call her out on it, the Ladybug heroine still humiliates Lila in front of Adrien and subsequently causes her akumatization into Volpina, though Scarlet Lady responding with DisproportionateRetribution makes Lila's grudge ''far'' more understandable here.
** Marinette ends up with the book in spite of not having followed Adrien and Lila to the park in this fic.
** Scarlet Lady tells Volpina to just drop Adrien when the akuma uses an illusion to make it appear she's taken him hostage. Annoyed, Chat Noir throws his baton to dispel the illusion, just as he did in canon.
** Master Fu still gets to see the Miraculous grimoire at the end of "Volpina," but [[spoiler:it's Plagg who suggests the visit and Adrien who brings the book to him]].
** Even though Marinette didn't try to lie that the call from Alya was about a dentist visit, she still lied about liking and eating the candies Gina gave her, and that was enough to draw the fire of La Befana.
** Among the gifts Marinette receives at her birthday party is [[spoiler:Tikki's kwagatama]].
** In "Kung Food," Chloé still gets tied up to be cooked in soup, and Marinette still helps Chat Noir rescue her and fight against the titular villain's brainwashed minions, though as her civilian self. Marinette also uses the Lucky Charm adding machine paper in the same way as in canon, dipping it into the soup to produce sticky tape to bind the akuma.
** In "Evillustrator," Chat Noir [[GrewASpine refuses to do Chloé's physics homework for her]] (in canon he was nearly tricked into doing it). She quickly drives him off, whereas in canon he left after a call from Ladybug. In both cases, he leaves without doing her work for her.
** Marinette doesn't have the Ladybug yo-yo phone, but she is still able to tell Chat Noir about Evillustrator's invitation. Chat simply comes to her when he spots the akuma leaving from her window.
** Marinette and Adrien still enter a two-person love square, but this time, Adrien prefers the civilian and Marinette loves the superhero.
** Marinette falls in love with Chat Noir over Adrien, but in "Riposte," she still decides to attend the fencing tryouts, though only in the hopes that getting accepted could help her improve her combat skills, [[spoiler:which will be useful for her as Marigold]], rather than just to get closer to Adrien like in canon.
** Marinette immediately recognizes that Kagami shoving Adrien off the mat is a "corps-a-corps" violation and calls for the bout to be halted. D'Argencourt completely ignores her, and Adrien and Kagami still end up in the library.
** Even though there is a larger set of witnesses to the end of the bout between Adrien and Kagami, one of whom even tries to analyze rule breakages during the bout, D'Argencourt still declared Adrien the winner based on a biased call.
** Adrien still gets an ankle injury from saving a hero from "Riposte." This time, it's [[spoiler:because the highly inexperienced Marigold stops to reassure Adrien and [[FailedASpotCheck isn't aware of an incoming attack]]]].
** The radiator Lucky Charm is used to defeat Riposte the same way as in canon because [[spoiler:Marinette is part of the fight as Marigold and works out how to use it]]. The author notes in the tags that it's better than just throwing it like past Lucky Charms have been used in the comic.
** In "Captain Hardrock," rather than Anarka Couffaine being so loud and obnoxious that she gets into a conflict with the police all by herself, Chloé [[KickTheDog takes an active role and files a complaint with the police]] before a single not has been played out of revenge for getting kicked off Anarka's boat. The result is still an akumatized Anarka.
** In "Syren," a new hero still helps Chat Noir to round up escaped zoo animals, but it's [[spoiler:Marigold]] rather than Rena Rouge. The Ladybug hero is absent, however.
** Even though Kim thinks Chloé is "a pain," Ondine thinks she hears him say that he's running off to the movies because Chloé's there. Ondine thus still gets [[PoorCommunicationKills akumatized over jealousy of Chloé]]. The author comments in the tags, "Catch me still trying to figure out why Kim liked Chloé in canon."
** As in canon, one of two original heroes is called to Master Fu's shop to help with power-up formulas, and they discuss how the other original hero is starting to feel [[LockedOutOfTheLoop left out of the loop]]. Unlike in canon, the left-out character is Scarlet Lady, and neither Adrien nor Master Fu [[NoSympathy shows her any sympathy]] or has any intention of letting her know anything.
** Marinette still comes up with a way to acquire a tear of joy for the aqua potion by telling jokes to Master Fu because [[spoiler:Chat Noir brought Marigold along to see him]].
** A love poem written by Adrien on Valentine's day is intercepted by the holder of the Ladybug Miraculous, and she thinks the poem is about herself. In this version, Adrien deflects her questions by pretending the poem is about [[spoiler:Marigold]]. In response to a question, the author says the words of the poem are identical to canon. This means that "I wonder who you are beneath that strong disguise" is here a poetic way of saying he wants to know Marinette better.
** Chloé still causes Kim's akumatization in "Dark Cupid" -- not by rejecting his love (though she ''does'' reject him, it's just out of a sheer self-centered belief that he was trying to confess to her when he wasn't) but by making Ondine think Kim loves Chloé.
** Even though Marinette and Alya are doing different things from canon (trying to track down Chat Noir instead of mailing a valentine to Adrien), they still end up with heart-shaped candy apples right before Alya gets shot by Dark Cupid, insults Marinette, and sticks a candy apple onto her shirt.
** In spite of not being under Dark Cupid's influence, Sabrina still humiliates Chloé.
** A brainwashed hero sides with Dark Cupid, but here it's to defend herself from a forced kiss, which was [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale treated much less seriously in canon since it was female on male]].
** The Ladybug hero gets Dark Cupid sticky with a candy apple, but it's with an enraged throw of her Lucky Charm rather than a thought-out plan. The author says, "You Unlocked Useful Scarlet Lady through sheer force of Rage."
** Alya and Nino still wind up locked in a zoo cage together in "Animan," but this time, [[spoiler:it's a deliberate act by Marigold to get them to spend time alone together, since she [[ShipperOnDeck knows that Alya likes Nino]]]].
** Even though there are dolls of other villains from episodes that took place before "Puppeteer" in this AU, Manon still chooses the Lady Wifi, Rogercop, and Evillustrator dolls to play with.
** Marinette still uses the Mouse Miraculous, only it's against Puppeteer instead of [[AdaptedOut Kwamibuster]], and rather than choosing it herself, she [[spoiler: has it lent to her by Chat Noir (who doesn't realize that she is Marigold, whom he told to sit out of the battle when her doll was taken)]].
** Marinette still deliberately makes her appearance as Multimouse a one-shot. In canon she uses an elaborate illusion to make "Marinette" expose her secret; here, she simply hands back the Mouse Miraculous to Chat Noir in public.
** Adrien and Chloé are still digitized together by Pixelator in spite of Chloé having more akuma experience in this AU.
** Even though she didn't waste any time on a bad pair of shades, Marinette still ends up at the right place at the right time to overhear Pixelator zapping his way into Jagged's hotel room.
** Tikki is still the one who gets sick in "Princess Fragrance," but Chloé is much less sympathetic towards her plight. The rainy weather that caused it still happened despite the heroes having fought a different akuma.
** Marinette still sneaks into the hotel disguised as a pizza delivery person in a motorcycle helmet on a quest to save Tikki in "Princess Fragrance." The difference is that [[spoiler:she was denied entrance as Marigold because of how the magic ladybugs messed up the hotel in "Vanisher"]].
** Tikki still ends up in the car with Prince Ali, who's trying to escape Princess Fragrance. The difference is that [[spoiler:Chloé accidentally flings Tikki in when she is trying to get into the car herself, when Kagami blocks her because of her stench]]. Additionally, Chat Noir still enters the car and gets brainwashed when Princess Fragrance fills it with perfume.
** Though she isn't the Ladybug heroine, Marinette still takes Tikki to Master Fu for healing. ([[spoiler:She has known where to find Fu since "Syren," when Chat Noir took her to see him without permission]]).
** Alya is still researching the Ladybug hero at the start of "Sapotis," but instead of trying to guess her hero's identity, she is making up explanations for why Scar behaved so badly at the party in "Despair Bear."
** Chat Noir is the one who goes to Master Fu for the Fox Miraculous in "Sapotis" and later chooses who will be the temporary hero. Nevertheless, the Miraculous is still offered to a classmate and friend of Marinette and Adrien, who accepts in the hopes of rescuing a sibling. [[spoiler:Rather than Alya, it's Nino, as his little brother Chris was kidnapped by the akuma]].
** Marinette is still the one who [[spoiler:visits Master Fu and asks if she can borrow the Turtle Miraculous from him]] in "Anansi" because Chat Noir still ends up stuck in the giant web.
** The Turtle Miraculous is still lent out in "Anansi" [[spoiler:despite Nino being captured by the titular akuma instead of Alya, with the latter using it to become Koki Marina]].
** Like in canon, Marinette's bedroom ends up on live TV in "Troublemaker," and Jagged Stone embarrasses her when he comments on how she has more photos of her crush (who is secretly also Adrien here) than she does of the rockstar and teases her about it. She also subsequently has a meltdown while her Kwami tries to calm her down.
** [[spoiler:Troublemaker still tries to take Marinette's Miraculous (only for Chat Noir to stop her), and Marinette still gets the idea to glue down her Miraculous to get close enough to Troublemaker to defeat her, even without Lucky Charm being used during the fight]].
** Silencer still takes the voice of Marinette [[spoiler:(as Marigold)]] and the Ladybug hero.
** In "Desperada," [[spoiler:Adrien still uses the Snake Miraculous first after being chosen by the Ladybug heroine and Marinette (as Marigold), and it still ends up being a one-time thing despite Adrien being an AdaptationalBadass due to his DeliberateUnderPerformance]].
** In "Ikari Gozen," [[spoiler:Chloé gets captured and is unable to transform]]. Marinette still gets the idea to use bath bombs against the villain, only this time from seeing them in a shop rather than getting them as a Lucky Charm.
** Despite Chloé/Marinette and Alya/Nino undergoing kwami swaps, Luka and Juleka still wield the Snake and Tiger Miraculouses as they did in canon.
** Zombizou's first target is Marinette instead of Chloé after the former chewed her out for wanting her to forgive the latter for ruining her gift. Despite this and the fact that Chloé left the classroom before Zombizou arrived and therefore didn't use anyone as a HumanShield, Sabrina still ends up being the first victim when one of the kisses gets her as she tries to escape. The page's caption even points this out.
** Even though Juleka defends Rose from some of the zombies, Rose still manages to get kissed without anyone noticing.
** Chat Noir still ends up getting infected by the zombies at the Eiffel Tower, the difference being that [[spoiler:rather than willingly staying behind to hold them off, he gets distracted from protecting Marinette when Scarlet Lady tries to push her into them]].
** Mme. Bustier still gets a belated birthday present from Chloé, but this is no breakthrough for either of them. In a note, the author snarks, "Here's your consolation gift for being Chloe's biggest enabler, Bustier."
* InUniverseCatharsis: In "Desperada", [[spoiler:Adrien as Aspik takes advantage of the Second Chance ability to watch Scarlet Lady get captured by the villain over and over again, and even tells her at one point that he is really Chat Noir just to see the look on her face]].
* IncomingHam: Chloé sometimes does this, most notably in "Vanisher" when she returns to school after having spent most of the previous day [[spoiler:being invisible and inaudible]], and in "Riposte" when she barges in on D'Argencourt's fencing tryouts.
-->'''Chloé''': Hello, everyone! The darling of Paris has arrived!
* InstantlyProvenWrong:
** Chloé claims to Marinette that her gift of cookies and coffee will ruin Adrien's diet and that he won't take them from her. Adrien promptly takes the coffee from her, then [[EngagingConversation gets down on one knee like he's going to propose to her]].
** Tikki says to Plagg, "'''I''' for one have total faith in Pollen to keep a low profile." A moment later, Pollen shocks them by flying into Chloé's purse in the middle of class. "Greetings, noble kwami of Creation and Destruction!"
* InsultBackfire: Multiple instances in "Dark Cupid":
** After being hit by the titular akuma, Rose angrily declares that she's sickened by how tall and gorgeous Juleka is. Juleka wonders if she's supposed to be insulted.
** Downplayed when Dark Cupid shoots Alya. Marinette is only mildly bothered by the insults Alya subsequently makes and lets them slide simply because Alya looked good in the black lipstick she got from being possessed.
** A corrupted Marigold asks "How do you like that?" while attacking Chat Noir. Because her attack missed him and just destroyed Chloé's framed poster of Adrien, which he found to be extremely creepy, Chat Noir smiles and happily replies that "I like that very much, thanks," prompting Marigold to swear in response. He then lampshades how bad Marigold is at being mean when she says his kindness and friendliness is insufferable.
* InternalReveal:
** "Rogercop" has Plagg discover that Chloé is Scarlet Lady.
** In "Reflekta," Marinette [[spoiler:(as the cat hero Maotif) gives Chat Noir a clue to her true identity and he gets it, though Scarlet Lady doesn't. The author comments that Marinette feels free to do this because she knows the hero identity is a one-shot. Later on, Juleka and Scarlet Lady also find out and Marinette doesn't mind if Alya is told.]]
** "Volpina" ends with [[spoiler:Adrien meeting Master Fu]]. In the following episode, he finds out that [[spoiler: Scarlet Lady wasn't meant to have the Ladybug Miraculous]].
** Adrien meets Tikki in "Vanisher," resulting in the Kwami learning Chat Noir's secret identity.
** In "Syren," [[spoiler:Marinette also meets Master Fu]].
** Subverted and PlayedForLaughs when Hawk Moth sees Marinette's countless Chat Noir photos broadcast on live TV, confirming her crush on the superhero. The villain dramatically gasps… before immediately wondering why he did that, since he already knew.
** In "Crocoduel," the class finds out that the same people can be akumatized again, although Rose points out that it's already happened loads of times to [[AuthorAvatar a certain florist]].
** In "Prime Queen":
*** The general public becomes aware of Scarlet Lady's indifference to civilian casualties when [[ShootTheHostage her reactions to the kidnappings of Lila and Alya]] are televised. As one commenter on the [=LadyBlog=] puts it, "Scarlet Lady was... [[spoiler:gonna let you experience the trauma of drowning]]."
*** The end of the episode has two revelations for Marinette/Marigold: [[spoiler:Chat Noir is in love with Marinette and is directly acquainted with her in his civilian life]].
* InUniverseFactoidFailure:
** As in canon, the whole plot of "Lady [=WiFi=]" hinges on Alya's failure to remember just who was captured by Stoneheart during Scarlet Lady's debut -- though the real Ladybug-holder and her false lead are swapped in this continuity.
** Jalil does not have the impressive understanding of Egyptology that he ''believes'' himself to have. His sister is immediately able to peg him as the latest akuma victim based off of his odd interpretation of Thoth.
--->'''Alix:''' ''[with a long-suffering sigh]'' Only he would get the God of Writing and Magic so wrong.
* IronicEcho: At the beginning of "Pixelator", the class is set to intern for a day at the Grand Paris. Adrien is assigned to the front desk with Chloé; he asks Alya if she wants to trade, and she responds "Not on your life." Then Chloé gets Alya assigned to clean trash at the dumpster; Alya asks Adrien if he wants to trade, and he responds "Not on your life."
* IronicNurseryTune: Stormy Weather creepily sings the old "It's raining, it's pouring" rhyme when [[spoiler:she goes to attack Alec in the studio]].
* {{Irony}}: In "Guitar Villain", Chloé invites Adrien over and elaborates a backup plan in case his father forbids him from accepting her invitation, oblivious to the fact Adrien's father is ''forcing'' him to accept her invitation.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Chloé as a superhero, in ''spades''. She’s more concerned about looking good than she is about taking care of the akuma problem, and then takes all the credit for stopping the akumas when Chat (and Marinette) is the one who does all the work.
* ItsAllMyFault:
** Sabrina blames herself for [[spoiler:Marinette being caught in her place]] in "Horrificator".
** Marinette blames herself for Zombizou. [[spoiler:Her classmates don't hold it against her because she had every right to lash at Bustier for being Chloé's enabler and some of those classmates have their own grievances against Bustier]].
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** After Gamer is dealt with, Scarlet Lady cheerfully "compliments" Max on how he only targeted Marinette and left ''her'' Adrien alone. This seems to drive home for him just how heinous his behavior was.
** After Scarlet Lady assaults and humiliates Lila in front of the whole class [[DisproportionateRetribution for having the gall to lie that they are friends]] (and trying to use said lie [[{{Yandere}} to get closer to Adrien]]), she "[[BlatantLies defends]]" herself by telling everybody that letting Lila spread those lies would lead to her getting targeted by Hawk Moth. Alya (who is [[BrokenPedestal more than a little disturbed by what she saw the heroine of Paris do]]) warily admits that she has a point.
** Even though it was a downgrade from his original threat of pulling Adrien out of school, Gabriel grounding him is still understandable, as Adrien did steal from him.
** Chloé declares Adrien the winner in his bout against Kagami simply because of her crush on him. However, Kagami had in fact made various illegal moves in the bout, so there was truth to Chloé's call, [[RightForTheWrongReasons even if she clearly isn't aware of it]]. Not only that, WordOfGod states that Adrien was in fact the winner.
** In "Captain Hardrock", Chloé's noise complaint against the concert on the Liberty would have been valid... if she had waited until they actually started to play. Instead, she files it out of spite for not being allowed on board.
** It's a LoonyFan like Vincent (for Jagged Stone) and a StalkerWithACrush like Scarlet Lady that actually make Gabriel seem REASONABLE for trying to keep Adrien away from the public. Granted, he's still an asshole, but since creeps like the two exist in real life, Gabriel is just being an overzealous PapaWolf.
** Jagged Stone has Fang eat a bunch of Chloé's expensive shoes to ensure she won't be a KarmaHoudini for her role in Bob Roth's attempt to plagiarize Kitty Section. Chloé later hunts down Jagged Stone and angrily demands he reimburse her for her shoes, which is a justified complaint no matter how much of an AssholeVictim she is. Even Jagged seems to concede this to some degree, though he does still try to get her to send the bill to Bob Roth instead.
** Scarlet Lady insists on giving the Snake Miraculous to her crush Adrien in "Desperada." [[spoiler:Marigold]] actually agrees he'd be a good candidate for a temporary hero. There's also the fact that Adrien is actually one of the two original heroes.
** Though she was obviously just looking for an excuse for her usual laziness, Chloé wasn't entirely wrong when she points out that she wouldn't be able to do much about the two akumas in "Crocoduel," as Captain Hardrock and Guitar Villain were having a midair fight, and she can't fly.
** While Scarlet Lady abandons the interview with Nadja for completely selfish reasons (that the interview isn't [[ItsAllAboutMe focusing]] [[AttentionWhore on her]]), Chat Noir and Marigold join her in leaving, as the questions are veering into deeply personal matters (Chat Noir and Marigold's romantic moments) that none of them are comfortable talking about.
** After Prime Queen is dealt with, Alya notes that while Nadja was being incredibly invasive, she wasn't ''wrong'' about people being interested in what sort of "romantic connections" the heroes might have, as her blog is filled with viewers discussing it too. On the other hand, they're also talking about [[spoiler:Alya nearly drowning, and Scarlet Lady's willingness to let her die]].
** Scarlet Lady flatly states that it's embarrassing that the heroes' SchmuckBait actually fooled Prime Queen. [[spoiler:Marigold]] completely agrees, calling both the akuma and Hawk Moth idiots.
* JustJokingJustification: When confronted by Guitar Villain about calling Jagged Stone "Ragged Stone", XY says he was joking.
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* KickTheDog: In "Princess Fragrance", Chloé rudely refuses a sick Tikki's request to take her to a healer, telling her to "Suck it up" because she doesn't want her school attendance ruined (ignoring the fact that it was already ruined by her outings as Scarlet Lady, as well as what happened in "Vanisher").
* KnowNothingKnowItAll:
** Jalil fancies himself an expert in all things Egyptian but takes ''significant'' liberties with the source material, much to the frustration of his father and sister.
** Downplayed with D'Argencourt, who’s a genuinely talented fencer but doesn't seem to know the actual rules of the sport as well as he thinks. When Kagami fights Adrien for a spot on the fencing team, D'Argencourt praises their match as being "real fencing" and is seemingly unaware that Kagami made several blatantly illegal moves. In contrast, Marinette, who is completely new to the sport, instantly recognizes that Kagami shoving Adrien off the mat is a "corps-a-corps" and points out that according to the rules, the bout should have stopped then.
** Similar to D'Argencourt, Kagami could be considered a minor example of this due to her deliberately using various moves that are not allowed in the sport she professes to be good at. It's not helped by how she seems to think fencing without machines is a good idea on the grounds that it allows for more freedom, when it really means giving up an impartial judge.
* LamePunReaction:
** In "Copycat", Marinette uses the Lucky Charm spoon to make a rudimentary fishing pole, and states that she may not be able to take Copycat down, but she can take him '''up'''. Scarlet just boos at her.
** When Marinette says that getting back in time to give Mrs. Chamack her cake order will be a "piece of cake", her mother retorts, "How dare you pun at me."
* LandslideElection: The Weather Girl competition was this, with Alec telling Aurore that she lost by "half a million votes. Or was it a million votes?" [[spoiler:Turns out they rigged it, deliberately inflating the numbers and only making Mireille merch]].
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** Alec taunts Aurore after she loses the contest, rubbing in her face just how ''much'' Mireille won by. This doesn't end well for him once Stormy Weather is born. [[spoiler:Nor does rigging the contest in the first place, as Mireille reveals the truth on Twitter and triggers a backlash against him and the studio.]]
** Chloé's attempt to steal Marinette's design, once exposed, earns her stony rebukes from Gabriel, Damocles, and Nathalie and gets her instantly disqualified and banned from all future competitions.
** Chloé gets this again in "Rogercop." After all the grief she caused Marinette, she is forced by her father to apologize, while Marinette and Chat Noir enjoy it.
** Max losing his place in the [=UMS3=] tournament is presented as this, as it's made clear that he expected to easily trounce his classmates and show off. He scoffs at both Adrien and Marinette, assuming that neither poses any threat, only to be beaten by them both, fair and square.
** After Chloé locks Juleka in the bathroom to take her place next to Adrien, he repays Chloé's clinginess by ''shoving'' her off him.
** In "Timebreaker," Scarlet Lady decides to [[spoiler:not even bother fighting the villain and stay out of reach until the akuma's defeated. When Marinette calls her out on this and threatens to expose her laziness, Scarlet confronts her, which allows Timebreaker to touch her]]. This also doubles as a bit of karmic backlash for her actions in "The Gamer": [[spoiler:after all of her efforts to get Marinette temporarily killed, ''she'' gets wiped out by an akuma]].
** At the beginning of "Simon Says," Alec screws over Simon by disqualifying him for something the latter had absolutely no control over (Gabriel refusing to participate in the game). At the end, Nino is challenged to pick two celebrities and get them to dance to his music, and he picks his own friends Alya and Adrien, removing any sense of challenge. He even brings up the Simon screwjob when Alec dares to complain.
** Scarlet Lady's assholish personality bites her in the rear at the end of "Anansi" when she antagonizes Koki Marina for no reason beyond her own amusement, unaware she's burning bridges with a major media figure who was responsible for her good PR and, up until that point, had been one of her staunchest remaining supporters. The episode's ending shows Alya compiling a dossier about how much of a failure Scarlet Lady is as a heroine.
** In "Desperada," Adrien takes advantage of the Snake Miraculous's Second Chance to get some retribution for everything Scarlet Lady's put him through, getting her hit by Desperada multiple times. He even tells her that he's Chat Noir just to see her horrified face.
** Chloé triggers Tomoe's akumazation into Ikari Gozen by gleefully tattling to her about Kagami's disobedience just to get her rival in trouble. Immediately afterwards, Chloé finds herself devoured by the {{Kaiju}}-sized villain and [[RunningGag once again]] helpless to "show off" as Scarlet Lady. She also ends up drenched in soapy water when Ikari Gozen later vomits her out.
** Bob Roth in "Crocoduel" after Jagged and Anarka [[spoiler:realize that Bob had forged letters to split them up when Anarka told Bob she was pregnant]]. Jagged promptly has Penny [[spoiler:send a letter of resignation to the sleazy record dealer, who presumably has just run up a ShockinglyExpensiveBill at a fancy restaurant right when his record company is about to take a huge hit]].
** Scarlet Lady's SkewedPriorities bite her hard during "Zombizou," as when it's down to her and Marinette, she attempts to ensure Marinette gets kissed instead of focusing on defeating the zombies. This leads to [[spoiler:''her'' getting kissed instead, allowing Marinette to get away]].
* LemonyNarrator: The comments made under the comics serve as this, responding to the events in the comics with varying degrees of snark. Such as chiding Adrien for barely getting any sort of cover before transforming.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: Chloé's reaction when Tikki tells her she must get the book Adrien and Lila have.
-->'''Chloé:''' So, what you're saying is, I '''''have''''' to spy on her and Adrien?
* LetsSplitUpGang: In "Kung Food" Marinette is surprised when Adrien says he will go look for her uncle, and asks why they shouldn't stay together. He suggests that she [[PrivacyByDistraction try to flag down Chat Noir]]. Foreshadowing Marinette's future hero role, the author says, "She's gonna miss these easy separations in the future."
* LikesClarkKentHatesSuperman:
** Chloé's very fond of her dear Adrikins, but can't ''stand'' Chat Noir because he's so ''disrespectful'' towards Scarlet Lady.
** {{Downplayed}} with Adrien; his experiences with Scarlet Lady make him much more critical of Chloé's faults, to the point that he calls her out in "Origins Part 2" and declares that if she's going to act like a bully, they won't be friends anymore. In other words, her behavior as Scarlet Lady has made him far less tolerant of her antics as Chloé, though he isn't aware that they're one and the same.
** PlayedForLaughs in "Lady [=WiFi=]": when Nino tells Adrien that Alya suspects Marinette is Scarlet Lady, Adrien looks utterly ''horrified'' by the notion, and Plagg teases him about it later.
** {{Downplayed}} with Adrien and Marigold. Because of his experiences with Scarlet Lady, he is wary of Marigold while being head over heels for Marinette.
* LimitedWardrobe: {{Averted}}; the characters get a change in clothes whenever the author feels they should.
* TheLoad: Scarlet Lady is completely useless in battle, and Chat Noir only puts up with her because she has a WorldHealingWave.
-->'''Scarlet Lady:''' What are you gonna do to catch [the akuma]?\\
'''Chat Noir:''' When are you gonna do your job?!\\
'''Scarlet Lady:''' Don't wanna.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: In "Syren", Scarlet Lady finds out that Chat Noir knows something she doesn't: [[spoiler: where Marigold got her Miraculous]], and she's furious about it. This parallels Chat Noir's feelings in canon when he realizes Ladybug has access to secrets that he doesn't.
* LoopholeAbuse:
** For his second challenge, Nino must make two celebrities dance but is allowed to choose his "opponents". He chooses his friends Adrien (supermodel) and Alya (ladyblogger).
** Adrien invokes this when Gabriel turns himself into an Akuma, noting that while ''he's'' grounded, Chat Noir's not.
** The kwamis are geased not to be able to speak their owners' names. [[spoiler:Pollen gets around this by pointing at Marinette and telling Tikki "She's my queen."]]
* LooseLips: Chloé locks Juleka in the bathroom; she also unwisely tells Juleka what she's doing. This risks a faster akumatization.
* LoveConfession: Théo gets his chance to tell Scarlet Lady how he feels after the statue unveiling. Her response?
-->'''Scarlet Lady:''' Ha. Gross.
* LoveEpiphany: In "Evillustrator", [[spoiler: Marinette realizes she's in love with Chat Noir when Master Fu points it out. She then gets upset because Chat made her promise to no longer get involved with akumas, but she also loves him too much to leave him to put up with Scarlet Lady]].
* LovesMyAlterEgo: [[spoiler: While Marinette still likes Adrien, she has more of a preference towards Chat Noir and even realizes she loves him, not knowing that they are the same person. On the other hand, Adrien likes Marinette but he's just professional with his bee-heroine partner Marigold. Ironically during "Dark Cupid", when Chloé catches him writing a love letter and demands to know who it's for, he blurts out "Marigold" in a panic so as not reveal it's Marinette, making Marinette think it's this trope. She's ironically flattered rather than disappointed.]]
* LyingFingerCross: When Adrien finally returns his father's book and confirms that Marinette had already found it, Gabriel asks why he didn't say so before. Adrien is keeping crossed fingers behind him while asking if his father would have listened.
* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: {{Invoked}} by Ivan, who dislikes Bustier for sending him to the principal's office for [[DisproportionateRetribution messing up "a little"]] but feared being perceived as the bad guy if he said something negative about the "nice" teacher, at least until some of his classmates voiced their own grievances against her.
* MaliciousMisnaming: Adrien/Chat refuses to call Scarlet Lady anything but Scar (for the scars she leaves on his life), much to her ire.
* MassOhCrap: When Horrificator directly confronts the heroes, Scarlet Lady, Chat Noir, Marinette, and Nino all simultaneously think, "Oh shit."
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: After Marinette tells him how hard it was to defeated his akumatized form, Max wonders if it was because he was an akuma or because he wasn't relying on his prewritten codes.
* MeanBoss: Nino proves to be overbearing and not very fun to work with as a director during "Horrificator", as he treats his classmates poorly, makes changes to the script without informing anyone, and prioritizes the film over their safety.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Chloé is shown painting her nails while Tikki's trying to convince her to take Sabrina to the museum during their study date. When Sabrina arrives only to learn from the butler that Chloé bailed on her, she mentions that they "were going to do our nails while I read the review to her". This subtly underscores Chloé's lack of care for her 'friend'; even before abandoning their original plans, she was already doing the very thing Sabrina was looking forward to without her.
* MemoryWipeExploitation: In "Desperada", after Marigold gives Adrien the Snake Miraculous not knowing he's already Chat Noir, he decides that since his only option is to fail miserably and never get called on again, he'll take the opportunity to exploit Second Chance to get some InUniverseCatharsis and torment Scarlet Lady as much as possible without true consequences, from deliberately getting her hit by the villain to revealing his identity to her. The one time we see Marigold's appalled reaction to his behavior, Aspik simply tells her "Don't worry. You won't remember this."
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: After [[spoiler:Marinette returns the Cat Miraculous]] to Plagg and says it was fun, Plagg says "Fun" is his middle name.
* MirrorCharacter: Both Chloé and Lila latch onto Adrien, forcing their way into his space and ignoring all signs of his discomfort. Chloé cheerfully abuses her powers as Scarlet to publicly humiliate Lila; in return, Lila accepts akumatization in order to get revenge... and to gain glory as Volpina, aiming to show her up as a superheroine.
* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: Ms. Bustier generally acts more like she's teaching grade-schoolers than teenagers. When Alya notes that her ramblings about love come off as juvenile, Marinette responds that she's been teaching some of them since they were six.
* MissedTheCall: Master Fu intended for Marinette to get the Ladybug Miraculous. Instead, Chloé got her hands on it.
* MistakenForGay: PlayedForLaughs when Alya realizes that the things Marinette likes about Adrien (gorgeous, stood up to Chloé) also apply to her.
* MistakenForPedophile: Throughout "Copycat", Théo's crushes on girls (apparently) younger than him have been prompting others to ask about his age. [[spoiler:Turns out he's the same age as Marinette and co.]]
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal:
** Sabrina eventually cuts Chloé out of her life after realizing her classmates are so much nicer to her than her so-called "best friend" is.
** Played with regarding Adrien's reason for ending his friendship with Chloé. While he is clearly annoyed by how she doesn't respect his personal space or care about him as a person, he's just as if not even more disgusted by how poorly she treats others.
* MomentOfWeakness: Nathaniel is embarrassed when Sabrina tells him that his akuma-induced character change led him to calmly ask Marinette out on a date. He tells Sabrina, [[DontLookAtMe "...Leave me here to die"]]. On the other hand, it provides the perfect excuse to Alix for why he skipped out on hanging out with her. "Welcome to the birthday akuma club!" she says.
* MoodWhiplash:
** "Intermission" is mostly a BreatherEpisode, but ends on a downbeat note as Chat Noir and Marigold reflect upon how Tikki is effectively trapped with Scarlet Lady in much the same way that Nooroo is with Hawk Moth.
** "Princess Fragance" ends with a funny scene where Prince Ali presents Rose as his girlfriend (and Juleka as ''her'' girlfriend) - only for things to turn serious as Marigold summons Chat Noir [[spoiler:so they can discuss how they are going to take Scarlet Lady's earrings]].
* MovingTheGoalposts: While searching for her missing bracelet, Chloé demands that Marinette submit to having her bag searched. Marinette responds by dumping its contents on the ground. Without missing a beat, Chloé orders her to empty her pockets.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: In "Reflekta", Adrien claims his photographer "makes even the most mundane shoots fun".
* MundaneUtility: Chloé uses a towel Lucky Charm to dry her hair.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: As the story progresses, [[spoiler:Chloé becomes increasingly willing to abuse her role as Scarlet Lady to attempt to kill Marinette for trying to romance Adrien, with her resurrective abilities being used as a thin self-justification]].
** In "Gamer", [[spoiler:Chloé[=/=]Scarlet Lady actively leads the titular akuma towards Marinette in the hopes of getting her zapped because she's pissed that she got to spend time with Adrien.]] According to the author, she believes that [[spoiler:since Miraculous Ladybug will simply resurrect her after the battle, it doesn't count as attempted murder]].
** In "Befana", [[spoiler:Chloé is delighted to see Marinette in danger and tells Tikki to "give it a few more minutes" before she transforms to fight the akuma]]. She also [[spoiler:leads the akuma directly to Chat Noir and Marinette, just as she did in "Gamer". When Chat gives her a DeathGlare, she pretends innocence and asks "What?"]]
** In "Zombizou", [[spoiler:Chloé as Scarlet Lady becomes oddly helpful in the adventure; internally, though, she's waiting for the opportunity to throw Marinette to the zombies and even goes as far as to directly attack Marinette herself in order to do it]].
* MustacheVandalism: In "Evillustrator", Chloé adds a mustache, a goatee and glasses to Nathaniel's drawing of Marinette.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Marigold]] is horrified at how Adrien was injured while protecting them from Riposte, blaming themselves for not noticing the akuma's attack in time. This sharply contrasts with Scarlet Lady's reaction, as she refuses to acknowledge her own fault in the matter.
* MythologyGag:
** Juleka weras an atypical white ensemble in ''Rogercop'', an episode where an animation error has her in the same color scheme.
** While visiting the Rossis, Marinette asks Lila if she seriously believes that she can trick her mom into letting her miss a whole year of school. Lila responds that "You underestimate my power," referencing how she [[PutOnABus did just that]] canonically.
** "The Collector" ends on a bonus shot of Alix texting Lila, bugging her to attend Marinette's upcoming birthday party. This not only [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] that "La Befana" is next, but alludes to a {{Flashback}} in "Ladybug" which showed Lila enviously watching the celebration from afar.
** When Lila apologizes to her classmates, Kim declares that it's not really a big deal that she [[CelebrityLie lied about knowing famous people]], adding that it's "not like you had us do your homework or carry your stuff!" Lila laughs nervously, visibly relieved that her plans didn't reach that point.
** The author drew a page with the character outfits for "Befana" and says that "Some of these may look familiar if you’ve seen the Christmas Special!" (Many of them look like the outfits seen when classmates come to the bakery and get Christmas logs).
** Even though [[WordOfGod it's been stated that]] [[AdaptedOut Bunnyx will not be appearing in the comic]], Alix using the Rabbit Miraculous is still alluded to by her bag having a rabbit on it. It's also possible that she might still become Bunnyx after the comic has ended.
** In "Vanisher" the akuma draws mocking pictures of Chloé on the blackboard, including some with large mustaches. This may be a reference to the original "Antibug", where Butler Jean played a villain named "Big Mustachio" who wanted all Parisians to have "heinous mustaches." (In canon, Vanisher drew similar images in the girl's bathroom and the mustaches were likely a reference to their superhero dress-up game. There's no game in the AU, only a lunch date that goes wrong.)
** Also in "Vanisher", [[spoiler:one of the heroes is left unable to transform by the villain, so their kwami has to use their ability without a wielder]], much like what happened in the canon "Style Queen." [[spoiler:It also involves a character getting the Bee Miraculous]].
** Also in "Vanisher", Marinette [[spoiler:makes bee-themed accessories and gives them to her friends. Alya picks the one that looks like the Bee Miraculous. In canon, Ladybug intended to give Alya that Miraculous]].
** At the end of "Vanisher" Chloé is discussing [[spoiler:the new hero]] with Tikki. She says, "Whatever. As long as she remembers who the '''true''' Queen is," likely a reference to Chloé's self-chosen hero name in canon, Queen Bee.
** In "Captain Hardrock", Chloé has the same thoughts upon seeing Luka for the first time as she did in "Miracle Queen" in canon.
** "Syren" still sparks drama from a team member being LockedOutOfTheLoop regarding the Guardian's existence. However, unlike Ladybug, Adrien has NoSympathy for Scarlet Lady's anger at being excluded, and [[spoiler:brings ''Marigold'' to meet Master Fu without a second thought]].
** In "Animan", Tikki suggests Chloé should hide in the bushes. That hideout was used in canon by other students.
** Nino wants to see "some cool turtles" at the zoo. In canon, he's the Turtle hero.
** In "Guitar Villain" Chloé gives her Rule 72: "All guys have to be crazy about you." This is one of the rules she gives Zoé in the canon episode "Sole Crusher." In a tag the author says, "so nice of sole crusher to come up with these Rules of the Bourgeois that I can exploit lol".
** In "Princess Fragrance" Chloé criticizes Rose's perfume. Sabrina, [[WeUsedToBeFriends now her enemy]], points out that Chloé has the same perfume in her locker. (The author notes the perfume can be seen as a FreezeFrameBonus when Chloé has her locker open in the canon version of "Lady [=WiFi=]".)
** In "Sapotis", Alya speculates what her superhero name might be as the Ladybug hero, just as she canonically does in "Hack-San". She even mentions Scarabella, the name she ultimately goes with.
** Part 3 of "Anansi" has a tagline that reads "Power of Love Always so Strong~". That's part of the series' intro song.
** In "Troublemaker" Marinette dresses up for the "Fill My Shoes" TV show in a maid uniform similar to the one that she wears in canon for "Animaestro."
** In "Desperada", Vivica is shown looking fondly at Chat Noir when he offers to escort her back to the houseboat, a possible nod to how she was originally going to be a Chat Noir fangirl in canon.
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* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Zombizou manages to infect both Chat Noir and Scarlet Lady thanks to the latter's attempts to attack Marinette; had Marigold not ended up getting her NextTierPowerUp, the akuma would've won.]]
* {{Nerf}}: Discussed in the notes for the 13th page of ''Reflekta'', where the author comments that the canon episode "nerfed Chat Noir" (by Reflekta-izing him) because of how easy it would have been for Chat (who has InnateNightVision) to win against Reflekta once she turned off the lights- which is what happens when Maotif (Marinette with the Cat ring) goes up against her.
* NeverMyFault:
** PlayedForLaughs with the mistake that sets the whole AU into motion:
--->'''Master Fu:''' ...this one is not my fault, Wayzz.\\
'''Wayzz:''' Master, would it not have been wiser to put it in her room or-\\
'''Master Fu:''' NOT MY FAULT!!\\
'''Narration:''' Well, who's fault IS it Fu?!
** When Chloé is found to have copied Marinette's design for the derby hat contest, she attempts to throw Sabrina under the bus by insisting it was all ''her'' idea. She does this again when the class discovers Sabrina's hand caught in Marinette's diary trap.
** In "Rogercop," Tom tries to call out Alya for not stopping Chloé from dragging Marinette to the akuma. Alya points out he didn't either. Moreover, earlier, Tom had told Marinette to let the adults handle things.
** After tossing Alix's watch into her path and shattering, Chloé sneers that it never would've happened if Alix hadn't trusted "the blogger" or "Clumsinette" to take care of it. Alya and Adrien retort that ''she'' was the one who took it and threw it to the ground, but Alix [[TakeAThirdOption blames everyone involved]].
** It's from [[spoiler:hearing Timebreaker shout "My watch"]] that the second timeline's Chloé [[spoiler:drops Alix's watch, but Timebreaker blames it on Chat Noir]].
** Adrien is mad at Lila for stealing the book, even if he stole it from his father in the first place.
** Upon learning Adrien's been grounded for losing his father's book, Chloé declares it's Lila's fault for stealing it. Chloé had a perfect opportunity to retrieve the book after Lila had thrown it away but didn't because she was disgusted that it had been in the trash and decided to get revenge on Lila instead.
** Alya blames Lila for lying on her blog, ignoring the fact that ''she'' was the one who chose to post her classmate's claims without doing any fact-checking first.
** Chloé is responsible for Wang Cheng's akumatization in "Kung Food," but when he's about to turn her into a soup's ingredient, she claims she did nothing to deserve it.
** Chloé puts all the blame on Sabrina for getting akumatized in "Vanisher," but by then, Sabrina has decided they are no longer friends. At the end of the episode, after [[spoiler:the new hero Marigold appears for the first time]], Tikki tells Chloé that Chat Noir needs more help after she failed to show up on time (or at all in the last case) for the last 3 akumas, to which Chloé says it's because [[YoureJustJealous the akumas are jealous of her]] and that it isn't her fault.
--->'''Tikki''': Pretty sure jealousy's not the problem.
** In "Dark Cupid," Chloé claims that Kim has no reason to have anything against her, completely forgetting that she, at least to her knowledge, coldly rejected him earlier[[note]]She had actually ruined Kim's attempt to give Ondine a Valentine's Day present after mistaking his gift for Ondine as being for herself[[/note]].
** In "Silencer," Bob Roth says the mess he's involved with is Kitty Section's fault for not allowing him to copy their work.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Cornered in "Zombizou", Marigold [[spoiler:unlocks a new power: "Bee Balm", that releases a bee swarm which can undo akuma effects on people, such as zombification]].
* NewspaperThinDisguise: Chloé hides behind a newspaper to spy on her classmates in "Animan". [[TemptingFate Right after]] she describes her plan as "so original and genius", it's revealed to the readers that another person is using the same trick while sitting next to her.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** In "Timebreaker," Marinette threatens to record Scarlet Lady staying on a ledge away from the villain and expose her laziness. Scarlet responds by jumping down to yell at her, [[spoiler:allowing Timebreaker to touch the heroine, meaning that without time travel, there would be no WorldHealingWave]]. [[OhCrap Marinette's reaction says it all]].
** Subverted in "The Collector." Marinette hears about Adrien being in trouble for losing his father's book and goes to the Agreste mansion to try and get Gabriel to reverse Adrien's punishment, telling him that she already found the book and returned it to Adrien. This all happens right as Adrien is about to tell Gabriel that he found the book after [[spoiler:having just gotten it back after giving it to Master Fu shortly after Marinette returned it]], so he can only corroborate her story by pulling the book out of his bag and confirming he's had it all along. Gabriel then asks why he didn't say anything earlier, putting Adrien in the difficult position of being unable to reveal the truth but also looking suspicious if he doesn't give a reason for not mentioning sooner that the book had been found. Fortunately, Adrien pulls off a SeamlessSpontaneousLie and convinces the two that it was because his father wouldn't have listened to him even if he had tried.
** Mme. Bustier helps set the conflict of "La Befana" into motion by forcing Alya to invite Chloé to Marinette's birthday party.
** Scarlet Lady leads Riposte right to [[spoiler:Marigold by chasing after her fellow hero, demanding to know where she hid Adrien]].
** In "Pixelator," Chat Noir has managed to sneak up on the villain and is about to steal his akuma, only for Scarlet Lady to yell at him and accidentally alert Pixelator to Chat's presence.
** Chat Noir and the class's refusal to just give Marinette up to Zombizou [[spoiler:prevents Marinette from running off to transform into Marigold]] until just about everyone else has been infected. [[spoiler:On the other hand, their actions were instrumental to her unlocking, "Bee Balm," her NextTierPowerUp]].
** Also in "Zombizou," [[spoiler:Scarlet Lady attempting to push Marinette into some of the zombies results in Chat Noir becoming a victim while protecting her]]. This also leads to [[spoiler:Scar herself getting kissed by Chat Noir when she's too focused on trying to get Marinette infected, leading to a NearVillainVictory]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** Reflekta has a critical moment of this when she has [[spoiler:Chat Noir cornered in a locker and uses her powers on him ''without opening the door''. Had she done so, she would have caught Adrien Agreste without the Ring, as he'd just sent Plagg off with it]]. This decision [[spoiler:saves his secret identity]] and pisses off Hawk Moth over her failure to [[spoiler:grab the ring ''before'' converting him into one of her clones]].
** Despair Bear, possessing Scarlet Lady, makes her invoke "Lucky Charm." This produces a fork that [[spoiler:Marigold]] and Chat Noir can use to unravel his costume and defeat him. If he had kept Scar silent, they would have been unable to get the object. They could still defeat him, but they wouldn't have been able to undo any side damage.
** [[spoiler:Scarlet Lady trying to get Marinette to fall victim to Zombizou's infection causes her to get infected herself]]. [[spoiler:This leads to Marigold unlocking a new power out of desperation from her panic at the fact that Scar can't undo the akuma's effects anymore]].
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished:
** Marinette tries to reason with Bubbler to prevent a fight between him and Scarlet Lady. He responds by trapping her in a bubble and sending her to space with his other victims.
** Copycat kidnaps Marinette after she calls him out as an imposter of the real Chat Noir.
** Marinette saves Sabrina from Horrificator at the cost of [[spoiler:getting caught herself]].
** {{Downplayed}} in "Gamer". Nino joins Max's ''Ultimate Mecha Strike 3'' tournament just to boost the numbers and draw more attention to it. Max rewards him by making a snide comment about his low score.
** PlayedForLaughs when Adrien belatedly realizes that by insisting to D'Argencourt that Kagami be given a second chance, he missed out on an opportunity to have Marinette join the fencing team instead.
** Nathaniel decides to warn the art club about Zombizou, only for her to follow him there, leading to both him and the club members getting infected.
* NoOntologicalInertia: In "Timebreaker", Scarlet Lady [[spoiler:gets touched by the villain, but drops her yo-yo in surprise, so it doesn't fade away with her. This allows Marinette to create a way for Chat Noir to travel back in time with Timebreaker, and he still has the yo-yo after that until the WorldHealingWave]].
* NoSell:
** Chloé's attempts to throw her weight around don't work on the photographer at Adrien's photoshoot in "Stormy Weather." Instead, he sasses her taste in clothes.
** Similarly, Chloé using her father to [[spoiler:threaten Roger's job a second time fails, as by then, Roger and Sabrina know that firing him is outside the mayor's jurisdiction]].
* NobleDemon: Evillustrator believes in keeping promises, provided the other side upholds their end as well.
* NominalHero: Chloé is ''technically'' a superhero, but is vain, cruel, and utterly incompetent, and is only in it for fame and glory.
* NonIndicativeName: Despite the title, the series is still more Marinette and Adrien's story, except now Marinette doesn't have the powers to really fight Akuma and has to often provide support while Chat Noir does a majority of the heavy lifting. Chloé... "helps" from time to time but is far more worthless than in the canon series. Being near useless in a fight, mocking people in her hero persona, and hanging back from the danger, she’s treated more like a necessary annoyance since her Lucky Charm and Miraculous are still needed to beat the Akumas and repair their damage. Yet she still gets the credit after everything's said and done, much to Chat Noir's chagrin.
* NoodleIncident: Fang apparently ruined Bob Roth's car in the past, which is why Jagged is helping Chloé in her bid for class president. He still thinks it was WorthIt.
* {{Not}}: Chloé pulls this on Rose when she asks her to deliver a love letter to Prince Ali.
--> '''Rose''': Could you give him this letter?\\
'''Chloé''': But of '''course'''!....'''NOT!''' ''(ripping the letter in half)''
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: When Adrien and Plagg steal Gabriel's book on Tibet and Adrien asks if rebellion is "supposed to feel like you're gonna barf", Plagg answers "Only if you get caught".
* NotSoAboveItAll: Tikki takes a great deal of pleasure in making Chloé's life difficult as retribution for her being a terrible hero.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Sabrina says Chloé is like Lila after she tries to fake a BFF relationship with Scarlet Lady to get a TV interview.
--> '''Chloé''': Me and that liar are '''not''' the same!\\
'''Sabrina''': Yes you '''are'''! You care more about your made up friendship than about ours!
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Kim tries to declare his love for Ondine but Chloé makes her think it's for her.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** PlayedWith regarding Adrien. The added stress that he's under from serving as Scar's more competent 'sidekick' bleeds over into his 'regular' life, such as when he snaps at Nathalie to pass on a colorful message to his father or stands up to Chloé. These moments tend to shock his oppressors, unused to having him stand up to them.
** During "Lady [=WiFi=]", Sabrina implies that Chloé's decision to get Alya ''suspended'' rather than just getting her into trouble strikes her as such, as it took her completely off guard.
* ObviouslyNotFine: Marigold was shocked when she saw a video clip of her being kissed by Chat Noir. He explains it was just to free her from the control of Dark Cupid.
--> '''Chat Noir''': I'm really sorry. You can punch me if you want.\\
'''Marigold''': It's '''fine'''. It was just because of the akuma, right? It didn't mean anything, so let's drop it.
* OddNameOut:
** "Origins: Part 2" is the only episode so far that uses a character's super identity (Chat Noir) in the subtitle rather than their civilian name.
** The subtitle of "Sapotis" is simply "Tales of the Césaire Twins", breaking the comic's "Tales of (X) the (Y) theme.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The webcomic often skips over battle details that would have been about the same as the show. For example in one strip Marinette suggests to Chat Noir that he Cataclysm the Gamer's mecha -- in the next strip, "Hey, it worked!"
** In "Princess Fragrance", [[spoiler:Marigold easily defeats the brainwashed Chat Noir, Kagami, Mayor Bourgeois and Prince Ali's assistant offscreen]].
* OhCrap:
** When Master Fu explains how he can use the Grimoire, Adrien is horrified at the prospect of having to share any power-ups with Scar.
** Marinette ''and Pollen'' have an ''epic'' sweating face when Pixelator manages to photograph Penny.
** In "Prime Queen", [[spoiler:Plagg says "Oh no" as Adrien starts suspecting Marinette is Marigold]].
%%** Master Fu and Wayzz when they realize Marinette didn't get the Ladybug Miraculous.
%%** Reflekta when Adrien turns off the lights and [[spoiler:Maotif]] shows up behind her, ready to pounce on her.
%%** Marinette has such a moment in "Timebreaker" when her argument with Scarlet Lady gets interrupted by [[spoiler:Timebreaker tagging Scarlet Lady]].
%%** Adrien and Nino in "Simon Says" when Simon's challenge to hypnotize Gabriel Agreste is announced.
%%** In "Kung Food", Tikki has a major one when she realizes that Chloé not only left her behind, but that the person currently holding her is about to become an Akuma.
%%** Luka when he realizes that [[AlphaBitch Chloé]] has a crush on him.
%%** Chloé has such a moment in "Silencer" when she sees Luka being akumatized ''right in front of her''.
%%--->'''Chloé''': And also- Oh [[SymbolSwearing €%$#]].
%%** Marinette has a moment of this in "Zombizou" when [[spoiler:Scarlet Lady gets kissed]].
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: PlayedForLaughs: as Master Fu considers giving out another Miraculous, Wayzz asks whether or not he intends to put it in the recipient's purse again.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: In "Dark Cupid" Alya wants Marinette to give a valentine to her crush. She's baffled when Marinette says she has no idea how to give it to him. Eventually they figure out that Alya means Adrien and Marinette means Chat Noir.
* OnlySaneByComparison: Anarka isn't big on rules or authority figures, even refusing to participate in Career Day due to Roger, a cop, also being there. However, next to [[spoiler:Jagged]], she's still deemed the responsible parent by Juleka.
* OnlySaneMan: Between Alya's fangirling, Jalil's conspiracy theories, Marinette and Adrien's failure at being one, and Scarlet Lady being... [[AttentionWhore well, Scarlet Lady]], Alix serves as this in "The Pharaoh."
* OralFixation: Théo has a striped lollipop stick in his mouth in the early parts of "Copycat", as well as the episode's splash card image. It gets crinkled up after Scarlet rejects him, reflecting his mood.
* OriginsEpisode: Aside from the obvious "Origins" two-parter, "Horrificator" shows the genesis of [[spoiler:Kitty Section, as three of its members work together to help sing Mylène's lullaby]].
* OverlyLongGag: After Nathalie forbids Adrien from going out, he dramatically laments to Plagg how ''Adrien'' ([[LoopholeAbuse as opposed to Chat Noir]]) won't be able to go hang out with his friends.
-->'''Adrien:''' Man, Plagg. It sure sucks that '''Adrien''' isn't allowed out.\\
'''Plagg:''' U-huh.\\
'''Adrien:''' ''[puts on some piano music from his phone]'' And that '''Adrien''' has to practice piano.\\
'''Plagg:''' Sure.\\
'''Adrien:''' ''[clenching his fists as tears well in his eyes]'' And that '''Adrien'''--\\
'''Plagg:''' I get it already! Just suite up!
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[[folder:P-R]]
* PaintingTheMedium:
** The subtitle of Volpina's episode, "Tales of Lila the Liar", has the last word crossed out and replaced with "FOX" in all caps and a different font.
** The following subtitle for "The Collector" has the last word covered with "[TOP SECRET]" in a different font and in red. The actual title is "Tales of Gabriel the [[spoiler:Butterfly]]".
** Sometimes the subtitles will be obscured by the picture of the featured character or their akuma object, most notably in "Kung Food" because Master Cheng's name hasn't been confirmed in the show itself, only online. "Vanisher" also has the "Invisible" in the title slightly hidden to make it less visible. In addition, "Despair Bear" has the second part of Jean's name hidden, since it being unknown and constantly gotten wrong is a RunningGag in canon.
* PapaWolf: André [[LockedOutOfTheLoop isn't aware]] that his daughter is Scarlet Lady, but his parental instincts still go off when Théo starts gushing to him about the young superheroine, prompting him to ask "...Théo, how old are you again?"
* PassThePopcorn: In "Troublemaker", when Marinette is embarrassed on live TV and tries to get the camera crew out of her room, Chloé is watching and gobbling popcorn.
* PhantomZone: Vanisher can [[spoiler: make people "vanish" into a parallel dimension where they can see and hear the real world but not interact with it. Vanisher can go back and forth between worlds and affect the real world while in the phantom world, moving things invisibly. She opened doors for Chloé to keep her from catching on, and "vanished" clothes for her to change into.]]
* PhraseCatcher: Théo, throughout "Copycat", gets variations of "...How old are you again?"
* PickyEater: Basically how Tikki passive-aggressively gets back at Chloé for being such a terrible person. She refuses to eat anything other than cookies from the Dupain-Cheng bakery.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: Chloé attempts this after Marinette stands up to her, turning to Adrien all teary-eyed and calling her a bully. Unfortunately for her, Adrien's not having any of it.
* PlotArmor:
** Averted with Marinette. Since she isn't always required to save the day, she has less plot armor compared to canon. For example, [[spoiler:she’s bubbled by the Bubbler, knighted by Darkblade, turned to coal by La Befana, and brainwashed (as Marigold) by Dark Cupid]].
** Chat Noir, on the other hand, seems to be able to get away with everything, even though he’s exhausted due to Scarlet Lady. For example, he [[spoiler:avoids being handcuffed by Copycat]], and [[spoiler:doesn't get touched by Timebreaker - it's Scarlet Lady who that happens to instead]]. The few exceptions to this include when [[spoiler:he’s transformed by Reflekta, although he detransforms and removes his Miraculous right before it happens]], when [[spoiler:he gets captured twice by Pixelator, once as Adrien and once as Chat Noir]], and when [[spoiler:he gets brainwashed by Princess Fragrance]]. He also still ends up [[spoiler:stuck in Anansi's web]], and is eventually [[spoiler:infected by Zombizou's zombies]]. It seems that [[spoiler:Marinette becoming Marigold]] has lessened his plot armor a bit.
** Aside from [[spoiler:what happened to her in "Timebreaker"]], Chloé/Scarlet Lady doesn't have as much plot armor; she still gets tied up by Kung Food as she does in canon, and in "Vanisher" she ends up [[spoiler:unable to be seen or heard by anyone, or to interact with anything unless the villain allows it.]] Scarlet Lady also falls victim to [[spoiler:Zombizou, as an infected Chat Noir kisses her while she's distracted from trying to get Marinette kissed]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In "The Gamer", while Max is a jerk to everybody because he boasts his superiority as a player, he ''really'' takes it to heart that Marinette, a ''girl'', beat him, [[SkewedPriorities even not caring that he was also beat by Adrien]].
* ThePoorlyChosenOne: Even without taking into account that Chloé is Scarlet Lady because she ''stole'' the Ladybug Miraculous, this trope is her all over. She only [[JumpedAtTheCall jumps at the call]] whenever she thinks she can get something good out of it, she is completely useless in a fight, and she is consistently wearing down everybody who knows what kind of person she really is with her unmitigated AlphaBitch act. Master Fu goes as far as to [[IRejectYourReality try to pretend this is not happening]] because it would involve [[NeverMyFault admitting his part in this fiasco.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills:
** The events of "Lady Wifi" kick off when Alya sees Marinette putting something red and black-spotted in her locker and decides to investigate rather than ask her about it. It's followed by a SustainedMisunderstanding where Lady Wifi refuses to accept Marinette's insistence that no, she really ''isn't'' Scarlet Lady, insisting that she's just being too modest.
** When Scarlet Lady gushes to Théo about her crush, he mistakes her description of Adrien as being about her partner Chat Noir instead, leading to him becoming Copycat.
** Gina becomes La Befana because she falsely assumes that she was intentionally left out of Marinette's birthday party. She also misinterpreted Marinette lying about liking the candy she bought her, refusing to see that her granddaughter was just trying to spare her feelings.
** Ondine is akumatized into Syren because Kim skips out on their swimming hang-out to go to the movies with the rest of the class, and him specifically mentioning Chloé convinces her that he has a crush on her. He failed to mention that he seriously hopes Chloé ''won't'' come.
** Had Jagged and Anarka sat down and properly talked about their breakup, they likely would've [[spoiler:realized it was a huge misunderstanding that Bob Roth orchestrated]] and resolved their feud much earlier.
* PopularityCycle
** In "Vanisher" [[spoiler:Marigold]] gets a head start with a chance to have a debut presentation to the media, without Scarlet Lady putting in her own spin, due to Tikki being temporarily incapacitated.
** In "Syren", Nadja Chamack comments that Chat Noir and [[spoiler:Marigold]] are helping with the escaped zoo animals, but that "Scarlet Lady is noticeably absent." This seems to be the first time the news has taken notice that Scar isn't pulling her weight.
** In "Animan" Scarlet Lady gets very angry when [[spoiler:Marigold]] gets recognition from Marinette's parents instead of her.
** In "Intermission", Chat Noir gives Marigold a piece of merch based on her, noting that her popularity's growing.
** At the end of "Troublemaker", Alya notes that Chat Noir is overtaking Scarlet Lady in the popularity polls.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: In "Anansi", Adrien, Marinette, Alya, and Nino invoke friendship and teamwork to beat Nora in arm wrestling.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** Chloé agrees to Tikki's demands about her maintaining her secret identity as Scarlet Lady, if for no other reason than she enjoys the idea of having a big secret all to herself.
** Sabrina refuses to help Chloé carry out her schemes in "Reflekta," citing how badly things turned out for her when Chloé made her steal Marinette's diary. Played with, as it's also strongly implied that Sabrina no longer wants to torment the class due to increasingly finding them kinder and more welcoming than Chloé is.
** After learning about Scarlet Lady's blatant crush on his son and that Adrien doesn't feel the same, Gabriel (though glad that Adrien isn't attracted to her) internally mourns the loss of a potential bargaining chip.
** When Gabriel declares he's pulling Adrien out of school for stealing and losing the former's book, the latter immediately reminds his father that he'll tell all his friends, one of whom has Nadja Chamack, a well-known reporter, as a family friend. Faced with a PR nightmare, Gabriel downscales Adrien's punishment to being grounded for a month.
** Scarlet Lady ''doesn't'' want Hawk Moth gone, as she knows she'll be forgotten if he and his akumas are no longer around to wreak havoc. But when told that Gabriel Agreste might be Hawk Moth, she decides to help take him down so that she can comfort Adrien over it afterwards.
** Hawk Moth tells Kung Food not to hurt Marinette, as he knows from experience that it won't end well due to it being Chat Noir's BerserkButton. He's later similarly relieved that he can akumatize Penny instead of Marinette in "Troublemaker," and in "Zombizou," he sends an akuma after her while acknowledging the risks but quickly decides that it would be better (albeit still risky) to akumatize Ms. Bustier instead after Marinette gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
** Evillustrator doesn't go after Chat Noir or Scarlet Lady's Miraculous due to being preoccupied with romancing Marinette and getting revenge on Chloé.
** Nathalie points out that it's better if Gabriel lets Adrien go out more, as the alternative is keeping him inside the house, where he'll be more likely to discover their plans.
** Adrien invokes this when he learns about Bob Roth, one of Gabriel's business partners, copying Kitty Section, informing Nathalie that as a designer, it's in his father's best interest not to associate with a plagiarist.
** Scarlet Lady actually sticks close to the class and offers helpful advice during Zombizou's attack. However, it's only because she wants a front row seat for when the akuma finally gets to Marinette.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** Adrien's response to Nathalie at the start of "Origins: Part 2".
--->'''Nathalie:''' Adrien! Don't do this! Your father will be furious!\\
'''Adrien:''' ''[thinking] I let myself be bossed around yesterday, but no more! Tell them what you really think!''\\
'''Adrien:''' ''[out loud]'' Tell him ''F@$% YOU!''\\
'''Nathalie:''' '''''?!'''''\\
'''Adrien:''' ...Please? ''[thinking] Maybe I've been holding in more than I thought.''
** Alix cheering on Chat Noir while he fights Pharaoh.
--->'''Alix:''' Chat, f**k him up!
** When Pharaoh throws Alya at Scarlet Lady, she drops a "S**t!".
** Alya has been captured by Pharaoh and realizes he intends to sacrifice her.
--->'''Alya:''' Yo, Ladybloggers, I'm straight f**ked!
** As Horrificator begins to seal the school.
--->'''Someone:''' S**t, we're being sealed in!\\
'''Nathaniel:''' I've got no signal, we're f**ked!
** Simultaneous thought as Horrificator shows up.
--->'''Nino, Scarlet Lady, Chat Noir and Marinette:''' [[OhCrap Oh s**t]].
** Adrien is admonishing his father for not showing up to Career Day.
--->'''Adrien:''' Oh look! Free croissants! Sure hope I don't '''ruin my diet''', bye!\\
'''Hawk Moth''': [[EvilIsPetty Oh, I'm akumatizing the s**t out of someone now.]]
** Hawk Moth's reaction to [[spoiler:Marigold taking the field for the first time]] is a shocked and enraged "What the f**k is this?!"
--->'''Nathalie:''' Gabriel! Language!
** Penny Rolling lets one loose in "Troublemaker" when she is overwhelmed. "Everybody, shut the $#%& up!"
** Purple Tigress gets two for the price of one when she hits her RageBreakingPoint with her (akumatized) parents.
--->'''Purple Tigress:''' You two are always so damn loud. No one can get a word in edgewise! How is anyone supposed to settle things when you won't listen?! It's time for you two to '''shut the hell up!'''
* PullTheThread:
** Master Fu comes close to working out Scarlet Lady's identity when he wonders why she wasn't there early enough to save Chloé, her supposed best friend, from Kung Food. Adrien deflects him. The author notes, "Fu's trying to have valid points Adrien stop shutting them down!"
** Adrien is implied to be close to this when he realises [[spoiler:Marigold wasn't acting jealous after he confessed to be in love with Marinette]].
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: In "Reflekta", Sabrina refuses to go along with Chloé's plan to lock Juleka in the bathroom with four words:
-->'''Sabrina:''' I. Don't. '''Want'''. To.
* PuppyDogEyes: Miss Bustier has big, shiny eyes as she reluctantly asks Chloé if she actually tried to bribe her classmates into voting for her.
* PushedAtTheMonster: Happens in "Dark Cupid", when Chat Noir and Marigold show up to protect Chloé. Chloé thinks Dark Cupid is after her because of her Adrien poster, so she pushes Marigold at Dark Cupid while demanding she protect it. This gets Marigold hit by one of Dark Cupid's arrows in the process.
* RageBreakingPoint:
** Adrien crosses it multiple times due to having to be a HypercompetentSidekick to AllTakeAndNoGive Scarlet Lady:
*** In "Origins," he finally gets a taste of freedom after having to deal with being sheltered all his life and having his mother vanish and be presumed dead, only to have it come with the baggage of a completely obnoxious and incompetent partner and the weight of all of Paris riding on his shoulders. By the end of the first half, he's been pushed so far that he outright snaps at Nathalie and tells her to tell his father to fuck off.
*** Flies into a rage in "Vanisher" after learning from Tikki that Scarlet Lady won't be coming to help ''for the third time in a row''. This, along with the fact that Tikki can't just help him without her partner, results in him curling up in a TroubledFetalPosition.
*** Reaches this with Chloé after her fire alarm stunt in "Despair Bear." He gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech [[spoiler:and breaks off their friendship then and there]].
** '''Rose''', of all people, reaches hers at the end of "Darkblade," angrily calling out Chloé for abandoning the class the moment the auma showed up.
** Sabrina finally snaps when Chloé claims to be her only friend in "Evillustrator," [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech goes on a tirade against her]] and has to be physically restrained from starting a fistfight by Marinette.
** Like in canon, Penny reaches hers in "Troublemaker." Hawk Moth is quite relieved about this, since it gives him an alternative to akumatizing Marinette over her FreakOut, as he knows she's Chat Noir's BerserkButton.
** Luka has HateAtFirstSight with Chloé and quickly sees her as an AbhorrentAdmirer after learning about her crush on him. He finally explodes at her in "Silencer" when he learns that she helped Bob Roth and XY plagiarize Kitty Section.
** Purple Tigress eventually crosses hers out of frustration towards her akumatized parents ruining her and her brother's birthday party with their bickering, cumulating in a PrecisionFStrike.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Zig-zagged with Roger Raincomprix. Some (albeit few) times he acts like the classic unreasonable cop (like giving Anarka two fines for petty reasons like in canon), other times he's more comprehensive (like admitting that the students' music is a bit louder than standard, but lets it go because it's the music festival).
** At the end of "Troublemaker" Marinette learns a lesson from Penny being "stretched too thin," and applies it to her own double life. She asks her parents for notice before volunteering her for babysitting or asking her for help in the bakery. To her great surprise, they say, "Sure, no problem."
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Marinette gives one to Scarlet Lady after she starts belittling Théo again after he's been de-akumatized:
--->'''Marinette:''' His sculpture was way better than you deserved, considering how you're always leeching of others' successes! You're lucky he's talented enough to work around your unfortunate face!\\
'''Scarlet Lady:''' '''[[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne You DARE?!]]'''
** In "Evillustrator" Sabrina gives one to Chloé about how bad of a person she is compared to the rest of the class.
** In "Despair Bear", Adrien states that school has allowed him to learn what makes a good friend - and compares that to Chloé, stating that she always does the opposite of what good friends do and that he won't be friends with her anymore.
** In "Zombizou", Marinette gives a scathing one to Bustier when the latter tries to convince her to forgive Chloé for ruining her gift.
--->'''Marinette:''' '''''ARE YOU ACTUALLY KIDDING ME?!'''''\\
'''Bustier:''' Marinette-\\
'''Marinette:''' ''No!'' Chloé did this ''maliciously'' and she's not even ''sorry!'' All ''"forgiving"'' her does is tell her that no matter how awful she is, she'll get away with it! Or even be ''praised'' for it!\\
'''Bustier:''' That's- \\
'''Marinette:''' And what about me?! Why should I ever do nice things when I'm told to suck it up when my efforts are ''spat on?!'' Why do Chloé's feelings matter more than mine, the wronged party?!\\
'''Bustier:''' Now, listen here- \\
'''Marinette:''' Well, I'm done! If you don't want to punish Chloé, ''fine'', I can't make you! Just like ''you'' can't make me pretend ''Chloé'' isn't the ''meanest, rudest'', most ''despicable'' person I've ever met!\\
'''Bustier:''' Marinette Dupain-Cheng!\\
'''Marinette:''' [[CallBack All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is for good people to do]] ''[[CallBack nothing]]''. And ''you'' did nothing, Mme. Bustier.
* RecurringBoss: The author's AuthorAvatar Zoe Rapporte has apparently been akumatized many times offscreen, with her 'nth' appearance as The Enchanced Florist defeated at the start of Princess Fragrance.
* RelationshipValues: Throughout "Riposte", [[spoiler:Marigold has a "respect meter" with Adrien/Chat Noir that increases as she proves herself to be a worthy heroine]].
* {{Retcon}}: The "Syren" episode applies a now-canonical retcon. It used to be that the kwamis had to be fed the power-up formulas, so the heroes had to be detransformed to use them. But in the New York special, Ladybug and Chat Noir directly eat the empowering food items to become Cosmobug and Astrocat. So in this AU, the other heroes can force Scarlet Lady to take the aqua potion. In the tags, the author comments, "I'd like to thank canon for making it CANON that the holders can also consume the powerups instead of having to feed it to their kwamis. Everyone say 'Thank you, canon.'"
* RevengeByProxy: Chloé attempts this in "Kung Food", aiming to ruin and humiliate Cheng simply because he happens to be Marinette's great-uncle.
* RightForTheWrongReasons:
** When Chloé claims she was calling Scarlet Lady to hide the fact she ''is'' Scarlet Lady, one of her classmates calls it a lie under the belief no hero would hang with Chloé.
** In "Simon Says," Marinette declares that Scarlet Lady is a StalkerWithACrush when the latter proclaims that her "love radar" told her where to find Adrien, which isn't an incorrect accusation. However, Scarlet Lady knew about Adrien being at the studio due to her civilian self being friends with him.
** Per WordOfGod, Chloé's biased call in favor of Adrien in "Riposte" turned out to have been correct. Even InUniverse, Marinette points out that Kagami had flagrantly broken the rules, [[CheatersNeverProsper meaning the latter didn't deserve to win]]. Chloé wasn't aware of any of this, though, and her call was based on nothing other than her crush on Adrien.
** During a sleepover, Lila brings up how Scarlet Lady didn't humiliate Chloé like she did Lila as a reason to believe Chloé was telling the truth about being best friends. Not knowing that Chloé ''is'' Scarlet Lady, the girls at the sleepover figure out they're not best friends because Chloé would've posted pictures of them together.
** When Marinette [[spoiler:sees Chloé with Tikki]], she assumes that [[spoiler:this must be because Scarlet Lady is irresponsible enough to lose her kwami and let her be stolen by Chloé, later leading to Marigold deciding that she must take her Miraculous away. Scarlet Lady is indeed irresponsible, and Chloé did in fact steal Tikki (or rather the Ladybug Miraculous) from her rightful owner, but Marinette doesn't realize that the two are the same person]].
** When Adrien tells Kagami he cannot openly date Marinette because of "a big, tall, annoying, dumb obstacle with bad fashion sense" and who "is so selfish", she thinks he's talking about Gabriel. Adrien actually means Hawk Moth, who happens to be Gabriel.
** Scarlet Lady, Chat Noir, and Marigold leave the interview with Nadja mid-show. While the latter two are leaving because Nadja's questions are turning inappropriate and delving into personal matters, Scarlet Lady only leaves because the interview isn't centered on her.
* RoleSwapAU: The premise of the fic is that Marinette and Chloé switch places as the Ladybug and Bee heroes, while Chat Noir ends up as the central hero.
** Additionally, [[spoiler:the Love Square is reversed, with Marinette being in love with Chat Noir while Adrien has a crush on Marinette]].
** [[spoiler:Alya and Nino also switch places as the Fox and Turtle heroes]].
* RousingSpeech: In "Timebreaker", Chat Noir thinks things are hopeless because [[spoiler:without Scar's earrings they can't fix anything]]. Marinette encourages him to [[spoiler:go back to the past with Timebreaker, saying "Save the past and you save the present"]]. She also manages to [[spoiler:lasso Timebreaker with the yo-yo Scar dropped, which makes the time trip possible]].
* RuleOfSymbolism:
** The statue Théo makes in "Copycat" features Scarlet Lady leaping over a crouching Chat Noir. However, the design also makes it appear that she's standing on his back -- which is driven home by the angle when Adrien first looks up at it.
--->'''Adrien:''' ...Even as a statue, I'm pulling all the weight.
** In "Gamer", Marinette observes that Adrien doesn't have any experience fighting ''alongside'' somebody in [=UMS3=], as he's used to playing alone. Her comment about not knowing how to work with a partner holds extra DramaticIrony given his experiences as Chat Noir, as does the fact that Marinette has already proven herself to be a more effective teammate than Scarlet Lady against various akuma.
** "Reflekta" ends with Chloé voluntarily opting out of the retake, symbolizing her growing exclusion from the rest of her class -- and underscoring how this is due entirely to her own actions. This is coupled with Alix calling Sabrina over, ensuring ''her'' inclusion, along with emphasizing the growing rift between the pair.
* RuleOfThree: At the last part of "Vanisher", [[spoiler:Tikki tells Chloé that the latter being "a late/no-show to the last 3 akumas" is the reason Marigold was needed as a back up.]]
* RunningGag:
** Chloe's penchant for ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne.
** Scarlet Lady keeps getting her yo-yo taken. Might as well, given how little she uses it.
** She's also prone to attempt to [[FallingIntoHisArms try to fall into Adrien's hug]] and EpicFail in the process.
** In "Copycat", people hearing about Théo's attraction to Scarlet Lady and [[MistakenForPedophile immediately asking how old he is]]. [[spoiler:He's the same age as the main cast.]]
** "The Pharaoh" has characters getting rudely shoved around as one.
** A slightly more serious one: occasionally, whenever Chloé does something bad around someone who is usually reluctant to criticize her in the show (Adrien and Sabrina), it gets noted that [[Creator/TelltaleGames "X will remember that"]], indicating that they'll be far less inclined to forgive her in the comic.
** On a meta level, the creator frequently responds to questions that would spoil the plot with 'guess we'll have to wait and see'.
** When directly threatened by a villain, both in civilian and hero form, Chloé is most concerned about her hair. For example, she says "Not the hair!" to both Evillustrator and Riposte. Chat Noir also gets Scar to leave the scene early in "Riposte" by warning her that the security cameras will catch her with "that messed-up hair."
** When someone is busy talking in the middle of a confrontation, a hero or villain will usually say "an opening" and attack them.
** Whenever Marinette uses a new miraculous, Tikki will cry in jealousy that her chosen is using another kwami. Her sobbing escalates with each instance.
** Frequently the temporary Miraculous heroes will be more enthusiastic about punching or hitting a relative than Marinette or Cat expect: Koki Marina was ''giddy'' at the idea of punching Anansi, Ryuko was grinning like a wild woman about being able to smack her mother without consequences, and Viperion was chill about fighting both his parents, albeit not looking like he's been waiting his entire life to do so.
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[[folder:S]]
* SadistTeacher: In "Copycat", Adrien's fencing instructor D'Argencourt rejects his request to go get some water, bluntly informing him that his technique has gotten sloppier and that they're going to do some one-on-one training instead.
* SadlyMythtaken: InUniverse. In "The Pharaoh", Alix constantly has to correct Jalil on pretty much everything in Egyptian history and mythology, and figures out that Jalil is the akuma because he invokes Thoth for [[TimeMaster time-powers]], and "[[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay only he would get the God of Writing and Magic so wrong.]]"
* SarcasmMode: The tagline for the page where Lila claims Volpina is "Stronger and more famous than Scarlet Lady" reads "Ah yes, more powerful and more famous which is why no one’s heard of her".
* SayingTooMuch:
** In "Dark Cupid", Scarlet Lady blurts out a lot of details about her private life, which would have allowed Chat Noir to discover her civilian identity, but unfortunately Chat Noir is too busy fighting a brainwashed Marigold to pay attention.
** In "Troublemaker", Penny idly blurts out that Jagged is paying child support in front of Marinette and Sabine. When she realizes her mistake, she immediately hands them an NDA to sign.
** In "Prime Queen", Chat Noir tells Marigold that [[spoiler:he knows Marinette in his civilian identity]]. Meanwhile, Marigold's reaction to this [[spoiler:makes Adrien suspect Marigold is Marinette]].
* TheScapegoat: Any time one of Chloé's schemes gets exposed, she attempts to pin the blame on Sabrina. It never works.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Max's glasses do this to help hide his expression while he's trying to play off his loss in "Gamer". This happens again later in the same episode when Scarlet Lady [[spoiler:praises him for only targeting Marinette and leaving Adrien alone]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Multiple Deconstructed instances.
** Chloé making her father fire Roger for refusing to break the law at her whim shocks Roger and Sabrina so much that [[spoiler:they look into things and discover that the mayor never actually had the power to do that in the first place]]. [[spoiler:The next time Chloé tries the same tactic, Roger coolly informs her how empty her threat is]].
** Scarlet Lady announces that Chloé is her best friend. Rather than salvage Chloé's reputation, it horrifies Scarlet Lady's fans that their idol is close with a girl they all despise.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: In "Rogercop", the mayor fires Roger for refusing to break the law for Chloé's spurious accusations. {{Deconstructed}}, as the mayor's self-serving actions and abuse of power cost him voters, and either way, [[spoiler:he doesn't actually have the power to fire Roger]].
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere:
** Sabrina gets the heck out of dodge when Alya tries to share her Scarlet Lady theories with her.
** Similarly, after she shows Chloé the video of Lila claiming that she's close to Scarlet Lady and pointing out that she's dragging Adrien off to the library, Sabrina walks off rather than allowing herself to get dragged into her counterattack.
** Chat Noir, faced with the bickering pair of Scarlet Lady and Volpina, [[spoiler:simply bails and goes home, leaving his partner to deal with the new "hero" and the fake Hawkmoth trap. (The author says Adrien only realizes Volpina's identity as Lila, not that she is an akuma).]]
** When Evillustrator attacks Chloé with a giant hair blower, Marinette and Sabrina opt to get the heck out of dodge. And then Evillustrator himself leaves after getting annoyed by Chat Noir's puns.
** Scarlet Lady does this in "Anansi" when she sees that the akuma is a spider-like being, using the fact that she needs to recharge after using Lucky Charm as an excuse to get away.
* SecretKeeper:
** Nathalie is shown to be fully aware of her boss's alter ego early on; when she realizes that [[OhCrap she doesn't have a birthday gift for Adrien]] to stick Gabriel's name on, she [[BlatantLies claims otherwise]] before muttering "Don't akumatize me."
** When the dust settles in "Reflekta," [[spoiler:Chat Noir, Scarlet Lady, and Juleka all know that Marinette was Maotif. Marinette also directly gives Juleka permission to tell Alya, though she also bars the reporter from sharing that information on her Ladyblog]].
** Adrien is a bad one for Master Fu in "Syren." He visits Fu in hero form, which is against the rules. He also [[spoiler:brings Marigold along]], drawing a rebuke and later the punishment of having to take down and reorganize Master Fu's entire pantry.
** Many people learn that Marinette is [[spoiler:Multimouse in "Puppeteer", because she deliberately blows her cover to avoid future conflict with her role as Marigold. Manon gets Roger, Nathaniel, Alya, and Scarlet Lady to "pinkie swear" to secrecy]].
* SecretSecretKeeper: "Desperada" reveals that [[spoiler:Luka and Juleka know that Jagged Stone is their father, but they haven't told him or Anarka about it. Penny also knows, and she knows that the kids know, but she hasn't told anyone else either]].
-->'''Juleka:''' Funny they think [[spoiler:me and Luka don't know]].\\
'''Penny:''' Yup. Hilarious.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Seen in "Evillustrator" when [[spoiler:Master Fu approaches Marinette directly and offers to walk her home]].
* SeenItAll: PlayedForLaughs. Due to being a celebrity and Gabriel's son, Adrien doesn't bat an eye upon learning that Luka and Juleka's mysterious father can't show up at a cinema without causing a scene and that twins need to speak to him through his manager. His lack of reaction is juxtaposed to Marinette's wide eyes and sweatdrops.
* SelectiveObliviousness: "Reflekta" has Chloé acting like she doesn't understand the concept of shame (as in being ashamed of her actions). She clearly, however, understands the concept as it applies to humiliating others.
* SelfServingMemory: Chloé to a T; she deludes herself into thinking she was chosen to wield the Ladybug Miraculous, ignoring Tikki's furious reminders that it was meant for Marinette.
* SequelHook: "Prime Queen" ends with Chat Noir and Marigold [[spoiler:starting to figure out each other's identities]].
* ServileSnarker: As Hawk Moth is akumatizing Simon into Simon Says, Nathalie grumbles under her breath that she doesn't get paid enough for this. She later blurts out a tired "M. Agreste... the #$%@." as she is getting drawn into the Collector's book, and the author's notes deliver a sarcastic "I'll be taking my vacation days now, '''sir'''."
* SettingUpdate: Unlike the series, where it seems to be always summer, this AU pays attention to a timeline and seasons. Sometimes this causes a credibilily stretch. For example, in "Syren" when Kim jumps into the flood water for a swim and invites others in, Max says, "Kim. No. It's '''February'''." The author comments, [[AWizardDidIt "Just... assume the pool is heated okay?"]]
* ShadesOfConflict: The story's central conflict is Chat Noir and Marigold ([[IdealHero unambiguously heroic]]) plus Scarlet Lady ([[EvilHero personally selfish and cruel, but on the heroes' side for personal glory]]) vs Hawk Moth ([[LoveMakesYouEvil evil, but with at least understandable motivations]]).
* ShipTease: Nathaniel dances with Marc to avoid having to dance with Chloé and thinks, "Wait, isn't this person way too cute?"
* ShipperOnDeck:
** The Gorilla offers Marinette as a female partner for Adrien's photo shoot.
** The Bubbler immediately agrees to play a slow song when he sees that Marinette and Adrien are together.
** In general, pretty much ''everyone'' who sees Marinette and Adrien together tends to ship them... except, of course, for Chloé.
* ShippingTorpedo: When her parents apologize to each other at the end of "Crocoduel" [[spoiler:after realizing their breakup was actually caused by Bob Roth]], Juleka asks her father not to get back together with Anarka. He reassures her that that ship has sailed.
* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: [[MamaBear Sabine]] gets back at Chloé for stealing Marinette's diary by severely increasing the price for a bag of cookies (the kind [[YourFavorite Chloé orders regularly]] to feed Tikki).
* ShootTheHostage: Volpina discovers that Scarlet simply isn't bothered by her threatening to kill others. Not because she sees through her illusions, but because she assumes that [[DeathIsCheap Miraculous Cure will bring back any victims]]. Even threatening somebody she cares about doesn't work, as Scarlet responds with a dramatic speech about how they'll understand ''[[ItsAllAboutMe her sacrifice]]'' for the greater good.
* ShootTheMessenger: When Sabrina informs Chloé in "The Bubbler" that the latter's present for Adrien won't get delivered for another week, Chloé responds by ''hitting her with her own tablet''.
* ShoutOut:
** When heading to record the first akuma attack, Alya wonders how ComicBook/LoisLane can do this and still look perfect.
** The writer makes a joke about [[Website/{{Reddit}} "r/weathergirlthings"]] in regards to Stormy Weather.
** After Chloé's plagiarism is exposed, Adrien gets cat eyes while the prompt "[[Creator/TelltaleGames Adrien will remember that]]" appears over his head. It's noted that Sabrina will remember Chloé trying to make her TheScapegoat as well, though [[MisplacedKindergartenTeacher Mme. Bustier]] probably won't remember either.
** Marinette's reaction to the robot eye camera that the Agrestes use is to assume that [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]] works for them.
** Sabrina and her father both make the [[Memes/{{Pokemon}} "Surprised Pikachu face"]] in response to Chloé ordering her father to fire Roger and her father obeying.
** After Chloé attempts to [[TheScapegoat scapegoat]] Sabrina again for stealing Marinette's diary, the prompt "[[Creator/TelltaleGames Sabrina will remember that]]" appears.
** In "Reflekta," Chloé's belief that the front row of class pictures is for babies reaches the level where she calls the students there "WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}."
** As part of his plan to distract Reflekta, Chat Noir calls her "ComicBook/HarleyQuinn."
** In Part 8 of "Volpina," there's a tagline reading "''[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket blasting off again]]''...in different directions...separately."
** Lila's line, "[[WeWillMeetAgain Arrivederci, weirdo]]!" from "Volpina," is a direct quote from ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool''.
** A tagline from Part 5 of "The Collector" mocks, "Gabriel in his office having the most unemotional temper tantrum ala ''Film/TheRoom''."
** [[spoiler:Vanisher's]] redesign includes [[FloatingLimbs floating fingers that are reminiscent of]] [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the ones from Peridot's limb enhancers]].
** In "Captain Hardrock," a tagline says Marinette [[Franchise/TheMatrix Matrix Dodged]] Alya's hint about Adrien.
** One of the taglines for Part 14 of "Syren" is "[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 The cold never bothered me anyway]]."
** To prevent Scarlet Lady from telling Marigold what happened while the latter was under Dark Cupid's influence, Chat Noir tells the former to leave before she turns "into a [[Literature/{{Cinderella}} pumpkin]]."
** At the end of "Pixelator," Penny hands out the tickets to Jagged's concert in a way that acts as an homage to the candy cane-gram scene from ''Film/MeanGirls''.
** Chloé's pizza order in "Guitar Villain" is "no sauce, no cheese, and gluten-free crust." This is a reference to the episode "Pizza Street" from ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool''.
** One of the many wrong names Chloé calls her butler is Jean-Deer, a pun on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Deere John Deere]] brand of machinery.
** In "Troublemaker," Scarlet Lady takes her time going to the aid of Chat Noir and Marigold. She shops for frozen treats that look like Chibi versions of herself, saying, "Can I get five more of these blonde b**ches?" This comes from a "Barcelona Meme" -- the author provides [[https://me.me/i/actuallv-can-l-have-five-more-of-these-little-blonde-38e6831c322f4f1e9ba5207941f0f7b3 a link for reference]].
** Luka finds out in "Silencer" that Chloé copied Marinette's costume design for XY, which the heiress denies. They have an exchange out of ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'':
--->'''Chloé:''' I worked so hard on that mask! Are you calling me a '''liar'''?\\
'''Luka:''' I'm not calling you a '''truther'''!
** The RunningGag of characters exploiting apparent moments of weakness in an opponent while shouting "an opening!" appears in RealLife comedic manga, such as "Manga/RanmaOneHalf."
* TheShowMustGoWrong: The class' amateur film in "Horrificator", quite frankly, is careening OffTheRails well ''before'' Mylène gets akumatized into the titular beast.
* SilverSpoonTroublemaker: Chloé is an entitled brat who's willing to do anything, up to [[AdaptationalVillainy and including]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse attempted murder]], just to fulfill her whims. The story balances it out with Chloé being incredibly incompetent and reality giving her a slap every so often.
* SingleTargetSexuality: WordOfGod has stated that Chloé is Adriensexual.
* SkewedPriorities:
** Chloé when it comes to akuma attacks. The Bubbler just captured all the adults in Paris and is forcing her to attend a party on threat of joining them? Perfect time to cozy up to Adrien! The same akuma enables a slow dance between Adrien and Marinette? ''He's going down.''
** PlayedForLaughs when Stormy Weather goes after the balloon seller in the park, only to pause and openly wonder ''why'' she's going after him when asked about it, noting that "It's just balloons." Proceeds to get ZigZagged when she still goes after him, demanding to know where ''HER'' balloons are, and learns that [[spoiler:they were instructed to only make merchandise for Mireille]].
** "Copycat" opens with Chloé prepping for the big statue unveiling by putting on makeup... including lots of eyeshadow. Tikki points out that she'll be wearing a mask, meaning that nobody's going to be able to ''see'' her handiwork. (Chloé, naturally, completely ignores her.)
** "The Pharaoh" sees Chloé blowing off the notion of studying for her upcoming midterm, as she expects Sabrina to do all the work for her. Tikki's attempt to convince her to take Sabrina on a nice outing to the museum leads to her heading there alone under the mistaken impression that there's a dedicated Ladybug exhibit, ditching Sabrina in the process.
** In the same episode, Marinette lightly teases Alya about her questionable priorities, suggesting that if she didn't focus so much on Ladybug or the lipstick she dropped and studied more, she might not be so stressed about mid-terms.
** Nino lets being the director really go to his head during "Horrificator". When Mylène runs off, he's more concerned about getting their flick filmed, and he remains fixated on that even after classmates start disappearing. When Chat Noir shows up, he goes into starry-eyed wonder over the thought of the hero starring in ''his'' movie.
** Faced with her 'best friend' [[HeroicBSOD blue-screening]] after her wild accusations got her father fired, Chloé doesn't bat a lash before roughly demanding she surrender her bag to be searched.
** Chloé is so singularly focused upon getting Marinette punished for supposedly stealing her bracelet (despite the overwhelming lack of evidence) that when "Rogercop" shows up looking to arrest her father for abusing his powers, she drags her after the akuma and tries to get him to arrest her. Despite how Roger's refusal to act without evidence led to his firing and akumatization in the first place.
** In "The Gamer", Chloé really doesn't gives a damn about her class being part of a game competition or even that Adrien has been selected to be one of the representatives... until she finds out that Marinette was the other student selected. ''That'' puts her on a [[MurderTheHypotenuse very serious]] warpath.
** Used for a MoodWhiplash moment in "Timebreaker". When Marinette reveals that she's recording her slacking off, Scarlet prioritizes yelling at her for 'threatening the hero of Paris' than actually dealing with the akuma. As a direct result, [[spoiler:she gets tagged in the back]].
** In "Kung Food", Chloé is more concerned about her hair being ruined by the soup she's suspended over rather than being boiled if she were to fall into it.
** In "Vanisher" Chloé makes faces at Chat Noir ([[spoiler:that he can't see because she's invisible]]) for saying that he'll double his efforts in Scarlet Lady's absence, despite the fact that his efforts are (as far as she knows) her only hope of rescue from the akuma.
** In "Riposte", Scarlet Lady is so obsessed with finding out where Adrien is she doesn't care if she detransforms in front of the cameras. Chat Noir tricks her into leaving by pointing out that they'd see her with messy hair.
** In "Captain Hardrock", Chloé isn't too bothered about the possibility of the titular villain attacking her father and his orchestra, but she freaks out when she realizes XY is also in danger.
** "Syren" starts with Chloé refusing to help corral the escaped zoo animals, not wanting to bother leaving for such an ''unglamorous'' task. She's ''outraged'' when that gives Chat Noir the chance to give an interview ''without her'', something she treats as a personal betrayal on his behalf.
** In "Animan", Alya is upset for being locked away while her father is an akuma because she's not getting footage, which she considers to be the only thing that makes her relevant since "Scarlet Lady only works with '''''real''''' reporters".
** In "Pixelator", Jagged Stone wants to sacrifice his life for Paris because it will improve his ratings.
** In a bonus panel of "Anansi", Hawkmoth knows the titular akuma has a grudge on his son but decides to akumatize her anyway because the ring and the earrings would look so sick on him. As the panel's tagline says, [[SarcasmMode Excellent set of priorities, Gabby.]]
** In "Ikari Gozen", Chloé [[spoiler:gets imrpisioned inside the villain's car body and complains about the lack of Bluetooth in there, while Tikki thinks to herself about how transforming would reveal her identity.]]
* SkippingSchool: Marigold finds Théo and Mireille in one of Pixelator's photos. They explain they were walking on the Champs-Élysées when he took their picture. She asks them, "What were you doing on the Champs-Élysées on a school day?"
* TheSlacker:
** Scarlet prefers leaving the bulk of the fighting to her 'sidekick' while she stays well out of harm's way, primping and preening to prepare for any after-battle interviews.
** When Timebreaker attacks, Chloé's concerned that she's too fast and transforms, but all she does as Scarlet Lady is [[spoiler:move to a high ledge to wait out the fight]].
* SneezeCut:
** Referenced but not shown in "Kung Food": after Adrien says his father has no taste, the author notes in the tags, "Somewhere Gabriel is having a sneezing fit."
** Played straight in "Evillustrator": when Sabrina says, "Day 1 of no Chloé is already '''amazing'''," the next panel shows Chloé sneezing.
** In "Sapotis", when Hawkmoth senses Ella and Etta's unhappiness, [[HypocriticalHumor he says that children should be free to do whatever they like]]. Cut to Adrien sneezing.
* SnowballLie: In "The Collector" Adrien tells his father that he lost the book, rather than admit he gave it to the Guardian. Marinette knows she returned the lost book to Adrien, and tells others in the classroom. Chloé refuses to listen to this and wants to hunt down Lila for stealing the book. The consequences of Adrien's lie are escalating.
* TheSociopath: Chloé/Scarlet Lady has no understanding of empathy, sympathy, love, honesty, politeness, mercy, friendship or any type of positive emotion. Her true showing of her uncaring regard of others comes when Volpina threatens to blow up a building unless she surrenders her Miraculous. She refuses, stating that when she wins she'll just bring back the people that died, leaving even a chronic liar like Volpina [[WhatTheHellHero to regard her as a monster]].
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay:
** In "The Pharaoh", Alix figures out the titular villain is his brother by the way he gets things wrong about Egyptian Gods.
** In "Timebreaker", [[spoiler:Adrien believes Chat Noir to be his future self because Chat Noir uses his nickname for Scarlet Lady]].
** More like "Only Something They Would ''Do''", but in Volpina, Lila's theft of the book is what convinces Adrien that she really is friends with Scarlet Lady.
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** The comic starts off with Master Fu's plan to make Marinette the Ladybug hero going awry due to Chloé stealing the Ladybug earrings from Marinette's purse before the latter even noticed they were in there.
** Chloé's attempt to steal Marinette's hat design for the derby contest fails because Marinette had hidden her name in the hat's embroidery. Downplayed, as Marinette points out that even ignoring how her name was on both hats, she still had the original sketches, while Chloé obviously didn't.
** Marinette throws a spanner in Chloé's plans for easily winning the Class President elections again when she declares her candidacy, undeterred by Chloé's threats. She then handily wins the election despite Chloé throwing a lavish campaign launch and giving away Jagged Stone albums to her classmates. While Marinette did prove her competency for the role when Darkblade attacked, the class later reveal that Marinette not being Chloé was enough of a reason for them to choose her, and that they only attended the latter's campaign launch for the freebies, not because they were actually going to vote for her.
** When Chloé orders Sabrina to steal Marinette's diary, the box it is in unexpectedly clamps onto Sabrina's wrist. Not only does this reveal Chloé's attempted theft to the entire class, but Sabrina ends up tearfully begging Marinette to take the box off and lets her have the diary back as well, depriving Chloé of any potential blackmail.
** Lila lies about being best friends with Scarlet Lady, hoping to get more attention from her new classmates. Unfortunately, she didn't count on Scarlet Lady secretly being the AlphaBitch in her class, who overhears the lie and then outs Lila as a liar before throwing her into a fountain, all in front of the classmates Lila was trying to impress.
** Related to the above, Lila steals Gabriel's book from Adrien, hoping to use it to make her story that she's a superhero seem more believable, then throws it away once she's done with it. Her plan is derailed due to Plagg telling Adrien she stole the book, which (combined with her lie about being saved by [[NominalHero Scarlet Lady]]) leads to him realizing that she's lying about being a superhero and calling her out on it. Additionally, Marinette later finds the book while passing through the park and shows it to Adrien, which only cements his dislike of Lila, as not only did she steal from him, she threw his father's book away instead of trying to discretely return it.
** [[DefiedTrope Defied]] when Ms. Bustier forces the class to invite Chloé to Marinette's birthday party. Knowing their bully will try to ruin things, Alya assigns Sabrina as the "Chloé wrangler," and the latter follows Chloé around, swiftly undoing any sabotage Chloé tries to commit.
** Vanisher might've won if Master Fu hadn't decided on that particular occasion to give Marinette the Bee Miraculous, allowing her to make her debut as Marigold. Both her Venom attack and her plan to use nearby flowers to track Vanisher's movements were instrumental to the akuma's defeat.
** Kim ends up ruining the class's plans to go see a movie when he mentions Chloé to Ondine as he's rushing to leave the pool. Ondine is soon afterwards akumatized due to jumping to the false conclusion that Kim likes Chloé and subsequently floods the entire city as Syren.
** In "Dark Cupid," Kim's plan to ask Ondine to be his girlfriend would've gone off without a hitch if Chloé hadn't just happened to cross the bridge while Kim was waiting for Ondine there. Wrongly assuming that Kim's gift was for herself, Chloé unwittingly causes a misunderstanding when Ondine arrives moments later, which leads to Kim's akumatization.
* SpeakInUnison:
** In "Vanisher", three people exclaim "Who are you?!" at the [[spoiler:public debut of Marigold, the Bee Heroine]]. (However, only two of them are really audible).
** [[spoiler:Viperion]] and [[spoiler:Purple Tigress]] do this in "Crocoduel," [[spoiler:causing them to realize each other's secret identities]].
** In "Prime Queen", Chat Noir, Marigold, and Scarlet Lady say "[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You've got to be kidding me]]" when the titular Akuma states the former two have disappointed their fans by refusing to admit they're a couple.
* SpeakOfTheDevil:
** Adrien invokes this trope in "Volpina" when Scarlet Lady suddenly appears, saying "Dammit, we said her name too many times."
** In "Evillustrator", when the titular akuma invites Marinette on a date, Marinette declares that her first objective is to contact Chat Noir. No sooner do the words leave her mouth than he comes in through her window.
* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Fanfic/LadyLuckMiraculousLadybug''. Both fics are based around the same premise: What if, instead of Marinette, Chloé ended up with the Ladybug Earrings instead. In the former story, she takes it as a cue that she needs to become a better person and behaves like a hero, treating Chat Noir as good as she can and doing her best to stop Akumas. In this fic, she merely sees the Earrings as something to make her famous, not even bothering with fighting and only becoming famous due to her skills in working the media. Chat Noir also utterly ''loathes'' her and the two are at each other's throats all the time, mostly because she makes him do all the work when it comes to fighting Akumas and trying to stop Hawkmoth.
* SpitTake:
** Juleka gets this reaction from Penny by calling her a "cool step-manager".
** Bob Roth delivers one upon reading his notice of termination.
* SplashOfColor:
** Tools made by the Lucky Charm are colored red. This includes a lipstick vial and her lips when she's using it to touch up her makeup while Chat fights an akuma without her.
** Hawkmoth's speech bubbles when communicating with akuma targets are a light violet glow around white outlines, as are the mask outlines.
** Chat Noir's eyes are colored green when he's using night vision/in the dark. Similarly, in "Reflekta", [[spoiler:when Marinette uses the Cat Miraculous to become Maotif, she gets blue eyes when using night vision.]]
** The scarf Marinette made for Adrien is colored in when he wears it, and the shadows on his hair are tinted light green after he dyes it.
** Similarly, the suspiciously spotted object Alya sees Marinette putting into her locker at the start of "Lady [=WiFi=]" and everything connected to her "special project" is colored in.
** [[spoiler: Pollen's]] eyes are coloured blue.
** Princess Fragrance's perfume is hot pink when used for mind control, and light green when making Chloé smell like rotten fish.
** [[spoiler: Nino/Fox Trot's Mirages are given an orange glow.]]
** [[spoiler: Alya/Koki Marina's Shell-ters are given a transparent green color.]]
* SpotTheImpostor: Defied -- upon finding out there are ''two'' Chat Noirs running around in "Copycat", Scarlet Lady doesn't care that one of them might be innocent and opts to capture them both instead.
* SpottingTheThread:
** Stormy Weather realizes that something is off when she finds out that the balloon sellers in the park are all stocked up with balloons for Mireille's victory, but none for her-which would be impossible if the contest wasn't rigged.
** Marinette immediately identifies Copycat as a fake not just because the real one wouldn't rob a museum in broad daylight, but because she recognizes the lollipop sticking out of his mouth as the same one the sculptor had.
** PlayedForDrama in "Horrificator." When Chloé fakes her abduction so she can sneak off and transform, Sabrina doesn't believe that she was caught because ''nobody heard her scream''. This leads to her frantically searching for her friend, afraid that if they leave without looking, she'll be stuck hiding alone with an akuma about...
** In "Volpina", while Adrien was immediately suspicious when Lila claimed to have inherited a miraculous at the same time his father's book went missing, the real clincher for him was when [[OutOfCharacterAlert she claimed that Scarlet Lady saved her life once]], knowing that [[NominalHero Scarlet Lady would never go out of her way to save another person]].
** [[spoiler:Viperion]] and [[spoiler:Purple Tigress]] realize each other's secret identities due to [[spoiler:them [[SpeakInUnision speaking in unison]], which also resulted in them each revealing information that [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay only they could've known]]]].
** [[spoiler:WordOfGod states this was how Jagged realized Luka and Juleka were his children, despite Anarka never telling him herself due to a misunderstanding. He realized based on when she gave birth that she got pregnant shortly before leaving their band, which, combined with how tightlipped Anarka is about the twins' father, had to mean that they're his. Luka and Juleka likewise did this to figure out Jagged is their father.]]
* SpringtimeForHitler: Discussed. When Marinette struggles to design a new album cover that Bob Roth would approve of, Pollen asks her what her parents do with bad requests. Marinette responds that they usually make a sample of what the customer asked for just to prove how bad it is. Sometimes it works, but other times, it just makes the customer like it even more.
* StalkerWithACrush:
** Marinette thinks Scarlet Lady is another one of Adrien's stalkers in "Simon Says" after she claims she knew Adrien was at the show because her "love radar always knows".
** Scarlet even gives away her feelings to Gabriel, saying, "I'm the perfect match for your son, doncha think?"
** Pixelator enjoys the idea that his power will make Jagged Stone "...mine and mine alone." [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Hawkmoth finds this creepy]].
* StatingTheSimpleSolution:
** Alya tries calling Marinette when she suspects the latter is Scarlet Lady. When she doesn't get a reply, Nino suggests that Alya just ask Marinette in the morning tomorrow, but she instead decides to [[PersonalSpaceInvader break into Marinette's locker]].
** During "Mr. Pigeon", Sabrina reasons that if Chloé wants to steal one of Marinette's designs, it would be much easier to pick up and use one of the sketches she's balled up and discarded rather than going after the one she plans to enter into the contest. Chloé doesn't give her a chance to finish the thought.
* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Per the author, the series sticks to canon events to a certain degree, with every bad guy being a canon one with similar origins to canon. The degree of similarity changes, and no villain is quite the same as in canon.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When they first meet, Nino asks if Trixx is a genie just like Adrien asked if Plagg was one. Like Plagg, Trixx claims to be better than genies and able to turn people into superheroes.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
** In "Timebreaker", Alix's father tells her that the rule that the last born child gets the pocket watch most certainly wasn't made up just because of Jalil.
** In "Dark Cupid", Marigold visits Adrien because she heard a rumor about him writing her a valentine, that she definitely didn't hear at his school. Adrien's response is that the valentine is to show appreciation for her as a hero and not because he has a crush on her.
* SwappedRoles:
** "Animan" has Marinette go feral trying to ship Alya and Nino, instead of the usual scenario of Alya going feral trying to ship Marinette and Adrien.
** In "Anansi" [[spoiler:it is Nino who gets kidnapped by the villain and Alya who takes a heroic role to rescue him]].
** In "Zombizou", Marinette becomes the villain's main target instead of Chloé (who quickly transforms into Scarlet Lady), with the rest of the class and Chat Noir trying to protect her.
** Going on from the above, [[spoiler:it is usually Scarlet Lady who doesn't show up for a while (or at all in one case) because Chloé is usually the one targeted by the akuma; here Scar shows up almost immediately while Marigold doesn't because the class and Chat Noir are unknowingly prolonging her absence since Marinette can't easily get away to transform]].
* SweetAndSourGrapes: Early in Season Three, [[spoiler:Kagami accepts that she won't be joining the Fencing Club only for Marinette and Adrien to convince D'Argencourt to give her another chance]].
* SymbolSwearing:
** Used when Adrien tells Nathalie to tell Gabriel [[PrecisionFStrike "F@$% YOU!"]] when she tries to keep him from leaving.
** And again [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/186102029564/i-dont-know-why-you-thought-alya-would-give-you-a here]], when Chat Noir is fighting an Akuma while Scarlet Lady reapplies her lipstick. Though which one of them he's cussing out is anybody's guess.
** Marinette gets a turn in "Copycat" when [[spoiler:the titular villain abducts her]].
** Chloé's reaction to the pigeon invasion: "'''''WHAT THE $@#$?!'''''"
** Nathalie does one when The Collector attacks her: "M. Agreste... the #$%@."
** Penny yells "Everybody, shut the $#%& up!" in "Troublemaker".
** Chloé says "Oh €%$#" when Luka gets akumatized right in front of her.
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* TakeAThirdOption: During "La Befana", when Befana asks if Chloé wants to protect or punish Marinette, Chloé responds with an [[ThePowerOfApathy apathetic "I don't care"]]. This actually baffles Befana's moral judgement.
* TakeTheWheel: In "Gamer", Marinette holds the game mecha steady while Chat Noir uses the Lucky Charm against the villain, a role-reversal from the original. Her ChekhovsSkill with the game still works in this version, even more so because Chat Noir knows Marinette has demonstrated the skill. (Chloé attempts this earlier and shows she has no skill at it whatsoever.)
* TalkingIsAFreeAction:
** PlayedWith when Reflekta shoots the wall next to Scarlet Lady while she's bragging about how she 'got Chloé to safety' and declares that "Next time, I won't miss."
** Timebreaker averts this. When Scarlet Lady starts yelling at Marinette for recording her, Timebreaker takes the chance to [[spoiler:tag her in the back]].
** {{Averted}} again when Chat Noir quickly attacks a brainwashed Mayor Bourgeois in "Kung Food" while he's in the middle of announcing his arrival.
** Riposte defies this again, attacking while [[spoiler:Marigold's back is turned to her while she's checking on Adrien]].
** The aversion of this trope is generally a RunningGag, with the character attacking sometimes saying "An opening!"
* TeamSpirit: The friends and classmates of Alix pull together to try to find a way to fix her broken watch in "Timebreaker" (unaware of the one-of-a-kind nature of said watch).
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The ''only'' reason Chat Noir works with Scarlet Lady is so that she can use Lucky Charm to fix everything at the end of a battle; otherwise, they're constantly at each other's throats.
* TemptingFate:
** Chat Noir's first line in the comic is a declaration of how awesome being a superhero is going to be, not knowing what his partner will be like.
** When Chloé announces that she'll fight Stormy Weather without too much prodding from Tikki, the kwami realizes that even Chloé can be selfless...then Chloé announces ''why'' she's fighting Stormy Weather (for ruining a "date" with Adrien), which causes Tikki to rescind this statement.
** In "Rogercop", when Plagg explains why Adrien can't transform, Adrien says "Ugh, you're so lucky there's no akuma or I'd be '''really''' mad". The panel's tagline even asks "Why do you tempt fate like this?". Upon seeing Rogercop, Adrien declares himself "a total '''jinx'''". Plagg gets "misty" and declares Adrien "a true black cat".
** In a bonus panel of "Timebreaker", [[spoiler:Marinette thinks she won't get caught in the middle of an akuma and will be early for Nadja. The original timeline shows her being involved with Timebreaker and Nadja showing at the bakery 20 minutes before the agreed time.]]
** In "The Collector", right after Adrien comments he never sees his father, he opens the doors to find Gabriel waiting for him.
** In "The Collector", when Lila says she won't return to school because Scarlet Lady destroyed her social life before it even started, Marinette asks if Lila thinks she can [[MythologyGag trick her Mom and miss a whole year of school]].
--->'''Lila:''' You underestimate my power.\\
'''Marinette:''' Good Lord.
** In "Kung Food", Marinette finds comfort that at least her uncle can appreciate her gift but then he starts "destroying" it. Subverted because everyone who watched the canon episode knows why he did it.
** In "Vanisher", when Ms. Mendeleiev cancels the class once it becomes apparent that there's an akuma around, at least one person is glad, until she adds that she'll be grading everyone harder to make up for it.
** In "Captain Hardrock", Anarka says everything goes on her boat. She changes her mind once Chloé shows up.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: "Horrificator" implies that Mylène has actual post-traumatic stress disorder from her experience with Stoneheart, but the closest thing she gets to therapy is using her lullaby to calm down.
* ThinkingOutLoud: In "Dark Cupid" Alya hears Marinette talking with [[spoiler:Pollen]] in the bathroom (though she can't make out the words). Thinking Marinette is talking to herself, Alya says to herself, "You sure have strange ways of dealing with bad news, girl."
* ThisIsGonnaSuck:
** A common reaction from the heroes and their allies (at least who know what the Ladybug heroine's really like) when [[TheLoad Scarlet Lady]] makes her presence known during a fight:
*** When the class runs into her in "Horrificator":
---->'''The class:''' Scarlet Lady! \\
'''Alya''': You're here too?! \\
'''Marinette and Chat Noir:''' ''(sighing)'' Greeeeat...
*** [[spoiler:Marinette as Maotif]] pulls a BigDamnHeroes to save Scarlet Lady... who isn't exactly grateful:
---->'''Scarlet Lady:''' WHO ARE YOU!? \\
'''[[spoiler:Maotif]]:''' Oh yeah, ''[[TheLoad you]]'' come with the job.
*** Chat Noir is quite confident he can take on both Dark Cupid and a corrupted [[spoiler:Marigold]]. However, Scarlet Lady then arrives, causing him to lament, "Well, there goes my odds." [[spoiler:Suprisingly, [[SubvertedTrope he turns out to be wrong this time]], as Scarlet Lady actually ends up pulling her weight due to the HumiliationConga she's received all day on account of the akuma]].
** Instead of being impressed by Volpina's flashy entrance, Chat groans at the prospect of having to deal with ''two'' {{Attention Whore}}s as fellow "heroes."
** In a flashback in "Vanisher," upon seeing Chloé clearly about to crash his interview, Jagged Stone irately grumbles "Aw, man."
** Adrien's reaction when [[StalkerWithACrush Scarlet Lady]] shows up at his window in "Glaciator" after he was seemingly offered a Scarlet Lady cone from André the ice cream maker earlier.
--->'''Scarlet Lady:''' Mon prince~\\
'''Adrien:''' ''(frowning)'' Oh, no.
** Luka and Juleka seeing their parents about to get akumatized:
--->'''Juleka and Luka:''' ''(sighing)'' Happy birthday to us.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: As far as Marinette's concerned, Scarlet Lady proves she's a lost cause in "Princess Fragrance" when she [[SickEpisode lets a sick Tikki]] [[RightForTheWrongReasons fall into the hands of someone who clearly doesn't care for her well-being to get her medical treatment: Chloé]]. It's TheLastStraw for [[TranquilFury Marigold]], who later talks to Chat Noir about [[spoiler:[[GodzillaThreshold taking Scarlet Lady's Miraculous]]]].
* ThisMeansWar: Kitty Section's reaction to XY plagiarizing their music.
-->'''Marinette:''' Oh you hack frauds are '''dead'''.
* ThreatBackfire: in "Timebreaker" Scarlet Lady taunts [[spoiler: the two Chat Noirs]] that they will need to beg her to help them. Both of them agree it would be best if she stayed out of the fight.
* ThrowTheDogABone: "Mr. Pigeon" ends with Xavier finding an unexpected friend in [[spoiler:Marianne]], who introduces him to [[spoiler:a rooftop sanctuary for pigeons where he can feed and tend to them to his heart's content]].
* TimeSkip: The web comic often skips over material that would be similar to canon. For example in "Riposte" when the akuma villain tells Adrien "This won't take long!" the reader is supposed to remember that in canon Hawk Moth instructed her to go after the Miraculous heroes first, and that she told Adrien to wait there patiently for their "rematch". Scarlet Lady gets the implication that Riposte thinks she will be easy to beat and retorts, "Rude!"
* TitleDrop: "Crocoduel" is called "Tales of You Two Again?!". When Hawkmoth reakumatizes Jagged and Anarka, he asks "What? You two again?".
* TooDumbToLive: Manon, ''maybe'' you shouldn’t have told the supervillain that hates Mireille's guts that you voted for Mireille?
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Most of the teens who become heroes after receiving a Miraculous. Downplayed with Chloé when she becomes Scarlet Lady, as she usually just summons Lucky Charm without doing any of the actual fighting. Also played with regarding Marinette, who already became a badass prior to becoming Marigold when she underwent gùn training with her mother to better protect herself against akumas.
** Adrien soon grows out of his ExtremeDoormat personality and becomes more rebellious due to dealing with both his restrictive lifestyle and annoyance towards Scarlet Lady. This leads to him ''cussing out Nathalie'' when she tries to keep him from going to school, dying his hair green when Gabriel kicks Nino out of his house for being "fashion trash," leaving a message about helping himself to croissants (defying his strict model's diet) for his father when Gabriel doesn't show up for Career Day, and stealing the book from his father's safe without Plagg needing to convince him. He also displays more of a backbone when dealing with Chloé's antics and Lila's lies.
* TookALevelInSmartass:
** As a coping mechanism for dealing with Scarlet Lady, Adrien and Tikki quickly become ''far'' snarkier than they are in canon.
** Post-HeelFaceTurn, Lila drops her [[ConsummateLiar compulsive lying]] in favor of BrutalHonesty, which often results in her being a DeadpanSnarker.
** Sabrina, too, gradually makes more snarky comments at Chloé due to getting increasingly fed up with latter's abuse. She continues this after cutting ties with Chloé for good, such as reminding her former friend that she has the same perfume as Rose when Chloé claims that Rose's perfume smells like rotten fish.
** Chloé gets hit with this in "Rogercop", where she basically gets herself and Marinette kidnapped by getting into Rogercop's car, much to Chat's horror.
** Kim's desire to race a panther prompts Adrien to ask if he likes "being lunch".
* TrueCompanions: With the obvious exception of Chloé, Bustier's class are all good friends and will go right to bat to help each other when they're in trouble. Best shown in a bonus panel for "Timebreaker", where they all start to work together on an idea on how to fix Alix's broken watch.
* TrueLovesKiss: Max deconstructs this idea at the beginning of "Dark Cupid" in relation to fairy tales when he points out that only 32% of said kisses are consensual.
* TwoPersonLoveTriangle: Marinette has feelings for both Adrien and Chat Noir, not realizing they're one and the same; Adrien feels the same about Marinette, [[spoiler:but treats his new bee-heroine partner Marigold with cool professionalism. It seems to be an inversion of the canonical two-person love square]]. It gets more complicated in "Dark Cupid", when Adrien’s asked about a love poem he just wrote. He panics and says it’s for [[spoiler:Marigold]] when he really meant to give it to Marinette as Chat Noir.
* TheUnfavorite: While it was implied in the original episode, "Timebreaker" confirms by way of SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that Mr. Kubdel ''deliberately'' passed him over to pass the watch on to Alix instead.
* UngratefulBitch: Chat Noir pushes Scarlet Lady out of the way of an attack by the Bubbler. She thanks him by yelling at him for messing up her hair.
* UnintentionalBackupPlan:
** Scarlet Lady tries to knockout Pixelator by throwing the Lucky Charm compact mirror at him. She misses due to bad aim, but the compact's projectile path results in it being at just the right height and angle to reflect Pixelator's beam right back at him.
** Hawk Moth was originally going to akumatize Marinette in "Troublemaker" due to her embarrassment and panic at having her room (which contains evidence of her crush on Chat Noir) filmed and broadcasted on live TV. However, Penny ends up getting overwhelmed with her responsibilities and reaches her RageBreakingPoint at around the same time, leading to her akumatization instead. He's quite relieved about this, as he knows any harm coming to Marinette will push Chat Noir's BerserkButton.
** Similarly, in "Zombizou," Hawk Moth decides to akumatize Marinette over her anger at having her present for Ms. Bustier ruined by Chloé despite knowing the risks. However, after Marinette succeeds in venting out most of her frustrations by giving Ms. Bustier a long TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, leaving the latter vulnerable to akumatization, Hawk Moth decides that it would be marginally less risk to make Ms. Bustier an akuma instead.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Unlike the series, Marinette and her classmates wear new clothes every new episode, and in some cases (like Ayla) even different hairstyles.
* TheUnmasking:
** Narrowly subverted at the start of "Vanisher", by pure luck. If Chloé had addressed Tikki by name during her morning complaint monologue, the invisible akuma would have heard and Hawkmoth would have had Scarlet Lady's secret identity. Tikki flies off right away to warn Master Fu, avoiding being seen by Vanisher.
** Very close to happening in "Vanisher", at least for Master Fu, when Chat Noir decides to ask him what to do about Vanisher. Tikki must have reported [[spoiler: that her holder was vanished by an akuma, though she couldn't say her holder's name]]. Chat Noir will report that the akuma has a grudge that would motivate her to [[spoiler: make Chloé vanish, but not random other people]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** Fu's decision to slip the box with the Earrings into Marinette's purse unintentionally kicks off the whole AU, since Chloé finds and steals it while trying to 'punish' her for not being properly cowed.
** In "Rogercop", Tikki irritably kicks Plagg out of Chloé's purse... and, in the process, knocks him into Chloé's bracelet. This not only sets the episode's plot into motion, but causes poor Marinette to trip over him.
** Nadja not believing Manon when she claims Marinette let her have the Lady Wifi doll leads to the girl's akumatization.
* VagueAge: In "Intermission", Luka says he's Juleka's older brother but refuses to be more specific than that about his age even when asked how older. In "Crocoduel", the issue is brought up again when Lila asks how old he's becoming and he says he's becoming "one year older than last year". Lila later realizes that, if Luka and Juleka have their birthday on the same day, hey must be twins but he points out they might instead be "born on the same day years apart".
* VillainHasAPoint: At the end of "Gamer", Max realizes Scarlet Lady has a point in how his sexist attitude nearly led to him killing Marinette.
* VillainRespect: PlayedWith; Gabriel stubbornly insists that Scarlet Lady is a wily and dangerous opponent, because the alternative would mean admitting that he's being outmatched by an idiot.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Scarlet Lady knows how to work the media and play to the public, making herself look better at the expense of others. Especially her poor partner Chat, whom she paints as someone she has to 'clean up after'.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend:
** Alright, they aren't an actual couple, but Marinette [[spoiler:(both as a civilian and as Marigold)]] is more than ready to punch the daylights out of any villain in order to help Chat Noir.
** Penny Rolling may just be Jagged's assistant, but when Vincent gets too close to Jagged, she is all too ready to beat the daylights out of the guy (BattleAura included).
* WallOfText: When Reflekta first appears, the panel behind her is filled with text, and so is the next one with Alya and Nino listening in shock. It lampshades the overwhelming nature of her monologues.
* WeNeedADistraction: Scarlet Lady actually ''[[InvertedTrope inverts]]'' this during "Gamer" by [[DrawAggro getting his attention]] and leading him right towards Chat and Marinette.
* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: The Puppeteer needs the Miraculous heroes' dolls made by Marinette to control them. Scarlet Lady saves herself from being controlled by destroying her doll.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Marinette would like to point out to the Bubbler that, while she agrees with his motives, she doesn't support his methods.
* WhamEpisode:
** Episode 13, Part 10. [[spoiler:Plagg passes the Cat Miraculous to Marinette, who uses it to transform into a superhero.]]
** Episode 21, Part 8. [[spoiler:Marinette receives the Bee Miraculous to become Marigold.]]
** Episode 40 has 3 moments:
*** Part 9. [[spoiler:Marigold confesses her feelings for Chat Noir.]]
*** Part 10. [[spoiler:Scarlet Lady unwittingly [[TitleDrop shows her true colors]] by stating she has no problem in letting Alya die since she can bring her back -- while all of Paris watches the "show".]]
*** Part 12. [[spoiler:Chat Noir not only tells Marigold that he’s in love with Marinette (unaware that they're the same person) but also that he knows her as his civilian self.]]
** Episode 41, Part 15. [[spoiler:When all hope seems lost, a desperate Marigold unlocks a new power and a new suit]].
* WhamLine:
** On the second page of "Vanisher", when the class is shown an announcement from Mayor Bourgeois that [[spoiler:Chloé is missing, even though she's just arrived at school]]:
--->'''Chloé''': Huh? What's he on about, I'm right-\\
'''Max''': Wait, she's not just absent?\\
'''Nathaniel''': I thought it was quiet today.
** On the third page, Vanisher says, [[spoiler:"After all, you can't interact with the '''real''' world."]], which reveals that [[spoiler:every physical thing that Chloé handled that day, from getting dressed to slamming open a door, were just things that the akuma "vanished" for her or did for her. As the author says in the end notes, "Vanisher is such a little prankster god that anytime Chloé approached a door handle SHE'D open it just to prolong Chloé's confusion because she'd figure it out pretty quick if she was stuck in her room."]]
** Downplayed, but in "Captain Hardrock", Page 16, [[spoiler:Rose admits during her performance that she's dating Juleka]].
** At the end of "Princess Fragrance, Marigold drops one hell of a bombshell.
--->'''Marigold''': We need to talk about taking the earrings from Scarlet Lady.
** In "Despair Bear", Adrien decides that Chloé's latest stunt is TheLastStraw and makes clear what he thinks of her.
--->'''Adrien''': We're done, Chloé! We're not friends anymore!
** A conversation between Juleka and Penny in "Desperada" reveals that [[spoiler:the Couffaine children are secretly aware that Jagged Stone is their father]].
** In "Ikari Gozen", as Ryuko duels the titular akuma, she attempts to call her mother out for not letting Kagami have friends, only for it to turn out that Tomoe has a reason for not wanting her daughter to have any friends beyond simply being strict.
--->'''Ikari Gozen:''' Friends only betray you, abandon you! Like '''mine''' did when I went blind!
** In "Prime Queen", after Marigold [[spoiler:admits that she’s in love with Chat Noir]] to save Lila from the speeding train, we get this exchange:
--->'''Chat Noir:''' Good thinking with that lie, Goldie!\\
'''Marigold:''' Superheroes don't '''lie''', Chaton.
** Later in "Prime Queen", Chat Noir drops ''two'' bombs while trying to let Marigold down:
--->'''Chat Noir:''' It'd be ''easy'' to fall for you, but... [[spoiler:But I'm already in love with Marinette Dupain-Cheng!]]\\
[...]\\
'''Chat Noir:''' But [[spoiler:since I see her everyday as "myself"]] I can't just forget her!
* WhamShot:
** "Prime Queen" has quite a big one. [[spoiler:When the villain is threatening to drop Alya into the Seine, Scarlet Lady says she doesn't care if Alya dies because she can just bring her back after winning the fight. The next panel shows ''many'' people watching on their phones and tablets, Scar having apparently forgotten that she's on live TV, meaning she has ruined her reputation even further.]]
** From "Zombizou": [[spoiler:With the titular akuma seemingly about to win, a panicking Marigold starts glowing. In the last two panels, we end up treated to [[NextTierPowerUp her upgraded outfit and her using a new ability, "Bee Balm"]].]]
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Chloé often finds herself on the receiving end of this from Tikki, Chat and others. Not that she cares. For one particular example, Tikki gets especially frustrated with her for how bluntly she rejected Théo after the statue unveiling:
--->'''Tikki:''' Are you ''proud'' of how you treated that young man?! And after he said so many nice things! That you don't ''deserve!''\\
'''Chloé:''' Ughhhhh, let it gooo...
** During "Horrificator", Alya, Adrien and Ivan all call out Nino for adding a kiss scene. Alya's annoyed that he altered her script without telling her; Adrien and Ivan are more concerned with the fact that he didn't get the actors' permission beforehand, or warn them about it. Immediately following this, he gets called out ''again'' for suggesting that Chloé should sub in for Mylène, since she ''is'' supposed to be her understudy. Given that she chased her off in the first place, nobody else is keen to ''reward'' her cruelty by handing her precisely what she wants.
** When Alya informs Marinette's father that Chloé dragged Marinette off to see "Rogercop", he's furious that she didn't try to stop them. Alya retorts that [[AdultsAreUseless he didn't, either]].
** PlayedForLaughs in "Gamer" when Alya accuses Marinette of only joining the tourney to flirt with Adrien.
--->'''Marinette:''' Flirt...? You sure are fired up about something you learned about five minutes ago.\\
'''Alya:''' This is '''[[SeriousBusiness SUPER. SERIOUS!]]'''\\
'''Marinette:''' Hey, by virtue of how tournaments work, won't I only earn that spot by '''BEING''' the best to represent us?
** In "Gamer", Chat Noir yells "Scar, what the HELL?!" after his so-called partner leads the akuma right to them. Scarlet feigns innocence, despite how she actually [[spoiler:really wanted to get Marinette zapped]].
** "Timebreaker" has Marinette call Scarlet out on refusing to engage, declaring that "if ''I'' can see you, then so can my ''phone'' which is recording you ''ignoring the akuma!''"
** In "Simon Says", Scarlet Lady gets two in a row from Chat Noir. First, for trying to impress Gabriel when there's a hypnotized army to worry about. Second, for running and abandoning civilians (including Adrien, she believes), letting them get captured by the villain's forces.
** In "Volpina", Scarlet Lady is called out by Adrien for dunking Lila, and also questioned about it by Alya. She resorts to an IDidWhatIHadToDo excuse, that publicly outing Lila as not being her BFF would protect her from Hawkmoth.
** Volpina's utterly taken aback when Scarlet blows off her threat to destroy a building, casually stating that [[DeathIsCheap she'll just bring everyone inside back after winning]]. The faux fox recoils in disgust, declaring that "You really ''are'' a villain!"
** Happens again when Scarlet blows off her threat to drop [[spoiler:an illusion of Adrien]] to their death, saying that she'll either catch them or bring them back afterwards.
--->'''Scarlet Lady:''' ''(with a wicked grin)'' '''Do it.'''\\
'''Volpina:''' '''''Gawd, what is wrong with you?!'''''
** "The Collector" opens with Master Fu rebuking Plagg for bringing Adrien to his shop. Adrien then turns it right back around on him upon realizing that he's responsible for choosing Scarlet... or so he thinks.
** In "Syren", both Master Fu and [[spoiler:Marigold]] are shocked when Chat Noir decides to [[spoiler:bring her to meet him ''without getting permission'' to reveal the Guardian's existence first]].
** Marinette calls Mme. Bustier out when she insists that Marinette should forgive Chloé for her vandalizing, because all forgiving Chloé does is tell her that she can get away with anything.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Scarlet Lady reveals her true colors in "Prime Queen", [[spoiler:stating she has no problem with letting Alya die when the akuma threatens to drown the latter]] while forgetting that ''all of Paris'' is watching the confrontation.
* WinWinEnding: In the end of "Stormy Weather", [[spoiler:Aurore and Mireille resolve the matter of the contest by becoming co-weather girls]].
* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: Downplayed example with Chloé and Tikki when the latter says the former has to get the book Adrien and Lila have.
-->'''Chloé:''' [[LetMeGetThisStraight So, what you're saying is]], I '''''have''''' to spy on her and Adrien?\\
'''Tikki:''' '''''Yes! Follow them!'''''\\
'''Chloé:''' [[MyGodYouAreSerious Wait, Seriously?]] I mean, I definitely was going to, but...
* WorldOfSnark: Many characters have several DeadpanSnarker moments. Just about everyone has no patience for Chloé/Scarlet Lady’s behavior, so her antics are often the subject.
* WorthIt:
** In "Horrificator", it's implied that Horrificator was mute because Mylène kept sassing Hawkmoth. The tags imply that this was her opinion.
** In "Darkblade", it's revealed that the reason Jagged helped out with Chloé's campaign in the first place was because he owed Bob Roth a favor after Fang ruined the producer's car. His response when Penny reminds him of this is this trope.
** In "Vanisher", Marinette thinks it was worth staying up all night in order to [[spoiler:make bee-themed accessories to give to her friends, claiming that the new hero inspired her; the actual reason is so no one will suspect her identity as Marigold from seeing her wearing the bee comb.]]
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When Lila is about to give up on school when her lies are exposed, Marinette encourages her to come back, saying "You're not as alone as you think." Marinette also shares how she despises Scarlet Lady (a surprise to Lila since she only heard that before as Volpina and forgot). Marinette says she would pick Lila over Scarlet Lady any day.
* YouAreGrounded: "The Collector" sees Gabriel grounding Adrien as punishment for losing his book. He ''originally'' threatened to pull him out of school entirely, only for Adrien to point out how disastrously that could end for him PR-wise.
* YouDidntAsk: Adrien is caught in an awkward situation in "The Collector" when he finds Marinette explaining to Gabriel that she already returned the lost book to Adrien. He saves himself by producing the book ([[spoiler:which he just got back from Master Fu]]) and corroborating Marinette's account. When his father challenges him for an explanation, Adrien asks, "Would you have listened?"
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe:
** Chat reacts this way when Volpina takes [[spoiler:an illusion of Adrien]] as her hostage.
** Hawkmoth says "Really?" when it turns out Animan is angry because Kim claimed to be faster than his panther. Chat Noir, Marigold, and Scarlet Lady have similar reactions when they learn the same thing.
** Alya has this reaction in "Anansi" when she sees that Nora got akumatized over not wanting Alya to go out due to akumas and losing the arm wrestling against her and her friends.
** Chat Noir, Scarlet Lady, and Marigold all say this in unison when Prime Queen appears, declaring that the heroes "disappointed their fans" by refusing to admit that [=ChatGold=] was real. Lila has a very similar reaction to [[spoiler:seeing herself onscreen as Prime Queen moves to take her hostage]].
** Alya says this during the denouement of "Prime Queen" after she finds that [[spoiler:she's been invited by Nadja to appear on the latter's ''new'' show, ''Side by Side'']]. Lila's reaction is much the same.
** Marinette's reaction when Mme. Bustier tells her to forgive Chloé for her vandalization of Marinette's present to the teacher.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: "Copycat" reveals that this is the case with [[spoiler:Théo, who's actually the same age as Marinette and her classmates]]. It's hinted that this is being deliberately invoked with [[spoiler:his goatee, protesting that it's the only reason his clients respect him]].
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: [[spoiler:Max has a JerkassRealization about his attitudes towards gaming after Scarlet Lady thanks him for exclusively targeting Marinette as an akuma even though both she and Adrien beat him.]]
* YourMakeupIsRunning: Chloé's tears after hearing that Adrien has been grounded are practically ''black'' from all the mascara she wears. A note on the comic by the creator questions why she's not using waterproof mascara.
* YourTelevisionHatesYou: After Gabriel changes his mind about allowing Adrien to attend the concert on the Liberty for the music festival, Adrien watches a TV program about the festival where Nadja declares, "You'd have to be a complete loser to miss it!".
-->'''Adrien:''' [[LampshadeHanging Why do you mock me, Nadja?]]
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** In "Copycat", when the titular akuma tells him that Scarlet Lady might have a crush on him (due to a misunderstanding), Chat Noir is '''horrified'''.

* AdaptationDeviation: The webcomic changes the circumstances of Jagged and Anarka's breakup so that [[spoiler:Bob Roth was directly responsible for destroying their relationship. [[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/697767487327092736/in-light-of-the-recent-page-of-scarlet-lady-au The stated reason for this change was because the author felt that the original show's explanation, or lack thereof, made Jagged come off as a deadbeat loser who ran out on his children.]]]]

** In "Prime Queen", Marigold loses her colors when Chat Noir confesses [[spoiler:that [[LovesMyAlterEgo he's in love with Marinette]]]].

** In "Timebreaker", Marinette [[spoiler:threatens to record Scarlet Lady staying on a ledge away from the villain and expose her laziness. Scarlet responds by jumping down to yell at her, allowing Timebreaker to touch her, meaning that without time travel, there would be no WorldHealingWave]]. [[OhCrap Marinette's reaction says it all]].
** Subverted in "The Collector." Marinette hears about Adrien being in trouble for losing his father's book and goes to the Agreste mansion to try and get Gabriel to reverse Adrien's punishment, telling him that she already found the book and returned it to Adrien. Adrien comes across the two just as Marinette finishes explaining things and corroborates her story by pulling the book out of his bag, to which Gabriel asks why he didn't say anything earlier. Adrien is put in the difficult position of being unable to reveal that [[spoiler:he only just got the book back after giving it to Master Fu shortly after Marinette returned it]] but also looking suspicious if he doesn't give a reason for not mentioning sooner that the book had been found. Fortunately, Adrien pulls off a SeamlessSpontaneousLie and convinces the two that it was because his father wouldn't have listened to him even if he had tried.

** In "Pixelator", Chat Noir has managed to sneak up on the villain and is about to steal his akuma, only for Scarlet Lady to yell at him and accidentally alert Pixelator to Chat's presence.
** Chat Noir and the class's refusal to just give Marinette up to Zombizou denies Marinette [[spoiler:the opportunity to transform into Marigold]] until just about everyone else has been infected.
** Also in "Zombizou", [[spoiler:Scarlet Lady attempting to push Marinette into some of the zombies results in Chat Noir becoming a victim while protecting her]]. This also leads to [[spoiler:Scar herself getting kissed by Chat Noir when she's too focused on trying to get Marinette infected, leading to a NearVillainVictory]].

** Reflekta has a critical moment of this when she has [[spoiler:Chat Noir cornered in a locker and uses her powers on him ''without opening the door''. Had she done so, she would have caught Adrien Agreste without the Ring, as he'd just sent Plagg off with it]]. This decision [[spoiler:saves his secret identity]], and pisses off Hawkmoth over her failure to [[spoiler:grab the ring ''before'' converting him into one of her clones]].
** Despair Bear, possessing Scarlet Lady, makes her invoke "Lucky Charm." This produces a fork that [[spoiler:Marigold]] and Chat Noir can use to unravel his costume and defeat him. If he had kept Scar silent, they would have been unable to get the object. They could still defeat him, but they couldn't undo any side damage.
** [[spoiler:Scarlet Lady trying to get Marinette to fall victim to Zombizou's infection causes her to get infected herself. This leads to Marigold unlocking a new power out of desperation from her panic at the fact that Scar can't undo the akuma's effects]].

* OnlySaneByComparison: Anarka isn't big on rules or authority figures, even refusing to participate in Career Day due to Roger, a cop, also being there. However, next to Jagged, she's still deemed the responsible parent by Juleka.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: During "Mr. Pigeon", Sabrina reasons that if Chloé wants to steal one of Marinette's designs, it would be much easier to pick up and use one of the sketches she's balled up and discarded rather than going after the one she plans to enter into the contest. Chloé doesn't give her a chance to finish the thought.

** In "Prime Queen", Chat Noir tells Marigold that [[spoiler:he knows Marinette in his civilian identity]].

** In "Copycat", when the titular akuma tells him that Scarlet Lady might have a crush on him (due to his own misunderstanding), Chat Noir is '''horrified'''.

** Adrien has also started to see Chloé as one of these, as she absolutely refuses to accept he has no feelings for her. Best shown in "Volpina", where Adrien looks mortified by Chloé glomping him from behind.
** In "Riposte" Adrien rebukes Chloé for loudly cheering for him at the fencing trials, calling it "disrespectful."
** As of "Guitar Villain", Luka also sees Chloé this way.

** Played straight for Marinette while inverted for Max in "The Gamer." The former was called out for being selfish due to only competing in the tournament to spend time with Adrien and stealing Max's spot in the tournament without considering his feelings and how much he wanted to compete, with Max's akumatization blamed on her. Here, Max is instead portrayed as a SoreLoser who failed to qualify for the tournament fair and square and [[IWasBeatenByAGirl solely blames Marinette for it]] despite losing to ''two'' people. [[VillainHasAPoint Even the villains point this out to him]], and he apologizes after undergoing a JerkassRealization.

* AffectionateParody: For the most part, the story follows the events in canon to a T, while also [[LampshadeHanging poking fun]] at certain aspects of the show and calling out some of the characters' [[IdiotBall less than stellar decisions]].

* AllForNothing: PlayedForLaughs; in "Ikari Gozen", Marinette, Kagami, and their friends join the scavenger hunt to lessen the chances of Adrien having to spend the day with a LoonyFan or a creepy older person. Not only does the rejection of Chloé's application imply that they screen for loony fans, but at the end Freddie reveals the game has an age limit, meaning there wasn't any need to worry about an older person winning either.

* TheAnnotatedEdition: In this case, it's an annotated cartoon panel. In "Vanisher" Marinette gives out bee-themed ornaments as gifts to the girls in her class. There is a second image with pictures of faces pointing to each ornament, showing who got what.

** In "Horrificator", while everyone else gives valid reasons as to why Chloé shouldn't take the lead role in the movie (she deliberately scared Mylène off so she could have the part), Adrien adds that she can't even remember the characters' names.
** {{Inverted}} in the climax of "Darkblade"; when Chloé protests that her classmates accepted her [=CDs=], Kim and Max compare them to campaign buttons while Rose snaps about how [[spoiler:she abandoned them the moment Darkblade showed up]].

** In "The Gamer," Nino's score is so low that Max wonders if it's the former's first time playing. Nino says he's just boosting numbers.

** After Chloé's plagiarism is exposed, Adrien gets cat eyes while the prompt "[[Creator/TelltaleGames Adrien will remember that]]" appears over his head. It's noted that Sabrina will remember as well, though [[MisplacedKindergartenTeacher Ms. Bustier]] probably won't.

** Sabrina and her father both make the [[Memes/{{Pokemon}} 'Surprised Pikachu face']] in response to Chloé ordering her father to fire Roger and her father listening.
** After Chloé attempts to scapegoat Sabrina again for stealing Marinette's diary, the prompt "[[Creator/TelltaleGames Sabrina will remember that]]" appears.
** In "Reflekta", Chloé's belief that the front row of class pictures is for babies reaches the level where she calls the students there "WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}".
** As part of his plan to distract Reflekta, Cat Noir calls her "ComicBook/HarleyQuinn".
** In Part 8 of "Volpina", there's a tagline reading ''[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} "Team Rocket blasting off again]]''...in different directions...separately".
** Lila's line, "[[WeWillMeetAgain Arrivederci, weirdo]]!" from "Volpina" is a direct quote from ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool''.
** A tagline from Part 5 of "The Collector" mocks "Gabriel in his office having the most unemotional temper tantrum ala ''Film/TheRoom''".

** In "Captain Hardrock", a tagline says Marinette [[Franchise/TheMatrix Matrix Dodged]] Alya's hint about Adrien.
** One of the taglines for Part 14 of "Syren" is ''[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 "The cold never bothered me anyway"]]''.
** To prevent Scarlet Lady from telling Marigold what happened while the latter was under Dark Cupid's influence, Chat Noir tells the former to leave before she turns "into a ''[[Literature/{{Cinderella}} pumpkin]]''".
** At the end of "Pixelator", Penny hands out the tickets to Jagged's concert in a way that acts as an homage to the candy cane-gram scene from ''Film/MeanGirls''.

** In "Troublemaker", Scar takes her time going to the aid of Marinette. She shops for frozen treats that look like chibi versions of herself, saying, "Can I get five more of these blonde b**ches?" This comes from a "Barcelona Meme" -- the author provides [[https://me.me/i/actuallv-can-l-have-five-more-of-these-little-blonde-38e6831c322f4f1e9ba5207941f0f7b3 a link for reference]].
** In "Silencer" Luka finds out that Chloé copied Marinette's costume design for XY, which she denies. They have an exchange out of ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'':

** The RunningGag of characters exploiting apparent moments of weakness in an opponent while shouting "an opening!" appears in comedic manga, such as "Manga/RanmaOneHalf".

* CharacterDevelopment: After her father was fired in "Rogercop," Sabrina seems to have a BrokenPedestal relationship with Chloé in "Darkblade," no longer hanging onto her friend's every word. In "Reflekta," she is barely responsive and also refuses to carry out Chloé's dirty work against Juleka, to the point where Chloé asks, "Seriously, what is with you lately?" [[spoiler:By the end of "Vanisher," their "friendship" is over for good]].

* BullyBrutality: Chloé doesn't gets physically violent with her bullying targets in her civilian form, but she definitely has no problem attacking them when she is Scarlet Lady (exhibit A: Lila Rossi). She also loves to enrage them as Chloé in order to make them become Akumatized to ''justify'' hurting them (and provide additional bullying ammo after they are deakumatized) and in "The Gamer" she even demonstrates that [[spoiler:when it comes to getting rid of obstacles to the affection of Adrien in the classroom she is not above '''attempted murder''']].

** Adrien's personal photographer is handling the class picture in "Reflekta". Much to Chloé's utter disgust, as she remembers how he sassed her when they met back in "Stormy Weather".
** In "Timebreaker", when [[spoiler: Chat Noir follows the villain back in time, Past Adrien has to ask who he is, thinking he might be a villain like Copycat. Scarlet Lady alludes to this by asking "Did you get akumatized again?!"]].
** During the "Bubbler" incident, Gabriel is impressed by Scarlet's supposed strategy. When he gets to meet her firsthand during "Simon Says", he's taken aback by her shallow behavior and [[SkewedPriorities flirty comments about his son]]. He also winds up winded again when rushing back to his secret lair, just like before.
** During the epilogue of "Captain Hardrock", [[spoiler:Chloé tries to use her father to threaten Officer Raincomprix, who recalls the events of "Rogercop" by saying he and Sabrina found out the Mayor doesn't have the jurisdiction to fire him]].
** In "Syren", after finding out that Chat Noir is keeping secrets from her, Chloé comforts herself by hugging Mr. Cuddly (the teddy bear from "Despair Bear").
** In "Dark Cupid", [[spoiler:Marigold]] is happy for Adrien's support, "even after you saw me at my newest and clumsiest", referring to the mistake she made when defending him from Riposte, which caused him to injure his ankle.
** In "Desperada" Chloé comes after Jagged Stone for compensation for the damage Fang did to her shoes at the end of "Silencer".

* CharacterDevelopment: After her father was fired in "Rogercop", Sabrina seems to have a BrokenPedestal relationship with Chloé in "Darkblade". She no longer hangs on her every word. In "Reflekta" she is barely responding, to the point where Chloé asks, "Seriously, what is with you lately?" Sabrina also refuses to carry out Chloé's dirty work against Juleka. She ends the friendship for good in "Vanisher".

* CollectiveDeathGlare: During "Zombizou", after pulling Marinette outside to talk about her reaction to Chloé ruining her birthday gift, Ms. Bustier requests Alya to keep the class on track. Said "track" is everyone glaring daggers at Chloé, who can only nervously SweatDrop.

*** Has another one in "Vanisher" after learning from Tikki that Scarlet Lady won't be coming to help ''for the third time in a row''. This, along with the fact that Tikki can't just help him without her partner, results in him curling up in a TroubledFetalPosition.
** Sabrina finally snaps when Chloé claims to be her only friend in "Evillustrator", [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech goes on a tirade against her]] and has to be physically restrained from starting a fistfight by Marinette.

** Instead of Jalil's statements regarding Egyptology being SadlyMythcharacterized and subject to ArtisticLicenseHistory, Alix reveals her brother is in fact a KnowNothingKnowItAll.

** In "Reflekta", both Scarlet Lady and Marinette recognize one of the akuma's victims as [[spoiler:Chat Noir]], ''not'' as [[spoiler:Adrien Agreste]]. This leads to Scarlet openly mocking them for getting zapped, blissfully unaware that she's [[spoiler:making fun of her crush]].
** "Reflekta" also ends with the implication that Chloé sits out of the retake because she's still clinging to the original photo as ''her'' picture with Adrien, resulting in her being excluded.

** During "Guitar Villain", Chloé notes that Adrien's father might veto her plans to hang out with Adrien, prompting her to make a 'backup plan'. What she doesn't know is that Gabriel is ''forcing'' Adrien to spend time with her, as he agreed on his son's behalf.
** Near the end of "Zombizou", Ms. Bustier praises Scarlet Lady for being Chloé's best friend and not leaving her alone, not realizing that Chloé is truly friendless now. The author notes, "Why don't you actually reflect on WHY Chloé is alone?"

* ShipTease: Nathaniel dances with Marc to avoid having to dance with Chloé and thinks, "Wait, isn't this person way too cute?"

%%"The Mime": Tales of Fred the Performer "Gorizilla": Tales of ___ the Bodyguard[[note]]The Gorilla's hand covers the part of the title where his name should be, [[NoNameGiven since his actual name is unknown.]][[/note]] "Sandboy": Tales of ___ the Sleepwalker[[note]]Similar to the above example, the boy's head covers the part of the title where his name should be since his actual name is also unknown.[[/note]] "Reverser": Tales of Marc the Writer "Party Crasher": Tales of Wayhem the Fun Guy "Frozer": "Frightningale": Tales of Clara the Pop Star "Intermission 3" Tales of Marinette the Bee "Malediktator: Tales of André the Mayor[[note]]Most of the title is hidden behind André.[[/note]]

* MurderTheHypotenuse:

*** During Puppeteer's akumatization, he's actually more far more gentle since it's a little girl he's working with. For her sake, he goes along with her mentality and makes [[PetTheDog a small effort to comfort her when she inevitably gets overwhelmed]] (more like using a broom to brush a cat's back, but the thought is there). While he's not going to be winning any Father of the Year trophies, it's better than being the [[ParentalNeglect absent]] and [[AbusiveParent controlling]] ArchnemesisDad he's been in both canon and this AU.
*** Hawk Moth is weirded out by [[LoonyFan Vincent]]'s obsession with Jagged Stone, mentioning how glad he to have kept Adrien home for so long.

** Mme. Bustier still gets a belated birthday present from Chloé, but this is no breakthrough for either of them. In a note, the author snarks, "Here’s your consolation gift for being Chloe’s biggest enabler, Bustier."

** Scarlet Lady insists on giving the Snake Miraculous to Adrien, and [[spoiler:Marigold]] agrees he'd be a good candidate for a temporary hero. There's also the fact that Adrien is actually one of the two original heroes.
** Though she was obviously just looking for an excuse for her usual laziness, Chloé wasn't entirely wrong when she points out that she wouldn't be able to do much about the two akumas in "Crocoduel," as Captain Hardrock and Guitar Villain were having a midair fight, and she can't fly.** While Scarlet Lady abandons the interview with Nadja for completely selfish reasons (that the interview isn't [[ItsAllAboutMe focusing]] [[AttentionWhore on her]]), Chat Noir and Marigold join her in leaving, as the questions are veering into deeply personal matters (Chat Noir and Marigold's romantic moments) that none of them are comfortable talking about.

** Alya has this reaction in "Anansi" when she sees that Nora got Akumatized over not wanting Alya to go out and losing the arm wrestling against her and her friends.
** Chat Noir, Scarlet Lady and Marigold all say this in unison when Prime Queen appears, declaring that the heroes "disappointed their fans" by refusing to admit that [=ChatGold=] was real. Lila has a very similar reaction to [[spoiler:seeing herself onscreen as Prime Queen moves to take her hostage]].
** Alya says this during the denouncement of "Prime Queen", after she finds that [[spoiler:Nadja has invited her to appear on her ''new'' show, Side by Side]]. Lila's reaction is much the same.
** Marinette's reaction when Mme. Bustier tells her to forgive Chloé for her vandalization of her present to the teacher.

* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: [[spoiler:Max has a HeelRealization about his attitudes towards gaming after Scarlet Lady thanks him for exclusively targeting Marinette as an akuma, even though both she and Adrien beat him.]]

** In "StormyWeather," Scarlet Lady attempts to throw her yo-yo at the titular akuma... only to have it land barely a meter away from her. Chat Noir struggles not to crack up laughing.

** Also in "Zombizou", [[spoiler:Scarlet Lady attempting to push Marinette into some of the zombies results in Chat Noir becoming a victim while protecting her]] This also leads to [[spoiler:Scar herself getting kissed by Chat Noir when she's too focused on trying to get Marinette infected]].

*** She barges in on Adrien's photoshoot in the park in "Stormy Weather," shoving Marinette right into Manon in the process, and argues with the photographer when he decides against letting her model with him. In canon, she didn't appear in the episode at all.

** During "Rogercop", Tom chides his daughter to let the adults handle the problem... and then proceeds to do absolutely nothing about it, with the other adults also proving completely unhelpful. This is {{Lampshaded}} by Marinette giving him a disbelieving, disgusted look, and later by Alya blowing off his attempt to call her out on her own inaction.

** Zigzagged with Sabine between "Darkblade" and "The Gamer." In the former, she lets Sabrina up into Marinette's room, giving her the chance to steal her diary. However, when Chloé attempts to con her way into the bakery in the latter, Sabine is having none of it, recognizing her as her daughter's long-time bully. It's also implied that she learned from the last incident and is keen to avoid any repeats.
** "La Befana" opens with Chloé crying to Mme. Bustier about how the other students are excluding her from a party, and their teacher promptly scolding them, ordering them to invite her. This is despite the fact that they're discussing ''Marinette's'' birthday party, which isn't being held at school.
** In "Zombizou", when Chloé vandalizes Marinette's gift for Mme. Bustier, the teacher's reaction is to say that she'll treasure it as the work of both Marinette ''and'' Chloé, and to ask Marinette to forgive the unrepentant Chloé. Marinette gives her a scathing WhatTheHellHero in response.

** Gabriel says of becoming The Collector: "I did what was necessary to protect my secret." Nathalie mocks him behind his back: "You're truly the picture of subtlety, sir." However, the book did fall into the hands of someone who knew what it was and could connect the dots, so Gabriel's action was in fact vital to avert suspicion.

** [[AssholeVictim As hard as it is to feel sorry for her]], Chloé was justified in being mad that Fang had eaten many of her expensive shoes and demanding that Jagged Stone reimburse her for them.
** Though she was obviously just looking for an excuse for her usual laziness, Chloé wasn't entirely wrong when she points out that she wouldn't be able to do much about the two akumas in "Crocoduel", as Captain Hardrock and Guitar Villain were having a midair fight, and she can't fly.
** While Scarlet Lady abandons the interview with Nadja for completely selfish reasons (that the interview isn't [[ItsAllAboutMe focusing]] [[AttentionWhore on her]]), Chat Noir and Marigold join her in leaving, as the questions are veering into deeply personal matters (Chat Noir and Marigold's romantic moments) that none of them are comfortable talking about.
** After Prime Queen is dealt with, Alya notes that while Nadja was being incredibly invasive, she wasn't ''wrong'' about people being interested in what sort of 'romantic connections' the heroes might have, as her blog is filled with viewers discussing what happened. Though they're also talking about [[spoiler:Alya nearly drowning, and Scarlet Lady's willingness to let her die]].

* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Ivan, who dislikes Bustier for sending him to the Principal's office for [[DisproportionateRetribution messing up "a little"]] but, until other classmates voiced their own grievances against her, feared being perceived as the bad guy if he said something bad about the "nice" teacher.

* IronicEcho: At the beginning of "Pixelator", the class is set to intern for a day at the Grand Paris. Adrien is assigned to the front desk with Chloé; he asks Alya if she wants to trade, and she responds "Not on your life." Then Chloé gets Alya and Marinette assigned to clean trash at the dumpster; Alya asks Adrien if he wants to trade, and he responds "Not on your life."

* ItsAllMyFault: Sabrina blames herself for [[spoiler:Marinette being caught in her place]] in "Horrificator".