Miraculous Ladybug Season 5's Protagonist Problem
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Published 2023-07-08
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Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (French: Miraculous, les aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir; also known as Miraculous Ladybug or Miraculous]) is a French CGI superhero / magical girl television series. The series focuses on two Parisian teenagers, Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste, who transform into the superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir, respectively, to protect the city from supervillains. The series is co-produced by French studios Zagtoon and Method Animation in association with Toei Animation in Japan, with the participation of TF1, AB Droits Audiovisuels, The Walt Disney Company France, Gloob, SK Broadband and EBS.
In modern-day Paris, teenagers Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste transform into superheroes when evil arises. Marinette and Adrien transform into their superhero personas, Ladybug and Cat Noir respectively, using magical jeweled objects known as the Miraculous. Not knowing each other's true identities, the two work together to protect Paris from the mysterious villain, Hawk Moth, who covets and attempts to steal their powers by using his akumas, butterflies infused with negative energy, to transform Paris' everyday citizens into supervillains when they go through negative emotions. All the while, the two struggle with their feelings for each other, not knowing each other's secret identities - Marinette is in love with Adrien but not Cat Noir, while Adrien is in love with Ladybug but not Marinette.
Adrien Agreste, better known as Cat Noir, is one of the two titular main protagonists (alongside Ladybug) of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. He is a student at Collège Françoise Dupont and a fashion model. With his magical ring, inhabited by a Kwami named Plagg, he has the power of bad luck and can transform into the superhero Cat Noir (Chat Noir in the French version). In Season 3, he temporarily receives the Ladybug Miraculous from Tikki, which, when inhabited by her, can transform him into Mister Bug, a ladybug-themed superhero, and in "Desperada", he temporarily receives the Snake Miraculous from Ladybug, which, when inhabited by the Kwami Sass, can transform him into Aspik, a snake-themed superhero.
Marinette Dupain-Cheng is the primary protagonist of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. She is a student in Miss Bustier's class at Collège Françoise Dupont in Paris, France, and a budding fashion designer who wants to have her own brand one day. With the Ladybug Miraculous, when inhabited by Tikki, Marinette transforms into the superheroine Ladybug, gaining the power of creation to stop Hawk Moth and his akumatized villains. She is the leader of the French Miraculous superhero team.
Gabriel Agreste (born Gabi Grassette) is the main antagonist of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. He is a famous fashion designer across Paris and the world who created and owns the fashion brand Gabriel. He is also the husband of Emilie Agreste and the father of Adrien Agreste, who quit modeling for him in season 5.
With the Butterfly Miraculous, when inhabited by Nooroo, Gabriel transforms into Hawk Moth (Le Papillon in the French version, which translates to "The Butterfly"), who is the main villain of the first three seasons. He wanted Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses for himself in order to obtain the Ultimate Miraculous Absolute Power to reshape reality to bring back his wife after she used the damaged Peacock Miraculous. To achieve his goal, he used the Butterfly Miraculous's power: akumatization. This allowed him to create and control akumas, regular butterflies, imbued with the power of the Butterfly Miraculous that can transform normal people with negative emotions into akumatized supervillains.
"Conformation (The Last Day - Part 1)" is a Season 5 episode of the series, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
"Re-creation (The Last Day - Part 2)" is a Season 5 episode of the series, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
Monarch has just placed the final pieces of his villainous plan on his chessboard of evil. He has nothing left to lose, because today will be his final day. The plan he has put in place is more ambitious than ever. Global, merciless, radical. If he were to fail at seizing Ladybug and Cat Noir’s Miraculous, the world would live forever in chaos. The unsuspecting Marinette and Adrien have already fallen victim to this plan. Are Ladybug and Cat Noir doomed?
All Comments (21)
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No seriously. Where the hell was Felix? He would never put on an Alliance ring and his girlfriend and cousin, who he keeps trying to make sure are free, were literally imprisoned. What even was the point of his stupid abstract play? Did he just want Ladybug to do all the work for him?
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Honestly, at this point, Chat Noir has every right to go villain if he wants. Everyone lies to him, treats him as a side piece with no autonomy, and considers him unimportant.
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In miraculous, the worst thing is to be blonde.
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One of the biggest issues in the show is how it fails Adrien. He's intelligent and cultured but has an abusive homelife, which essentially makes him a fascinating protagonist, as does him having the power to destroy--which could be a metaphor for his toxic homelife. But he's never allowed much screentime or development, and his hero persona (which I feel is way too OOC for him; I feel like Plagg influenced him significantly) is made into a replaceable sidekick. I hope Zag's movie gives him proper respect.
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Yeah. The show writers and Thomas asstruc are disgusting for treating Adrien like this.
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“adrien being demoted from a sidekick to a damsel in distress would have been bad enough, but you know what? at least in the nightmare, he was there.” i’m crying😭😭
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Adrien should’ve been the main character anyways he’s literally the reason why everything happens.
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the fact that gabriel getting a statue in his honor & is praised for his non-existent heroism while his son, whom he had emotionally abused throughout most of his life, is lied to & gaslighted into believing that his father was a great man and aspires to be like him in the future is the ending this trashfire of a show expects us to consider as 'good' is actually apalling & disgusting on multiple layers
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They did Adrian so dirty that I don't think any other main character in history past and future will ever be dismissed as hard as Adrian got dismissed in this finale
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It honestly make zero sense on how Adrien's whole life, his BIRTH, is the catalyst for the ENTIRE show to happen, and yet he's being treated like nobody important. Dude, he's the freaking son of the MAIN villain, who's goal was to bring back HIS mother. Heck, even excluding him from the finale and all that happily ever after yada yada is bs. It's THE FINAL confrontation with the main villain, his father, not to mention the amount of abuse Gabe caused the poor guy over the years, and suddenly all that trauma is poof gone. Like what, treat him better, he deserves better than... whatever the show gave him
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I've argued in my own videos on the matter that Astruc has no interest in making Adrien a character beyond a certain narrow set of character traits. Astruc has repeatedly demonstrated the lengths he will go to write Adrien out of his own story to keep Adrien as a perfect doll. Felix honestly feels more like a protagonist because he got many stories where Adrien should have been relevant. Finding out Gabriel is Hawk Moth? Felix did that, not Adrien. Finding Emile's stasis pod? Felix did that, not Adrien. Revealing his family's history of Marinette? Felix did that, not Adrien. The irony in this is that Astruc treats Adrien as a perfect doll which is exactly what Gabriel does to Adrien.
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Your final point about Chloe's dad being made the victim, is what I wanted to type when I was listening to your video: This show has a HORRIBLE take on how it handles abusive households! All the girls from abusive homes were demonized, or rather, akumatized, at some point in the show. Adrien is literally made to WORSHIP his abuser at the end of the Agreste arc thanks to Marinette lying. Felix was treated as a villainous character up until he fell for Kagami and explained his actions had a pretty good reason. Marinette abuses Adrien in their superhero forms all the time yet he's her loyal side kick and in civilian life became her boyfriend! This show, if anything, teaches kids to hate themselves for acting out for their abuse and teaches them to stick to partners who keep abusing them. It's this message that has me wanting to puke whenever Marinette is rewarded on screen, and why I believe this show is downright harmful to children. Yet the good bits get me hate-watching this piece of trash. I heard rumors Astruc was leaving after S5, and I better hope its true.
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"Adrian will get a bigger role next season" Yeah, we say that since the end of season 3
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Mlb and thomas in particular has a BIG problem with understanding feminism.. and it’s very obvious w this terrible ass finale
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I think, that the reason to exclude Adrien from the filnale was "woman empowerment". Astruc treats this as Marinette being a strong female character, who does not need a man to help. Some episodes ago he tweeted something like "Ladybug and Chat Noir are equal, but she is the leader. Do you have something against a girl being a leader?" I regret to say that, Astruc, but you are too late for the party. It's not as innovative anymore. When it comes to Adrien becoming Chat Blanc after realising the truth about his family, it can be easily solved. Marinette could just hug and comfort him to show, that he has someone, who cares for him and loves him even though he is a sentimonster.
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One thing that always ticks me off is how at the beginning master Fu had to chose one person to carry the ladybug and cat miraculous because only a few were able to, however in recent chapters we have seen the miraculous changing owners or straight up having Marinette use both when we were told that can produce an incredible power. If miraculous are now being given like candy to any person, it makes me think they aren't so special because literally ANYONE can use them
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It's the tales of Ladubyg and CAT NOIR, not merely the tales of Ladybug. I can't believe they locked Adrien in a cell for the entire finale while Su Han, the New York heroes, and even Fei Wu had more to do. And seriously, Felix and Kagami were also absent for the entire finale despite being the two most important side characters as they had a direct connection to the villains. They should have participated in the finale, and Cat Noir absolutely should have confronted his father. It would have been the perfect boss battle to wrap up Adrien's character arc, as he finally stands up to his father for the final time.
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Tbh, if this show ACTUALLY has the balls to make Adrian an antagonist (or at least rebell against Marinette) in season 6 after he's learned everything (at least, I HOPE he learns everything 💀), then I'll take back ALLLL the bad things I've ever said about this show. 😂..... well, not everything, but you get the point.
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Adrien really needs a dark kwami or whatever this series equivalent of black suit Spider-Man would be; have him slowly start to go villiain as he’s tired of constantly being manipulated, lied to, and treated like some object everyone throws to the side.
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The fact that people still have hope in this show is astonishing.
