History Recap / MiraculousLadybugC01SantaClaws

** Mr. Agreste tries to make up for his neglect and even allows Adrien's friends to join them for dinner.
** Nathalie reminds Mr. Agreste about Adrien and informs his friends about his return making the above possible.

* AdultFear: Gabriel, who is aware that Adrien is depressed by his mother's absence, finds his son has disappeared from his room. Naturally, he panics and orders Nathalie and the Gorilla to find him at once.

It's Christmas time in Paris! Marinette is enjoying her time in the bakery, but it's Adrian's first Christmas without his mom. His father's hands off approach to parenting leads Adrian to go out as Cat Noir, and unable to return home before his dad finds him missing. Unsure if he is lost or kidnapped, his class tries to find him, but Santa Claus finds him first. Ladybug thinks this is an Akuma Santa, and before she can properly apologize, Santa is Akumatized for real. Now Ladybug and Cat Noir must rush and stop Santa Claws from ruining Christmas for all of Paris.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Ladybug finds evidence of a missing Adrian and a Cataclysm-destroyed poster board nearby. Her conclusion is that Cat Noir protected Adrian from an Akumatized supervillain. The truth is that Adrian and Cat Noir are the same person.

* GeniusBonus: The poster of himself that Adrian destroys to use up his cataclysm is advertising a perfume called ''Imago'', which is the entomological term for the final, adult stage of the life history of a winged insect, and as such is presumably the allusion to butterflies that it’s meant to evoke in universe. However it is also a term used in psychoanalysis to refer to an idealized image of a person, usually a parent, formed in childhood and persisting unconsciously into adulthood. Adrien has just stopped himself from cataclysming the Christmas tree because of a mental flash of the image of his mother. Conversely, he picks the doubtless familiar poster to cataclysm after looking around briefly and rejecting other options such as the bus shelter. We see the cataclysm discharge in close up as it strikes between the image of Adrien and the perfume bottle, which has a label which reads ''IMAGO GABRIEL''. An unconscious acknowledgement by Adrien that his perception of his father is missing the whole picture?

* TheCastShowoff: [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Cristina Vee]] got to use her musical chops as Marinette/Ladybug in two songs: "Marinette and the Bakery" and "The Boy That I Secretly Love", the latter being a solo.

* FriendlyEnemy: Marinette is not above wishing Merry Christmas to Sabrina. Her Christmas truce with Chloe isn't as honest, though.
* GaleForceSound: Marinette and Chloe angrily singing "Merry Christmas" to each other shakes the entire bakery.

** Chloe is among many of Adrien's friends who were worried when he went missing.

* YouWatchTooMuchX: Santa accuses Ladybug of reading too many comic books when she explains she thought he was a supervillain. ([[FridgeLogic Apparently he doesn't realize that those are common in his world, and that as a superhero Ladybug's entire job is fighting them?]])

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Much like in "The Bubbler", Adrien and Marinette aren't smiling when transforming into Cat Noir and Ladybug.

* MarketBasedTitle: While in France, the episode is named after the villain as usual, the English version was marketed under different names like "Special Christmas" or "Miraculous Christmas" before eventually being released on Netflix as [[BlandNameProduct "A Christmas Special"]] "Santa Claws" was eventually used when episode aired in UK.