Transmission (The Kwamis' Choice - Part 1)

**Transmission (The Kwamis' Choice - Part 1)**

**Season 5, episode 10 (Production order); Episode 114 (Overall)**

> "Marinette Dupain-Cheng, you have been an exemplary holder of the Miraculous of the Ladybug. You've always used the power of Creation for the greater good."
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> "Adrien Agreste, you have been an exemplary holder of the Miraculous of the Black Cat. You've always used the power of Destruction for the greater good. I wish I could say the same thing about me."
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> "The task you were performing so well has become too much of a burden, crushing you. Your mission is now over."
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> "Someone will succeed you. You won't have to hide anything anymore from the ones you love. You can finally be yourself."
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> "This means you can finally be in love with Adrien."
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> "This means… you can tell Marinette all your silly, sappy feelings."
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> Tikki & Plagg, "Transmission"

**"Transmission (The Kwamis' Choice - Part 1)"** is a Season 5 episode of the series, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. As based on the series' production order specifically, **"Transmission (The Kwamis' Choice - Part 1)"** is the 10th written and produced episode of Season 5. It is also the 114th written and produced episode of the series, overall.

## Synopsis

It's the same thing every time. Be it as Marinette and Adrien or as Ladybug and Cat Noir, our heroes' secret identities always prevent them from having a romance. Tikki and Plagg are sorry to see their holders so sad to have to give up on their feelings. So, the kwamis make a drastic choice that will change many things in Paris...

## Plot

Marinette lies on her bed in her room; her windows are covered with curtains, making the room almost completely dark, and her photos of Adrien are in the trash. Sabine enters her daughter's room attempting to get her to go to school. As it turns out, Marinette, depressed about her love life, doesn't feel like going. When Sabine leaves, Tikki tells Marinette she can't stay in her room forever. Marinette tries to give Tikki her Miraculous, which Tikki refuses. Marinette laments about her perceived failed romances. Tikki tries to cheer her up to no avail.

Adrien goes to Marinette's house to give her her homework, and also tries to cheer her up, worrying Plagg that they might fall in love and reveal their identities. Meanwhile, Miss Bustier's class is having a party over Adrien and Marinette being inevitable, or so they think. Zoé is skeptical. During this, Alya constantly receives calls from her sister Nora which she declines to answer. Meanwhile, a dejected Marinette rejects Adrien's help. Adrien leaves Marinette's room; now, both of them are depressed.

Monarch senses Adrien's sadness and attempts to akumatize him. However, he hesitates, realizing that Adrien doesn't have an Alliance. Tikki and Plagg can't bear to see their holders in so much pain, so they decide to re-assign their Miraculous and bid their holders goodbye.

Back at Françoise Dupont, due to Zoé's concern, Nino calls Adrien, who is now at home in his room, crying in the darkness. Adrien asks Nathalie to pick up his phone for him; Nathalie tells Nino that Adrien doesn't feel like talking, making everyone sad. Gabriel then comes to Adrien's room, to which Nathalie warns him not to take advantage of Adrien's misfortune. Gabriel does not heed this warning and gives Adrien an Alliance, which Adrien takes off immediately after his father leaves. Tikki and Plagg take their Miraculouses, freeing Marinette and Adrien of their despair. Monarch attempts to akumatize Adrien, but Adrien feels better as he realizes he can go back over to Marinette's house and make amends. Marinette also realizes her newfound freedom and takes her photos of Adrien out of the trash. Monarch swiftly finds another target - one who has not one, but five Alliances.

Adrien runs over to Marinette's house and find her putting her picture's of Adrien back up. Marinette apologizes for her dower demeanor toward Adrien. Marinette tries to tell Adrien she loves him, but struggles to do so. Adrien comes up with an idea to help: he gets her to raise her right hand for "yes" and her left hand for "no". Marinette answers Adrien's questions regarding her feelings for him, and he gives Marinette her homework. Back at Françoise Dupont, most of Miss Bustier's class and Marc try to formulate a plan to save Marinette and Adrien's love, which is interrupted by Alya getting another call from Nora, which she answers. Nora tells Alya she humiliated fellow kickboxer Kouki to his friends and humiliated him on social media, and that she needed advice on how to handle the situation. Meanwhile, Tikki and Plagg are also at the school to select their new holders. When Tikki chooses Alya, Plagg is going to choose Nino, but when he finds out Nino is in love with Alya, he abrots, figuring the same situation with their previous holders would occur. Zoé speaks up, suggesting they should talk to Adrien and Marinette before they make a plan, and leaves for Marinette's house. This prompts Plagg to choose her as his Miraculous' holder. The akumatized Kouki, Kiku, now has Voyage, Clout, Shell-ter, and Resistance, and attacks Paris. The nearby Marinette and Adrien, hearing the destruction go up to Marinette's balcony, realize it's not their responsibility to protect Paris anymore, so they wait for the threat to be over.

Kiku, now at Les Olympiades, continues his destruction of Paris. Alya, now Scarabella once again, and Zoé, now the heroine Kitty Noire, appear on scene; they have no time to introduce themselves, as they need to fight Kouki. Kitty Noire tries to Cataclysm Kiku's Shell-ter, but Kiku’s Resistance prevents his Shell-ter from being broken. Monarch transfers Kiku his fifth and final Miraculous power: Multitude. Kiku uses it to multiply into three slightly smaller clones of himself. Scarabella summons her Lucky Charm and receives a towel. Scarabella explains her plan to Kitty Noire, who runs off to execute her part, while Scarabella distracts Kiku and dodges his attacks. Kitty Noire gathers fire fighters, their truck, and buckets of blue paint from Socqueline's family's art shop. The firefighters fill their truck with blue paint and give Kitty Noire the hose. She fills the Lucky Charm towel tied to her staff with the paint, dumping it on an unsuspecting Kiku, blinding him. He drops his Shell-ter, giving Scarabella the opening she needs to break his headgear with her yo-yo. Scarabella captures and purifies Kikou's Megakuma, reverting him back to Kouki. Nora appears on the scene and argues with Kouki. Scarabella advises the two to keep their emotions in check while communicating, to which they agree to. Scarbella summons her Miraculous Scarabella and repairs the damage. Now rest assured that the new holders of their Miraculouses can handle future akumatizations just fine, Adrien and Marinette exchange smiles as the damage is repaired.

Monarch's Alliance informs him of superhuman activity on two Alliances: Alya's and Zoé's. He smiles with a wicked grin and laughs, ready to attack the new Miraculous holders.

## Characters

### Major Characters

* Marinette Dupain-Cheng (Ladybug flashback)
* Adrien Agreste (Cat Noir mentioned)
* Alya Césaire/Scarabella (Rena Rouge indirectly mentioned)
* Zoé Lee/Kitty Noire
* Gabriel Agreste/Monarch
* Tikki
* Plagg
* Nooroo
* Mullo
* Stompp
* Kaalki
* Roaar
* Wayzz
* Megakuma
* Kouki/Kiku

### Minor Characters

* Nathaniel Kurtzberg
* Nino Lahiffe
* Caline Bustier
* Chloé Bourgeois
* Sabrina Raincomprix
* Juleka Couffaine
* Mylène Haprèle
* Rose Lavillant
* Max Kanté
* Lê Chiến Kim
* Ivan Bruel
* Marc Anciel
* Nora Césaire
* Tom Dupain
* Sabine Cheng
* Nathalie Sancoeur
* Socqueline Wang
* Xuppu
* Daizzi
* Barkk
* Longg
* Ziggy
* Trixx
* Sass (background)
* Sapotis (flashback)
* Party Crasher (flashback)
* Puppeteer (flashback)
* Luka Couffaine (pictured)
* Alix Kubdel (pictured)
* Kagami Tsurugi (pictured)
* Emilie Agreste (avatar)
* Lila Rossi (avatar)
* Wang Fu (mentioned)
* Civilians
* Students

## Trivia

* Internationally, this episode first premiered in Brazil on Gloob.
* Originally, this episode was named "Passation".
* The episode shares its name with the concept of the Butterfly Miraculous.
	+ This episode explores a little bit more Monarch's new powers to transmit the powers of the other Miraculous. It's shown that an Alliance ring can only hold one power at the time and that the more rings one person has, the more powers Monarch is able to transmit.
	+ The concept of transmission was applied in this episode besides through the superpower of Akumatization:
		- Tikki and Plagg take their respective Miraculous from Marinette and Adrien and redistribute them to other new holders: Alya Césaire and Zoé Lee respectively.
		- Monarch transmitted his megakuma from him to Kouki.
		- This is the first time Monarch is able to transmit more than one Miraculous power to an akumatized villain's Alliance without the need of any other support, like Genesis.
		- The ability of Gabriel's Alliance ring to force the other rings to transmit information about their respective owners allowed him to discover the identities of Scarabella and Kitty Noire.
	+ The concept of transmission was also applied in other episodes:
		- In various episodes such as "Zombizou", "Chameleon", "Miraculer", "Gabriel Agreste", "Glaciator 2", "Elation", this episode, "Migration" and "Derision" involved Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch transmitting his akumas/megakumas from one to another victim.
		- Master Fu transmitting his role as Guardian of the Miraculous to Ladybug as of "Miracle Queen".
		- Ladybug transmitting the Bee Miraculous from Chloé to Zoé as of "Queen Banana".
		- How the Miraculouses, albeit involuntarily, were transmitted from Ladybug to Monarch by Félix in "Strikeback".
		- The Peacock Miraculous being transmitted throughout those either part/affiliated with the Agreste/Graham de Vanily family, from Colt Fathom, to Emilie Agreste, then from Mayura to Shadow Moth, to finally Félix as Argos.
		- How the Butterfly Miraculous ended up being transmitted from Monarch to Cerise at the end of "Re-creation".
	+ The Butterfly Miraculous represents that change and growth are intertwined, change is nothing to be feared nor rushed, they can be both good and bad as well as how the smallest of changes can lead to big things.
		- Like how when someone needs to start out with things when they're young so they can grow with maturity to handle it as Hawk Moth.
		- When it came to Emilie's death both Gabriel and Adrien were affected but Adrien tried to change his life for the better while Gabriel changed for the worse.
		- Mentioned by Rolland in "Simpleman" and Marinette in "Family".
		- Nor Chloe who refused to change out of fear of losing her privileges but for her father and sister by ridding themselves of status and power they changed themselves for the better.
		- If Gabriel had made the choice to ask for help and work hard to build everything back up then things would've changed for the better or what Betterfly had mentioned in "Miraculous Paris".
			* But like Chloe he refused to change out fear that he wouldn't be able to control anything once the people or Adrien knew the truth.
* This is the first episode where Marinette does not transform into Ladybug, with the superhero only appearing on flashback. This is also the first episode where neither Ladybug nor Cat Noir appear in present time, being it together or by themselves.
	+ This episode also marks the third time Adrien does not transform into Cat Noir, following "Style Queen", "Mr. Pigeon 72", and the preceding "Emotion".
* After hearing that Marinette was not picking up her friends' call after missing classes, Chloé comments how that reminded her of the time Marinette asked her for permission to come to school. This is a reference to how Marinette used to be a doormat to Chloé's bullying behavior towards her before getting the Ladybug Miraculous and becoming Ladybug.
* According to Max, it has been 286 days, or a bit over nine months and 12 days, since Adrien started school and when Ladybug and Cat Noir began their first adventure.
	+ If so, and since French school years begins on early September, then that would put the current date somewhere between the middle and the end of June.
	+ And this causes many inconsistencies about the timeline, because in season 1 there was Christmas and Valentine's Day, in season 3 there was the summer holiday and in season 4 there was the King's Day, which was January 6th. So it is impossible that it has only been 9 months. It has been at least one and half years.
		- The reason for that inconsistency has to do with the fact that season 1 served as a way to test the viability of the series, so the timeline was scrambled as a result, a consequence that remained in the subsquent seasons.
* This is also the episode where Adrien ended his friendship with Lila but this all happened off-screen. She told Kagami about this in "Protection". And as of "Confrontation" She now decides to dismantle/breakup his relationship with Marinette as revenge.
* This is the first time when the destination of Monarch's Voyage portals is seen.
* Kikou is the second character to get akumatized for the first time in season 5 following Véronique in "Determination".
* Similar to Jeanne d'Arc and Dark Grimalkin, Marinette and Adrien abdicated their jewels in the name of love but unlike their predecessors and Alya in "Strikeback" who did it by their own choosing their kwamis did it for them.
* As of Plagg, picking Zoé to be his new wielder, she becomes the second female to wield the Cat Miraculous, following Lady Noire.
	+ With her being called Kitty Noire, Zoé unknowingly named herself after Cat Noir's nickname being called that by Bunnyx in "Timetagger".
	+ Similar to Marinette being the first female overall to wield the Cat Miraculous, Zoé became the first known American female Black Cat Miraculous holder.
* Zoé is the sixth member of the French Miraculous superhero team to use another Miraculous. The first is Marinette with the Mouse, Fox, Cat, Dragon, Bee, Horse and Rabbit Miraculouses, the second is Adrien with the Ladybug, Snake and Rabbit Miraculouses, the third one is Master Fu with the Turtle and Peacock Miraculouses, the fourth one is Alya with the Ladybug Miraculous and the fifth one is Alix with the Dog Miraculous.
* This is the third time Gabriel is seen listening for targets, after "Risk" and "Jubilation".
* This is the ninth episode that features a post-credit scene, following "Miracle Queen", "Gabriel Agreste", "Optigami", "Sentibubbler", "Dearest Family", "Multiplication", "Jubilation" and "Illusion".
* This is the twenty-fifth time where a Lucky Charm is an object that appeared in a previous episode. This time, it's the parachute that previously appeared in "Stoneheart" and "Kuro Neko".
	+ But unlike the other times this one was not summoned by Ladybug but Scarabella, making this the second time a temporary Ladybug holder summoned an object that Ladybug created previously following Mister Bug creating a mirror in "Reflekdoll".
* The scene of them giving their jewels back is parallel to when they first them in "Ladybug and Cat Noir".
* Like in "Glaciator 2", Monarch tries to akumatize Adrien only to stop upon realizing who he is. However, unlike before, Gabriel convinces his son to wear an Alliance Ring before he proceeds to akumatize him.
	+ Unlike the last time, Gabriel done this because he was desperate enough to akumatize his own son, where he didn't saw benefit to do it, especially since he doesn't know Adrien is Cat Noir.
		- Plagg actually made the right choice to take back the Cat Miraculous, since if Adrien kept it Gabriel would have come very close to having his Miraculous, and had Adrien would still akumatized without it, it would have been pointless for Gabriel.
* Adrien was shown to have knowledge about Scarabella to Marinette before she gave her formal introduction in the following episode. This should have been a mistake on his part, since the only ones who knew her were Marinette herself, Cat Noir, Gabriel/Shadow Moth and Markov, so this way Marinette could have discovered that Cat Noir was Adrien.

### Errors

* In the English dub, Max says that 286 days is nine months and twelve days, and in the Brazilian Portuguese dub, he says it's nine months and sixteen days. However, 286 days is actually nine months and thirteen days.
* Scarabella's right pinky finger bent when she activated the yo-yo to purify the Megakuma.
* When Monarch's face mask appears on Kikou's face, it is gray instead of purple.
* When Monarch gets Mullo's power, she turns into a blue light beam instead of a pink one.
* Monarch uses Voyage to see Kouki's anger more clearly but when the Megakuma leaves, the other side of the portal is not visible.
* When Kikou hits the buildings at Les Olympiades with Clout, they're already destroyed, even before Clout had touched them.

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## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/ladyofacat/status/1505600314103279621

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