History WesternAnimation / LadybugAndCatNoirTheMovie

* LighterAndSofter: With the story of five seasons compressed into one movie, many details end up changed or removed, which ends up resulting in a happier environment for the characters: Chloé doesn't seem to know Marinette all that much before the coffee stain scene (constantly misnaming her) and thus didn't bully her for years prior to the story's beginning, Adrien wasn't forced to model for his dad and could thus go to school like any kid his age (his lack of friends stemming from his own issues instead of his father's control over him), Lila never shows up to stir up trouble and [[spoiler:not only does Master Fu keep his memories this time around, but when Hawk Moth discovers his son to be Cat Noir, he does the opposite of his show self and rather than try to akumatize him, deliberately stops his evil plans and renounces his Miraculous altogether, allowing the heroes to achieve their initial goal with the only drawback being that Adrien doesn't have his parents around to raise him after Gabriel's arrest]].

* MusicalWorldHypothesis: The fantastical parts of "If I Believed in Me" are explicitly in Marinette's imagination, suggesting '''The All in Their Heads Hypothesis'''. However, other songs involve multiple people, which suggests '''The Diegetic Hypothesis'''.

* SingingVoiceDissonance: In the French and English versions, Marinette's singing voice Lou Jean is deeper than both Anouck Hautbois and Creator/CristinaValenzuela. This is particularly noticeable when Lou briefly talks during the song "You are Ladybug", as well as in general for the English version, where Marinette suddenly gains a French accent she previously didn't have.

* SingingVoiceDissonance: In the French and English versions, Marinette's singing voice Lou Jean is deeper than both Anouck Hautbois and Creator/CristinaValenzuela. This is particularly noticeable when Lou briefly talks during the song "You are Ladybug".

* EvilOverlooker: The French poster above depicts Hawk Moth glaring down at the titular duo.

** {{Downplayed}} with Akumatization. In the show, the way it works is that an akuma enters the victim's item, allowing Hawk Moth talk to them to convince them to join his forces, and only once they accept can he grant them powers. Here, the akuma enters the victim's body, then amplifies the negative emotions of the target until they end up akumatized without a deal being required, as shown with his first victim (subsequent ones are criminals Hawk Moth intentionally recruited and empowered). Additionally, in the show, the heroes deakumatize the villains by breaking the object housing the akuma. In the movie, [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim the villain just needs to take significant damage]]. [[spoiler:And in the show, Hawk Moth couldn't akumatize himself without giving up the Miraculous first. No such limit appears in the film, and in fact]].

** {{Downplayed}} with Akumatization. In the show, the way it works is that an akuma enters the victim's item, allowing Hawk Moth talk to them to convince them to join his forces, and only once they accept can he grant them powers. Here, the akuma enters the victim's body, then amplifies the negative emotions of the target until they end up akumatized without a deal being required, as shown with his first victim (subsequent ones are criminals Hawk Moth intentionally recruited and empowered). Additionally, in the show, the heroes deakumatize the villains by breaking the object housing the akuma. In the movie, the villain just needs to take significant damage. [[spoiler:And in the show, Hawk Moth couldn't akumatize himself without giving up the Miraculous first. No such limit appears in the film, and in fact]].

* AdaptationalKarma: [[spoiler:Gabriel in the show ultimately won and achieved his wish, but sacrificed himself to bring back Émilie and Nathalie, with him being remembered as a good man and not as the magical terrorist who terrorized Paris for over five seasons. Here, he willingly renounces the Butterfly Miraculous after learning that Adrien is Cat Noir, and gets swiftly arrested once he's exposed as the one who's been akumatizing people all along]].

** None of the other Miraculous holders aside from the main three and the Kwamis show up. Master Fu does appear, but his role remains to appear once in a while, narrate the beginning, appear at the end and doesn't get any further than that, not even showing Wayzz with him or how he came to guard and lose the Miraculous. [[spoiler: Which is jarring considering we do see that the Peacock is with Émilie's body under the Agreste mansion, yet he makes no mention of also losing it]].

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: It's shown that Gabriel and Émilie first met when they were little kids.

* TheEndOrIsIt: The movie ends on a "The End" card, only to then move into TheStinger where [[spoiler:Nathalie enters a secret chamber where Émilie is being kept, and is seemingly wearing the Peacock Miraculous]].

* FamilyPortraitOfCharacterization: The Agreste mansion has a large portrait of Gabriel and Adrien, where they look distant and unhappy. Meanwhile, the years-old photo of them with Émilie shows they were a close and happy family.

* MetaphoricallyTrue: It is said that the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses united possess a power stronger than death, which Gabriel seeks to use to bring Émilie back to life. He later realizes that [[spoiler:this was referring to the fated love between the Miraculous holders, not a literal resurrection power]].

* ParentalNeglect: Gabriel hardly spends any time with Adrien, not even on Émilie's birthday. The two don't even appear onscreen together until over an hour into the movie.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Adrien, of all people, delivers a huge one to his father when Gabriel shows concern for him being out of the mansion all night. While Gabriel's concern is understandable, Adrien's bitterness shows up and he tears into his father for suddenly acting worried when he has barely shown any kind of affection or compassion for Adrien ever since Émilie died.

* ShoutOut: Gabriel recalls saying [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService "We have all the time in the world"]] to Émilie. Bonus points for both utterances being related to love... [[spoiler:and also both addressees being dead wives]].

** Gabriel [[spoiler:sacrifices his own life during the season 5 finale in order to bring back Émilie and Nathalie back to life, with him being remembered as someone who gave his life to stop Monarch]]. In the film, however, [[spoiler:Gabriel willingly renounces the Butterfly Miraculous after revealing himself to his son after learning that ''he'' is Cat Noir, which allows him to remain alive and gets him arrested due to exposing himself to the world]].

* TheStinger: [[spoiler:After TheEnd title card, there is a scene where Nathalie enters a SecretRoom in the Agreste Mansion, revealing Émilie in an unconscious state. There's also a Peacock-shaped item on her chest, [[SequelHook implying that Ladybug and Cat Noir's mission to retrieve a lost Miraculous is far from over]]...]]

* YoureNotMyFather: Adrien shouts this very statement at Gabriel, when the latter explains his concern about Adrien being missing all night as "being his father". He shouts back that ever since Émilie died, Gabriel stopped being his father, while Gabriel's unable to answer back to his son's angry speech.

''Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie'' (or ''Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie'' as it is known in some territories) is a 2023 French animated fantasy / romance / musical / superhero movie based upon the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' animated series. It is directed by Jeremy Zag, produced by Creator/{{Zagtoon}}, and features the voice cast from the series. The songs are written by Zag, Chris Read, Britt Britton, and ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'' director Michael Gracey. French singers Lou and Elliot [[NonSingingVoice provide the singing voices for the respective title characters]].

* FerrisWheelOfDoom: In the battle with the Mime and the Magician, a Ferris wheel is sent rolling through the city, becoming the set of the battle with the duo until Ladybug and Cat Noir eventually manage to defeat them and bring it to a halt.

Set in an AlternateContinuity, the film reimagines the origins of Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste, the beginning of their careers as Ladybug and Cat Noir respectively, their first clash with the evil Hawk Moth… and the birth of their ongoing WillTheyOrWontThey relationship. The film premiered theatrically in France on July 5, 2023 and was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} in the US and several regions on July 28. A second movie is in development.

* GracefulLandingClumsyLanding: Ladybug and Cat Noir's first encounter results in them getting entangled together. When they free themselves, the agile Cat Noir naturally does a ThreePointLanding. Marinette, being very new... doesn't, and lands in an undignified heap. (She can thank the SuperToughness granted by the Miraculous, or she would likely have hurt herself very badly.)

* GracefulLandingClumsyLanding: When Cat Noir and Ladybug fall after meeting each other, Cat Noir gracefully lands on his feet, while Ladybug just hits the ground.

* ThreePointLanding: Ladybug and Cat Noir's first encounter results in them getting entangled together. When they free themselves, the agile Cat Noir naturally does a superhero landing. Marinette, being very new... doesn't, and lands in an undignified heap. (She can thank the SuperToughness granted by the Miraculous, or she would likely have hurt herself very badly.)

* SingingVoiceDissonance: In the French and English versions, Marinette's singing voice Lou Jean is deeper than both Anouck Hautbois and {{Creator/Cristina Valenzuela}}. Noticeable when Lou briefly talks during the song "You are Ladybug".

* ThreePointLanding: Ladybug and Cat Noir's first encounter results in them getting entangled together. When they free themselves, the agile Cat Noir naturally does a superhero landing. Marinette, being very new... doesn't, and lands in an undignified heap. (She can thanks the SuperToughness granted by the Miraculous, or she would likely have hurt herself very badly.)

** Gabriel in the show was defined by his [[TheStoic stoicism]] and being a ControlFreak. This version is the exact opposite. This version of Gabriel wears his angst on his sleeve, distraught that his family is falling apart as he becomes more and more unkempt as his loses begin to pile up. [[spoiler:While his canon-counterpart is willing to exploit his son's emotional well-being and [[MoralEventHorizon takes advantage of him when he discovers that he's Chat Noir]], here it's when he finds out that Adrien is Chat Noir does he quit and turn himself over to the authorities, hurting his son the one line he isn't willing to cross]].

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Cat Noir is injured, half-drowned, and it's obvious he can't defeat Hawk Moth, who already stole Ladybug's Miraculous. Yet when Hawk Moth tries to take Cat Noir's Miraculous, he activates his Cataclysm and punches the supervillain in the face]].

* FingerGun: The Mime, naturally, mimes a gun with his fingers and is able to fire real (invisible) bullets from it.

* GladIThoughtOfIt: {{Inverted}}. Chloé demands that Sabrina ride the Ferris wheel with her, despite the latter's fear of heights. When the Mime starts destroying the Ferris wheel, Chloé blames Sabrina for making her get on.

** Chloé herself is far less mean than in the show (although this isn't saying much). While she is still a bully and self-centered, she no longer goes out of her way to make other people miserable and seems to be targeted solely at Marinette, which largely seems to be due to her blaming Marinette for "ruining" Chloé's outfit on the first day of school. She also calls (for the lack of a better term) a truce with Marinette in the winter ball and sincerely tells her to enjoy the festivity (although she will continue bullying her later), when the series version would be utterly relentless.

** In the show, the [[WorldHealingWave Miraculous Cure]] is a standard ability of the Ladybug Miraculous that reverses the damage Akumas cause after each fight, and is inextricably tied to the Lucky Charm and a purified Akuma. In the movie, [[spoiler:Ladybug isn't able to do the cure until right after Hawk Moth's defeat, unlocking the power similarly to how show Ladybug unlocks the ability to grant magical charms. It has nothing to do with purifying the Akuma, and Lucky Charm doesn't exist at all.]]
** In the show, the Miraculous users' masks can't be removed and [[{{Glamour}} quantum masking]] prevents anyone from recognizing them while transformed. Neither of these aspects exist in the movie, [[spoiler: as in the climax Hawk Moth removes part of Cat Noir's mask and recognizes Adrien underneath.]]

* AdaptationExplanationExtrication:
** In the show, Chloé is interested in Adrien ([[AmbiguousSituation romantically or platonically]]) because he is a rich and famous model as well as her childhood friend. While Adrien is rich and handsome in the movie, it still seems OutOfCharacter for her to want to date a depressed loner. It doesn't help that the two never actually interact.

** Gabriel in the show was defined by his [[TheStoic stoicism]] and being a ControlFreak. This version is the exact opposite. This version of Gabriel wears his angst on his sleeve, distraught that his family is falling apart as he becomes more and more unkempt as his loses begin to pile up. [[spoiler:While his canon-counterpart is willing to exploit his son's emotional well-being and [[MoralEventHorizon takes advantage of him when he discovers that he's Chat Noir]], here it's when he finds out that Adrien is Chat Noir does he quit and turn himself over to the authorities, hurting his son the one line he isn't willing to cross.]]

** [[spoiler:Émilie is shown to be in a coma but the whole deal of a damaged Peacock Miraculous being responsible for it is omitted, leaving the cause as an enigma]].

** Gabriel in the show was defined by his [[TheStoic stoicism]] and being a ControlFreak. This version is the exact opposite. This version of Gabriel wears his angst on his sleeve, distraught that his family is falling apart as he becomes more and more unkempt as his loses begin to pile up. [[spoiler:While his canon-counterpart is willing to exploit his son's emotional well-being and [[MoralEventHorizon takes advantage of him when he discovers that he's Chat Noir]], here it's when he finds out that Adrien is Chat Noir does he quit and turn himself over to the authorities, hurting his son the one line he isn't willing to cross.]]

** Hawk Moth is capable of making multiple akumas at once. In the series, he could only do so if his powers were temporarily enhanced. [[spoiler:He's also able to Akumatize himself while transformed, which was explicitly one of the things he ''couldn't'' do in the series, and needed to circumvent in some way in order to achieve it -- even by the end of season 5, he had to at least detransform to do so.]]

* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:Hawk Moth empowering himself with Akumatization leads him to lay waste on Paris in order to bring out Ladybug and Cat Noir, cracking the ground and creating a thunderstorm, which comes close to a type 0]].

** Marinette's ImagineSpot of Tikki tells her that as long as there's more love in her heart than fear, she doesn't need her Miraculous to be a hero. [[spoiler:This convinces Marinette to get up and save Cat Noir from Hawk Moth, even without her powers.]]

* SanitySlippage: The more Gabriel uses the Butterfly Miraculous, the more worn out and ill he appears. He's noticeably gone off the deep end by the third act, [[spoiler:enough to let the akumas take over him and akumatize himself.]]

* AdaptationalLocationChange: [[spoiler:The final battle in the show took place under the Agreste mansion, right where Emilie's comatose body was being kept. In here, it takes place in the middle of a devastated Paris instead]].

** {{Downplayed}} with Akumatization. In the show, the way it works is that an akuma enters the victim's item, allowing Hawk Moth talk to them to convince them to join his forces, and only once they accept can he grant them powers. Here, the akuma enters the victim's body, then amplifies the negative emotions of the target until they end up akumatized without a deal being required, as shown with his first victim (subsequent ones are criminals Hawk Moth intentionally recruited and empowered). Additionally, in the show, the heroes deakumatize the villains by breaking the object housing the akuma. In the movie, the villain just needs to take significant damage. [[spoiler:And in the show, Hawk Moth couldn't akumatize himself without giving up the Miraculous first. No such limit appears in the film, and in fact, he seemingly gains the ability to ''absorb'' the Miraculous into the brooch, which he does with the Ladybug Miraculous after taking it away from Marinette.]]

** {{Downplayed}} with Akumatization. In the show, the way it works is that an akuma enters the victim's item, allowing Hawk Moth talk to them to convince them to join his forces, and only once they accept can he grant them powers. Here, the akuma enters the victim's body, then amplifies the negative emotions of the target until they end up akumatized without a deal being required, as shown with his first victim (subsequent ones are criminals Hawk Moth intentionally recruited and empowered). Additionally, in the show, the heroes deakumatize the villains by breaking the object housing the akuma. In the movie, the villain just needs to take significant damage. [[spoiler:And in the show, Hawk Moth couldn't akumatize himself without giving up the Miraculous first. No such limit appears in the film.]]