Kagami and her selflessness. What is Kagami trying to prove every time she fights a villain with her “bare hands”?
That she's willing to sacrifice herself for Adrien, or that she's brave but doesn't even try to think?
I hope I'm not the only one who noticed that she doesn't know how to fight villains at all.
If you compare Kagami with Marinette, you can see that before rushing into battle, Marinette first assesses the situation, and only then develops a battle plan. Moreover, Marinette doesn't even always need superhero powers to outwit and defeat the villain.
Kagami is very similar to the Cat Noir. Cat Noir also rarely analyzes the situation and, without hesitation, immediately rushes into battle, after which he finds himself in the hands of a villain.
To be honest, I don't quite understand why Marinette gave Kagami the miraculous dragon, because there is a character in the series who deserves it much more, who has long proved that he can be a hero even without a supersuit, and, unlike some team members, she deserves a place in the team.
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Batraculous: The Teen Titans
Socqueline Wang
Hero Name: Spider-Girl
Socqueline was bitten by a radioactive spider and can now shoot webs from her hands. She has no idea where the webs come from.
She's an unapologetic dork, and has a hard time not geeking out over her favorite heroes. She also takes time to visit all of her favorite spots of Paris, even in-costume.
Marinette (a.k.a. Ladybug Bat) looks at her as a sister.
Fei Wu
Hero Name: Beast Girl
After her foster father had given Fei an experimental serum as a baby to cure a terminal disease, she gained the ability to turn into different animals.
Mainly used her powers to help out her dad and entertain kids at school before his death. Afterwards, she decided to use her shapeshifting skills to make criminals pay for hurting others.
Has a tendency to snark about anything and everything, but will keep her mouth shut if her life depends on it.
Vivica Maricel
Hero Name: Deadshot
Due to being raised by an organization of assassins, Vivica is highly trained in sharpshooting, and a master at sniper rifles. She claims to have never missed a shot in her life.
She often uses stun guns and tranquilizers in missions, only killing if the criminal is dangerous enough.
Her and Aeon bond over feeling like fishes out of water at times. Vivica is also working on controlling her temper.
Wayhem Dana
Hero Name: Blue Beetle
He was just your average fanboy of the Bat-Heroes, (Especially Cat Bat) then an alien known as the Scarab bonded to him in his sleep. Now he's got superpowers!
While the suit is on, he has super strength and he can absorb energy and neutralize it. The suit is able to produce a wide array of arnaments, like wings for flight, cannons and shields.
He's a massive dork, something he and Socqueline have in common.
Jessica Keynes-Hill
Hero Name: Green Lantern
While accompanying her mothers Barbara, (Better known by the world as Doctor Strange) and Olympia Hill (better known as Iron Woman) on a mission, she was given a Power Ring by a dying alien. Barbara taught her how to control the ring, and now she uses it to create objects she can use to save the day.
Jessica has a chip on her shoulder, she's keen on making sure she's seen as a grown up in her mom's eyes. This has given her the reputation as the mom of the Titans. She's also pretty good on the guitar and even made a theme tune for the team.
She's very protective of her teammates, especially Aeon.
Aeon Keynes-Hill
Hero Name: Vision
A android created by Olympia, powered by the Mind Stone, which gave her sentience. She's able to hack into nearby systems, shoot lasers, fly, and access information from her database.
She's a total sweetie, always fascinated by humanity, and wants to keep everyone safe. Not even Fei can be snarky around her.
Aeon's always down to help her sister and moms with missions.
Delmar Stahl
Hero Name: Falcon
The son of President Camilla Stahl, a.k.a. Captain America. He has a military wingsuit that he uses to fly and shield people from harm. He has a drone named Hombee for a friend.
He's got half of the super strength his mother got from the serum, but he still trains to keep fit.
The chillest and most charismatic nerd you'll ever meet. Him and Sabrina are dating.
The Titans
The Teen Titans live in Titans Tower, which is located in the center of Paris. Fei permanently stays there.
They frequently work with the Bat-Heroes, and both groups know eachother's identities.
They also work with heroes in New York such as the Avengers (The group led by Captain America, Iron Woman and Doctor Strange) and Ghostforce. They also work with the DigiKnights in Shanghai (Lian Le, Kang Shuunko and Jiao Guang,) and The League of Ladies (Lady Blue from Rio, Lady Tiger from Tokyo and Lady Lion from Dakar)
While they mainly operate in Paris, they also cover open spots of France that are unoccupied by the Bat-Heroes. Both groups go on international missions.
And there's the Teen Titans! Obviously taking heroes from both Marvel and DC, and you'll be seeing more of them. Let me know what you think in detail via the comments and reblogs. Also lemme know your headcanons if you can. @artzychic27 @msweebyness
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A Review of Jubilation
The opening of Jubilation is the kind of 'filler' that I missed in the recent seasons. Sure, it could be argued that they contribute nothing to the plot, but these kind of scenes are essential for building a character’s personality without being overtly verbose or cluttered. A scene of Marinette running in what appears to be early morning builds her reputation for capability, athleticism, and self-discipline. Her track suit also pronounces her as a practical person, but with a penchant for pink and an eye for style.
Her outfit is pretty cute. Pink hoodie, black shorts, phone handily strapped to biceps. Very Marinette-esque.
Marinette still smiling when looking at Gabriel, her favourite designer. Not knowing that he’s the case of all her problems.
Seeing the Alliance advertisement play out on the billboard is so cool. It gives the feeling that these are actually people living their life, seeing campaigns across their city and exercising; rather than being two-dimensional characters on a TV screen. Very human moments.
Is there a reason why the writers made this girl look almost exactly like Marinette? I feel like that would be important.
Look at the graffiti in the back. There’s LB, someone’s very passionate about their mother, and a Keith Haring man with Ladybug patterns?
Marinette actively uses her moped now. That’s good. The events of Chére Famille wasn't just an one-off, it had impacts on Marinette and on the narrative.
Out of curiosity, I did some research on driving laws in France, and Marinette can legally ride her moped. She’s definitely above fourteen.
New set design!
Very pretty new set. An art shop!
So this is how people are using their Alliance rings. Lila was right. Gabriel and Tomoe are geniuses, if, along with their nefarious purposes, they still managed to craft a compact form of technology that could completely revolutionise how people live their day-to-day life. Think of how children, the disable, and elderly could really benefit from this.
Socqueline does both tae kwon do and gymnastics. Those are very Ladybug activities. She certainly have the specs to be a mock-vigilante.
The average adult walks 4-5 thousand steps a day, most often even less. What kind of marathoning activities is Socqueline getting up to to rack up fifty thousand? And it's apparently not even noon yet. Girl was vigilanting as Ladybug by running around the city on foot.
I cannot stress the ethical violations pertaining of Adrien’s digitalised form. It’s a cartoon, but that is the real image of an in-universe child being undressed and redressed like a doll. Gabriel, what are you doing? That’s your son.
Marinette, please don’t blurt out Adrien’s life story and deepest fears to a random person, even if that random person happens to be an old friend.
Dr Anne-Jeanne Théoxanne du Bocquale has such a specific name, design, and fixation. She’s bound to show up as an important character and not just as a side-gag repeatedly.
Marinette leaves with Socqueline’s ring on her finger. That’s going to bode well. Gabriel is likely hoping that Ladybug and Chat Noir will wear the Alliance rings, and their erratic physical activity or some other suspicious trigger will alert him of their identities.
Man is going through it.
Monsieur Damoclès really does look like an owl. Did they plan that into his character design, planning to debut him as the Owl all the back pre-Season 1?
His avatar is Emilie. That is such a creepy and neat detail. Emilie’s model definitely isn’t publicly available. One has to wonder how Gabriel got Emilie’s features. Lila and Adrien he scanned, but Emilie? He took her measurements in her coffin/bed? Or was Emilie’s image already available pre-coma due to her vocation as an actress?
Firstly, Socqueline attends Claude Monet High School. That’s so pretty. Secondly, Socqueline won the Grand Prix gymnastics championship three years in a row?? Which Grand Prix? The global tournament one? In that case, I’ll start believing Socqueline is Ladybug too.
Also, called it. Ladybug’s erratic circle around Paris was noticed, immediately.
The Alliance rings also allow Monarque to be able to search for a perfect victim rather than waiting for their emotions to reach him! That is good! Monarque is really thinking in this season. These rings, not that Ladybug and Chat Noir knows are their enemy yet, is slowly pushing them into a corner. If either one of the decide to don one of these things, pretty soon it’ll be game over. Would Tikki and Plagg be able to sense the faint traces of Monarque in these rings should either Marinette or Adrien get them? Probably not.
And, boom, here we see that the power of the Miraculous themselves can be remotely transferred over the Alliance rings, no physical Monarque gifting ceremony necessary. These rings, if used properly, is going to win Monarque this battle.
Socqueline is clever.
Marinette thinks the reason why Grand Duc believes Socqueline to be Ladybug is because Socqueline cosplayed as her too many times. Marinette isn’t going to find out the truth of the Alliance rings for some time.
He’s so calm accepting this loss. Monarque has definitely matured. This classier attitude is more befitting of a terrifying villain. Someone who stays calm no matter how bad the situation is for them always send a chill down the protagonist and audience’s spine, because it feels like you’re being played no matter how the battle turns out. The protagonist could win, but they would still be thinking "but what if I only played into their hands?" Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII is a good example of this type of villain. RIP Cloud’s mental psyche.
??? Dude, are you okay?
Both of them.
The citizens are viewing them from this angle because there’s not enough models to fill a crowd.
This is actually hilarious, this actually made me laugh.
So that’s what the Lucky Charm is for.
lmao.
Alewife.
"They ask me why I’m bringing" 🎶🎶 "A baby into battle. That’s really irresponsible, and getting them rattled."
That is the most horrifying child I’ver ever seen. We’ve seen baby models in Miraculous before (August), so clearly this is meant to emulate a doll. Paints the youthfulness of Chat Noir and Ladybug’s natures.
It gets funnier.
This Cadeau is both of their deepest desires, so they both want to end up together. It must be traumatic, to have years worth of good memories and fake living ripped from under oneself in a moment. And the famous umbrella theme is playing!
And their tears form into the rain!
Yes!! Adrien manages to control his own emotions for once, without being aided by Ladybug or stopped at the last moment by some other interruption.
From both of their expression, I’m guessing they both remember the dream?
This is animal cruelty. Kwami cruelty.
Since the Kwami regains their powers from the nourishment of the food they eat, wouldn’t it benefit Gabriel to dish out some five-star treats? This is just unnecessary cruelty at this point. Maybe Gabriel is giving them slop to keep the Kwami purposely weak. Enough to charge up a new Champion, but not enough to start getting ideas.
"You’re already amazing, even without the suit." Yeah, girl. You won the gymnastics Grand Prix three years in a row. That’s a near impossible accomplishments. You’re practically superhuman.
Marinette gets gifted an Alliance ring, which must be expensive, and she rejects it immediately. Either she doesn’t like the fact that Adrien’s image is being handed out like free candy to every Dick, Tom, and Harry in Paris, or she’s getting vibes from it.
And Marinette explains the reasoning herself a second later! Good call, even if Gabriel isn’t the evil force behind the Alliance rings, physical data get sent back to the parent company all the time, for device optimisation or just archiving. Some random employee would realise, sooner or later, that the device which belongs to a certain person with unexplainable supernatural feats keep unleashing those feats in the same time and place Ladybug is active.
Lila appears once at the end of the episode, not even in person, just as her avatar. Yet, her image is at the centre of the endcard, violently salient with her all-white clothings amid an aureate background. There’s also a pronounced moment between her and Sabine. Foreshadowing that Sabine is going to be manipulated by Lila this season? Or that Lila’s scheming will hit the Dupain-Cheng family harder than ever this season?
And we get our second post-end card scene. Has these happened before? I don’t think so. It’s a good scene. Chat Noir and Ladybug are professionals, pondering the more life-threatening aspect of today’s queries first. The personal questions come after. But Ladybug is stout to deny that any of the dream – the wedding, babies, happily ever after – has anything to do with her true desires.
Monsieur Damoclès is the first true Akumatised villain this season, and he makes the debut with grandeur, sporting a new name, look, and brand new Miraculous power. He actually got pretty close to gaining Ladybug’s Miraculous too, which highlights the efficiency of this season’s Akumatised villains and Monarque’s better planning. Having the convenience of the Alliance rings and the versatility of the Kwami’s powers is going to force Ladybug and Chat Noir to edges they haven’t been before. In a way, Ladybug and Chat Noir barely won the battle. Grand Duc didn’t even fight back at the end. He seemed to be accepting that he has lost, and rather than continue futilely, decided to give it up and let Monarque try another day. Wonderful episode, makes me quite excited for more. How will other Champion fare against Ladybug and Chat Noir when they have new Miraculous powers on their side? Imagine Sapotis with Mirage, or Startrain with Voyage. Armed with the same abilities that defeated them in the first place.
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