Miraculous is Garbage (and Here's Why)

I agree with most of your points but you are wrong on a couple of things in the “racism” section. 1:46:32 he’s not based on Viking culture, he’s based on Asterix, a cartoon and comics character who is a Gaulish warrior (barbarians inhabiting France before France was a thing) fighting against the Roman Empire. It’s a bit of an old series, I can see why you didn’t know about it especially if you’re not European, but it’s based on French culture, not just a random supervillain thing. Like, they may not get their POC characters spot on, but the French writers… know how to write French culture well. At the very least. Also, Gina (Marinette’s grandma) isn’t Russian, she’s Italian! I don’t know if they changed it in other dubs but “Befana” is an Italian tradition, and she sings Italian opera when akumatized. Let me explain something: while not just present in Italian culture, “Befana” is a magical being taking the appearance of a sweet old woman, that on the night between the 5th and 6th of January (a festivity called Epifania) gifts candy to good kids and coal to bad kids. That’s what the episode was referencing. She is a staple of ITALIAN culture. I get it that her and her husband are white passing, but European non-mainstream cultures get shafted enough by mainstream media, so seeing people not doing proper research makes me a little mad. Of course, I get this video must have been hard to write, but please do better research next time, really.

I still don't get how HAWKMOTH, the person who terrorized Paris for a whole YEAR, constantly abused abused his son, and ggot Nataliehurt gets redeemed . But chloe, a 14-year old girl who just wants her mother's approval is "an irredeemable monster".

The fact that the creator says Chloe a teenager with a bad home life is an irredeemable monster deeply disturbs me Edit: This is not an excuse for her actions this is about how messed up the creator is for him to back peddle on her arc while saying she's not abused (physical is not the only kind of abuse) and calling an irredeemable monster

How can Marinette hate Chloe’s obsession with ladybug and not reflect that she herself acts even worse about Adrien

I think the main problem with Adrien and Marinette is that they don't really like each other, they like the masks they put up. Marinette treats Ladybug like a job so she has to be this hypercompetent badass but that's not how she normally is, but that's who Adrien fell for. And Adrien's whole civilian life is kind of an act so he treats Chat Noir as an escape where he can be himself, away from expectations, but Marinette doesn't like that guy, she likes polite, repressed, Adrien.

Lets face it. Every fan rewrite is better than what Thomas did.

I hate when people say shit like "Miraculous is for kids, dont be so serious about", THAT'S EXACTLY WHY WE NEED TO BE SERIOUS ABOUT IT, IT'S HARMFUL FOR CHILDREN

So basically Thomas is trying to say that Gabriel, the abusive, neglectful, horrible, and awful father, is more redeemable than Chloe, a neglected, abused girl who is clearly affected by her past. And even went as far as to paint him as a hero. At the very least, I expected Adrien to take SOME PART in recreation considering Gabriel is his father, but instead, he played the damsel in distress. Amazing. Just great. I've never seen anything worse.

I found it really disappointing that the only reason Marinette wanted to go to China was bc Adrien was going to be there. Was it so hard to just have her want to go to China to travel, have fun, practice her Chinese, spend time with her family and learn more about her heritage? And just have Adrien there as a funny coincidence, his dad was doing business there or something. I was a teen girl once and even though I had huge crushes, I still had other things going on in my life outside of the guy I liked.

Marinette having adhd and adrien having autism is the realest headcanon I’ve ever heard for this show

The creator (Thomas) annoys me a lot. The fact that his fans know more about his characters than he does himself. He says that Chloe doesn’t have any trauma or isn’t being abused by her mum, when we have seen loads of episodes where Chloe’s mum keeps forgetting her name, and other things that show she’s being abused by her mum. She’s not being abused physically by her mum but she is mentally. Thomas then says Chloe is a monster and can’t be redeemed, yet he had shown loads of episodes where she does get redeemed. He’s honestly the most dumbest writer i’ve ever seen. And I honestly think Thomas hates Adrien, because in the first few seasons he was always sacrificing himself. Adrien never got to know that Hawkmoth is Gabriel in season 5, but Marinette did. The few seasons were super repetitive which is one reason why the show flop. I think the episodes were also rushed, just watch the episodes and look how fast it’s going. And because fans don’t like the show, a lot of them are remaking it. Including me lol

Things I wanted from this show: 1. Chloe to actually be a good person and keep being queen bee 2. The identity reveal and let the main two date without time reversal bs 3. Cat and ladybug to both be guardians of the miraculous box

PERSONAL HEADCANON: after season 3, Chloé is replaced by a lookalike paid by Astruc. Real Chloé has moved to New York and is growing into a better person. 😂

THANK YOU. I've never seen anyone else talk about how much the creator seems to hate women that aren't Marinette. It always struck me as odd the way he completely villainized them only to have Mari do smth similar and have it shrugged off.

As a woman I honestly find Thomas' claim of the show being "feminist" insulting. Essentially what he does is sideline a guy to the point of irrelevance to make a girl the leader, which unfortunately implies that if the guy was a bit more relevant the girl wouldn't be more than a sidekick, that the only way for a girl to be the main character is if you kill any chance for the guy to hold his ground - feminism is about reaching equality, Thomas is all about pitting men and women against each other (what will he do when he finds out non-binary people exist.... the world war of genders......)

I also always thought how stupid it was that Marinette can't get akumatized. I mean, she literally had about 2-3 mental breakdowns, crying and feeling worthless and lost, and yet Hawk Moth was in the 4th dimension or something, because a guy who gets upset he can't feed pigeons is sadder than a mental breakdown. I'd also like to think that if Marinette WAS akumatized, Cat Noir would finally be able to have the spotlight and not seem thrown away for once.

it's always boggling the mind how media that tries to be female-centric and empowering for girls and such ends up writing the most cliché, annoying, tropy female characters while the guys more often than not seem genuinely and interestingly written. it annoys me to no end how the only solution they have to bring out girl power is to put down men, rather than just, idk, writing female characters like humans and not caricatures. you can make a hyperfeminine character and still have her be a cool badass with flaws. you don't need to step on someone's toes to not be the damsel, which, surprise, is the real life of most women.

This show is prime example of great concept, medial execution

when the fandom makes genuinely better stories and content than the actual show, it's not necessarily a death rattle for the show, but it is a red flag for sure.

Thomas's "She's Barbie, he's Ken. That isn't changing." tweet gets me every time. He's arguing that Adrien doesn't have to change or be as much of a focus in the show, and that's ok. But the difference is that barbie/ken are DOLLS. Not characters in a piece of media where things actually happen. And it's even funnier because in the Barbie move (recently released, so he wouldn't have seen it when he wrote that tweet, to be fair), Ken actually gets AMAZING characterization.