120 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.

In the Miraculous origin story, which object does Adrien share with Marinette at the moment she falls for him?

An umbrella does it: on a rainy evening after school Adrien shares his with Marinette, the same day Cat Noir fell for Ladybug in battle.

On his birthday in season 1 of Miraculous, Adrien receives which gift from Marinette that is credited to his father?

A scarf from Marinette is passed off by the family's assistant as a present from his father, who had refused to let Adrien hold a party.

In Miraculous, the Paris vendor André sells which treat that is said to make couples fall in love forever?

Ice cream from André is the show's love test, and when Marinette refuses to eat hers the dejected vendor is akumatized into Glaciator.

Kagami Tsurugi is introduced in season 2 of Miraculous as Adrien Agreste's rival in which sport?

Fencing runs in the Tsurugi family, and losing her first duel with Adrien on a referee's call gets Kagami akumatized into the villain Riposte.

Which streaming service carried the first three seasons of Miraculous in the United States until February 2023?

Netflix had bought the US streaming rights in 2016, and it also released the 2023 movie in countries where the film skipped cinemas.

Miraculous beat The Simpsons, Family Guy and Rick and Morty to an animated TV prize in 2018 at which US ceremony?

Teen Choice Awards voters, American viewers aged 13 and over, named it Choice Animated TV Show ahead of five US series.

According to Master Fu, uniting the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses grants what, at an equal price in return?

A wish is the prize, and the robot villain Robostus turns on Hawk Moth the moment he learns what the two jewels can do.

Which feature of Marinette was modelled on the woman in a ladybug T-shirt who inspired the creator of Miraculous?

Her pigtails copy the hairstyle of the real woman, a colleague who traded drawings with him, some of them ladybug-themed.

Which piece of jewelry is the Black Cat Miraculous that turns Adrien Agreste into the hero Cat Noir?

A ring holds the kwami Plagg, and when the heroes swap jewels in one episode Marinette wears it to become Lady Noire.

Alya Césaire, who runs the school blog in Miraculous, hopes to follow which career?

Journalist is the dream, and chasing a scoop on Ladybug's secret identity is what gets her suspended from school in season 1.

Nino Lahiffe, Adrien's best friend in Miraculous, is known around school as which kind of performer?

Radio DJ is his role at the school station, and he dresses in skate punk fashion to match.

In Miraculous, Marinette's mother Sabine took her French first name after moving to Paris from which country?

China is where she was born as Cheng Xia Bing; Marinette herself is of French, Chinese and Italian descent.

What is the first name of Adrien Agreste's mother, who is missing when the story of Miraculous begins?

Emilie once starred in a film, and in season 2 Adrien sneaks out just to watch it, only to be mobbed by fans.

Alya Césaire becomes which Miraculous villain after Chloé Bourgeois has her suspended from school?

Lady Wifi fires magical icons from a smartphone and teleports through phones; Alya had been caught photographing what looked like a hero's mask in a locker.

Nino Lahiffe becomes which Miraculous villain after Adrien's father refuses to let his son have a birthday party?

The Bubbler traps all the adults in floating bubbles, his revenge on grown-ups for cancelling the party.

Which villain, the akumatized classmate Ivan Bruel, is the first enemy Ladybug and Cat Noir ever face?

Stoneheart is a rock golem that grows with every hit, and because Ladybug forgets to purify his akuma, copies of him spread across Paris.

Xavier Ramier, a Parisian told by police to stop feeding birds, keeps returning as which Miraculous villain?

Mr. Pigeon commands huge flocks of birds, and his first rampage inspires the feathered derby hat that wins Marinette a school design contest.

Which little girl, the daughter of a TV news reporter, does Marinette often babysit in Miraculous?

Manon is a handful: after a doll Marinette lent her is confiscated, she is akumatized and controls people through the dolls.

In a season 3 episode of Miraculous, Bunnyx shows Ladybug a future Paris laid waste by which akumatized hero?

Cat Blanc is Cat Noir from a timeline where Adrien worked out who Ladybug was; she de-akumatizes him and that whole future is erased.

What does Master Fu give up in the season 3 finale of Miraculous when he names Marinette the new Guardian?

His memories go the moment he transfers the title, so he leaves Paris with his old love Marianne unaware of what he once guarded.

The 2024 Miraculous World special At the Edge of Time, featuring Chronobug, carries which city in its title?

London is where Marinette, travelling as Bug Noire, goes to find Adrien and Kagami in the special, which first aired in France in October 2024.

Under which villain name does Nathalie Sancoeur fight beside Hawk Moth using a damaged Miraculous?

Mayura creates sentimonsters from feathers, and the broken jewel leaves her bedridden even after it is repaired.

Which Miraculous, damaged before the series begins, lets its holder create living creatures called sentimonsters?

The Peacock Miraculous works through an amok, an evil feather, and using it while it was broken made its holders gravely ill.

Which kwami serves Hawk Moth, giving the villain his power to akumatize the people of Paris?

Nooroo is the kwami of transmission, and in the episode Sandboy the other kwamis gather on his birthday to try to contact him.

Luka and Juleka Couffaine play with classmates Rose and Ivan in which Miraculous rock band?

Kitty Section wins a record deal after producer Bob Roth is caught on live TV admitting his son XY copied the band's work.

Which half-sister of Chloé Bourgeois arrives from New York in season 4 of Miraculous and becomes the hero Vesperia?

Zoé first acts as mean as her sister to win over the family, then drops the act and chooses to be her own person.

Which Miraculous episode finds Ladybug and Cat Noir waking in an elevator together and ending up kissing?

Oblivio is Alya and Nino merged into one memory-erasing villain, and Ladybug's restoring power wipes the kiss from both heroes' minds.

When Marinette and Adrien swap Miraculouses in the episode Reflekdoll, which hero name does Adrien take?

Mister Bug is Adrien wearing the ladybug jewel while Marinette becomes Lady Noire, after their kwamis hand the jewels to the wrong owners.

After the villain Kwamibuster captures her kwami, Marinette uses the Mouse Miraculous to become which hero?

Multimouse uses the power of Multitude to split into tiny clones, some of which merge with other kwamis to borrow their powers.

Which object, taken by Adrien from his father's safe in season 1, holds coded secrets about the Miraculouses?

A spellbook, or grimoire, records the jewels and their holders in code, and Adrien's father later says he got it from his wife in Tibet.

Which luxury hotel in Miraculous is owned by Chloé Bourgeois's father and staffed by the family's butler, Jean?

Le Grand Paris hosts Marinette's class for a work-experience day, where an obsessed fan of a visiting rock star becomes the villain Pixelator.

Which pop star visits Paris in season 2 of Miraculous to film a music video about Ladybug and Cat Noir?

Clara Nightingale casts Marinette and Adrien to play their own alter egos, and after Chloé gets her banned she returns as a rhyme-obsessed villain.

Which evil double of Ladybug crosses from a parallel universe with Claw Noir in a 2023 Miraculous World special?

Shadybug and her partner serve a mysterious evil group called the Supreme, until Marinette and Adrien talk their doubles into reforming.

In the Miraculous World special set in New York, which Miraculous does Hawk Moth take from a museum display?

The Eagle Miraculous grants a power called Liberation, and the teenage hero Sparrow ends the special by using it to take on a new identity.

The Tokyo hero team Stellar Force, met by Marinette in a 2025 Miraculous World special, draw their powers from what?

The Western zodiac gives each member a star sign: Kagami's friend Kazuno is Capricorn, and his teammate Miki is Leo.

Which rhythm game series added the Miraculous theme song to its subscription catalogue in August 2023?

Just Dance 2023 Edition received the theme through its Just Dance+ service; the song's English lyrics were written by Alain Garcia.

Before a young producer persuaded him to animate it, the creator of Miraculous planned Ladybug as what?

A comic book was the plan until a 25-year-old producer from outside the cartoon industry fell for the idea and pushed to put it on television.

The creator of Miraculous made his very first drawings of the heroine Ladybug on what?

Sticky notes held the first sketches, and he was struck by how strong the character looked; he could not recall any ladybug superhero in comics.

Before it was retooled for younger viewers, the first concept for Miraculous was built around which kind of themes?

Political themes aimed at teens and young adults came first; the idea failed to gain traction with networks, so it was reworked for children.

In the 2023 Miraculous movie, which villain, created from a rejected marriage proposal, do the heroes fight first?

The Gargoyle is a heartbroken Parisian whose girlfriend turned him down, and the clumsy first battle ends when a train hits him.

At which event do Marinette and Adrien reveal their identities and share a first kiss in the 2023 Miraculous movie?

The Winter Ball ending breaks from the TV series, where the two still do not know each other's secret after five seasons.

The 2023 Miraculous movie held its world premiere in June 2023 at which Paris cinema?

The Grand Rex premiere was beamed to select cinemas across France the same day, selling more than 68,000 tickets.

Which Australian filmmaker joined the 2023 Miraculous movie as executive producer to help develop its musical side?

Michael Gracey had made his directing debut with The Greatest Showman, and he came aboard after the film was announced as a musical.

Which actress voices Marinette's kwami in the English dub of Miraculous and also plays music agent Penny Rolling?

Mela Lee also sings for the kwami on the English soundtrack of the 2023 movie.

Which actor voices Hawk Moth in the English dub of Miraculous, including the villain's songs in the 2023 movie?

Keith Silverstein plays the villain in English, while the French original is voiced by Antoine Tomé.

The ice-skating coach who becomes the Miraculous villain Frozer is based on, and voiced in French by, which skater?

Philippe Candeloro lent the character his first name, and the coach's three daughters are named after the skater's own children.

Alya Césaire's father Otis, who becomes the shapeshifting Miraculous villain Animan, works in which job?

Zookeeper Otis snaps when a student mocks the zoo's new panther, on the same outing where Nino and Alya first hit it off.

Marinette's great-uncle Wang Cheng becomes the Miraculous villain Kung Food after Chloé Bourgeois sabotages what?

His soup was his entry in a Paris cooking contest that Chloé was judging, and as Kung Food he fights with food-themed weapons.

Which Miraculous console game, released in October 2022, was followed two years later by Paris Under Siege?

Rise of the Sphinx came from developer Magic Pockets and publisher GameMill Entertainment, with both single-player and co-op modes.

Which broadcaster gave Miraculous its French premiere in its children's programming block?

TF1 shows it in a block called TFOU, and from 2024 weekday premieres were split between the channel and its sister TFX.