Marinette Dupain-Cheng (Quantic Universe)

* Marinette Dupain-Cheng
* Ladybug
* Lady Noire
* Multimouse
* Multifox
* Multinoir
* Multibug
* Dragon Bug
* Lady Bee
* Pegabug
* Pennybug
* Ladyfly
* Bug Noire
* Ladybiquity

## Power Up forms

* Aquabug
* Ladyice
* Cosmo Bug

 —Marinette to Alya Césaire in "Elation"

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**Marinette Dupain-Cheng** is one of the two titular main protagonists (alongside Adrien Agreste) of the series *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*. She is a student in Miss Bustier's class at Collège Françoise Dupont in Paris, France, and a budding fashion designer who wants to have her own brand one day. With the Ladybug Miraculous, when inhabited by Tikki, Marinette transforms into the superheroine **Ladybug**, gaining the power of creation to stop Hawk Moth and his akumatized villains. She is the leader of the French Miraculous superhero team.

In "Syren", after Wang Fu translates the Grimoire in order to find a way to give Ladybug and Cat Noir the ability to transform into different powered up forms, he is able to make the potion that grants the **aqua form**. Marinette is able to use it to become **Aquabug**, which gives her a specially modified aqua suit with fins on her feet, granting her the enhanced swimming capabilities, as well as allowing her to breathe and speak underwater.

In "Frozer" when the titular akumatized supervillain freezes over Paris to turn the city into his domain, Marinette uses Master Fu's Magicaroons to transform into **Ladyice**, which gives her a specially modified ice suit with skates on her feet, granting her enhanced skating capabilities as well as allowing her to stand subzero temperatures.

In "Reflekdoll", Marinette temporarily obtained the Cat Miraculous, which, when inhabited by Plagg, was able to transform her into the black cat-themed superheroine named **Lady Noire**, thus granting her the power of destruction.

In "Kwamibuster", after Tikki is captured by the titular akumatized supervillain, Marinette wore multiple Miraculouses, but only activated the Mouse Miraculous in order to become **Multimouse**, a mouse-themed superhero. In the same episode, Multimouse's various copies were able to transform when the Mouse Miraculous was combined with the Ladybug, Cat, and Fox Miraculous in order to become **Multibug**, **Multinoir**, and **Multifox** respectively.

In "Feast", after successfully defeating the sentimonster that was controlled by both Hawk Moth and Mayura, Wang Fu began to train Marinette in order to pass off his title as "Master" onto her, and appoint her as the New Guardian of the Miraculouses.

In "Ladybug", after being expelled from school due to being falsely framed by Lila Rossi, she was nearly akumatized by Scarlet Moth into **Princess Justice**. However, her akumatization was interrupted, partially because of Catalyst's illness from the damaged Peacock Miraculous, thus leaving it half-completed.

In "Miracle Queen", after Miracle Queen brainwashed the temporary Miraculous holders to be her slaves, Marinette unified the Dragon Miraculous with the Ladybug Miraculous, becoming **Dragonbug**. Since then, Marinette officially became the new Guardian of the Miraculouses after Master Fu relinquished his role as Guardian.

In "Miraculous World: New York - United Heroez", after Mr. Ramier has been re-akumatized into Mr. Pigeon for the 51st time, Ladybug became **Cosmobug** to stop Mr. Pigeon from taking over the moon for him and his pigeons. Cosmobug has the power to travel long distances swiftly via flight, including in space.

In "Gang of Secrets", after defeating the titular akumatized supervillain group with help from Rena Rouge, who rejected her akumatization into Lady Wifi, Marinette is finally able to confide in her friends and apologize for not telling them what was wrong with her. But when Alya knew that there was something more to Marinette's story, she stays behind, learning through Marinette's confession that she's Ladybug.

In "Mr. Pigeon 72", after defeating Mr. Pigeon for the 72nd time with the help from Plagg and Rena Rouge, the latter helps Ladybug to expand the limits of her power, thus gaining a new costume and the ability to create Magical Charms that are able to protect people from re-akumatizations.

In the episode of "Optigami", in order to immobilize Style Queen, Marinette unified the Bee Miraculous with the Ladybug Miraculous in order to become **Lady Bee**. It is also revealed that Alya is Marinette's heir presumptive to becoming the next guardian of the Miracle Box.

In "Sentibubbler", in order to free herself from the bubble that the titular sentimonster put her in and to take the amokized coffee cup Shadow Moth is using to control Sentibubbler, Marinette unified the Horse Miraculous with the Ladybug Miraculous to become **Pegabug**.

In "Strikeback", after mistakenly believing Félix to be Adrien, Marinette unified the Ladybug, Horse, and Rabbit Miraculouses, becoming **Pennybug**, to reach him in the train and travel in time to figure out Risk's akumatized item. However, the mistake of giving a Miraculous to Félix resulted in him betraying her, stealing her yo-yo and giving it to his uncle, Gabriel Agreste, for the Peacock Miraculous, causing him to obtain all the Miraculous in the Chinese Miracle Box, except for Cat Noir's and hers.

In "Miraculous Paris", in order to counter Monarch's trap, Ladybug formulated a plan that involved the creation of two kamikotized heroes, so, after Betterfly kamikotized Alya in Ubiquity, he lent his Miraculous to her, who fused it with her Ladybug Miraculous to become **Ladyfly**. Later on, when Monarch threatened to invade other universes to get the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses, Ladybug allowed Betterfly to kamikotize her into **Ladybiquity**, getting similar powers to Ubiquity.

In "Passion", to avoid Safari's venom bolts, Marinette temporarily used the Cat Miraculous and once again became **Lady Noire**.

In "Reunion", when in need of advice regarding the possibility of having a romantic relationship with Cat Noir, Marinette learns the true purpose of the kwagatama she received from Tikki, being it to come in contact with the memories of the past holders of the Ladybug Miraculous. Using it on a sigil of the Order of the Guardians left on a statue of a past Ladybug Miraculous holder, Marinette comes in contact with Jeanne d'Arc, a past holder of the Ladybug Miraculous holder that had a romance with a past Cat Miraculous holder.

In "Elation", after Cat Noir didn't return her love for him, fearing he would hurt her feelings as she didn't know who he is, she was nearly akumatized by Monarch into **Unmasker**. However, her akumatization was interrupted by a kiss from Cat Noir, causing her desire to override her anger and heartbreak and releasing the akuma.

In "Derision", when Marinette returned to the spot of her first heartbreak during her first real date with Adrien, it caused her traumatized memories of Chloé's bullying the previous school year to return as well, leading her to have a big panic attack and once again nearly be akumatized by Monarch, now into **Panic**. However, her akumatization was rejected when she fully understood what happened in her past and made peace with it.

In "Revolution", after seeing all the Parisians willingly stand up and fight injustice with their own hands and refuse to turn their backs on Ladybug and Cat Noir, Marinette evolves her powers, and now, she doesn't de-transform after using her powers, and is able to cast as many Lucky Charms as she pleases without the need to recharge. After Adrien finally tells Marinette he has to leave Paris, despite being devastated over it, she refuses to break her promise to him and races to the airport, where both finally share their first kiss before being forcibly separated and watching his plane take off. When Chloé calls her to taunt her about it, Marinette slaps some hard truths on her about being powerless now, making the former cry after the latter hangs up on her.

In "Representation", when following Félix, believing him to be Adrien, to the school's art room, she discovers through Félix and Kagami's play the backstories of the Graham de Vanily, Fathom, and Agreste families and that Adrien and his cousin Félix are sentimonsters.

In "Conformation", Ladybug went to the Agreste mansion to talk to Nathalie, but encountered Monarch. She then finally discovered that Gabriel Agreste was Monarch, came face to face in battle with him, and unified the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses to become **Bug Noire**.

In "Re-creation", she finally defeated Monarch, but was later paralyzed by him when she de-transformed to persuade him to give up, and he took the two Miraculouses. He later used them to summon Gimmi and make his wish, sacrificing himself in order to be reunited with his wife and heal his assistant, Nathalie. She later recovered all of the Miraculouses, restored them to their previous forms, and permanently gave them to her allies, ensuring that a supervillain won't steal them all again. However, Marinette was unable to find the Butterfly Miraculous as unbeknownst to her, Cerise somehow managed to get her hands on it.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Marinette is a quarter French and a quarter Italian (by her father's side) and half Chinese (by her mother's side) slender teenage girl of average height with a slightly light skin tone, medium-length black hair with blue reflections that is always seen tied back in pigtails, pink lips, bluebell eyes, and light freckles on both sides and the bridge of her nose.

In "Cat Blanc" and "Heart Hunter", when Marinette has her hair down, the full length of her hair reaches down to her shoulders.

### Civilian attire

Marinette wears a very dark gray blazer with rolled-up sleeves; the inside of the blazer is lined in white with light fuchsia polka dots, and it has black trimming. Underneath, she wears a pink t-shirt with black stitching and a flower design below the collar. The design itself has pink flowers and black leaves. She wears pink rolled-up jeans and light pink ballet flats with reddish brown soles. She also sports black earrings that also serve as her Miraculous when Tikki inhabits them. She often wears a light pink purse with a thin black strap over her right shoulder. She also wears her Kwagatama necklace under her t-shirt.

### As Ladybug

She wears a red superhero jumpsuit covered in black spots and with a black collar/turtleneck. According to Marinette in "Marinette's Double Life", her suit is made out of indestructible fabric. When not in use, she keeps her yo-yo around her hips with a red string. On her face is a red mask with five black spots that are in a symmetrical design, and the waterlines of her eyes are colored black. Her earrings are red with five black spots in a quincunx pattern, and the bands holding her hair back become red ribbons, resembling a ladybug's antennas or a ladybug flying when she's moving.

As of "Mr. Pigeon 72", when Ladybug uses her Lucky Charm most of her costume remains the same except she has solid black coloring on her hands, bottom of her feet, her waist to upper thighs and arms where the spots are inverted. Her collar turns swan-necked, and changes from completely black to red with a black lining and a small ladybug shaped zipper connected to the front of her costume similar to Cat Noir's bell. Her pigtails and hair ribbons become longer and gains a pair of blue ribbons but after using her Miraculous Ladybug she reverts back to her normal appearance.

### As Lady Noire

The costume of Lady Noire is very similar to Cat Noir; she wears a dark gray catsuit with fluorescent green accents on her knees, forearms, waist, and neck. She has black gloves on her forearms with claws and a fluorescent green band that goes down a bit and a black ball, and her black collar is a little open at the neck and has a fluorescent green band that goes down to the poitrine and a black ball in the lower part of the neck. Around the waist, a black belt with a fluorescent green band in the middle at the right leg, a black button with a fluo-green cat, and a fluorescent green son with a black ball hanging. Her black fluo-green boots go all the way up to the knee, a small flowing green band in the heel, and end with small black triangular platform shoes. She has floor-length black hair that is styled in a single braid, which makes it look like a tail (similar to cat noir's belt). She also has cat ears on her head with fluorescent green accents, and a black mask. Lady Noire has green eyes the same as Cat Noir, with green sclera and slitted pupils. Like her yo-yo, Lady Noire keeps her staff attached to her hip when not in use.

### As Multimouse

Multimouse wears a gray, pink and black bodysuit. She wears her hair in Odango-style twin buns, which resemble mouse ears. She also wears her Miraculous, a necklace, around her neck. Her mask is gray at the top and pink with a black border at the bottom. She wears black gloves that are a little above her elbows and have a thick pink horizontal stripe at the end. She also wears black boots that are above knee-level with a thick pink horizontal stripe.

### As Multifox

Multifox essentially looks the same as Multimouse, but all the pink accents on Multimouse become orange, and she has a white section on her chest similar to Rena Rouge as a result of the Fox Miraculous influence. Her head bands also become orange as well.

### As Multibug

Multibug essentially looks the same as Multimouse, but her suit gains black spots on the grey part, and all the pink accents on Multimouse become red as a result of the Ladybug Miraculous influence. Her mask also gets five black spots that are in a symmetrical design, and the pink section becomes red. Her head bands turn red as well.

### As Multinoir

Multinoir essentially looks the same as Multimouse, but all the pink accents on Multimouse become black as a result of the Cat Miraculous influence. The pink section of her mask also becomes black. Her head bands become black as well.

### As Dragon Bug

Dragon Bug wears a suit with traits from both Ladybug and Ryuko's design, with the right side being red with black spots with a yellow outline with a black line with a yellow outline wrapping around the leg and the forearm and ending on the foot and the hand, respectively. The left side is black with red spots with a yellow outline, but with the leg and the forearm being red with the same line, but ending on the ankle and wrist, respectively. She has a black collar/turtleneck with a yellow edge (where she has the Dragon Miraculous), and on her chest, over a black spot, she has the images that represent the three elements she controls: lightning, air, and water. On the back of her head, she has four red dragon-like horns (two pairs of conjoined horns on each side) with black tips with a thick yellow outlining and, on her back, she has a holder for her sword. On her face, she wears a red mask around her eyes with three spots and a yellow and black outline at the base of the sides.

### As Lady Bee

She wears a suit that possesses traits from both the Ladybug and Bee Miraculouses. Most of her suit is red with black spots that have a yellow outline and a black line at the front of her body. The area of the hips, the upper arm, half of the foreharm and collar are black with yellow stripes at the edges. The upper half of her mask is red with black spots with a yellow outline and the lower half is yellow and black. She wears her hair back in a ponytail which is curled to resemble a bee's stinger at the ends, tied with a black hairband, with two black antennae-like ribbons sticking out from the hairband, and a streak of yellow hair curled into the end of her ponytail, along with a small streak of red. She wears both the yo-yo and the spinning top around the hips when not using them.

### As Pegabug

Pegabug wears a suit that possesses traits from both the Ladybug and Horse Miraculouses. Most of her suit is red with black spots, but the front is completely white, with a white horseshoe over her chest. Most of her upper arms and the upper side of her forearms are dark brown, while the rest of the forearm and hands are white with dark brown fingers. Her legs are white with a gradient effect, with black spots with the soles of her feet being dark brown and her face mask remains the same, except for a white middle spot on top of the black one. Her hair is tied in a ponytail with a red hairband with two red antennae-like ribbons sticking out from the hairband and the ends of her ponytail hair are white. She possesses as well two pairs of gold wing-like ornaments with white edges with one pair located on each side of her head and the other on each outer ankle. Her Horseshoe is located on her back, while her Yo-yo is around her waist.

### As Pennybug

Pennybug wears a suit that possesses traits from the Ladybug, Horse and Rabbit Miraculouses. Most of her suit is red with black spots, but the front is white still covered by black spots, with a white horseshoe over her chest and a white cotton ball attached to the front of her neck. The hands, forearms, lower part of the arm, feet, legs and thighs are black with white spots, with her having a light blue wing-like ornament with white edges on each outer ankle and big shoulder pads with black spots that has one big white spot at each end. Her hair is tied in two ponytails, each with a bun, along with a rabbit ear-like ornament in the shape of a wing with a light-blue, black and white interior. Her Horseshoe is located on her back, while her Yo-yo is around her waist.

*For more of Marinette's outfits and designs, see Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Designs.*
## Personality

Marinette is a sweet, outgoing, young and joyful girl who loves fashion, her friends, family, and Adrien Agreste (her crush), where he describes her as honest, kind, fair, and the type not to cheat. She is very helpful towards those who have insecurities, such as; Juleka Couffaine, who thought she had a "class photo curse," and Marc Anciel, who was too afraid to share his creative writing. According to Clara Nightingale, Marinette has a pure heart. She cares deeply for other people, usually putting their feelings and interests even before her own, in some cases at a personal cost. Despite being genuinely kind, she has her limits, such as when she gets irritated with Chloé Bourgeois to the point that she refuses to continue guarding her against the Evillustrator as Ladybug.

Despite her outgoing and empathetic personality, Marinette struggles with self-confidence and self-esteem. Before being Ladybug, she was more nervous and didn't oppose others, but her confidence grew considerably since then such as talking with Adrien and standing up for others. In urgent situations, she becomes very nervous, clumsy, a bit awkward, and quick to panic which includes approaching her crush, trouble-choosing between her love interests, when in contact with major celebrities if she thinks others do a better job compared to herself, or losing something that will expose her secret identity.

Marinette can act impulsively and irrationally at times, as shown when she tried to deflect the false accusation of "stealing" Chloé's bracelet onto others who are also innocent. She is willing to do several risky tasks in order to protect her image, like erasing an embarrassing message on Adrien's phone by stealing it. Moreso when she expresses jealousy whenever other girls such as Chloé or Lila Rossi flirt with Adrien, even abusing her powers as Ladybug to keep them away or forget to detransform in the first place. However, Marinette learns from her mistakes and becomes a more open-minded, understanding person. She also takes advice from others very well, whether it is family or friends, as seen throughout the series. According to Marinette in "Family", as her civilian self-personality wise, she takes after her father as well as having her great uncle's creative side.

As Ladybug, Marinette retains many of her alter ego's characteristics, but she is much stronger. Her confidence and bravery come out more prominently. According to Cat Noir, she can be stubborn at times, especially when she isn't easily convinced. While almost all of Ladybug's plans are effective, they tend to be complex and rather bizarre. She is more cautious and careful than Cat Noir, sometimes needing to restrain or stop him from doing hasty acts seen in several episodes. Only in rare occasions she can act hasty, especially if she is in a rush to do something or multiple things at once. She believes that a great superhero always listens to their head, meaning that she isn't easily fooled or swayed by deceptions and lies.

Ladybug strives to rescue everyone, including those akumatized by Hawk Moth. She usually tries to persuade the supervillains to calm down and stop their rampage when she can. Ladybug is aware that there is a line between justice and revenge believing that honesty and justice don't mean anything if you're pressured into doing it, like as she did with Bob in "Silencer". She acknowledges that good things come by doing good actions and that not all problems can be solved by wishing them away like Hawk Moth hopes, especially at the expense of hurting the innocent. She also values the lives of others more than material possessions. Similar to her partner, through her lifestyle, she isn't tempted by power because Marinette understands that her life can be great without it.

Marinette takes her image, Miraculous powers and those of others very seriously as Ladybug. Such as when fighting against Hawk Moth's villains, compared to Cat Noir's laid back and goofy personality and more so at Chloé for using her powers to create a fake accident, that could have led to a serious one. Given these traits, Adrien claims that her civilian form is funnier than Ladybug. But she is also sensitive about her image, such as getting annoyed at Chloé playing her alter ego in Clara Nightingale’s music video, little angry when Nora doubted her abilities, and even attacking Miraculer impulsively after the latter tauntingly mimicked her. Although she can get exasperated with Cat Noir if he jokes too much, she handles it calmly at times and enjoys teasing him or others. Similar to Cat Noir, she is clever with her words and occasionally enjoys making puns. According to Marinette in "Family", as her alter ego personality-wise, she takes after her mother and her grandmother Gina's adventurous spirit.

As her alter ego, Marinette strives to keep her personal and superhero lives separate to protect herself and loved ones. Still, she aims to be honest with others in other ways, like with Cat Noir about not having romantic feelings for him and seeking advice from others. No matter of her difficulty tasks, Marinette does everything she can to set things right as Ladybug while keeping up with her everyday responsibilities, like studying, designing something, and more. There are exceptions to the rule such as when she mixed up her duties to her former Master and her personal plans, like her letter to Adrien. She also has occasional problems at inventing excuses about her absences to her friends, teachers, and parents.

Despite being Ladybug had allowed her to meet Tikki and save people, Marinette started to grow tired and stressed about keeping her lives separate and having to lie to everyone she loves, causing her to break down and cry to Luka about her problems. While on occasion, she rarely breaks down as Ladybug, often voicing her doubts and mistakes to Cat Noir during their hardest times. She felt more of the strain in her civilian life as she took the mantle of the guardian, causing her to break down, even more, realizing she can't have a love life, be honest with anyone; being condemned to a cage of lies until Shadow Moth is gone.

Speaking of her tasks as the Guardian, Marinette worked relentlessly to decode the grimoire and was very determined to stop Hawk Moth from reakumatizing people. However, she is also more stressed out and struggled to balance everything to the point to where she constantly lied to her parents and friends. Because of this, Marinette started to act out like Gabriel where she resorted to using drastic measures such as not telling Luka the truth and calling off her friendships with her friends, both instances lead to them being akumatized. It was there that Marinette, after breaking off with Luka and making up to her friends, she decided to let Alya in on her secret of being Ladybug. After gaining help from Alya in "Mr. Pigeon 72", she has deeper understanding of her powers and when using it she was happy about protecting people even further. Through it, she has calmed down and started to see the flaws in others. Unlike Hawk Moth, Marinette let go of past mistakes as she wasn't angry at Master Fu for losing the two Miraculouses leading to now and in "Furious Fu" not blaming herself for Fu's condition knowing that he wouldn't want her to do that as others still needed her.

However, because of the big burden she has as Guardian, Ladybug becomes very protective of the Miraculous under her care in a way that started to affect her friendship and partnership with Cat Noir, as she starts to neglect him and take him for granted, like calling other heroes to help her instead of him or not trusting in him to retrieve the Miraculous from the holders whose identities he knows. After Hawk Moth manages to steal all the Miraculous in the Miracle Box (except for hers and Cat Noir's), Ladybug feels guilty and drowns in her own despair, thinking she had lost everything, and realizes her other mistakes, until Cat Noir reminds her that he still has him and the faith of all Parisians and ensuring her they will retrieve all of the Miraculous, back, and make sure they are not stolen again. His speech is able to fill her with the hope she needed to stand up and keep fighting.

And yet, the burden of being the guardian wasn't the only thing that made her behave the way she did it was Hawk Moth's relentless hunting of her and Cat Noir. Over time she had grown more of aware of Hawk Moth's deceptive and super sneaky nature to the point of where she had nightmares and was afraid of what he was going do if he found out when she let others in on her secrets and has the power to back it up. Despite burdening herself to keep everyone else safe she had forgotten it works both ways as no one else wants to see her suffer for them. Because of her archenemy she understood what the other guardians, Miraculous holders and kwamis felt knowing what it's like to hunted.

While working with other Miraculous holders as team leader, Ladybug doesn't see them as sidekicks but friends and extremely values their support. She is also great at giving advice to others when they need it. Thus, she is saddened about suspending those who do a great job but at the cost of revealing their identities to Hawk Moth like Chloé and Kagami, but she does it in a caring and considerate way, for them and their loved one's protection. When off duty like Cat Noir, Ladybug has learned to relax and have fun. As a leader, she learned to take suggestions, ideas and to follow the lead of others when the situation calls for it. Mostly, as a leader, she is cool, calm, and level-headed, but Ladybug does let personal matters takeover sometimes as she voiced her frustrations at Cat Noir during a fight leading to her doubts in trusting him during the "New York Special", and then an accident.

Due to effects of the titular villain in "Psycomedian", she becomes very angry saying things with attitude, more irrational than normal, fierce boarding reckless even becoming aggressive towards Cat Noir but still manages to work with him.

According to Cat Walker in "Kuro Neko", as the leader of the team, Ladybug doesn't play favorites and cares for everyone equality.

As Lady Noire, Marinette retains most of her personality as Ladybug, like her cautiousness and creativity. She takes after her partner's sense of humor, cunning, and charm, with Mister Bug believing that she is the one wearing the clown suit.

Like Adrien when he was Aspik as Multimouse while trying to protect her identity as Ladybug, Marinette is trustworthy, faithful, and clever. However, she pretends to be a klutz and "reveals" her identity in front of Cat Noir.

As her adult alter ego, according to Bunnyx, Marinette will grow into a wise, calm, strong, and confident leader, meaning that she isn't impulsive and irrational. Such as when she comforted Bunnyx, telling her that their fight wasn't over, easily figuring out she had a message from her younger self, and after Timetagger's defeat, she confidently told her younger self that they'll always be able to save the day.

## Abilities

### As a civilian

*For a list of things made by Marinette, see the List of Marinette's creations.*

Marinette has exceptional talent in fashion design, able to sketch ideas in a notebook after getting inspired by her surroundings and sewing by hand or with a machine. She usually wears her own creations and makes clothing for others. She also can create graphic designs using a computer, such as album covers. Her skills in this field are exceptional for an amateur, such as when her pigeon-styled derby hat was good enough to be recognized by the famous professional designer, Gabriel Agreste, despite the fact that she had never made one before. According to Audrey Bourgeois, the harshest fashion critic, she didn't see other talents as great as Gabriel Agreste until she met Marinette. She also wants to become a fashion designer when she grows up.

Since "Reflekdoll", Marinette is working on a website to show off her designs. In "Reverser", she is good at flying a kite. In "Gorizilla" and "Lies", she knows how to drive a remote-controlled helicopter and a drone.

Although she is absent-minded, Marinette is clever and quick-thinking, as shown when she hid her signature in her hat when Chloé stole her design, which exposed her. Many of her friends describe "she is always able to come up with the right plan at the right time". Despite being amnesiac from the effects of Oblivio's powers, she outsmarted the villain while they were looking for her and Adrien. Ladybug's resourcefulness is more obvious when she is figuring out how to utilize her Lucky Charm, most of her plans being outside the box yet risky and complicated. She also has good instincts, as she told Cat Noir, that revealing their identities would have to wait until Hawk Moth was defeated, meaning she understood what her archenemy is capable of if he found out. By putting the clues together, she figured out, despite being deceived, Hawk Moth's identity and also managed to trick Cat Noir into believing she isn't Ladybug. To the point where her instincts have developed so much that even Su-Han had praised it with marks calling it an essential quality for being a guardian. According to her in "Hawk Moth and the Akumatized Villains", due to not knowing what villain will come their way, type of powers they have or how strong said villain is it forces her and the team to adapt shown in "Ephemeral" and countless episodes.

According to Alya, Marinette always gets a high score on school tests. Ms. Bustier said that she had answered each question on the last test correctly.

Even in her civilian form, Marinette has high stamina, endurance, and agility, running long distances without stopping in several episodes. She is naturally flexible, being even more flexible as Ladybug because of her enhanced physical abilities. She is also quite stealthy, frequently sneaking up on Adrien and other people without being noticed. Marinette is very good at sports, being quite good at ice-skating and dancing. She has good reflexes, being on par with Adrien despite fencing for the first time. With practicing from Kagami, Marinette has the potential to be a good fencer. In "Kwamibuster", due to her high stamina, endurance, and mental resistance, Marinette was able to handle the strain and/or use of multiple Miraculous at one time with minor fatigue.

From Master Fu, Marinette learned the history of the kwamis and their Miraculouses. Her knowledge extends to the spells such as the incantation needed for the wish-granting power of the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses. However, as Fu's understanding is limited, Marinette's training might be incomplete.

Marinette is very skilled at video games, easily beating Max at Ultimate Mecha Strike III and getting the highest score in the entire school. While playing with Adrien, she quickly wins the round they were playing. When playing with both boys, while the boys seem to be tense, concentrating really hard, Marinette is the complete opposite. Unlike them, her expression is calm and collected, showing how easy and effortlessly it is for her to win.

As complimented by Adrien, Marinette is an excellent baker. She knows both approaches, modern and traditional, on baking, as well as how to handle cooking facilities. She makes "magicaroons" for Tikki, containing all the power-ups from Miraculous spellbook. In "The Puppeteer", it is revealed that Marinette can whistle. Not as good as Lila, she is adequate at acting or deceiving people, especially akumatized villains, as a part of her plans to defeat and save them.

She is also working on learning Mandarin Chinese with her mother's help. She is learning how to play the guitar with Luka's help.

Due to her spending time with her grandmother, she learned how to ride a scooter bike in "Queen Banana".

### As Ladybug

Ladybug has much more enhanced physical abilities, such as speed and agility. These abilities allow her to react to and evade light-based attacks, as well as jump and leap several times her height and length. Similar to a real ladybug, she can climb up and walk on surfaces without her yo-yo. Her increased strength allows her to do things such as using her yo-yo to pull a large robot onto the ground, as well as break Cat Noir's nearly unbreakable staff and an oyster's pearl using only her fingers. Her near-invulnerability and great durability to physical damage allow her to jump off of 2 story buildings and land without issue and survive a fall off of one, as well as seemingly survive a fall at the height of at least several stories. She can even handle temperatures as severe as absolute 0. Ladybug is skilled in hand-to-hand combat when fighting villains or Cat Noir when he ends up being controlled by one. Her combat skills have improved so much she can fight blindfolded with ease in "Psycomedian". Even out of "Aqua Mode", she is a good swimmer.

Ladybug has remarkable talent with wielding her yo-yo, like using it as a grappling hook, a rope to restrain others, a projectile, a slicer even against solid materials, and a shield if she spins it fast enough. Her yo-yo also can work as a breathing apparatus for those who can't breathe underwater like herself. After an akuma or amok is released from its corrupted object, Ladybug can open her yo-yo to catch it and remove the energy-charged with it, releasing it in its original form. In other episodes, she can fight exceptionally well with other weapons besides her yo-yo and is good at dual-wielding despite having little to no training.

Her special power, Lucky Charm, creates an object that helps her to achieve her goal, it often being to stop a villain. Though usually confused at first, her creativity and cleverness help enable her to perceive where the object can be used to help her achieve her goal. However, Lucky Charm drains her power and reverts her back to Marinette shortly afterward, so she has to use it wisely. Once the villain is dealt with, Ladybug can throw her Lucky Charm object into the air and use the Miraculous Ladybug, which will make it revert to an enormous swarm of ladybugs and fix all of the damage done since the villain appeared.

Because she has the power of creation, Ladybug is the one that sets the limits of her own power. This is shown when Ladybug, determined to stop other people from being akumatized, is able to expand her powers, gaining a new costume and the ability to create magical charms that are able to prevent reakumatizations to those who receive them.

#### Aqua Form

When accessing her aqua powers, Ladybug has the ability to breathe underwater and has enhanced swimming capabilities due to the fins on her feet.

#### Ice Form

When accessing her ice powers, Ladybug has the ability to handle extremely low temperatures, as well as move freely and quickly on the ice with her ice skates.

#### Space Form

When accessing her space powers, Ladybug has the ability to breathe in space, and with the help of her jet pack, the ability to move freely and quickly while up in the air.

### As Lady Noire

Lady Noire has the same abilities as her partner, such as more enhanced skills, like speed, agility, and strength, that she is almost invulnerable to physical damage. She has enhanced senses such as hearing, smell, night vision, and super stealth like a cat.

Like Cat Noir, Lady Noire can use her staff efficiently, wielding it as a sword, being able to spin it at high speeds to form a shield, and taking advantage of its length-changing features. To travel long distances, she uses her staff and its variety in length to vault over obstacles.

Her special power, Cataclysm, allows her to negatively affect anything that she touches with her ring hand. However, using Cataclysm drains her Miraculous's power, causing her to revert back to Marinette five minutes afterward, so she has to use it wisely.

### As Multimouse

Multimouse has much more enhanced skills, such as speed, agility, and strength, and she is almost invulnerable to physical damage.

Her special power, Multitude, allows her to turn into a number of tiny clones of herself. The clones are small, a lot smaller compared to the Kwamis. In order to activate her power, Multimouse takes several jumps using her jump rope (her tool), which makes her bottom section of her legs shine and, her tiny clones were created and start to appear. As the original size starts to shrink down and decrease, Multimouse has the ability to divide herself into smaller clones. All of them have the same costume, including the miraculous, but the original one wore all of the miraculouses, creating a difference between the rest of them.

### As Multifox

Besides the powers she has as Multimouse, Multifox possesses the power Mirage. She divided herself into tiny clones and gave the fox miraculous to one of the clones. By playing her flute, she produces an orange ball of energy at the far end of it and then throws it to create a hyper-realistic illusion. This illusion can disappear when touched or when Multifox undoes it by shouting out "Reality".

### As Multinoir

Besides the powers she has as Multimouse, Multinoir possesses the power Cataclysm. As Cat Noir gave her the miraculous, she wore it around her waist. It allows her to negatively affect anything that she touches with her ring hand. While it is usually used to destroy objects, it can be used for a variety of different effects.

### As Multibug

Besides the powers she has as Multimouse, Multibug possesses the power of Lucky Charm. Still wearing her earrings after being set free, she used her powers to trap the akuma and purify it.

### As Dragon Bug

Besides the powers she has as Ladybug, Dragon Bug possesses the powers of the Dragon Miraculous Superpower. It allows her to use the power of the Water, Wind, and Lightning elements and even combine them with her yo-yo to make a shield.

### As Lady Bee

In addition to the powers she has as Ladybug, in her fusion form with the Bee Miraculous she possesses the power of Venom. It allows her to use her spinning top to paralyze her adversaries.

### As Pegabug

In addition to the powers she has as Ladybug, Pegabug possesses the power of Voyage. It allows her open a portal that she can travel through and exit at any location that she desires.

### As Pennybug

In addition to the powers she has as Ladybug, Pennybug possesses the power of Voyage and Burrow. It allows her open a portal that she can travel through and exit at any location that she desires, similarly to Pegabug, but being Pennybug allows her to create portals that can traverse through time. By advancing in time a few seconds, she can simulate teleportation.

## Relationships

### Adrien/Cat Noir

At first, Marinette hated him because she thought he was sticking gum to her seat. Afterwards, she realized how kind he was and started to have a crush on him. She usually daydreams about him afterschool and at home. But due to her awkwardness, she is afraid that Adrien would find out that she has a crush on him. In "Kung Food" and some other episodes, however, she feels more confident around him and stops hesitating when speaking to him.

As Ladybug, she thinks of Cat Noir as annoying, unfocused, and loves to make jokes too much. Ladybug does see him as a good companion to work with, though.

In "The Evillustrator", when Cat Noir flirts with her, she mocks him by mouthing what he says when Cat isn't looking.

### Tikki

Tikki is Marinette's Kwami, that grants her the power to transform into ladybug and capture the akuma sent out by hawk moth. Tikki is not one to be afraid to tell Marinette when she is wrong. Tikki is a reliable kwami and has been there for every ladybug in the +5000 years.

### Alya

She is best friends with Alya. She tells Alya all her secrets and Alya tries to help Marinette actually speak her true feelings. In "Animan", Alya tells Marinette what to do, although Marinette ignores it. Also, Alya loves superheroes and has a whole blog about ladybug, "The Ladyblog". Due to all this important journalism she becomes akumtized in "Lady Wifi" because she wanted to find out Ladybugs real identity. Or in the episode, "The Pharoh" where she tries to find out who ladybug is because when Alya was watching ladybug in action she dropped a history textbook, therefore trying to find out if ladybug is in the same class as her.

### Chloé Bourgeois

She is rivals with Chloé, being Chloé often bullying her. Chloé often mocks Marinette. As for Marinette, she despises Chloé. She hates the fact that Chloé bullied many people. Because Marinette likes Adrien herself, she hates the way Chloé always runs up to him and calls him "Adrikins", and finds it annoying.

As Ladybug, her feelings about Chloé doesn't change. When Chloé tries to take pictures with her, Ladybug is trying to shoo her away and walks away from her. In "The Evillustrator", she leaves Chloé to be with Cat Noir.

### Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth

She is aware that Hawk Moth is the villain that is akumatizing everyone, as shown in "Stoneheart - Origins Part 2", when he reveals to them that he exists. She is not, however, aware that he is Gabriel Agreste.

In the origin episode, marinette said that Gabriel was her favourite fashion designer and she admired his fashion which inspired her to be one.

## Abilities

Marinette has excellent fashion skills and she sketches all her fashion ideas. She is also very skilled at playing video games, even beating the high score, causing Max to be akumatized.

However, Marinette claims that her only talent/ability is to be clumsy.

As Ladybug, she is the only one that can capture akumas and free people from their akumatised self. Her superpower is the Lucky Charm power that helps her defeat the person that has been akumatized by hawk moth.

## Trivia

* In the Ladybug PV, she is shown with much longer spiky hair.
* Marinette she was first appearance Stromy Weather (episode).
* She confesses her love for Adrien in the episode, Felix.
* In her earlier design, she had no floral designs on her shirt.
* Dupain is a French surname, and Cheng is a Chinese surname, making Marinette half-French and half-Chinese.

**Film:** ***Ladybug & Cat Noir Awakening*** • ***Miraculous* (live-action film)**
**Web series:** ***Miraculous Secrets*** • ***Miraculous: Tales from Paris*** • ***Miraculous ZAG Chibi***
**Apps:** ***Miraculous Ladybug & Cat Noir*** • ***ZAG Heroez***
**Music:** **Miraculous Ladybug Christmas Album** • **The Wall Between Us**
**Books:** **Comic series** • ***Miraculous Adventures***
**Others:** **Ladybug PV** • **Miraculous CGI promotional videos**

**Kwamis:** **Tikki** • **Plagg** • **Wayzz** • **Nooroo** • **Trixx** • **Pollen** • **Duusu** • **Fluff** • **Sass** • **Xuppu** • **Longg** • **Kaalki** • **Mullo** • **Daizzi** • **Roaar** • **Barkk** •  **Ziggy** • **Orikko** • **Stompp**
**Allies**: **Master Wang Fu/Jade Turtle** • **United Heroez (Olympia Hill/Majestia • Jessica Keynes/Sparrow/Eagle • Aeon/Uncanny Valley • Barbra Keynes/Knightowl • Dean Gate/Doorman • Camilla Hombee/Victory • Hurricane • Snowflake • Sting • Agent Red • Hot Dog Dan • Agent Yellow • Agent Blue • Thorn • Mercury)** • **Fei Wu/Lady Dragon**
**Antagonists**: **Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch** • **Nathalie Sancoeur/Mayura** • **Chloé Bourgeois** • **Tomoe Tsurugi** • **Lila Rossi/Cerise/Iris Verdi** • **Félix Fathom** • **Bob Roth** • **XY/Xavier-Yves Roth**

**Season 2**: **"Queen's Battle"** • **"Heroes' Day"** • **"Santa Claws"**
**Season 3**: **"The Battle of the Miraculous"**
**Season 4**: **"Shadow Moth's Final Attack"**
**Season 5**: **"The Kwamis' Choice"** • **"The Last Day"** • **"Action"**
**Other**: **"Ladybug in Halloween"** • **"Miraculous Shanghai"** • **"Miraculous New York"** • **"Miraculous London"** • **"Miraculous Africa"** • **"Miraculous Rio"** • **Miraculous Tokyo"** • **"One Night Mission"** • **"Miraculous Paris"** • **List of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir episodes**

**Other:** **Marinette's purse** • **Miracle Box**

1. ↑ In "Ladybug & Cat Noir" by Cat Noir, after he introduces himself and she replies "I'm Ma--er ... Ma... M... Ah! Madly clumsy. I'm so clumsy." He then replies, kindly, with "No sweat, **clumsy-girl**. I'm learning the ropes too."
2. ↑ Alya in "Ladybug & Cat Noir"
3. ↑ In "Ladybug & Cat Noir" by Cat Noir, after being rescued
4. ↑ In "Ladybug & Cat Noir" by Cat Noir, after akuma is released
5. ↑ Nicknames by Cat Noir in the English dub of "Mr. Pigeon".
6. ↑ She is called this as Ladybug by Cat Noir in "Copycat", as well as many later episodes, prompting her to complain "Stop calling me Bugaboo!" in "Copycat" and "Troublemaker".
7. ↑ She is called this as Ladybug accidentally by Adrien in "Gorizilla". And by Adrien again when they transformed back to their civilian alter egos in the sewers after three superheroes were akumatized in "Mayura (Heroes' Day - Part 2)".
8. ↑ As Marinette, Cat Noir calls her this in "The Evillustrator" As Ladybug, The Evillustrator also calls her this in the same episode and Alya calls her this in "Gamer".
9. ↑ In "Dark Cupid" by Cat Noir.
10. ↑ In "Ladybug & Cat Noir (Origins - Part 1)" by Tikki.
11. ↑ In "Rogercop" by Cat Noir.
12. ↑ In "Antibug" by Antibug.
13. ↑ In "Santa Claws" by Alya.
14. ↑ In "Despair Bear", "Queen Banana" and "Wishmaker" by Chloé
15. ↑ In "Befana" by Gina/Befana.
16. ↑ In "Befana" by Gina.
17. ↑ Her codename in "Gigantitan".
18. ↑ In "Glaciator" by Ivan.
19. ↑ In "Frightningale" by herself and Alya.
20. ↑ In "Frightningale" by Cat Noir.
21. ↑ In "Reverser" by Reverser.
22. ↑ In "Anansi" by Nora
23. ↑ In "Style Queen" by Style Queen.
24. ↑ In "Queen Wasp" by Audrey.
25. ↑ In "Catalyst" by Cat Noir.
26. ↑ In "Mayura" by Adrien.
27. ↑ In "Antibug" by Antibug
28. ↑ In "Anansi" by Nino Lahiffe.
29. ↑ In "Bakerix" as an alias to get close to her grandfather
30. ↑ In "Gamer 2.0" by Gamer 2.0
31. ↑ by Bob Roth in "Silencer"
32. ↑ In "Stormy Weather 2" by Clara
33. ↑ New Powers and Syren
34. ↑ New Powers and Syren
35. ↑ By Alya in Miraculous New York
36. ↑ In "Timetagger" by Bunnyx.
37. ↑ In "Timetagger" by Timetagger
38. ↑ By Mister Bug in "Reflekdoll"
39. ↑ By Reflekta in "Reflekdoll"
40. ↑ By Chloé in "Marinette as seen by Chloé"
41. ↑ Aqua Noir in "Miracle Queen"
42. ↑ By Aeon in "Miraculous New York"
43. ↑ In "Sole Crusher" by herself
44. ↑ In "Queen Banana" by Chloé Bourgeois.
45. ↑ In "Wishmaker" by Pollen.
46. ↑ In "Dearest Family" by Tom.
47. ↑ In "Dearest Family" by Bakerix.
48. ↑ In "Ephemeral" by Su-Han
49. ↑ By Rena Furtive in "Risk"
50. ↑ In *Kuro Neko*
51. ↑ (@marinettedesigned)
52. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/B5BQybnA4RM/
53. ↑ In "Bakerix", Marinette says she likes pizza.
54. ↑ In "Dearest Family", Tom mentions that Marinette has always adored Galette.
55. ↑ Shown in "The Evillustrator" by Sabrina Raincomprix and Evillustrator
56. ↑ Marinette is shown to be ticklish in "The Dark Owl" and "Simpleman".
57. ↑ In "Befana", Marinette didn't like the candy Gina gave her, probably called Befana candies.
58. ↑  In "Sandboy"
59. ↑ It is first seen in Chameleon, where Lila Rossi as Chameleon, disguised as Cat Noir, tries to force Ladybug to kiss her so she could take her Miraculous, but she avoids by having Chameleon kisses a clam instead. It is also seen in Félix, where Félix Fathom (disguised as Adrien) tries to kiss her despite the former refusing to do that, so she angrily punches the latter, telling him "Okay, which part of the word, *no*, did you not *understand?!?*"
60. ↑ In "Sentibubbler"