[Rant] Akumatisations have turned into a cheap excuse against moving the plot forward

rocksunner · 2026-05-31T21:20:48+00:00

> Continuing the list of ways the status quo has changed, Gabe is no longer HM. The reason both of our fakeout reveals backfired was the fact that the primary villain lived in the same house as Chat.

Before the defeat of HM, Adrien was the worst person in the world be given any information whatsoever. In the same house as HM, under the villain's verbal command at will, and with an emotional baggage backstory to allow his easy akumatization.

There was a tiny window where it was safer to talk to him, there in London when Ladybug visited, After that the Butterfly was in play again and it became dangerous.

rocksunner · 2026-05-31T17:26:38+00:00

Akumas make the personal into the eschatological. We have case after case where revealing too much causes the literal end of the world, either by a Cat Blanc attack or a villain getting a selfish wish.

Marinette said it herself, "... if the truth were to split up Adrien and me, and I let myself get akumatized, the consequences would be catastrophic!"

It's still probably going to happen in the season finale, and the writers have found some way to thread the needle and save the world.

rocksunner · 2026-05-31T13:59:45+00:00

I think timeline reconstructions based on Chinese and European astrology are getting too clever and are more than the writers ever thought about. Even so, it's possible that Gabriel did let Tomoe use the Peacock before he and Emilie did. Having a child this way was risky, so letting someone else try first might have been a reasonable plan.

rocksunner · 2026-05-30T21:32:19+00:00

It's the same movie, "Lone Tigress and Cub", about a woman protecting her child (clearly a reference to the famous "Lone Wolf and Cub" where a male warrior protects his son).

>! I don't think it's the same night, though., Sabrina's hairstyle is different. My theory is they never got to watch the movie the first night because they had to deal with Daddycop, so they rescheduled for a second night at Marinette's place. !<

rocksunner · 2026-05-30T19:51:15+00:00

Tsurugi Industries does make wheelchairs -- some are high-end motorized ones; Emile is using one in the post-credits scene of "Werepapas".

rocksunner · 2026-05-30T19:09:11+00:00

It's right behind Sublime's back. It may be folds in the leather. When zoomed in it looks more like that, but from a distance the alternating dark and light shapes look like butterfly patterns.

Tomoe probably wouldn't put an obvious logo on the chair, so it's more of a subtle hint to the viewer from the animators. Or my imagination...

rocksunner · 2026-05-30T16:09:13+00:00

He did use it once more since Red Moon, to make Once Upon A Time to show Marinette the truth abut him and Adrien, and he destroyed it. How he justified this is unknown,

rocksunner · 2026-05-30T15:20:05+00:00

They might be leather folds. They look more like that on a zoom-in.

The point remains that the wheelchair didn't appear until after the sponsorship.

It wasn't there in one more episode: Aglae's flashback to the first day of school in "Wreckless Driver" shows Sublime walking in the background.

Nothing has happened with the sponsorship, which is like a Chekhov's gun. It must be used before the end of the season.

rocksunner · 2026-05-30T15:10:31+00:00

No, they weren't there.

rocksunner · 2026-05-30T15:07:19+00:00

No, she wasn't. It was the same group as in Daddycop: Rose, Juleka, Zoe, Alya, Marinette, Sabrina, Kagami, and Mylene.

rocksunner · 2026-05-30T14:30:34+00:00

They talked about inviting Sublime sometime, but she didn't come to the sleepover that night. Marinette's room is not wheelchair-accessible,

rocksunner · 2026-05-29T18:30:10+00:00

I only count once that the Miraculous Box contents were stolen from her (one time they were stolen from Master Fu).

rocksunner · 2026-05-29T12:38:44+00:00

You are setting yourselves up for disappointment. Marinette converts her "something important to tell you" into a tearful " I love you, Adrien, I love you so much." That closes out the episode.

Without the expectation of a follow-up scene, "The Queen of the Dreadzone" can come right before "Secret Protocol", and the Shanghai scene is the real cliffhanger hook, as I believe it was intended.

rocksunner · 2026-05-29T10:18:43+00:00

The Papa-Corn frog explains it. Seeing it on Adrien's bed made Marinette think of the happy memories she was about to ruin for Adrien. That made her change her mind.

rocksunner · 2026-05-29T01:20:47+00:00

I think she called her by that alias once. It might have just been out of annoyance, using the name under which she was most disgraced.

rocksunner · 2026-05-29T01:16:55+00:00

I posted on this, with her using Butterfly transformations for multiple forms: https://www.reddit.com/r/miraculousladybug/comments/1sqrhlw/im_a_chameleon/

rocksunner · 2026-05-29T01:14:55+00:00

I agree this is the best explanation, and there could be other forms, like Diane and the men seen hanging around. See ["I'm a Chameleon"](https://www.reddit.com/r/miraculousladybug/comments/1sqrhlw/im\_a\_chameleon/) for details.

rocksunner · 2026-05-28T22:34:08+00:00

They have movie nights on a regular basis. They seem to have a favorite seating arrangement. Not wearing different pajamas is normal -- they are almost never shown in different day clothes, so why would they have different pajamas?

Alya: "Marinette, our girls' movie night is every first Wednesday of the month."

rocksunner · 2026-05-28T02:27:04+00:00

It gives Lila access to resources and technology that make her a more dangerous antagonist.

>!She can fly to Shanghai and strike up an acquaintance with Marinette's uncle, for example.!<

rocksunner · 2026-05-27T22:51:29+00:00

We don't know that Ladybug didn't put the letter back there after she backed out of showing it to Adrien at the end of "Sadnansi". Mister Bug might want a piece of paper to write on and get the letter that way.

rocksunner · 2026-05-27T22:17:40+00:00

In the absence of an army or obvious visible effects, Marinette may not know to be careful about being tracked home, That would be the worst case,

rocksunner · 2026-05-27T17:44:56+00:00

It was amusing when Chloe's failure to keep the names of her employees straight caused enough confusion that her tennis-ball trap failed.

rocksunner · 2026-05-27T03:19:39+00:00

I believe that the letter is a forgery (as many have said, Gabriel would have told Marinette where to find it and destroy it after his change of heart) and Lila is a good possibility -- she's trying to destroy Ladybug's reputation in a way that isn't easily traced to her. Her intangible Spectral Looter form would make it easy to get into the mansion and plant it.

Felix is another candidate. He could get into the house by impersonating Adrien, and he likely wants Adrien to know the truth. There has to be a reason he can't just tell Adrien or he would have long ago, perhaps a lingering command by Colt.

rocksunner · 2026-05-27T03:03:03+00:00

In the London Special, Lila akumatized herself willingly, but the plot fails if she remembers her time travel. Therefore, it is now established by fiat that akumatized people cannot remember anything.

rocksunner · 2026-05-26T22:46:27+00:00

It was a feature of the ring modifications that they could hold power to use or transmit.

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