Miraculous Ladybug shipping is a fucking mess. Yes that's the official statistical term. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and there are four permutations.
So shipping these two people requires four ships, because they each have a secret identity. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and of those, 1.6% are tagged with all four permutations and 72% aren't tagged with any particular permutation.
11% of all the fics are tagged Ladynoir. 14% are tagged Adrinette, and 11% are tagged Marichat. There is significant overlap (see Venn diagram below).
Ladrien (Ladybug x Adrien) is less popular. Only 4% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are tagged Ladrien, and only 2% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are only tagged with Ladrien.
Also, 10 fics were added while I was working on this post. Damn.
BEHOLD THE VENN DIAGRAM OF SECRET IDENTITY CONFUSION
official data visualization guidance says i should use an upset plot for this, but i'm going for max psychic damage here.
⚠️ To be confirmed as canon, the episode where it's confirmed must be out in english and in french. (The most viewed and my language(because I watch it in french).) Or it's confirmed by one of the writers. So, if a ship becomes canon in the episode 11 of season 6, it will not be counted as canon (only out in Brasilian Portugese).
⚠️ Please note, these are fanfictions that are new or updated.
Het = Straight
Slash = Mlm
Femslash = Wlw
Poly = Polyromantic
N-Binary = At least one of them does not have a gender or is Non binary
⚠️ Those are determined by the canon genders, if there is an error, please correct me.
⚠️ According to the wikifan page of Miraculous, "Bridgette" never really existed and was always called "Marinette". Here, to differenciate the two versions (show and pv) and because it's the name given to her on AO3, she is called "Marinette". They are not considered as the same universe because, as the show is, Félix (pv) and Marinette can not meet.
29- Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Zoé Lee [Zoenette] (8)
Biggest freeform tag : All the tag are at the same value of 1
⚠️ I am not sure if there was a confirmation of them being a couple at the end of the Paris' special. Instead, I've decided to make them not canon. Please let me know if they are confimed as a couple.
46- Bridgette/Félix (Miraculous Ladybug PV)
Category : {Het}
Biggest freeform tag : Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Miraculous Ladybug PV
⚠️ According to the wikifan page of Miraculous, "Bridgette" never really existed and was always called "Marinette". Here, to differenciate the two versions (show and pv) and because it's the name given to her on AO3, she is called "Bridgette". They are considered as the same universe because Felix (pv) and Bridgette (Marinette (pv)) can meet.
46- Gabriel Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug [Gabnette] (4)
(Nan mais tuez moi)
Category : {Het}
Biggest freeform tag : Still horrible
46- Lê Chiến Kim/Ondine [Kimdine] (4)
Category : {Het}
Biggest freeform tag : Established Relationship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
The way I take that information is not perfect at all! Polycules can be defined in other ways than those that are taken into account.
Exemple
Let's take a ship that is not in the top 30:
Adrigaminette (31st) (Adrien Agreste, Kagami Tsurugi, Marinette Dupain-Cheng) has 285 fics taken the tags in this link. However, Sometimes the ship can by declared with :
"Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug"+"Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Kagami Tsurugi"+"Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Kagami Tsurugi" (Has to be understood like "Adrinette+Adrigami+Marigami"
This can misguide the datas when we talk about polycules and couples (and relationships in a more general way).
I am very sorry about it.
I might come back to you all in march for febuary's datas (maybe by doing more of a top 50 or something like that).
Here are the statistics of the Miraculous fandom since September 18 2012. The stats have been made Febuary 20 2025 at 7:34 PM (UTC+1).
I/ Ratings
In the Miraculous Fandom, there are 75,412 fanfics in total.
Among those, there are :
31,959 General Audiences
28,201 Teen And Up Audiences
7,061 Not Rated
4,499 Mature
3,692 Explicit
The first fanfiction has been uploded the 18th of September 2012 named "Jinxed" by AceOfWeasels.
II/Love :
Most of the fanfictions are love, non-platonics relationships :
49,666 Female/Male (59.2%)
14,071 Gen (16.8%)
7,240 Female/Female (9.6%)
6,580 Male/Male (7.8%)
4,283 Multi (5.1%)
1,985 Other (2.4%)
It is not surprising to see the straight love at the top of the list
III/ Crossovers (top9) :
Sometimes, writers call others univeses into their fanfics :
Batman 5,834
DCU 1,179
My Hero Academia 467
DCU (comics) 281
Harry Potter 263
Danny Phantom 257
Marvel Cinematic Universe 245
Original Work 182
Spiderman 125
Without a surprise, superheroes (here Batman) are on the top of list because... well... they are heroes...
IV/ Most used Characters (top 10)
1. Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug 60,242
Of course, it is the main character who comes first. She is the one that has the most screentime. We follow her adventures, her friendships, her love life but mostly her problems. The clumsy girl managed to take our heart and we thank her for that.
Biggest rating : General Audiences (25,687)
Biggest "type" of love : Female/Male (42,887)
2. Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir 53,597
Our little cat boy is second. Also a main character, he managed with his... well... complicated situation, to be one of the most beloved character in the show.
Biggest rating : General Audiences (22,292)
Biggest "type" of love : Female/Male (38,132)
3. Alya Césaire (23,621)
Best friend of Marinette and first one after the cat and the bug to have a Miraculous.
Biggest rating : Teen And Up Audiences (10,044)
Biggest "type" of love : Female/Male (16,663)
4.Nino Lahiffe (18,771)
Adrien's best friend, one of the first Miraculous holders.
Biggest rating : Teen And Up Audiences (8,179)
Biggest "type" of love : Female/Male (13,533)
5.Gabriel Agreste (13,849)
Adrien's father and first bad guy of the show.
6.Plagg (12,612)
The Kwami of destruction, friend and confort to Adrien.
7. Chloé Bourgeois (12,435)
Marinette's first "ennemy", first bee Miraculous holder.
Biggest rating : Teen And Up Audiences (5,502)
Biggest "type" of love : Female/Male (7,552)
8. Tikki (12,064)
The Kwami of creation, Marinette's friend and guardrail.
9.Luka Couffaine (10,028)
Everybody's friends and one of Marinette's love interest (that she never dated at all)
Biggest rating : Teen And Up Audiences (4,253)
Biggest "type" of love : Female/Male (7,077)
10.Lila Rossi (7,307)
The new butterfly Miraculous' holder, never liked Marinette.
Biggest rating : Teen And Up Audiences (3,341)
Biggest "type" of love : Female/Male (4,334)
V/ Non-platonics relationships (top 30)
Relations are the most important things in Miraculous. However, which one does the Miraculers prefers ?
Cannon
Was cannon
Same Universe
Differents universes
1. Adrienette/Ladrien/LadyNoir/Marichat - 38,539
2. DjWifi - 7,794
3. Lukanette - 4,343
4. Marcaniel - 2,392
5. Julerose - 2,360
6. Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Damian Wayne - 2,185
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