Can't believe I haven't brought it up yet, but I got a good laugh out of "Daddycop" just casually having Marinette confirm that she indeed has a solid amount of Chloé's privileges as the Mayor's favorite now and that she's absolutely just gonna use it willy-nilly for whatever big thing she wants for herself on short-term notice:
"I've got special authorization from the Mayor of Paris, Mme Bustier, for the fire captain to put on a fireworks display especially for the occasion"
She just on that day walked up to Bustier and asked for a permit for huge and time specific fireworks - that's being executed by the official fire captain - like its nothing,
And as if in Paris a permit for fireworks ALONE doesn't require doing the red tape 10 days in advance.
And she dead ass asked for STATE-OWNED and executed fireworks that MUST go off on exactly the right time or else she'll cry. She takes it so for granted that she just ran the risk of wasting tax money because she didn't wanted to take any of Adrien's 37s "no" lol which then happened. She successfully wasted all of it because she couldnt accept that Adrien told her "No, we'll date tomorrow <3".
But remember, Marinette has never had a slither of privilege in her entire life. SHE is at the bottom of the world's food chain and has nothing to reflect on, EVER.
And, no, I'm not nit-picking. Thanks to "Revolution" in particular, these things have been established as "serious matters" now for the narrative. So, no, wasting privilege and taking it for granted doesnt suddenly stop being bad just because it's Marinette. Demanding that makes her privilege even worse ;)
Honestly? That's legit comedy gold right here
The weirdest thing about it all is that the writers HAD the option to make the request coming from Ladybug, as she would easily get it granted by throwing her superhero status around to make it happen, but deribelately CHOSE for it to be a Marinette privilege. Its things like this that makes me wonder if all we are facing is not really about the writers lack of self-awareness but there is, in fact, some kind of grand-scheme corruption arc going on.
UM. YOU GUYS. REVELATOR IS PIXELATOR???
Like literally the same guy, Vincent Aza. I finally looked it up but watching Revelator, i was like, that costume and ability looks way familiar bro.
Did everyone else know right away 😅😂
Chat Noir: If I had a nickel for everytime I fought this guy and ended up discovering something meta about my powers Id have two nickels. Which is not much but its weird it happened twice.
Why do people keep acting like it's impossible to tell Adrien the truth without him getting akumatised? It's been shown that it can be resisted multiple times by now and I'm sure Adrien could since its not his father ordering him to be akumatised (ugh) but also if they really didn't want to risk it they could just leave Paris. The butterfly has limited range so just take him beyond it and tell him. Easy solutions that the world's best Ladybug apparently can't think of despite being so smart
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Yeah, like, I don’t think the risk of Adrien getting Akumatized over being told has even been brought up by the characters in universe. Like, sure, it was kind of a factor in Cat Blanc and Ephemeral, but I think the high-stress situation of his father actively waling on him or remote-controlling him would have been a bigger factor. Marinette’s in-universe excuse for her being an abuse apologist is “the truth is too harsh.” Marinette genuinely, canonically, just doesn’t want to have a difficult, uncomfortable conversation with Adrien.
I’m pretty sure the Maripologists don’t want this kind of defense for Marinette, but I will defend Marinette not thinking of taking Adrien outside of Paris to tell him anyway; it’s just too much work. Even with her little scooter, it would just be too much extra effort for Marinette to come up with a plan for how to safely tell something to Adrien and then implement said plan. Marinette has repeatedly shown that she’d rather just sit around feeling sorry for herself than do something to change a bad situation, because the writers are that allergic to having a proactive protagonist who actively seeks to change the status quo.
The writers have made Marinette a character who waffs around until it explodes in her face, because, for all they brag about how good they are at spicing up their formula, they are slaves to the most formulaic writing I’ve seen outside of classic Scooby Doo. And with Scooby Doo, they did it on purpose and made gags around it during their first season. Miraculous writers expect their work to be taken as serious storytelling.
The issue with telling Adrien the truth that noone seems to adress is that sometimes HOW you do it is way more important to WHEN. Telling Adrien the truth should be done in a careful and though out way, in order to make him process it better and avoid the worst case scenario.
In Chat Blanc, Adrien was akumatized not because he found out the truth, but because he did so in literally the worst way possible, followed by a beating of his own dad when he was still trying to chew it all down. So OF COURSE he would get akumatized, anyone would.
So, I have been thinking how would be the best way to tell Adrien each particular secret.
The "Hawkmoth is Gabriel Agreste" should be handled carefully. First, Adrien should come to terms that Gabriel is and was an abuser. And that Adrien WAS neglected and abused. Therapy and family counseling with Nathalie. So he can understand and better process that he owes Gabe nothing. And then, Mari and Nathalie should sit down and tell him the truth. Dont sugarcoat it, nor telling he was a "troubled man with good intentions". Just let it plain and simple. Let him digest it, ask all the questions he wants to, be understanding if he wants to be alone. Let him form his own opinion of it and wait until he comes around to talk.
The "adrien is a sentimonster" should be told by Felix and Kagami(or at least they should be present). They should sit down with him and reveal their true nature as sentimonsters, and only after he comes to terms with what they are they should tell him he is one as well. To learn that he is not alone in this and that he has peers that feel that as much as him would help him process it SO MUCH BETTER.
The "Alya is now my second in comand" may seem less inportant now, but its equally important to be told. Of course, there are the issue of identities here but it can be easily solved without particularly telling names. Ladybug should sit down with Chat Noir and explain to him WHY he cant know some stuff(like power up recipes, lore, etc), guardian stuff that has been a secret for generations. Tell him she has someone trustworthy on her civilian life and that they know her identity. Give him the same option, that if he wishes, HE can tell someone trustworthy to be his counsellor and backup to keep things balanced. He needs to be AWARE that he doesnt have to be alone in this, and that, just like her, needs someone to have his back. She should admit that she tried to give his identity to Su Han a while back and she sould apologize for that, but if HE WANTS TO, he can tell him.
Im not sure if the "Chat Blanc" is an actual secret, or Marinette just barely registered the thing and didnt bother to tell him. But yeah, she should sit down and tell him what happened. To the part where bunnix appeared and took him to the future. Tell him his future self was aware of her identity, but she herself doesnt know many details.
Of course, all those cases should be done with an akuma charm at hand to protect him just in case, but I seriously dont think they would be necessary. People are tougher than they look, and Adrien needs this to grow stronger.
Liar. Shameless liar.
Yes, I am pissed that there is no improvement to be seen yet for the third season in a row in how Marinette takes advantage of Chat Noir and his trust. And, no, this episode pointing out Marinette's lies is not enough to give this a pass. Alya losses her memory in the end so Marinette goes back to being held to no standards by anyone around her. She will just continue doing it until hell breaks loose, like always.
Yes, BUT
Marinette is not the only flawed character, when the circumstances required, never has to face consequences for their bad behavior and never had to realize that they need to grow.
Adrien never deal with real consequences for not being able to take a no for an answer when he was pursuing Ladybug.
I don't think Alya apologized for trusting Lila lies like a fool, Nino never face consequences for compromising him and Rena roles of heroes on multiple occasions.
If we want to held Marinette accountable for her actions, we need to the the same for the rest of the cast.
In what reality did Adrien not face consequences for not taking the "no"?? She literally violently and publicly manhandled him into a trashcan, threw it on a roof and kicked him out like dirt.
And then the rest of s4 proceeded to also have Marinette and the whole plot blame everything under the sun on Chat Noir's love for her (especially Kuro Neko). Did you just not watch the show?
Alya was planned to apologise and basically desperately ask for forgiveness, they just cut the scene out of Confrontation. There are story board versions of the s5 episodes and there you can see it. I don't know why they cut it, but it was in fact there.
And do you mean Nino saving Alya's life in Risk because he didn't wanted to see his girlfriend be killed? Yeah, how awful of him. I hope he learned his lesson and will now let Alya and everyone else die brutally to be "professional". Screw that his powers literally is PROTECTION. But let me guess, it would have been totally fine if he had saved Marinette and not Alya.
And no, I don't need to first write an essay about the other characters to "earn" getting to voice valid criticism of Marinette. I can just do that.
So far in the show Adrien has been:
>Rejected by his first love
>Denied guidance (Fu)
>Lied to and tricked by his partner
>Demoted to sidekick
>Humbled down about wanting an equal partnership
>Abused psychologically by his father
>Abused PHYSICALLY by his father and his surrogate mother
>Injuried and killed several times by Akumas
>Dumped by his first girlfriend
>Basically orphaned
>Proved his own existence is fake
>Denied agency and gaslighted by the people he loved
And yet people still think he hasnt suffered enough because he sulked up once when receiving a "no" back in s02.
For as much as I am on Alya's side in "Revelator" - and believe me, I AM - I still wanna point out that Alya and Marinette are two sides of the same coin when it came to how they eventually handled their sides of knowing the secret regarding Adrien's whole life.
Marinette: I don't wanna say the truth because it makes me uncomfortable and could result in permanently changing my perfect relationship with Adrien. So I won't fight for his justice and put myself first.
Alya: I don't wanna lie because it makes me uncomfortable and could result in me being dragged into this whole mess I hate. So I won't fight for Adrien's justice and put myself first.
Let me clarify right away that I really LIKE that the episode had Alya make a proper statement that she's not only NOT supporting Marinette in this, but also that Alya is not going to take care of Marinette's mess for her. Alya has been stuck in the Black Best Friend trope for seasons on end with her being stuck with cleaning up after Marinette, solve her interpersonal massive fuck ups (are Gang of Secrets and Hack-San ringing a bell?) and with her life getting more and more consumed by Marinette who never once actually asks first if Alya even wants all of that dumped on her because Marinette just assumes Alya will agree or at least give in for Marinette's sake "and the greater good". (Illustrhater is the current worst case of this).
I LIKE that Alya said "this is YOUR immoral mess, solve it yourself". Because, by all means, Alya HAS the right to draw this line and insist on her not just existing to solve Marinette's problems she refuses to ever face or even consider before they blow up.
I think, in concept, this is EXACTLY what Marinette needs. For one of the main people Marinette always just dumps everything on and takes eternal emotional refuge in to say "no, I'm out. Take care of this yourself".
This SHOULD be the right development for Marinette in concept because it SHOULD mean that Marinette would be narratively faced with having to finally learn to get her behaviour in check and prevent these problems from happening in the first place. A variation of this is also one of the main things Adrichat had to learn in season 4's Ladynoir conflict. That he himself has to care for his actions and needs and take care of nd realize his place in the world because Ladybug can't and won't be arsed to consider him at any point (which still hasn't actually changed yet)
That the people who used to take care of your messes or be the emotionally strong, mature, and reliable ones will and should tell you that they wont do it anymore, especially when you genuinely fucked up. That's NORMAL. And it's IMPORTANT. Because not getting to have other people to solve your problems, or at least significantly de-escalate it for you, will more often than not lead to you actually reflecting on your actions and put things in much better and braoder perspective FIRST before you do it.
I repeat, this happening is NORMAL. It's literally how you learn to live your life independently.
BUT
To finally bring this back on topic: while Alya HAS the right to draw this line and insist on not solving Marinettes mess, this also means that Alya disqualified herself from getting to say she fought for justice.
That's just how it is. Alya can't say "no I'm not doing this, I want my memories wiped away" and then get to claim she thinks Adrien's right to know the truth is the priority. Cause it wasn't.
Alya in the end put herself first and not Adrien. Alya knows that Marinette is keeping it a secret because she doesn't wanna face the difficult situation and then still tells Chat Noir that she wants her memories wiped, which means Marinette will not be held to standards by anyone again and possibly now fear anyone finding out about it even more.
It also came with the obvious risk that came true in the end: mind-wiped Alya picks up on her friends having conflicted feelings and ends up indirectly validating and supporting Marinette in her only prioritizing not facing consequences because now Marinette sees an oblivious Alya again who she prefers to have by her side.
Marinette knows Alya doesn't approve, but has no active motivation anymore forcing her to not just write that off as, for example, Alya's reaction "under bad circumstances" to instead have Alya now validate her left and right in her 'second chance'.
Alya unfortunately is indeed written to think better of Marinette than she actually proves to be and do because she lacks the full insight on what Marinette does and how she operates.
Sublimation was actually perfect set up for this. The episode starts by Marinette going stalker and at least DARK orange flag girlfriend on Adrien and Sublime and yet Alya was out here just saying "oh well, can't stop her 🤷♀️ good thing Marinette likes to learn lessons 😉"
Only for Marinette to end up hurting a disabled person and ruining a sponsorship because Marinette took all her anxiety out on Sublime. It was only thanks to ADRIEN and Marinette's Ladybug magic privilege that this disaster could be saved and solved.
No, Alya is not Marinette's babysitter. She isn't responsible for preventing Marinette's actions as if she were a toddler. But what I am saying is that she saw all the red flags and just said that Marinette gets to possibly use Sublime as her anxiety chew toy because "oh well 🤷♀️". As if Alya doesn't know that Marinette is by now used to extreme cases like akuma battles.
That's a PERSON Alya just declared a learning dummy for Marinette's behavior and that's already by itself a messed up thing to do.
Sure, Alya did so because she thought that Marinette's extreme actions and anxiety couldnt/ wouldn't hurt Sublime the way she did, but that doesn't matter. Cause Marinette DID and that was in fact predictable when you have all the context which no one ever GETS because Marinette doesn't let anyone have it.
By all means, Sublimation proves that Alya and Adrien SHOULDN'T just always give Marinette the benefit of the doubt and blindly let her do this shit or make excuses for her and even solve her problems. Because that lead to Sublime getting hurt.
Marinette is not as good and considered as other characters thinks she is and that angle is continued in Revelator.
Alya puts way too much trust in Marinette doing the right thing after being given a full-blown out, and Adrien as Chat Noir also shouldn't have prioritized again that Ladybug's lips stop trembling because she's faced with something unpleasant. Already in Sublimation Chat dismissed the akuma victim to excuse Ladybug without caring much for what she even did.
Now again in Revelator, Adrien sees Ladybug being in a situation she isn't comfortable with and prioritizes thinking of a way to get her an out instead of caring what he's being used to cover up.
That's the wrong thing to do. For both Adrien and Alya. But this makes Alya's decision even more anti-justice because she SEES that Chat Noir doesn't know what's actually happening and that he's for now instinctively helping Marinette to cover everything up, when earlier Marinette told her that she doesn't trust Chat Noir with the truth because she thinks he would hate that lie just as much as Alya does.
Alya has every red flag in front of her and still decided to insist on her right to not having to take care of this.
And again, she gets to do this by principle of her being an individual, but you can't call it justice. You cant even really call it fair because of how Alya is dismissing Adrien and Chat Noir in this.
But what I will call it, is Alya and Marinette being the two sides of the same coin. For good and for worse.
Hey everyone! So, I had to work on my thesis and my dopamine-rotted adhd brain cant cope so yeah this is a Miraculous crackship tier list I made!
Reminder that its crackship tier list, so whatever is canon wont be included. that also includes heavily hinted ones that arent "official", lile MarkXNathaniel and JulekaXRose. Also, there might be more crackships that I cant remember so it might not be complete yet.
I tried to include mostly recurring characters. Thats why I didnt include ships with Emilie, since she is basically a plot device.
Id like to hear your opinions on it!
Miraculous Chat Noir was a great addition but I really wish it had been presented under different circunstances.
Arenyou telling me he simply somewhat always had that power, and noone mentioned it to him? Not Fu, not Plagg, not Su Han, not Ladybug NOONE. And when Ladybug did tell him, it was only because SHE needed it??
I wish we had an episode where he just finds this power out by accident. Like they are fighting an akuma while he is upset about all the harassment he goes through as Adrien and he goes for a cataclysm and then BAM. Suddenly he finds himself in a world where noone knows who he is. Everything is the same, except noone knows Adrien Agreste, and noone can remember Ladybug had a partner.
He detransforms in panic and Plagg explains nonchalantly his new power, and he didnt bother to tell him because it normaly leads to disasters.
"last time someone used Miraculous Chat Noir, everyone in the universe forgot what a torkret was."
"A what?"
"Exactly."
Curious, Adrien decides to flake out the battle and bask into this new world for a little while of course, the unfamiliar but nice feeling of going somewhere and not be treated as a delicated and rare ornament. Of not having people follow him around, or ask autographs and photos and just be an ordinary guy.
But then he is reminded that noone remembers him. Not Nathalie, not Nino, not Marinette, not Ladybug. He decides he needs to reverse this otherwise he will be TRULY alone forever.
Then he remembers there is an akuma on the loose, and he needs to go back to the task at hand and somehow CONVINCE Ladybug that she always had a partner, and that she is supposed to trust him to defeat the akuma and finally undo what he had done.
She is initially wary of course because who the hell is this guy with the black cat miraculous that she is supposed to guard? He is flamboyant, unserious and hot-headed, how could ahe have a partner like that? But their dynamic is so easy and... Almost familiar? Also he is strong and surprisingly competent in reading the battle. Then she throws him a bone. They work together, defeat the akuma yadayadayada.
Things go back to normal, and we have a moment where Adrien ponders the importance of being remembered. Happy ending!
Apparently people are still trying to insist that Lila is making Ladybug/Marinette look like a villain... even though so far all Lila has done is walk around writing in her journal & talk to herself meanwhile everything marinette has done was under her own free accord
I think it has more to do with her Akuma choices.
Lila is hanging around and watching Marinette. Then whenever Marinette does something that upsets someone, Lila swoops in to Akumatize them.
Obviously these are random scenarios. Yes sometimes Marinette plays some part in the blame, such as Sublimation. But we can't really blame her for 'ignoring a random child bugging everyone in the cafe' or 'fighting back against slander of her character', or even the high-tensions of Adrien's family drama.
It could be coincidence ofc. But there's also the chance that it's intentional. Choosing Akumas that would stem from Marinette. Then, later down the line, she can paint it as being Marinette's fault. Either she's such a jerk that she's caused so many Akuma when there's a million people in Paris, or even outright framing her for being Chrysalis.
Wait a minute...
Ok, hear me out. If you think about it, Lila's akumas so far have been actually HELPING Marinette not to dig herself into a bigger hole.
Just think about it.
How things would have turned out in Sublime if her mom wasnt akumatized at that moment? Her prostectic legs would still be broken(that had nothing to do with the akuma), and no way to miraculous ladybug a new one. The only solution would be a massive bill to the dupain-chengs and a restrain order.
In werepapas, the peace talks were leading to a terrible ending until the akumatization started. Its only by defeating the akuma that the grandparents are able to sort things out, and able to see how they all mutually cared about Adrien.
In Daddycop, the akuma was more Sabrina-focused, but helped LB to sort out the mess she had done when she basically kicked out Sabrina of her home. Without Daddycop, the episode wouldve probably ended with Sabrina on her house sobbing over a tub of ice cream.
In Revelator, the akuma made Alya aware of LB's secret. It gave her the forced chance to come to terms with it and tell Adrien the secret he so desperately needs to know as soon as possible. Truly, She opted out of that one and decided to keep the secret, but the chance was at least given and that counts.
So basically Lila, even if not intentionally,was HELPING Marinette who would be in a way worse situation if the alumas hadnt shown up.
This is SO FUNNY because if Lila wants Marinette to suffer, she should just let go and let nature play its course.
Revelator came out and:
1- again we end the episode with a bigoted and crooked morale. "You have the right to keep secrets unless its something dangerous" hum.... Yeah, secrets about YOU? If you are talking about a secret that involves and can greatly impact someone else (that you are not the legal guardian of) and is completely unrelated to you, you dont get to keep it?? Because you dont get to dictate someone else's reality???
2- Chat Noir can apparently erase memories now? What is even the point of keeping secrets, Ladybug. You should just ask him to make you forget your own secrets and case closed, since this is about protecting Adrien and not about you being a control freak, right?
3- apparently, if you get to brainwash people into forgetting all your secrets, you are in the right because who cares about agency, eh? Classic marinette.
4-Alya tearing Marinette a new one was great though. My girl was spitting facts.
Since you’ve talked about the secret between Adrien and Mari and how Adrien has no agency, back when the s5 bible leaked, there was a part where it said that „Adrien will never find out about his father being Hawkmoth“ or something like that.
Do you think the writers will actually stick with that rule? Because I just can‘t see how this is supposed to be narratively satisfying…
I have no idea and that's not a compliment. It's a condemnation. Adrien should absolutely find out about his father. The story isn't satisfying if he doesn't. But Miraculous doesn't seem to care about being satisfying. It cares about being shocking and that's a terrible thing. To explain why, let's talk about the topic of predictability in narratives and why it's generally a good thing.
We'll start with a quote from a famous George R.R. Martin interview where he perfectly explains why you want your stories to make logical sense with the final line of the quote being the most important part:
Before the Internet, one reader could guess the ending you wanna do for your novel, but the other 10.000 wouldn’t know anything and they would be surprised. However, now, those 10.000 people use the Internet and read the right theories. They say: “Oh God, the butler did it!”, to use an example of a mystery novel. Then, you think: “I have to change the ending! The maiden would be the criminal!” To my mind that way is a disaster because if you are doing well you work, the books are full of clues that point to the butler doing it and help you to figure up the butler did it, but if you change the ending to point the maiden, the clues make no sense anymore; they are wrong or are lies, and I am not a liar.
This is a writing rule that I believe in my soul, but that the Miraculous writers don't seem to care about. Miraculous will introduce things that should be important to the story, but they end up meaning nothing.
A great - and relevant - example of this is the Chat Blanc stuff. Chat Blanc comes near the end of season three, early season four sees Marinette have a nightmare about Chat Blanc, and late season four is all about Chat Noir feeling left out as Marinette trusts Alya over him. Many viewers looked at these story beats and went, "Oh, okay, so Chat Blanc is causing Marinette to push Chat Noir away. Got it." because it honestly was the only thing that made any sense.
But that's not what was going on. The official word is that Marinette was just stressed over her new role as the guardian even though nothing in the text really explains why that would strain her relationship with Chat Noir. It actively improves her relationship with Alya! Why wouldn't it do the same with her long-term partner? As we've discussed several times, he was fine with the status quo at the start of the season and didn't even ask for more responsibility until Kuro Neko so it's not like he was doing anything to stress her out until he randomly quit on her.
This begs the question: if Chat Blanc isn't haunting Marinette and Chat Noir isn't stressing her, then why doesn't she share things with Chat Noir? Why go with Alya when Alya's identity was revealed to the villain requiring Alya to go into "hiding" as Rena Furtive? There's really nothing in the text to answer those incredibly important questions. Question that are only incredibly important because the writers actively chose to have multiple episodes dedicated to Chat Noir feeling left out. Why that happened really isn't clear so there's also no clear resolution. What needs to change? No clue! Did that thing change? Once again, no clue! It's all set up with no pay off!
Or, at least, we don't get the kind of pay off you'd expect to see. Aka the big dramatic moment where Ladybug finally confesses what happened to her. Instead, Chat Blanc's big pay off is Adrien missing the season five fight because he just magically knows that Chat Blanc happened:
During the scene that leads to Adrien wearing the Alliance ring after being reticent to it, [the writers] say that they had a conflict when writing it as they had to find a way for Adrien to not become his superhero self, cataclysm the walls and go help his lady in Paris. The end result is that Adrien is reminded of the devastating effect of his power by the nightmare and would therefore do anything to avoid hurting people, and so he wears the ring. Mélanie says that he "could become Chat Blanc" and the others add that even though he does not remember and has never lived it, Chat Blanc still has an influence on his actions.
So Chat Blanc doesn't matter to the person who actually met him, but it does matter to the person who was Chat Blanc an alternate timeline even though this show has never once showed another akuma victim to be haunted by their akumatization. Does that make any sense? No, it's frustrating and confusing, but it does tell us the way these writers think and that insight doesn't bode well for Adrien learning the truth about his father. It's not enough for me to say with certainty that it will never happen, but I would not assume that it will happen. The show has an active pattern of avoiding these kinds of payoffs:
Example 1: Multiple Lila appearances had her claiming to be Ladybug's BFF and she was even interviewed for the Ladyblog based on this lie, but as soon as Alya learns Ladybug's identity, the show conveniently forgets about this ongoing lie because then Alya would be against Lila and the writers didn't want that.
Example 2: Marinette gave Alya the Fox without telling Chat Noir that they had a new full-time teammate, but Chat Noir never learns about this development. The most he gets is that Ladybug revealed her identity to someone, which is nowhere near as important as the Rena thing in terms of the ongoing fight against Paris' resident supervillain. The fact that Rena Rouge is now Rena Furtive is literally never revealed to him. He learns that she's active in the final fight, but the name change and her status are forever a secret. Alya being Rena Furtive also leads to nothing useful for the heroes. You could remove that from season four and it would play almost exactly the same same for a few minor tweaks.
Example 3: Luka learns Ladybug and Chat Noir's identities in Wishmaker, but this reveal is just used as an excuse to write Luka off the show in season five. The episode that gets him written off shows Monarch realizing that Luka knows the identities because of some mental connection that happens during akumatization. This is damning because Kagami was akumatized twice in season five (Perfection and Protection) and we later learn that Kagami learned Marinette's secret identity during Perfection, the first of the two episodes. In fact, Kagami learned the secret mere minutes before getting akumatized and she was akumatized because Marinette wasn't talking to her so Marinette being Ladybug should have been on her mind and yet Monarch didn't get so much as a hint of any of this!!!!!
That's not even getting into the issue of the fact that nothing in Perfection so much as hints that Kagami knows even though the episode is all about her relationship with Marinette or the issue of Marinette keeping her secret identity safe even though she was almost akumatized the freaking times! SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!!! WHY IS IT WRITTEN LIKE THIS??? How is anyone supposed to follow such shitty lore? The audience can't text appropriately if they don't know what the stakes are.
So, yeah, I'd put a small amount of money on Adrien never learning because that would be way too satisfying and Miraculous hates being satisfying or logical. The times we do get big reveals are generally terrible like with freaking Andre the Ice Cream Man being the one to tell Adrien about Marinette's crush or Lila being outed because of a plan Sabrina and Marinette made up off screen or Adrien finding out about Chat Blanc because magic. Watch Andre the Ice Cream Man be the one to tell Adrien about his dad for some reason. Nothing would surprise me at this point.
For anyone who already saw my posts, you may know I complain about Marinette. a lot. However, I dont really recognize myself as a Marinette salter.
Here is my take: I think there are two kinds of critiques: reasonable critiques and simply put, salt.
To me, the world "salt" is mostly used in fandoms when you deturp or stretch a vision of a character in order to show the world your negative view of them. The complains are mostly fundamented in the character acting OOC or projected in a morally deturped persona to justify the hate, disregarding all other factors the show entails including what it WANTS to show in contrast to what it actually shows.
A reasonable critique, in the other hand, is not a stretch or a projection. Its based on real facts, that the show has shown us and, considering the pacing and vybes and what the show WANTS to show, its legitimate complain.
What am I talking about when I say something the show WANTS or not to show? Ill give an example. In ML's case, we can consider the cliques the absurdist humor brings it. You know, Chloe being mayor, Andre having a doomsday button, Kagami slicing a tree with a wooden sword, Adrien being stalked by raging fans. The idea that "its so absurd its humorous". And then we consider the usual salt complain "Marinette being a stalker". In the show, the stalker stuff is mostly used as a joke, because apparently people find it funny a character being obsessive about something in an absurd way. However, do the writers WANT to show Marinette as a stalker? Is that actually a plot point?(please lets forget Derision, that episode is like a cringe comedian trying to nervously justify his own stupid joke after it lands in a bad way). Well, I dont think so. As so, discussing if Marinette is or not a stalker is like trying to take a joke seriously and actually discussing it, which is completely irrelevant, has nothing to do with the actual plot and is not productive at all, taking away the attention from the real issues the plot might have. As so, "Marinette is a stalker" is just salt.
I have listed below the usual Marinette critiques, and separated them in the ones i find reasonable and the ones are just plain salt to me.
Reasonable Marinette Critique:
>Marinette keeping secrets from Adrien is wrong
> Marinette doesnt learn from her mistakes
>Ladybug keeping Chat Noir and avoinding communication in the dark is bad
>Marinette when its about Adrien gets tunnel vision and goes over anything and anyone.
Marinette Salt:
>Marinette is a stalker
>Marinette doesnt actually love Adrien
>Ladybug mistreats Chat Noir
>Ladybug is a Mary Sue
So thats the thing if you dont agree with me feel free to write me your take and we can discuss it
Everyone is so focused on the problems with some of the designs for season six, that people aren’t talking enough about some of the best things that came from the animation change!
Why is no one talking about how amazing Nino looks? This is a significant improvement compared to the old.
Plus his new outfit! The sweatshirt, the new headphones? It’s so good, and probably is one of my favorite character designs after the animation change.
And let’s not forget Carapace!
Yes, some characters need some work. But let’s get some appreciation for the designs that look good.
PS: When I first saw Carapace in the trailer I thought he had a goatee. 😭
Ok, my therapist said for me to be more positive so I decided to take a break about ranting about the show's flaws. As so today Ill talk about the things I LIKE in the show
1-I like the designs. Mainly the akumas from S01, the heroes, villains and even the civilians have such good character designs(the ones that are not random NPCs). I mean every rule has their exception but they are mostly gorgeous and iconic. The Mime, Mr. Pigeon, Stormweather... they are such a mix of cool and fun. And in S06 gets even better, Im flagbasted how they fixed Caprikid, he just jumped to worst design to one of the best. Also Sabrina's design looks CUTE
2- I like the side characters. Mostly I like Juleka, Rose, Kim(what have they done to you my boy), Max. Love Gorilla too. Just wish they had done more with them, developed their stories and had arcs of their own. Loved Kagami until she became Marinette's yes ma... *Breathes in and out*Refrain.... Refrain.... Anyway, characters were really though out in the inicial concept. They look interestint and have so much potential.
3-I like how the villains have their own perspective and motivation besides "conquering the world mwahaha". Its now always, but sometines they really look like fleshed out and Im a sucker for good villain arcs.
4-I like the art style, even if it had their ups and downs along the way. 3D was never something that caught my attention but it got me. Its great and gorgeous and the characters look really alive. S06 was a upgrade imho, they look even better. Hope they can mantain the same quality.
5- as a magical girl fan im a sucker for transformation sequences. I remember what really roped me up into this show was seeing Queen Bee's transformation sequence for the first time in S02. The moment I saw that I knew I was fucked. I love them all, and I hope S06 shows us more heroes.
6-I love the concept. Western superhero meets magical girl is such a cool concept and wish they did more stuff like this. Also Im a spiderman x black cat shipper(yes I enjoy suffering) so seeing these r63 blorbos is like a breath of fresh air.
Ok this is my blog hope you enjoyed it until next time
