70 Fun Facts About Miraculous Ladybug

What is the name of Marinette's kwami?

Tikki is the Kwami of Creation and is said to be more than 13 billion years old.

Plagg is obsessed with which food?

Adrien has to keep a steady supply of the smelly cheese on hand so his kwami can recharge after a transformation.

What kind of jewelry is the Ladybug Miraculous?

The kwamis' jewels are all different: the Cat Miraculous is a ring and the Turtle Miraculous is a bracelet.

What is Ladybug's weapon?

It doubles as a phone, a grappling hook and the tool she uses to purify akumas.

What weapon does Cat Noir carry?

The extendable stick doubles as a communicator and a very tall pole to vault across rooftops.

What is the name of Ladybug's signature superpower?

Deciding how the summoned object will defeat the villain takes about a quarter of the writers' time on each episode.

Cat Noir's destructive signature power is called what?

Ladybugs symbolise good luck, so the creator paired her with a black-cat partner whose power is the opposite: destruction.

Which character is secretly the villain Hawk Moth?

The reveal is dramatic irony at its purest: Adrien spends five seasons fighting his own father without knowing it.

What kind of business do Marinette's parents run?

The Tom & Sabine Boulangerie Pâtisserie was inspired by a real Parisian shop.

What career does Marinette dream of?

Her sketchbook gets her noticed by real designers on the show, including the man she has no idea is her arch-enemy.

What job does Adrien do for his father's clothing label?

Being the face of the brand makes him famous at school before he has even made a friend there.

Which Miraculous does Hawk Moth use to create akumas?

The Butterfly kwami is Nooroo, and its power of transmission is what lets Hawk Moth speak inside a villain's head.

Why does Hawk Moth want Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses?

Emilie fell into a coma from using the damaged Peacock Miraculous before the series begins.

In what year did the series premiere on French television?

It debuted on TF1's TFOU block on 19 October, a few weeks after its world premiere overseas.

What is Alya Césaire's superhero name?

Rena Rouge means Red Fox; her Mirage power casts illusions, and she later gets a blue variant called Rena Furtive.

What is the name of the fan blog Alya runs about Ladybug?

Alya wants to be a journalist, and her blog is often the first place Paris hears about a new hero.

Nino Lahiffe transforms into which hero?

His shield power, Shellter, creates a protective bubble around allies.

Chloé Bourgeois becomes which hero after accidentally acquiring a Miraculous?

Her Venom sting paralyses a target, but publicly revealing her identity eventually costs her the Miraculous.

What job does Chloé's father André Bourgeois hold for the first five seasons?

He also owns Le Grand Paris Hotel, which is why Chloé treats the whole city like her personal servants.

Kagami Tsurugi wields which Miraculous?

As Ryûko she can turn into water, wind or lightning, and her family are celebrated fencers.

Luka's Second Chance power lets Viperion rewind time by up to how many minutes?

The Snake kwami Sass can use Second Chance without a holder, but doing so scrambles clocks all over Paris.

Which classmate is destined to become the time-travelling hero Bunnyx?

A future version of Alix in her twenties turns up to keep the timeline on track, and a version in her seventies appears in the London special.

Twins Luka and Juleka Couffaine discover that which rock star is their father?

The rock star's assistant Penny Rolling later trains with Grand Master Su-Han alongside Luka.

Fang, the pet of the show's most famous rock star, is what kind of animal?

The reptile travels with its owner everywhere, hotel suites included.

What nickname do Adrien and his friends give his silent bodyguard?

Placide never speaks, only grunts, and his akumatized form is fittingly a giant blue Gorizilla.

What is the name of the small flying robot built by Max Kanté?

The robot has real emotions, and as Robostus he became the first villain to turn against Hawk Moth.

Which network was the first to air the series in the United States?

The network dropped it after one season; it bounced through the KidsClick block before a rival picked it up.

Which US network acquired the show in April 2019?

Disney's French division helps finance the show, which is why it airs on Disney-owned channels in most of the world.

Which country was the first to broadcast the series, before its French debut?

It aired on EBS1 as simply Ladybug, with the girl group Fiestar singing the theme song.

In season 4, Adrien's father takes what new villain name after combining two Miraculouses?

Merging his own jewel with the Peacock let him create both akumas and sentimonsters himself.

After seizing almost every Miraculous in season 5, the villain renames himself what?

With nearly the whole Miracle Box in his hands, Ladybug and Cat Noir are once again the only two heroes left.

Which former classmate secretly claims Hawk Moth's Miraculous at the end of season 5?

The compulsive liar re-enrols at another school under the alias Cerise Bianca.

In season 6, what supervillain name does the new akuma-maker use?

She hides her identity behind an androgynous mental image while akumatizing volunteers as distractions.

Which character was originally going to be Cat Noir before Adrien replaced him?

The creators felt he was a cliché anime cold guy; he was later reworked as Adrien's near-identical cousin.

Who voices Marinette in the English dub?

She auditioned twice roughly a year apart before finally getting two callbacks and the part.

Who voices Adrien in the English dub?

He has said he sneaks as many cat puns as possible into the recording booth.

Who directed the 2023 movie Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie?

Zag also co-wrote the screenplay and composed the film's songs, making it a full musical.

In the 2023 movie, what makes Hawk Moth give up his powers?

Unlike the TV version, the film's Hawk Moth repents, turns himself in and goes to prison.

Who created the series?

He dreamed up Ladybug on sticky notes after meeting a colleague wearing a ladybug T-shirt while animating W.I.T.C.H.

Which actress voices Marinette in the original French version?

She sings for herself in the series, but the movie handed Marinette's songs to a pop singer.

Which Japanese studio was announced as a co-producer in 2012?

The studio had just released a Pretty Cure film set in Paris and wanted a bigger international audience.

The show's thematic base is which Japanese genre?

Transformation sequences, a school cast, animal companions and end-of-episode collages are all borrowed from it.

The show switched from 2D anime style to CGI partly because animating what caused strobing?

Moving to CGI also made it far easier to use the swooping camera angles the show is known for.

Master Fu claims to be how many years old?

The Guardian's youthful indiscretion, a runaway sentimonster, destroyed the Guardians' temple long before the series.

Which historical figure is named as a previous holder of the Ladybug Miraculous?

The Ladybug kwami has watched over every holder since the beginning of the universe.

The Horse Miraculous takes the form of which object?

Its kwami Kaalki speaks with a Mid-Atlantic accent in the English dub, and Pegasus's power Voyage opens teleport portals.

The pocket-watch-carrying Rabbit kwami Fluff references a character from which book?

Like the White Rabbit, she is forever worried about being late.

Nathaniel Kurtzberg's surname is a homage to which comic book artist?

His first name honours the show's chief art director, Nathanaël Bronn.

Marinette's father Tom Dupain is named after whom?

The creator's first name, shortened, ended up on the warmest dad in Paris.

Which teacher runs the city after André Bourgeois steps down in season 5?

The universe recreated by the villain's final wish makes the city environmentalist, and Bustier names her daughter Harmonie.

In the New York special, the hero Uncanny Valley is what kind of being?

Aeon Hill has an arsenal of military weapons hidden across the city.

Fei Wu, a young martial artist, appears in the special set in which city?

Marinette visits her great-uncle Wang Cheng, a celebrated chef, in the same special.

For season 6 the production switched from Autodesk Maya to which software?

The season premiered in the US in January 2025, two months before France.

Miraculous RP: Quests of Ladybug and Cat Noir was released in 2021 on which gaming platform?

It reached 200 million plays within four months of launch.

The 2023 movie was animated by ON Animation Studios, based in which city?

Additional lighting and compositing came from Dwarf Animation Studio in France.

Roughly what was the budget of the 2023 movie?

Only Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets has cost more among French films.

Which 1980s pop hit plays twice in the 2023 movie?

The Wham! ballad sits alongside a full set of original songs composed by the director.

In the 2023 movie, who provides Marinette's singing voice?

The same singer took over the show's theme song in both French and English from season 4.

Which Asian studio produces the show's CGI modelling and character movement?

Assistant director Wilfried Pain estimated up to 4,000 storyboard panels per 20-minute episode.

Who writes, composes and performs the show's music and songs?

He previously worked on Code Lyoko, W.I.T.C.H., Power Rangers and Glitter Force.

Miraculous Corp., which produces the series, is a joint venture of ZAG Entertainment and which company?

The venture launched in May 2024, with Mediawan holding 60 percent and ZAG 40 percent.

A manga adaptation began serialization in 2021 in a magazine from which publisher?

It runs in Monthly Shōnen Sirius, and an English edition was licensed in 2022.

Miraculous Ladybug: Le spectacle musical premiered in December 2022 at which venue in the French capital?

It was delayed a full year by the pandemic before touring France, Belgium and Switzerland.

Marinette's English voice actress also voices which Sailor Moon guardian in Viz's re-dub?

Her school classmates nicknamed her Sailor Moon Girl long before she landed either role.

Cat Noir's English voice actor has also worked as an instructor in which activity?

He once considered a career as a Muay Thai fighter before voice acting won out.

Which spin-off, first released on YouTube in 2018, features stylised versions of the heroes?

The dialogue-free slapstick shorts returned in 2023 after a five-year break.

On which animated series was Thomas Astruc working when he met the ladybug-T-shirt-wearing woman who inspired the show?

Marinette's pigtails were modelled on the same woman; the two later worked together on A.T.O.M. around 2004-05.

Astruc described the Ladybug and Cat Noir pairing as which two comic heroes with genders and roles reversed?

Ladybugs stand for good luck, so the natural partner was a black cat with bad-luck powers.

At which 2010 event was the show first announced?

Producers then planned stereoscopic 3D and promised a glamorous superhero with a European flair and Paris as the backdrop.

Which Brazilian company signed a 2019 co-production deal that included adding a Brazilian character?

The broadcaster, owned by Grupo Globo, had premiered the show in Brazil in March 2016 and gained exclusivity there.