Noe reactions
I haven’t made a post for the past three episodes despite having things to say because I was busy, but I’m doing it for this one. Mostly because I see too many people talking about the chopped hoe and not enough about my goat Mylene.
Believe it or not, the opening image of the ep with everyone at the beach is directly copied from concept art for that fuckass dubiously canon Trash Kraken comic released all the way back in 2017!
I didn’t even know that until like 5 minutes ago. I thought the scene was just a reference to the beach scene that’s actually *in* the comic, but I found the above image on the fandom wiki for it! Wild. I’ve never read these because they’re like, not good, but I remember seeing the picture online a long time ago. They do seem to have added the volleyball in.
Ok enough about that. We got some swimsuit redesigns! Can’t see them very well though. What I do love is how Rose has a different yet identical headband made specifically to match her swimsuit.
Ivan wearing his cap into the water is understandable, some people get sunburnt very easily, but keeping all his rings on is CRAZY. Bro is about to have a Kim Kardashian diamond earring experience
Wtf is going on in the background? Kim doing a plank/pushups while Ondine sits on his back and Max cheers him on?
Adrien’s ready to move on from both his parents dying so soon? Hmmm ok
Maybe I’m actually doing something right 🥹BAHAHAHA haha ha
Man if only these things about utopian miraculous Paris were true irl
Max and Sabrina are playing chess together! Them crumbs
Is Juleka showing Zoe how to play the guitar or bass? <- I want Juleka and Luka to make Zoe and Marinette “battle of the bands” each other like Pokémon. Give them some sibling rivalry. Show me an American Psycho business card scene where Juleka’s like, “man I see Marinette is behind on her lessons isn’t she. Well that’s okay I get it she’s busy, but look what Zoe can do”. And Luka’s sweating like, “how can this be. Zoe started more recently and already she’s surpassed Marinette’s skill level. Impossible”.
Sublime and Diane are on the youth council I guess
Damn Mylene has real life opps now
Aw Fred is performing as a mime at a children’s hospital. Rose is there and she probably had a hand in organizing the show
Josiane is a character I was NOT expecting to see again lmao. Am I misremembering or was she the director or a manager in s1? She’s his talent agent now apparently.
Despite having the same fit on and everything, Manon clearly feels older now. She comes across as more endearing, I suppose because she’s old enough to hold an actual conversation. I’m surprised her design is the exact same when a year’s change is much bigger to her than it is for the teen cast.
Eewwwww Noe is so fugly. This dude looks like when you draw something digitally without flipping the canvas, but then you flip it for the first time after you’re done. I think a lot of it is the head shape, he’s got that unnaturally flat ass head and the slicked back hair isn’t doing him any favors.
In retrospect it’s completely unsurprising that someone so forehead deficient is related to Chloe because she also has that head shape
I wonder if any of these other logos will be relevant with the council later on. I don’t think so, they’re probably just filler icons
Nathalie wants to call him a dumbass sooooo bad but she can’t because of the council
Mylene’s apartment !!!!!!!! I love that we’re finally getting to see everyone’s homes and rooms now. Holy budget
Did they retcon Mullo’s shit eating prankster personality to be nicer or are they just taking a break from that because the situation is serious?
I accidentally typed micer instead of nicer. So true
Mylene cooks at home
What’s wrong babe, you haven’t touched your pile of vegetables and rice that appear strangely gray when the light source hits them at certain angles
He really is an actor
MYLENE BACKSTORY! It sounds like Fred used to be greatly absorbed in his career and spent a lot of time away from home chasing fame. I think they’re implying that his wife left him because of that, and he was left to take care of Mylene himself? Then he had some character development and focused more on home than work.
The way they talk about the mom is so interesting because in s5 Mylene bitterly says that she left them, but now they think about her more fondly? And they talk like they have absolutely zero contact with her, not like they only see her at Christmas or anything.
Ok theory time: this is dark and idk if ml would go there, but could it be that she committed suicide? I could see some evidence in support of that. Usually when mothers decide to leave their husbands over feeling neglected, they take the kids, but Mylene was left with her father. When Fred talks about making time for family, he says he wishes he figured that out sooner, and Mylene says if mom were still here she’d be proud of him. That’s not really how people usually talk about deadbeat parents? Usually you wouldn’t outwardly care about what they might think if they were here now, and you certainly wouldn’t expect them to be impressed by good parenting. Plus, Fred says his decision affects “the whole of our family” which I think is a weird way to phrase it when it’s just the two of them.
I think if she did die due to suicide, it would explain why Mylene seems to resent her for “leaving them” yet they talk about her if she was hypothetically still around. “Sometimes I feel like she’s right here with us, don’t you?” As the camera zooms out to them sitting at a table for three with an extra empty stool. We know Mylene really struggles with mental health, and it could be genetic. When Fred “wishes he figured it out sooner”, maybe he failed to notice the condition she was in because he didn’t spend enough time at home, and regrets that because he could have done something. He says he’ll never make up for the time he spent away from them when Mylene was little.
Speaking of genetics, Fred really got a redesign didn’t he. He looks quite different both normally and especially as The Mime. He also feels older. But since s1 and even now, he really doesn’t look like Mylene? They had the opportunity to make them more similar with the redesigns and they didn’t. Either Mylene is somehow not his biological child or she’s a genetic clone of her mother.
That damn frog plushie again
This script is top secret confidential information that I had to sign a contract to even get access to. Wanna read it together?
Their blue and orange interior design is so cute I love the detail in their apartment
The choice to add up a stack of dirty teacups on the table to show the progression of time is so funny that’s. That’s not how teacups work you can refill them
Mylene, teary-eyed: this shit is so ass
“Moral convictions are like uncomfortable seats. You have to forget about them to enjoy the movie” unfortunately Josaine has bars. She’s fake as hell though. She’s like eh who cares if the movie is problematic just get that bag, but then at the end of the ep she’s like oh no I uh I had no idea it was so bad I’m 100% on your side. WElCome To the AdUlt woRLd
One thing about Mylene is that if you have a problem she WILL solve it. Oh you signed a legally binding contract and can’t back out? Well ig we’ll just have to dismantle the whole project
Marinette and Adrien are posed up Renaissance painting style. They’re clip farming !!
I love that Adrien was the one who answered the trivia question about his dad after the long pause and Marinette refused to say anything, and even then Adrien is just reciting the expected answer without really believing it.
What a strange question to put in a trivia game though and also who even has a trivia board game that’s so up-to-date on current events? Quick turnaround. My parents still have the 2000 edition of Taboo and most of the pop culture references are super duper irrelevant now. I got the 2016 one and that’s almost a decade old now. Crazy. I looked up the years just to fact check and someone listed the 2000 one on eBay as a vintage item… oh dear
Oooo cool we’re getting a new art style of storytelling still illustrations
Why did we get a special about “evil” LB and CN who were actually sympathetic and misunderstood? where’s the spinoff about THESE guys?
If there’s a Kittybella universe this is also canon somewhere
Superheroes who act heroic in public but are secretly evil and collaborating with the villain as an inside scheme for power over the people? Interesting and intriguing. The superheroes in question being 14 year olds wearing silly animal-themed costumes? Hilarious
Dude they wanted to cast Fred as Spider Noir
Oh the journalist just fell in a hole… oh but he still died? They did murder him but they successfully faked me out because I was fully expecting chat noir to directly nuke his body. I guess this is marginally more child friendly
Hypothetically, if you were to just go along with me on a thought experiment here, if I were a superhero, I’d be pissed!
LMAO Noe’s entourage of suits are all clones of the same two character models copy pasted a bunch of times
NOOOOO Mr Banana is cancelled fuckkk never meet your idols or whatever. He’s a sellout I can’t believe this. Never know who you can trust these days
“You’re as cool as a cucumber!” We know what you really are, Mr Banana. We know what your childhood dream was. You’ll never be a cucumber. The cucumber juice won’t trickle down from the elite to you.
Valid crashout
I think this is the most different angles we’ve ever gotten of someone’s place except maybe Marinette’s, like damn they wanted to show us every inch of this apartment.
MYLENE’S ROOM! She has a giant blue bookcase taking up a whole wall with a ton of books and a globe. Lots of plants to no one’s surprise. Her bed is lofted like a bunk bed and there’s a rainbow painted on one leg. The opposite leg has fairy lights wrapped around it. In another shot we see she has a rainbow tie dye banner on the ceiling as well as plants hanging. She even had a window box of flowers attached to her bedframe? She has a monstera. I guess there’s a wardrobe/dresser under the bed. She has a big poster above her desk that says save the planet, and her mousepad is the earth! Obv more plants. There are flowers and hearts painted on the walls, probably by her, and more dangly fairy lights. There’s another bookcase next to the desk with hampers on the bottom.
Yas reject that akuma
Does that mean Mylene’s in the clear for now in terms of Lila suspecting she’s a superhero? I guess not necessarily
Wait did Fred think she was talking to him :(
The 2D effects when chat runs into the “door”
Noe’s clone army is in bodyguard mode now
Why did he have a brigade of identical self driving cars as if he knew this was gonna happen? Ig they’re the clone army’s cars.
Braincells on Fred for making an invisible safe
Him putting on an invisible helmet to ride his mine scooter is kinda funny. Sure, he’s basically indestructible, but we have to set a good example for the kids
Lupin III reference
I did not expect Minotaurox to be in this one too. Fr why does he still keep his miraculous in his pocket instead of wearing it normally? It’s so small I’d be terrified of it falling out. I thought he was over his reservations about being a superhero. Atp it’s gotta be a censorship thing because it makes him look like a minor with a non-lobe piercing even though it’s supposed to be a fake one
Mylene: im actually really sad rn but ill feel better later uh talk to you then. Ivan: phew ok she’s all better i can leave
They’re even showing us their bathroom damn we’ve got the whole floor plan. Every room in the house in great detail at all angles except Fred’s bedroom. I don’t think we’ve even seen Adrien’s house in this much detail
This transformation was so fire dare I say one of the best ones? What an upgrade from the mid af s4 one. They kept the iconic boop but added more gymnastics to it and that cool mirror clone effect? The part with the ponytail is cool
Polymouse splatting on a car windshield will never not be funny
Ok pause we’re assuming that Lila can’t hear Polymouse telling The Mime that she’s his daughter, right? I hope
“To reassure me when mom left us” see this again. They’re not saying she passed away, they’re still saying she “left” like in s5
I saw someone point out that this scene where he breaks free because of the impact of his daughter’s emotional words is a parallel to Yaksi Gozen when Tomoe faked doing the same thing in a ploy to earn favor… ouch
Rejecting it yourself means you don’t get a protective charm, right?
I too was duped by the script 🥺 biiiitch shut up no you weren’t
Nadja starting an independent news show is a good sign especially as an ally to the heroes
Aw Ivan is holding Manon here and in the end card
I don’t think we’re done with “Noe Luksus” >:( yeah man idk he might be a big bad idk though it’s not like the episode is named after him or anything
I saw someone on here point out that the end cards are getting progressively more purple hmmm it’s creepy!
I was kind of expecting a Myvan reveal this episode but that didn’t happen
“My diamond dear” oh he is so the favorite child. But also how many does she have? He’s obviously older than the girls
Also 99% sure he’s the new kind of luxury I mean cmon she calls him a diamond and his last name is luxus. I do have to wonder why he is the one doing all this and not Audrey? In el toro de piedra I thought Audrey would probably be the new diamond but ig she’s using Noe as a figurehead kind of. Is it because she’s too public of a figure to do it herself?
And the question everyone’s asking, yeah I’m positive he’s a senti. When he gets in the car, the shot is on Audrey’s ring
Not to mention the episode is called “Noe” not “The Mime 2.0” which people are comparing to the episode “Felix” because the only episodes named after people are ones where they’re sentis. And it really highlights how he is the villain of this episode, like the mime isn’t the bad guy, it’s very much him the whole time.
They’ve suggested that senti kids are born as babies like normal, but part of me is like what if Audrey made Noe more recently as a full grown dude just to serve this purpose. That’d be messed up. Otherwise, he’s probably her first child
Imagine being a senti AND chopped that’s so sad. Your mom could’ve made you look like anything and she decided to make you look like a flipped canvas
I’d easily believe that Chloe is also a senti and she was considered to be a diamond at the diamond dance. Zoe on the other hand? We still have no clue who this Lee guy is, but she might be a regular human? I don’t think she gets invited to the cult gatherings. We’ll see
ALSO !!! Dude Emilie and Colt died. Tomoe lost her eyes. Nathalie got Everything Disease. How tf is Audrey presumably popping out sentibabies and seems totally fine??? With the new background info that broken peacock disease affects the part of the body your emotions were pulled from to make the senti… could it be that Audrey’s sentis are so utilitarian and loveless that she can make them while taking zero damage? That she makes them with no emotion of her own?
We now know the identity of 3 council members (Tomoe, Noe, Camilo Pista) and I’m guessing they’ll slowly introduce the rest throughout the arc. There’s the thing about Gabriel’s phone contacts revealing two more of their names, but we don’t know them yet. I feel like these will all be new characters from here on out.
Maybe my theory about Mylene’s mom is totally wrong, and I’m just a grimdark fan theorist, and the whole time she just moved to Brazil
Ty for reading! I could revisit the other episodes I missed if people want me to, but otherwise we’re waiting for “Grendiaper”, whatever that’s about. I decided to do this episode because being a Mylene fan makes me feel like the meme with the sad ant carrying a bundle on a stick sometimes.
