Cataclysm

* Normal
* Lady Noire
* Cat Walker
* Kitty Noire
* Multinoire
* Snake Noir
* Bug Noire
* Miraculer
* Plagg

### User:

**Cataclysm** is the special superpower granted by the Cat Miraculous to its owner.

## Description

This superpower allows the user to destroy anything they touch. It is activated by it's user speaking its name.

### Miraculous owner

The user infuses their hand, specifically the hand with the Cat Miraculous on it, with dark and destructive energy. Whatever they touch with that hand will be severely negatively affected. The user doesn't necessarily need to use their whole hand when touching the target, just the tip of one finger would be enough, as shown in "Queen Wasp" when Cat Noir destroyed the Bee Miraculous and in "Animaestro" when he destroyed Animaestro's mask. As seen in "Mayura", "Furious Fu", and "Dearest Family", the knuckles of the users fists also work when using Cataclysm. This power can even destroy indestructible objects, such as Miraculous tools.

The exact effect of Cataclysm depends on what it's used on:

* Fragile solid materials like minerals would break and fall apart.
* Metals would corrode and crumble.
* Organic materials like wood, plastic or cloth would be charred and crumble into ashes.
* Technology would malfunction and go haywire or shutdown. It may also result in the device being completely corroded and destroyed.
* Living creatures and human will be charred and turn into ashes too. However, if a person is wearing an active Miraculous, which makes them nearly invulnerable, then the power will just break a few of their bones and/or will cause decay in the cells, leaving a large dark necrotic scar over the part of their body that got hit. As seen in "Passion", "Intuition", "Protection", "Pretension", "Confrontation", and "Re-Creation", the scar will gradually darken as the necrosis slowly progresses and spreads over the victim's body from top to bottom, causing occasional irritation and the pain will get worse over time. Eventually, it will hurt the victim's internal organs and severely weaken them, until finally, the injury will ultimately causes the victim to crumble away. They may also cough up ashes once they're near the end. Aside from the Miraculous Ladybug and the wish, no magic can heal the injury.
* A sentimonster would not be destroyed, but would go berserk, similar to a bee sting on a bull. Additionally, the link allowing them to be controlled by their amokized object or a transformed Peacock Miraculous user would be severed, making them uncontrollable. However, they are still able to be released from existence, either by the Peacock Miraculous user revoking their amok or by breaking their amokized object. However, when used on a human sentimonster, instead of going berserk, they will react in pain and agony like a normal person, but whether that severs the link is unknown. It should be noted however that the only known example of a human sentimonster being Cataclysmed was wearing an active Miraculous and was thus protected by a magic super suit.

Cataclysm can also be used for self-defense, even against magical attacks, as Cat Noir used it against Penalty's red card in "Penalteam" and to destroy Safari's Venom arrow before it could affect him in "Passion". He also tried to use it to resist Guitar Villain's sound attacks, though this failed as the continuous sonic blast was too much to handle. Additionally, in "Anansi" and "Ladybug", he used it to keep Anansi and Hawk Moth, respectively, from stealing his Miraculous, as the Cataclysm made it so they were unable to touch his hand without being affected by Cataclysm's destructive energy.

As seen in "Timetagger", it seems that when a Cat Miraculous user gets older, they have better control of their powers; when Bunnyx showed Ladybug her damaged Rabbit Miraculous, it was only cracked, compared to the Bee Miraculous that was completely destroyed in "Queen Wasp".

In "Miraculous Paris", it was showed through Claw Noir that the user that has access to the full power of the Cataclysm can use it as many times as they want, enhance its range by creating a blast of destructive energy big enough to destroy at least an entire city, just like how Cat Blanc (Cat Noir's akumatized form in an alternate timeline) did in his titled episode and that they also have power dispel it.

### Plagg

As shown in "Style Queen", when Cataclysm is used directly by Plagg, he cannot restrain it and it destroys everything over a very wide area, potentially destroying whole cities. According to Fu and Su-Han, Plagg caused the destruction of Atlantis, as well as the extinction of the dinosaurs and dragons. Plagg's Cataclysm also has a continuous effect, meaning it will continue spreading and destroying things after it is initially used on something.

As seen in "Deflagration", when Plagg uses his Cataclysm on something, it will still spread to the surrounding area, even if the thing he used Cataclysm on isn't on the ground. Even after destroying his own Miraculous, it still created a huge dark crater in the ground and spread destruction all across Paris. Even though the ring was on Monarch's finger, and he was impervious to Cataclysm thanks to the power of Resistance, that didn't stop the destruction from spreading to everything around him, even though it had no effect on his own body.

In "Catalyst", Plagg was shown to be able to somewhat minimize the damaged area, a feat Plagg is very proud of. However, according to Tikki in "Kwamibuster", Plagg's control over his Cataclysm is limited.

## Weaknesses

* As seen in "Robostus" and "Ikari Gozen", if the Cat Miraculous user's hand is restrained, then they can't use the power.
* Once the power is activated, it cannot be deactivated until it is used on something.
* If the person possessing the Cat Miraculous used Cataclysm for evil, it would be "even more than [extremely dangerous]," implying that the power could cause more destruction than normal or in someway negatively impact the user.
	+ Furthermore, it may prove equally disastrous for the world if the holder is in an unstable state of mind, as suggested in "Conformation".
	+ In "Miraculous Paris", it is revealed that using the special superpower uses vital energy from the Kwami, but also from the miraculous holder. It's one thing for an adult holder, but for an underage holder, who is less physically and mentally capable of handling the strain, there is a security system in place that limits them to only using their special power once and causes them to detransform before it becomes dangerous. However, using the Miraculous for evil overrides the limiter, allowing an underage holder to use their powers to their full potential. As previously stated, a younger holder cannot handle the strain; dark veins of corruption will gradually spread across their body, and they will inevitably be destroyed.
* Cataclysm is completely ineffective against with Resistance.
* Gases such as air aren't affected by Cataclysm, and liquids aren't affected either, as seen in "Queen Wasp" and "Gang of Secrets". Additionally, as seen in "Ikari Gozen" it has no effect on the user of the Dragon Miraculous when they are transformed with the power of Water Dragon.

## Uses

*For a complete list of Cataclysm uses, see List of Cataclysm uses.*

## Trivia

* In the Korean version of *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*, Cataclysm is called "**Ancient Apocalypse**." In the Chinese dub, it is instead named "**Cat's claws travels the world**."
* Cataclysm is the first known Miraculous superpower to not require a Miraculous tool to be activated, followed by Akumatization, Second Chance, Burrow and Voyage.
	+ Cataclysm is also the first Miraculous superpower that requires its Miraculous to activate, the second being Second Chance and the third being Clout.
* Concept art shows Cat Noir having other superpowers besides Cataclysm called "Black Hole" and "Black Storm". The latter power resembles Cat Blanc's usage of Mega Cataclysm in "Cat Blanc"
* Sometimes, instead of destroying an object completely, Cataclysm damages it to the point where it becomes easily breakable, for example it can crack a rock but not make it fall to pieces.
* Théo Barbot was able to use Cataclysm upon being akumatized into Copycat by Hawk Moth.
* Lady Wifi, Evillustrator, Reflekta, and Copycat have all managed to anticipate the use of Cataclysm in their respective episodes, although Lady Wifi wasn't able to stop Cat Noir from using it.
	+ Ladybug counters the use of Cataclysm in "Copycat", "Princess Fragrance" and "Dark Cupid".
* "Miraculer" has the most uses of Cataclysm, totaling six times: five from Miraculer and one from Cat Noir.
	+ According to Plagg in "Miraculer", Cataclysm has never been used on a Cat Miraculous holder until that episode.
	+ In the alternative future of "Cat Blanc" it was used 11 times, nine of those by Cat Blanc.
* In "Cat Blanc", it is revealed the power is connected to the user's emotions.
	+ In the alternate future, Cat Noir used it on an akuma for the first time, and since they are living creatures, Cataclysm can negate the effects of Akumatization as long as it's used directly on the akuma.
* When Bug Noire used Cataclysm in "Re-creation", the reforged Turtle Miraculous ring she took from Monarch was unaffected, even though she wore it on the same hand as the Cat Miraculous. It is currently unknown why that was the case, but a few possibilities can be deduced:
	+ The user, when casting the power, could potentially have some sort of control about what gets destroyed or not - or even a property of the power itself;
	+ It could be that objects the user holds/wears on the hand they wear the Cat Miraculous on can go unharmed as the user is capable of channeling the power through a specific point of their hand - Bug Noire could be simply focusing the power on her palm, therefore, not touching the Turtle Miraculous at all.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/1418247523605663749
2. ↑ "Deflagration"
3. ↑ This came as the answer to a question someone had for Thomas Astruc on Twitter but this answer on the site has be long deleted.

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