Miraculous Ladybug Has a POWER Problem

"We finished designing every miraculous power" "Wait we forgot the rooster !" "Oh, let's just give it every power"

Literally all Marinette needs is the ladybug and rooster miraculous and she would be the most broken super hero ever 💀.

In my opinion, the Snake miraculous should be able to restore things, as opposed to the Ladybug miraculous, to their original state because snakes are associated with healing, regeneration and immortality.

3:23 The "recreating people and not actually bringing them back" sounds like a really cool fanfic concept For example, every time Cat Noir dies and is brought back, he loses details of his personality and becomes a caricature of what Marinette thinks he is

The thing I hate most is how OP they made Ladybug. There was already a huge power imbalance between her and Chat Noir, and season 4 made that imbalance even bigger (she can literally become a Goddess if she wanted to). Anyways, I 100% agree with all the points you made.

Chat Noir should have gotten the purify a power because purify means to destroy impurities

I think the biggest problem is that the writers realized that some of these other miraculous have far too much power compared to Ladybug and thus tried to make Ladybug more powerful in return. What they forgot is that the vague terms of creation and destruction are so easy to make interesting. People have probably put down their thoughts on Mari's powers in the comments already, so how about Adrien's? Can he control the rate that things decay? Does the power simply cause the object to decay faster or does it simply break? If he can control the rate, then maybe he can create some weapons on the fly. Maybe throwing a glass ball into the fray and letting it shatter right in the villain's face by controlling the point and time of destruction. Of course, Adrien's abilities are severely hindered by the "one special move per transformation" thing that cut any interesting scenes with him early on. Allowing him to have a sneaky and underhand way of fighting would not only set him apart from Ladybug, but also allow him to fill the whole "bad boy" role that they want Chat Noir to be. But doing so would mean that Chat Noir has the same amount of power as Ladybug and heaven forbid they have that happen. Also the whole secret identity power is just there to make the "reveal" more "exciting." They bend the rules so many times for the sake of a cool scene. Mari has spoken to Adrien while one or the other was un-transformed multiple times. I believe the earliest was somewhere in season one if I remember correctly.

In my opinion if they had to have Marinette be able to restore some things, why not require Cat Noir to destroy the evil/the influence of the akuma? It would’ve made more sense than to have yo-yo lady… create the good?

I'm calling it right now: the writers are going to make Hawk Moth uses each miraculous in the typical villain-of-the-week format and have said miraculous be reclaimed each episode. Edit: Holy cow, I had no idea this blew up, thanks for the commentary!

I’ve read fanfiction that characterises Marinette better than the show and keeps Adrian’s personality consistent and removes Marinette’s creepy stalking issues or addresses them properly and provides consequences. Edit: more recs O Fortuna (unfinished) Truth and Consequences (long fic)

I think the butterfly miraculous should have had a theme of freedom/letting go, and granted the user flight, camouflage/invisibility abilities (because many butterflies use their wings for camouflage) and the ability to create a small butterfly that can spy on people and report back to the user, scope out fights from a distance to count how many miraculouses are in play or search for the miraculous box holder. The theme could have played into Gabriel wanting to be free of the grief he feels from his wifes death. True, it's less op than other miraculouses but it would have made more sense, at least to me lol

Can someone explain to me why Ladybug and Master Fu tought that keeping the miracoulus ALL IN ONE PLACE was safer than... I don't know... Give them to their respective holders? Who live all around Paris? I mean, even if Hawkmoth could track down one of them, he would have only one miracoulus and not the full box, and the one who lost the kwami could tell the others what happened before Hawkmoth could reach them... For instance, the season 4 finale would never have happened this way...

The power system is 100% broken,especially since they have said that the only limit,at least for some of them,is their users imagination. So the episode you were referring to when talking about the identities was before we,the audience, knew about the magic that masks them from being recognized. However, because of this show being vague and not explaining stuff,it is unclear when the characters found out about this. I think it may have been one of the specials,in New York I think,but I'm not sure. Also,the supers in New York made NO SENSE. In the origin episode, everyone in Paris was surprised to see superheroes being real,which would make no sense if actual superheroes existed in America.

With how often Marinette recruits the same people with the same miraculous, there's a point where she should just leave the miraculous with those people and stop giving the same speech of "you will use x miraculous, when the job is done you will return it to me". If they're able to organize rendezvous points to return the miraculous after an akuma is stopped, then why aren't they a permanent team? It would certainly be helpful to everyone present. And why does Gabriel do nothing with the information of the identities of like 7 of the holders? He uses this for 2 episodes, and then quits. If he was smarter than Dr. Doofenshmirtz, he'd notice that pretty much all the holders are in Adrien's class, therefore Ladybug must have some connection to all of them if she trusts them enough to be "temporary" miraculous holders. And with Kagami and Luka, that would hep narrow it down even more with how Ladybug would be connected to them and the class. And the whole "the limits of the powers are only the limits the holder places on themselves" thing is stupid. It basically boils down to them deciding to be more powerful and willing it into existence. It raises more questions and throws away the stakes. Gabriel, the big bad villain, had more trouble unlocking his true potential than a 14 year old girl... think about that.

The problem was that they have never put limits on their powers besides that "you only have 5 minutes before going back to normal after using your power". Without limits Gabriel ended up creating villains able to destroy the universe or move the planet and that just makes you wonder why doesnt he just use his power to grant his wish.

Am I the only one who misses season 1-2 of Miraculous? It was just Marinette having fun with her friends and hoping to get the attention of Adrian, and Ladybug and Cat Noir defeating Hawk Moth and his akumatized villians. The new seasons are just too complicated and confusing. I miss the old days.

I think the story would've been more interesting if all the miraculous were lost. Like Master Fu scattered them all over Paris to prevent Hawk Moth from using them for evil. The only ones that he found on his own was the Ladybug and the cat, and he gave them to Marinette and Adrien to help him find the rest. But the other miraculous were founded by someone else so now Ladybug and Chat Noir not just have to prevent Hawk Moth from getting the other Miraculous but they also have to get take it from other heroes.

I think the power system is super disappointing for the same reasons you mentioned... I think the bunny miraculous would've been really great if it wasn't about time travel but seeing past or future events. Yes, this is still OP but not if you give that power limitation. One limitation could be for example that they don't have control over what they will see and how much they will see of the past or future event. That would explain why they can't just find out the villains' identities and what happened to Emilie right away. It could also make it unappealing to use. After all you don't know what you will see and I imagine that could be really scary.

18:52 One thing I really, really don’t like about „Miraculous“ is that besides from the permanent holders like Marinette, Adrien, Master Fu, Gabriel, Alya and Nathalie none of the miraculous holders have a realationship with their quamis! I really want to see them interact more! This is such a big missed opportunity! Imagine Sass & Luka actually having conversations! Or Roarr and Juleka! Also: the Superheros themselves don’t have a relationship with each other besides LB & CN and LB & RR! Does Vesperia like Carapace? Does Purple Tigress like Rena Rouge? How do Minotaurox and Ryuuko get along? We don’t know!

The goat and rooster’s powers were so obviously taken from the users interests. The team looked at Marinette’s class/friend group, chose Marc and Nathaniel, THEN developed the powers. “Ah yes, author can write his own powers because story writer! Artist can make anything he imagines! (literally evillustrator but without the pen pad+can only use once).” I remember seeing the powers online since I refuse to watch season 4, and I just thought that the team is willing to overlap powers, just so it seems like the characters are perfect for this miraculous. Marinette knew what the miraculous did and was like, “I know the perfect people for these!” AND NO DIP YOU KNEW THE PERFECT PEOPLE, THE MIRACULOUS WERE DESIGNED FOR THEM. Like the writers team had no clue what to make the powers for these last two and instead thought about who they were going to give them to—which is horrible power writing!