History YMMV / MiraculousLadybugS04E18Wishmaker

* RealismInducedHorror: Gabriel and Emilie's ControlFreak parenting means that Adrien has never had any agency over his life. He laments that everything has been chosen for him, and that if he doesn't make a stand ''now'' then he's going to spend the rest of his life like this. It's eventually revealed in "Representation" that Adrien is a Sentimonster whose creation was the cause of Emilie's coma while raised by Gabriel, using Adrien's amok as to keep Adrien in line while grooming him to be the perfect obedient son. Having a [[TransformationTrinket Miraculous]] gave Adrien, unaware of his true nature, a way to be partially free, and [[FairyCompanion Plagg]] is the only one who unconditionally supports him and his choices, whatever they may be.

* RealismInducedHorror: Gabriel and Emilie's ControlFreak parenting means that Adrien has never had any agency over his life. He laments that everything has been chosen for him, and that if he doesn't make a stand ''now'' then he's going to spend the rest of his life like this. It's eventually revealed that he's been groomed into the perfect obedient son since he was an infant. Having a [[TransformationTrinket Miraculous]] gave him a way out of this life, and [[FairyCompanion Plagg]] is the only one who unconditionally supports him and his choices, whatever they may be.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Lots of fans debate over Luka's status as a student, with some of them believing that he is a dropout from the other school. This episode finally mentions that Luka is indeed a school student and implies that he currently attends a ''Lycèe propessionel''.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Lots of fans debate over Luka's status as a student, with some of them believing that he is a dropout from the other school. This episode finally mentions that Luka is indeed a school student and implies that he currently attends a ''Lycee propessionel''.

* RealismInducedHorror: Gabriel's (and, to an unknown extent, Emilie's) ControlFreak parenting means that Adrien has never had any agency over his life. He laments that everything has been chosen for him, and that if he doesn't make a stand ''now'' then he's going to spend the rest of his life like this. It's eventually revealed that he's been groomed into the perfect obedient son since he was an infant. Having a [[TransformationTrinket Miraculous]] gave him a way out of this life, and [[FairyCompanion Plagg]] is the only one who unconditionally supports him and his choices, whatever they may be.

* RealismInducedHorror: Gabriel's (and, to an unknown extend, Emilie's) ControlFreak parenting means that Adrien has never had any agency over his life. He laments that everything has been chosen for him, and that if he doesn't make a stand ''now'' then he's going to spend the rest of his life like this. It's eventually revealed that he's been groomed into the perfect obedient son since he was an infant. Having a [[TransformationTrinket Miraculous]] gave him a way out of this life, and [[FairyCompanion Plagg]] is the only one who unconditionally supports him and his choices, whatever they may be.

* EpilepticTrees: Adrien's flashback when struck by Wishmaker showed him looking at his parents as a baby, which raises quite a few questions. First, they have ''blatantly'' different eye colors than they do in the present. The fandom went absolutely nuts wondering what was up with that, from the mundane (animation error, it's an old memory so it's distorted) to the bizarre (Gabriel and Emilie switched bodies at some point, the Agreste family already made a wish that somehow caused this). [[WordOfGod Thomas Astruc]] has stated that the eye color switch isn't important to the plot, though given his history of lying to conceal spoilers, not everyone buys it. It's also odd that Adrien would flash back so far, given everyone else remembered dreams they had when they were in the 6-10 range. An old apparent DubInducedPlotHole back in "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E22SimonSays Simon Says]]" has also been brought back up in relation to this theory -- in English only, Adrien said that Ladybug has the same eyes as his mother, despite the fact that Ladybug's eyes are blue, the same as Emilie in this flashback but not in the "reality" of the show.

* EpilepticTrees: Adrien's flashback when struck by Wishmaker showed him looking at his parents as a baby, which raises quite a few questions. First, they have ''blatantly'' different eye colors than they do in the present. The fandom went absolutely nuts wondering what was up with that, from the mundane (animation error, it's an old memory so it's distorted) to the bizarre (Gabriel and Emilie switched bodies at some point, the Agreste family already made a wish that somehow caused this). [[WordOfGod Thomas Astruc]] has stated that the eye color switch isn't important to the plot, though given his history of lying to conceal spoilers, not everyone buys it. It's also odd that Adrien would flash back so far, given everyone else remembered dreams they had when they were in the 6-10 range. An old apparent DubInducedPlothole back in "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E22SimonSays Simon Says]]" has also been brought back up in relation to this theory -- in English only, Adrien said that Ladybug has the same eyes as his mother, despite the fact that Ladybug's eyes are blue, the same as Emilie in this flashback but not in the "reality" of the show.

* EpilepticTrees: Adrien's flashback when struck by Wishmaker showed him looking at his parents as a baby, which raises quite a few questions. First, they have ''blatantly'' different eye colors than they do in the present. The fandom went absolutely nuts wondering what was up with that, from the mundane (animation error, it's an old memory so it's distorted) to the bizarre (Gabriel and Emilie switched bodies at some point, the Agreste family already made a wish that somehow caused this). [[WordOfGod Thomas Astruc]] has stated that the eye color switch isn't important to the plot, though given his history of lying to conceal spoilers, not everyone buys it. It's also odd that Adrien would flash back so far, given everyone else remembered dreams they had when they were in the 6-10 range.

** Shadow Moth's ThisCannotBe when he finds out that Adrien is Cat Noir. Is he upset that one of his enemies, whom he's tried to kill multiple times, is his son? Or did he realize how terrible a parent he is when he heard Adrien's greatest childhood wish?
*** Looking at "Cat Blanc" he had no qualms whatsoever with hurting his son or akumatising him after finding out his identity. In this episode, seeing Adrien's childhood dream to be ''nothing'' (compared to everyone else's fantasies) seems to trigger a [[HeelRealization realization]] from Gabriel into just how mentally screwed up Adrien is and how it is all his fault for his ControlFreak tendencies.
* EpilepticTrees: Adrien's flashback when struck by Wishmaker showed him looking at his parents as a baby... but notably, they had ''blatantly'' different eye colors than they do in the present. The fandom went absolutely nuts wondering what was up with that, from the mundane (animation error, it's an old memory so it's distorted) to the bizarre (Gabriel and Emilie switched bodies at some point, the Agreste family already made a wish that somehow caused this). [[WordOfGod Thomas Astruc]] has stated that the eye color switch isn't important to the plot, though given his history of lying to conceal spoilers, not everyone buys it.

* EpilepticTrees: Adrien's flashback when struck by Wishmaker showed him looking at his parents as a baby... but notably, they had ''blatantly'' different eye colors than they do in the present. The fandom went absolutely nuts wondering what was up with that, from the mundane (animation error, it's an old memory so it's distorted) to the bizarre (Gabriel and Emilie switched bodies at some point, the Agreste family already made a wish that somehow caused this). However, [[WordOfGod Thomas Astruc]] has confirmed that the eye color switch isn't important to the plot.

* EpilepticTrees: Adrien's flashback when struck by Wishmaker showed him looking at his parents as a baby... but notably, they had ''blatantly'' different eye colors than they do in the present. The fandom went absolutely nuts wondering what was up with that, from the mundane (animation error, it's an old memory so it's distorted) to the bizarre (Gabriel and Emilie switched bodies at some point, the Agreste family already made a wish that somehow caused this). However, [[WordOfGod]] has confirmed that the eye color switch isn't important to the plot.

* EpilepticTrees: Adrien's flashback when struck by Wishmaker showed him looking at his parents as a baby... but notably, they had ''blatantly'' different eye colors than they do in the present. The fandom went absolutely nuts wondering what was up with that, from the mundane (animation error, it's an old memory so it's distorted) to the bizarre (Gabriel and Emilie switched bodies at some point, the Agreste family already made a wish that somehow caused this).

* RealismInducedHorror: Gabriel (and Emilie's) ControlFreak parenting means that Adrien has never had any agency over his life. He laments that everything has been chosen for him, and that if he doesn't make a stand ''now'' then he's going to spend the rest of his life like this. It's eventually revealed that he's been groomed into the perfect obedient son since he was an infant. Having a [[TransformationTrinket Miraculous]] gave him a way out of this life, and [[FairyCompanion Plagg]] is the only one who unconditionally supports him and his choices, whatever they may be.