Frenglish differences in Miraculous - Episodes 25 & 26
Origins Part 1 and 2
Ladybug and Cat Noir/Ladybug & Chat Noir
Gabriel
En: Nooroo, dark wings rise... From this day on, I shall be known as Hawk Moth.
Fr: Nooroo, que les ailes de la nuit se déploient... Nooroo, transforme moi !
Nooroo, let the night wings unfold... Nooroo, transform me!
In French, the transformation phrase is the same for all the kwamis ("transform me"), so they have Gabriel say it even after his little "dark wings" line.
Alya - Marinette
En: We can't let her get away with it. - Well, that's easier said than done. She likes to make my life miserable.
Fr: Alors on n'a pas le droit de se laisser faire. - Bah, j'ai pas de super pouvoir, moi. Et c'est plus facile à dire qu'à faire.
So we can't let ourselves be pushed around. - Well, I don't have super powers (as opposed to Majestia). And it's easier said than done.
Well she doesn't have super powers... yet.
Plagg about the lamp genie
En: I met him once. So he grants wishes, big deal.
Fr: Je l'ai rencontré. Bon il exauce les voeux, il n'y a pas de quoi en faire un fromage.
I've met him. So he grants wishes, no need to make a "cheese" about it.
In French, "to make a cheese out of something" means to make an unnecessarily big deal out of it.
Adrien to Plagg
En: Seriously? My personal chef made all this.
Fr: Tu plaisantes ? C'est notre chef étoilé qui a tout préparé.
You're joking? It's our starred chef who prepared all of this.
So the Agrestes not only have a personal chef, but a starred one too!
Hawk Moth
En: Once I have your miraculous, you will be powerless against me. Everyone will be powerless against me. I will have absolute power!
Fr: Une fois que j'aurai vos miraculous, j'obtiendrai le pouvoir absolu. Et je pourrai réaliser mon souhait le plus cher !
Once I have your miraculous, I'll have absolute power. And I'll be able to fulfil my dearest wish!
It's interesting that the wish is mentioned as early as Origins in French, while the English dub only talks about power.
Stoneheart/Cœur de Pierre
Chloé calls Adrien "Adri-cans" in English and "Adrichou" in French. "Chou" means cute, sweetheart or darling and is sometimes added at the end of someone's name to make a cute nickname.
Ivan's song when he starts singing it to Mylène
En: Mylene, be serene / No, be serene
Fr: Mylène, plus forte qu'un chêne / Veux-tu être ma reine
Mylène, stronger than an oak / Will you be my queen
Ivan's whole song, written on the paper
Mylene mon oxygène
Mylène my oxygen
La plus belle des collégiennes
The prettiest of middle schoolers
Plus forte qu'un chêne
Stronger than an oak
Pour les autres tu te démène(s)
For others you struggle (i.e you always help other people)
a short incoherent compilation of parallels between marinette and adrien and gabriel and émilie. i'm also thinking about the ones who make choices and the sacrificial lambs but for now have these.
Another day another dollar. A new day a new opportunity. What you do today can improve your tomorrow. There are multiple sayings to reference working hard for your future. And that's exactly what the class is doing with their weekend. Today. Everyone in Miss Bustier's class is helping Nino create a movie for a film contest. Even Chloe showed up because Miss Bustier promised extra credit for everyone who helps, and Chloe is interested in being the lead actress.
Mylène and Kim are hiding behind Miss Bustier's desk with water guns.
"Agent Smith, it's too dangerous! We must evacuate!" Kim urgently shouts as he looks at Mylène
"You're suggesting we run, Officer Jones? After it devoured my family, friends, and even my beloved dog, Sniffles?" Mylène asks with dramatic indignity as she glares at 'Officer Jones' for his supposed cowardice.
She then stops crouching and looks around the classroom angrily while saying.
"I'm going to face it, then I'll-"
However, her words are cut off when she feels someone looming over her. She nervously looks up and sees Ivan wearing a magenta cape with a mask that covers his head. The mask has three painted yellow eyes with red pupils. Two eyes are cut open to make eyeholes for Ivan, leaving only the third eye on the forehead visible. Also attached to the costume are fake dark blue dreadlocks.
Ivan roars at her, and it causes Mylène to let out a scream that everyone in school would have heard if it wasn't for the fact that it was the weekend and the class were the only ones there. Unfortunately, the entire class and Ondine are in the classroom and take the full brunt of Mylène's terror.
"Cut!" Nino shouts over Mylène's scream as he covers his ears to drown out the sound.
It takes everyone a moment to recover from the scream. When they do, Mylène is hiding under the desk with a look of pure terror and violently shaking.
Ivan winches when he sees her current state.
"Sorry, Mylène." He says with a deeply regretful expression as he takes off the mask.
Nino, however, looks frustrated as he looks at Mylène while the girl nervously lifts herself from under the desk.
"That's our tenth take, Mylène. And this is only the first scene!" Nino shouts this last part for emphasis, causing Mylène to flinch.
"Fourteenth." Alix boredly corrects Nino while holding a clapperboard.
"Come on, you can't blame her for being freaked out when you're using a real monster. I mean, it was a smart choice. It adds a bit of authenticity to the film." Chloe takes this chance to mock Ivan while sitting on one of the back corner desks and filing her nails.
Hearing this causes Ivan and a few others to glare at her angrily.
"Big talk for someone who also got Akumatized!" Alix snaps at her while wearing the jacket Marinette made for her.
The jacket is dark magenta with a black chest. On the right side of the chest is a dark magenta A insignia for Alix. When Marinette first gave it to her, she excitedly hugged the girl while thanking her.
Chloe scoffs at her words and retorts with her usual confidence.
"Please. At least I looked human when Hawkmoth got me. He's the only one here who turned into a massive creature fit for a monster movie. I feel that says something about him." Chloe says in a matter-of-fact tone.
Hearing this causes Ivan to scowl before Nate calls over.
"Ignore her, Ivan. She's just bitter Mylène got the lead role." Nate says with a smirk while holding the microphone, causing Chloe to scowl at him.
"Why you," Chloe growls at him before Sabrina has enough.
"Knock it off, Chloe. We're trying to get this done and don't need you causing problems." Sabrina snaps at her, causing Chloe to scowl before turning her head while muttering under her breath.
"Yeah, keep acting high and mighty while you can."
Seeing this, Sabrina sighs while Marinette walks over to Mylène and comforts the girl.
"It's okay, Mylène. You're trying your best." She soothes the girl while giving her a bottle of water.
"Sorry. I'll do better in the next take." Mylène nervously promises.
"You're playing a hero from the special forces. You're not supposed to get all freaked out!" Nino reprimands her, getting sick of not getting anywhere with this film.
"I'm sorry." Mylène apologizes again, showing quite a bit of fear while staring at Nino.
It's as if she thinks he'll attack her.
"It's alright, Mylène. It's only me." Ivan tells her with his best attempt at a comforting smile.
"Yeah. The scariest thing here is that poorly designed mask." Nate calls, getting a few chuckles from the room's other occupants.
"Hey. I tried my best in the short amount of time I had." Nino snaps at Nate angrily.
Nate shrugs with a smirk as he looks at Nino with unapologetic eyes.
"Maybe we should swap actresses." Adrien finally speaks up, getting all eyes to look at him and causing him to grow slightly nervous.
"I-I mean, it doesn't seem like Mylène is comfortable doing this, and we've done over ten takes. Maybe it would be best to see how the other girls do." Adrien anxiously explains under the eyes of everyone.
This gets a sarcastic clap from Chloe as she smirks down at everyone.
"Finally, one of you uses your brains. Rich Boy is right. It's clear Little Miss Scaredy Cat obviously can't handle being in the limelight. As such, it's best if she plays her role as a background character." Chloe mocks as she pushes herself off the desk and walks toward the front of the class.
"P-please, l-let me have one more take. J-just give me a moment to sing my happy song." Mylène begs, not wanting to give up her spot since she dreams of being on stage like her dad.
However, Chloe gets in front of her face with an angry expression that terrifies Mylène enough that the girl freezes.
"We've gone over fourteen takes and you can't even get past the first scene. You're done. Maybe work on your bravery next time if you want to be in the movies." Chloe growls with enough ferocity that Mylène runs off to escape from her.
"Chloe!" Marinette, Sabrina, Alya, and Nate snap at her for her actions, but Chloe scoffs at them.
"Please. It's obvious we wouldn't have gotten anywhere with that useless idiot playing the star. I would rather get this done before the film deadline." Chloe uncaringly tells everyone around her while rolling her eyes.
Her uncaring attitude doesn't make anyone else happy but Nino finally sighs in resignation.
"Fine. We'll try recasting." Nino tells her, causing Chloe to smirk while a few classmates look at him in shock.
Ivan is the worst, though. In his rage, he throws the costume to the ground and stomps out of the classroom to find Mylène.
"Ivan?" Adrien calls to the teen worriedly.
"I guess he's going to go after her," Nathaniel says awkwardly as he stares at the door.
"Who cares about Chicken and The Beast? Let's focus on getting this thing done." Chloe snaps at everyone.
After a moment of silence, everyone looks at each other before, one by one, they accept her words. Everyone is getting tired of getting nowhere with the movie. They feel bad for Mylène but few are willing to keep waiting for her to stop being scared. Marinette and Sabrina are the only ones who still don't like this idea.
"Well, if we're choosing a new actress. Any chance I can do this with Ondine?" Kim asks with a grin, not noticing the tension still in the air.
However, his words get a scowl from Chloe and she glares at him.
"Why would we let her take the leading role? She's not even part of our class and shouldn't be here." Chloe says while she turns her gaze to Ondine, causing the girl to grow nervous under her stare.
"It's just, I read a bit of the script. Wouldn't it be awkward to kiss someone when the person I'm dating is in the same room?" Kim asks while nervously scratching the back of his head.
His words surprise Alya since she's the one who wrote the script.
"What are you talking about? I didn't add any kissing." Alya tells him before grabbing the script next to her and skimming through it to see if she can find what Kim is talking about.
That isn't needed, though. The person who changed the script speaks up nervously, like a kid who got caught putting their hand in the cookie jar.
"I added that. I thought it would add to the scene if the last two were lovers." Nino tells Alya with a nervous smile.
His words get a heavy scowl from Alya before the girl screams at him.
"You did what!"
Outside, Ivan is looking for Mylène and sees the girl crying on a bench near the bottom of the stairwell. When he sees her, he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a black skull pin, similar to the one he's currently wearing on his shirt, before walking down to her.
"Ummm... are you okay?" Ivan finally asks, unsure what to say to her at this moment.
Mylène jolts up when she hears Ivan's voice and looks at him with a face filled with fear. Seeing this causes Ivan to sigh, having grown used to those looks since he became Stoneheart, especially from Mylène. The girl seems to be the most afraid of those Hawkmoth prayed upon, which is unfortunate for her, seeing as she's in a class of them. It's gotten worse since Chloe and Aurore got re-Akumatized.
"L-look. I just came to check on you and make sure you're alright. I'm not going to hurt you, I promise." Ivan tries to reassure the girl, but her terrified expression inwardly breaks his heart.
His words don't seem to ease Mylène's worries, though. She scoots slightly away from Ivan and continues to stare at him nervously.
"I-if you come back, I promise I'll try to roar quietly." Ivan offers to the girl before holding out his palm and showing the pin to her.
"This is a pin from my favorite band, the Zombie Skull Crushers. Maybe you could keep it as a good luck charm." Ivan offers it to her with a kind smile to show he means no harm.
Mylène stares at it momentarily, unsure if she should take it. However, she decides she doesn't want to anger him and finally takes the pin with a shaky hand. She then puts it in her pocket and gives Ivan her best smile.
"Uh, t-thanks, Ivan. B-but they're right. I c-can't act to save my life and have wasted everyone's time. I should probably go. I-it was a stupid dream, a-anyway." Mylène says as she starts to tear up after remembering her failures and runs into the girls' bathroom to cry.
Seeing this breaks Ivan's heart and causes an unmistakable rage to build within him. This anger doesn't go unnoticed, though. Neither does the mix of sadness, fear and regret that Mylène is feeling.
Within his lair, Hawkmoth senses the two's rising emotions and smiles.
"Ah. Stoneheart. It's good to see you ready to cause more havoc in defense of the one you love. And it seems she also wishes to have the strength to protect herself. I'll grant you two the opportunity to fight together. Perhaps your love for her will let you win this time." Hawkmoth says as he refers to Ivan's feelings.
With that, he holds up his cane and palm, creating two butterflies and sending them after the two students.
While they fly toward the school, Ivan angrily stomps up the stairwell and prepares to confront the person who hurt Mylène's feelings. He slams the classroom door open with enough force to startle everyone and cause all arguments to cease. He then glares at Chloe venemously.
"You made Mylène cry!" Ivan snaps at her.
Despite inwardly growing nervous from his anger, Chloe doesn't back down and scoffs at him.
"Please. As if I care that your princess is crying. I make a lot of people cry." Chloe tells him in an uncaring manner that further angers Ivan.
"What?" He shouts at her and is about to stomp toward her before Kim and Nino act quickly to stop him before a fight breaks out.
"Woah, dude. Easy. We don't need a fight right now." Nino tells him as he tries to calm Ivan down.
"Yeah, man. Take it easy. We don't want you turning into a golem again." Kim tells him in a panic as he tries to keep Ivan from punching Chloe.
However, that was the wrong thing to say, as it seems to have angered Ivan even more than before. Seeing this causes Marinette and Sabrina to help stop Ivan while the others quickly back away from the scene.
"Pretty sure that was the wrong thing to say, Kim," Nate adds as he's backing up.
"I am sick of hearing that from you assholes! I didn't ask to be turned into a stupid monster! But people keep bringing it up like I did and keep being scared of me!" Ivan roars throughout the classroom as he glares at everyone around, causing some to flinch.
"We don't think of you as a monster, Ivan." Marinette desperately tells Ivan, trying to calm the teen down as he's surprisingly strong.
"Yeah. Half of us here have been Akumatized. You're not the only one." Adrien tells Ivan as he finally builds up the courage to help try and stop the teen without his powers.
Ivan doesn't say anything and continues to try and reach for Chloe. It doesn't seem like he can calm down. It's like all his frustration has been building up, only to be released now. He's like a raging bull, ready to plow through anyone.
While everyone worriedly watches the scene, the only one who notices Hawkmoth's butterfly heading toward Ivan is Chloe.
"Akuma!" She fearfully shouts before bolting up the stairs toward the other door.
As she does, the butterfly lands on Ivan's shirt pin, and Hawkmoth's outline appears. Seeing this causes everyone to jump and panic. Some are frozen in fear while others are following after Chloe. Even the five trying to stop Ivan let him go and back away in worry.
"Stoneheart. The one you love is crying while you're being mocked as a monster. So, I once again offer you power. However, this time I'll offer it not for revenge, but the chance to wield it as a knight protecting the princess." Hawkmoth's smooth voice says while offering Ivan the power to protect Mylène.
"I'll take it, Hawkmoth," Ivan says with a glare before smoke envelops him.
Seeing this causes the rest of the students to run for it, including the three known and one unknown Miraculous wielder.
"Everyone out!" Sabrina shouts as she points to the door behind Ivan.
A little later, Mylène hears a rumbling sound while staring in the bathroom mirror, causing her to jump slightly.
"What was that?" She asks in fear before reaching into her pocket for her phone.
When she does, she feels Ivan's pin and pulls it out. Her mind thinks back to when he saved her from Dark Cupid, and she gives it a sad expression. After remembering that, she decides to place it on her headband. She looks back into the mirror and gains a sad expression.
"I wish I could be that brave. I'm scared of even talking to anyone in class." Mylène sighs as she stares into the mirror, quickly noticing the butterfly heading toward her and letting out a scream.
"G-get away!" She shouts in alarm as she rapidly backs away toward a bathroom wall while swinging her phone at the butterfly in a desperate attempt to keep it at bay.
The butterfly isn't afraid, though. It continues to fly toward her and past the phone before landing on her new pin. After it does, Mylène gasps as she can hear Hawkmoth's voice in her head.
"Horrificator. You're someone mocked for living in fear. You dream of stardom but don't have the strength to attain it. I'll give you the strength to make others fear you and crush the competition. Your number one fan is out there helping." Hawkmoth states in a confident tone.
Mylène succumbs to his hypnotic effect and gains a nasty smile.
"Thanks for your support, Hawkmoth." She thanks him before smoke envelops her as well.
Outside, students run for their lives as Stoneheart breaks through the classroom wall and roars throughout the school. The Akuma quickly jumps off the second floor and lands before the school gates, preventing any of the students from leaving. Seeing this, those in the courtyard scatter in different directions to try and find somewhere to hide. As this is happening, the three Miraculous users and Nate are on the second floor and enter different classrooms
"Why does this always happen when we're trying to do something?" Nate groans as he and Marinette duck into a classroom.
"I don't know. But it's getting old." Marinette sighs as Tikki flies out of her earrings.
"I suppose it's time to provide some movie magic." She jokes as she stares at the two humans.
"Really?" Nate can't help but ask for the joke.
"Tikki, spots on," Marinette says as she transforms, the other two doing the same thing in their respective classrooms.
Back in the courtyard, Chloe and Alix dive into the girls' bathroom since it is closest to them. Upon entering, Alix glares at Chloe with a frustrated expression.
"You just had to mock the guy, didn't you?" She snaps at Chloe, causing the other girl to scowl.
"How was I supposed to know he'd go full monster on us?" Chloe snaps back.
"Oh, I don't know, maybe because it's already happened a few times. Don't think I don't know how you caused Max and Kim to get Akumatized! And I heard you did the same thing to Rose! When are you going to learn that you can't keep doing this crap!" Alix shouts at her in anger.
"You can't tell me what to do! It's not my fault they can't accept the words of or keep up with someone as exceptional as moi." Chloe says with a smirk as she delicately places a hand on her chest while wearing a confident smirk, causing Alix to resist the urge to smack her across the face.
The two girls are so busy arguing that they don't notice the broken bathroom mirror behind Chloe or the strange sticky purplish-pink substance sticking to it. After a while, Alix pauses her screaming and pushes past Chloe to look at what's covering the mirror, causing the other girl to growl.
"How dare yo-" Chloe is about to scream before freezing as she notices what Alix is heading to.
"What the heck is this stuff?" Alix questions as she's about to use a finger to touch the substance before Chloe stops her.
"Don't touch something when you don't know what it is. You don't know what it could do to you." She tells Alix while putting the girl's arm down.
Alix scowls at the touch but backs down. The two stare at the slime worriedly, not realizing something is creeping up behind them.
"Wait. Hawkmoth can create two Akumas, right? Do you think something else is here besides Stoneheart?" Alix asks worriedly, causing Chloe's eyes to widen as she panics.
Before either of the two can do anything, they suddenly find themselves being grabbed from behind by the same sticky substance, causing them to let out screams that no one can hear over the commotion with Stoneheart.
Speaking of which, the heroes are currently trying to figure out how to beat him.
"Remember! We can't hit him, or he'll just grow and become stronger!" Ladybug shouts to her teammates, not thinking about how they got here so fast due to the current emergency.
"Right." Cat Noir and Canine nod as the three heroes rest on the school roof while staring at Stoneheart.
The Akuma soon takes notice of them and roars at the three.
"Give me your Miraculous!" Stoneheart shouts before charging and jumping up to the three in a surprising feat of agility.
The heroes quickly dive out of the way with Cat Noir and Ladybug on the right and Canine on the left.
Wanting to try and finish this fast and believing it will work against Stoneheart, Canine activates Command and shouts at the Akuma.
"Surrender!"
The orange-tinted soundwave heads toward Stoneheart and does seem to affect him. Stoneheart puts his hands to his head and loses his balance, causing him to faceplant into the courtyard's asphalt. Luckily, it doesn't seem like that caused him to grow, but it did almost cause him to hurt Kim and Ondine.
"We should get out of here before he sees me," Kim says in a panic as he grabs Ondine's arm and leads her away.
While running, the two see Nate waving toward them in the corner of the second floor. Deciding to follow him, they reclimb the stairs before entering the classroom with him.
When they enter, they see others like Juleka, Rose, Nathaniel, Max, Alya, and Nino already there.
"Why are we hiding in the school when the battle is outside?" Kim asks in a slightly freaked out as he looks out the window to see Stoneheart and the heroes going back at it.
"We figured it would be better to wait here until either the heroes win or lead Ivan out of the school," Nate tells the two with a shrug.
"Yeah. Do you want to try getting out of the school with a giant rock monster in the courtyard that may chase after you?" Alya asks him with a raised eyebrow.
Hearing this causes Kim to shake his head no rapidly while Ondine notices two people missing.
"Where's Chloe and Alix?" She asks worriedly while staring at the door.
Hearing this causes Nate to crack the door open and peek into the hallway while Nino shrugs.
"No idea, dudette."
"Maybe they got out," Rose hopefully suggests while she and Juleka hold each other.
"I hope so," Nathaniel mutters before they see the heroes leading Stoneheart out of the school.
"It looks like we'll be safe to leave soon!" Nate calls from the end of the hallway, having gone out to get a better look.
Hearing this causes the students to sigh in relief.
"We should probably wait here for a few minutes just to be safe," Alya tells the rest of the class, causing a few nods.
The group sits there for a minute before realizing Nate hasn't returned yet. This gets a few raised eyebrows, and Alya heads to the door.
"Hey, Nate! Are you coming back in?" Alya calls into the hall but doesn't get a response back.
She doesn't even see Nate in the hall.
"I think he already left." She tells everyone before she notices something.
"Wait, no. Something's in the hall." Alya tells the group before leaving the room to check it out.
Her words cause others to become curious. Max and Kim are the ones who go out with her to see what's happening. In the hallway, the same purplish-pink slime substance is around a shoe.
"What is this stuff?" Alya disgustedly asks as she looks at the slime while Kim picks up the shoe.
"Isn't this Nate's shoe?" Kim asks as he looks at it.
Max stands next to it and inspects it.
"It looks to be the same design as the ones he wears." He agrees.
Hearing this causes Alya to grow nervous as she looks at the slime. It's not normal to leave a shoe behind if it's safe. Plus, there's something strange about this slime. After a moment of thought, she turns back to the boys and says.
"I think we should get out of here. Something's wrong." She tells the two anxiously, getting worried expressions in return.
She pushes past the two and the three quickly run back to the classroom to tell the others.
"Hey, guys. We should leave. Something is wrong. We found Nate's shoe in the hall with some weird goo." Alya tells everyone in the room as she and Kim stand at the door.
Hearing this causes people to panic before Nino notices something weird.
"Wait. Wasn't Max with you dudes?" He nervously asks, causing Kim to give him a confused look.
"What are you talking about, man? He's right-" Kim says before pausing when he turns his head and sees Max missing.
Further down the hall, Max's glasses lay on the floor with some slime around them.
"Max!" Kim calls worriedly for his friend before rushing down the hall to look for him.
"Kim, wait!" Ondine worriedly shouts as she rushes to the door.
She and Alya are about to chase after the boy before he's suddenly grabbed by a rope of that slime substance and ripped from the second floor with a short scream.
"Kim!" Ondine shouts in alarm before rushing over to where Kim is grabbed and looking around the courtyard for him.
However, she doesn't see him anywhere. All she sees is a small trail of slime.
Hearing her scream, the other classmates start shuffling into the hall, and Alya turns to them worriedly.
"Guys, I think Hawkmoth made another Akuma. And it's after us." Alya reveals fearfully.
I have a lot of chapters written ahead and will be uploading a third time this month.
You absolutely cannot sit here and tell me Ladybug hasn’t loved Cat Noir and Adrien hasn’t loved Marinette since day one.
These feelings aren’t new. They just got stronger over time and it took them ages to figure out what they’ve been feeling.
Notice how Ladybug stutters and gets clumsy when she first talks to Cat Noir. Mirrors how she stutters and gets extra clumsy around Adrien.
Also notice how sweetly she says “oh!you’re quite the jokester aren’t you?” and looks at him fondly while he’s hanging upside down, making his silly pun.
And, then she looks at him so dreamily when he gives her encouragement. Don’t forget Cat Noir is the one who helped give her the confidence to take on her role as Ladybug.
And you can never forget the faces Adrien makes during the umbrella scene. He stares at her so lovingly and laughs at her (when he claimed one time after this that no one can make him laugh the way his mom did).
Then when they split off, he looks back and gets blushy.
This was all in the origin episodes, taking place on the day they first met and then the day following that. It took these two four seasons to 100% understand the feelings they have for each other’s other identities.
It was a frustrating few years, but we love them. How could you not.
The case for starting with “Origins.“ (Spoilers for those just starting)
In catching up with all three seasons, I decided to start firmly at the "beginning" beginning in order to truly get up to speed and... I feel like it works better. Here's why:
Some people would feel thrown off by just starting when everything has been established without any expository dialogue that lays down how the protagonists got their power.
Stormy Weather" isn't a bad crash course but some would prefer to ease into a show's premise by starting with... the start. It can feel like we had missed the premiere even if Origins was produced later on. I'm sure I don't have to point out the jarring experience that was "Party Crasher" and how it was played WAY out of order.
In addition to showing how Marinette and Adrien got their Miraculous, "Stone Heart" gives us the usual formula for each episode of battling the Akuma within Part One alone. It's a good layout of what to expect of the series for the most part.
That said, "Ladybug and Chat Noir" gives us a twist in showing the consequences of an Akuma that isn't purified in time in a decidedly less formulaic story. This establishes the stakes a bit more concretely for each episode to come.
It plants the seeds of mystery behind Hawk Moth and Master Fu respectively. While the image of Emile would give away Gabriel's identity well before "Simon Says" lays it on thicker, it still leaves us wondering.
Why is Adrien's father the villain? What will happen when our heroes finds out the truth? What happened to the woman? There's more of a dramatic irony when we're more aware.
For Master Fu, we're left wondering who this old man is and when the protagonists will meet him. The Miracle Box also shows us that there's potential for future allies and enemies. When Tikki gets a cold and needs to be healed by Fu, we smile at seeing a familiar face.
So, I was rewatching the series, and came across this scene (for the umteenth time)
And I remembered an episode in Naruto that actually has great (further) explanation of this line:
This is actually very accurate, especially in Adrien’s case. The reason why many people are hating on Adrien for telling Marinette to take the higher road in Chameleon, is because he is aware of what’s the truth and what’s the lie, but he isn’t doing anything about it.
True, he didn’t do ‘nothing’, per se. Telling Marinette to take the higher road is his way of caring about her. But he needs to realise that that is simply ignoring the problem at hand, not resolving it. And while he is right that Lila’s lies would eventually become too much for her, waiting for that will be long, and till then the problem will only grow bigger, and cause even more mental and emotional hurt to Marinette. So really, even if it gets resolved in the long run, the harm done along the way can’t be erased. In that sense, taking the higher road is seemingly silly.
Not to mention, since he knows, and but doesn’t attempt to resolve it, makes him no better than an accomplice or the prime suspect.
(Not hating on Adrien here, just stating that this is a flaw, a considerable silly mindset that needs to be changed, and I hope that change does happen.)
