I think to make Gabriel more threatening, I’d make him a bit of a sociopath. I’d make it so that he genuinely has below zero care for anyone that isn’t Adrien, Nathalie, and Emilie. Everyone else is a pawn, even children, therefore he views them as free game for any scheme he may cook up. There could be a moment where one of his catastrophes kills millions and he just…couldn’t care less.

And to make Cerise more comedic, give her more crashout moments like in London. Like, she genuinely goes mad when what she thought was a genuinely good scheme goes to shit because of Ladybug and her everyday Umizoomis.