Marc Anciel

* Marc Anciel
* Rooster Bold
* Reverser

Alexandre Nguyen (French)
Gianluca Cortesi (Italian)
Javier Balas (European Spanish)
Emilio Treviño (Latin American Spanish, Season 2)
Brandon Santini (Latin American Spanish, Season 3)
Diego Becerril (Latin American Spanish, Season 4 onwards)
Simon Frankel (European Portuguese)
Raed Musref (رائد مشرف) (Modern Standard Arabic)
Wan Muhammad Tamlikha (Malay)
Jip Bartels (Dutch)
Takuma Sasaki (Japanese)
Jindřich Žampa (Czech, Season 2)
Jiří Köhler (Czech, Season 3 onwards)
Patrick Baehr (German)
Raed Musref (رائد مشرف) (Modern Standard Arabic)

 —Rooster Bold to Penalteam, "Penalteam"

**Marc Anciel** is a supporting character of *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.* He is a student in Ms. Mendeleiev's class at Collège Françoise Dupont.

In "Reverser", after Nathaniel disregarded him and his writing and ripped his journal in half, he was akumatized by Hawk Moth into **Reverser**, a vengeful inverting supervillain.

In "Penalteam", Marc receives the Rooster Miraculous from Ladybug. When the Miraculous is inhabited by Orikko, Marc becomes **Rooster Bold** (**Coq Courage** in the French version) a rooster-themed superhero who will help Ladybug and Cat Noir during "particularly difficult missions" in the fourth season.

After the events of "Strikeback", Marc was temporarily unable to become Rooster Bold after Monarch managed to steal the Rooster Miraculous along with all the others contained in the Chinese Miracle Box from Ladybug's yo-yo.

In "Re-creation", after Ladybug recovers the stolen Miraculous and reforges them following Monarch's defeat, Marc is given back the Rooster Miraculous permanently and reunites with Orikko.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Marc is a fairly tall and slender teenage boy with a somewhat feminine appearance, with messy rock-style black hair with blues reflections, vivid green eyes with visible lashes, thick eyebrows, pink lips, and a slender face with a pointed chin. He also has tan skin.

### Civilian attire

He wears a V-neck rainbow tie-dye t-shirt which displays the colors in a ripple pattern originating from the center. Over his t-shirt, he wears a bright red jacket with hood and white drawstrings, and pink lining on the inside. He wears moderate azure jeans with the bottoms rolled up and a number of horizontal rips around his knees. He wears a pair of black boots with faint "oil slick" rainbow blotches.

He also wears a pair of black leather fingerless gloves, a black leather collar around his neck, and a square-nails belt with a square silver buckle. Hanging from his belt are a pair of square-nails chains that hang around his thighs. His nails are painted black.

### As Reverser

Reverser was in a checkerboard patterned suit with a hood that was attached to it. The left side of his suit had solid black markings, like on his hood, hair, eyebrow, iris of the eye, pupil, lips, chest, arm, waist, fingers, and pant leg. On the right side, his inner hood, face, sclerae, teeth, palm, feet, half of a circle on the chest, were black. Reverser's weapons were small black and white paper airplanes that could reverse the abilities or the personality of the person who is hit. He rode on a large paper hoverboard.

### As Rooster Bold

Rooster Bold wears a very dark cobalt blue skin-tight outfit covered by a moderate red tailcoat with a blue-violetish black inside and multiple long feather-like tails going down from around his waist. That coat has golden accents and darker feather-shaped sections going out the middle. He wears a short vivid red ascot and golden boots resembling a rooster's legs, even having the spurs that real roosters have. His eyes with brilliant red irises and light gold sclera are covered by a little over-hanging plain red mask. His black hair is slicked back and he has a brilliant red mohawk resembling a rooster's comb. His skin turns noticeably light, and he wears the Rooster Miraculous on his left thumb.

## Personality

Like Juleka Couffaine, Marc is very shy, quiet and nervous around others. This is shown when Marinette pulls Marc into the art room to introduce him to everyone. He is also quite shy in front of his first friend at the school, Marinette, refusing to show her his stories. He likes to write stories (particularly about Ladybug and Nathaniel) but is sheepish and self-conscious when people read them. When he runs away in embarrassment out of the art room, he runs into a pillar and drops his notebook and Marinette picks it up and reads it. When she hands the notebook back to him later on, Marc immediately turns red. Like Marinette, he is sweet and he is very kind but also quite clumsy, especially when he’s around someone he has feelings for.

As Rooster Bold, he gets the confidence he needs to show off his abilities and use them to better help his team.

As Reverser, he was demanding and clever, realizing that Ladybug's graceful agility made her difficult to strike. He endangered civilians in order to make Ladybug an easy target when she went to help the affected cyclist. He was also confident, leaning on a bit overconfident. After he struck Ladybug and Cat Noir with his airplanes, he saw the heroes as harmless and believed he had time to obtain his revenge on Nathaniel and Marinette before dealing with them. He was also cruel, reversing anyone even those who haven't done anything to him, like with making the art club hate art and music, and making André Bourgeois send the dumpsters that were in space back to Paris. He did sympathize with those who are mistreated, like with what happened between him and Nathaniel, as he saw how Chloé treated Sabrina like a slave so he struck both of them to make Chloé tend to Sabrina instead.

## Abilities

### As Marc

Marc is an excellent creative story writer. His Ladybug stories, based on Nathaniel's drawings, impress Marinette (the real Ladybug) so much that she pushes him to work with Nathaniel to make the Ladybug/Mighty Illustrator comic. Since the two of them complete the comic, it is implied that Marc's writing skills are strong enough for him to write well in script style as well as in short story style. He is also shown to be quite good at soccer.

### As Reverser

Reverser had enhanced physical characteristics: speed, agility and strength. Reverser rode on a large paper hoverboard, which had the ability to fly around at will. He could also make small black and white paper airplanes with the ability to reverse the abilities or a personality trait to its opposite, by calling out what trait he wished to reverse and shouting "Reversion!". Notable examples are when he made Ladybug become extremely clumsy after hitting her with a paper plane, or when he made Cat Noir a coward (which explains why Reverser called them Ladyclutz and Scaredy Cat). This could also affect specific actions, as Reverser was able to make André Bourgeois bring the trash containers in space back to Earth.

### As Rooster Bold

Rooster Bold has enhanced speed, strength, endurance and agility. If Rooster Bold says Sublimation, he activates his power, which is the ability to add another super ability to anything he is doing, whether it is an enhanced ability, or an actual superpower. However, he can only get one superpower per transformation and can only use it once.

## Relationships

### Nathaniel Kurtzberg/Caprikid

Marc often looks at Nathaniel's drawings online and uses them for inspiration for his stories. He is delighted when he gets a chance to see them in person. When Marinette suggests showing Nathaniel his writings so they can make a comic book together, Marc fears what might happen if Nathaniel doesn't like his stories, so he takes Marinette's offer of showing the book without saying who wrote it. But when Nathaniel angrily rejects Marc's offer of making a comic book together after mistakenly believing that the latter was playing a joke on him, Marc ends up getting so upset that he is akumatized by Hawk Moth. However, after he is deakumatized, the misunderstanding is cleared up, and the two start making a comic book together and they finally become boyfriends.
They can be seen together in later episodes such as "Frozer" and "Mayura". In "Frozer", as Adrien is looking at each of the school's couples, Nathaniel and Marc are seen sitting on the staircase together looking at a book. In "Mayura", Nathaniel places his hands on Marc's shoulders as they all cheer for Marinette, which shows that their bond has deepened and that there is a high level of trust between the two. From the way Marc acts around and talks about Nathaniel, it can be inferred that Marc has a "fondness" toward him; this was later confirmed on Twitter by Feri.
As Rooster Bold,
As Reverser, he seeks revenge on Nathaniel for the emotional pain caused by his rejection. His intent is to reverse Nathaniel into being willing to make the comic book.
In "Hack-San", when Robostus commands a mind controlled Marc to give him his most precious possession, the thing he offers to the villain's digital prison is Nathaniel.
In "Representation", Marc and Nathaniel are boyfriends at the party in the Eiffel Tower and they were holding hands.

### Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug

Marc appears to be on good terms with Marinette, but he is shy about showing his writings to her. Regardless, he takes her advice of teaming up with Nathaniel to create a comic book and allows her to give Nathaniel his writing without saying who wrote it. However, after a misunderstanding, Marc believes that Marinette is meddlesome and a liar. After he is deakumatized, though, he is no longer mad at her and along with Nathaniel dedicates their first Ladybug comic book to her. He also attends the picnic celebrating her and cheers her on as their "Everyday Ladybug".
Marc appears to be a fan of Ladybug and often writes stories inspired by her fights against akumatized villains. Also in "Frightningale", he wears a Ladybug mask in Clara Nightingale's music video. Despite his timid personality, Ladybug's courage and determination inspires him to join the battle against the army of scarlet akumas.
As Reverser, he targets Marinette, believing (partly correctly) that it is her fault that Nathaniel rejected him. His intent is to reverse her into being hated by everyone. However, he doesn't like her interfering with his plans. His strategic talent leads him to realize that he can force her into a vulnerable situation by targeting innocent bystanders, making her defend them.
In "Gabriel Agreste", Marc, along with Nathaniel, try their best to come up with a plan for Marinette to confess her feelings to Adrien. This alone proves how willing Marc is to help Marinette, and how much he supposedly trusts her.

### Orikko

Not much is known about the relationship between Marc and his kwami, Orikko, but they were only seen interacting when the latter introduced himself to his new owner in Penalteam.

### Zoé Lee/Vesperia

In "Sole Crusher", Zoe entered the same class as Marc, with Miss Mendeleiev. Then, at the end of the episode, she became as Marc’s new best friend with Nathaniel. In "Adoration", Marc and the other eight graders elected Zoé to organize for the school year dance.

As their alter-egos, Rooster Bold and Vesperia fight beside each other as a team, with Ladybug, Cat Noir and the rest of their Miraculous holder allies. They are first seen together in "Penalteam" up until "Strikeback" . From "Deflagration", they continue to work as resistance members.

### Sabrina Raincomprix/Miss Hound

Marc doesn't know Sabrina very well. In "Re-creation", he and Sabrina are seen playing soccer together. As Miss Hound, he works well with her in "Penalteam".

As Reverser, he felt sorry for Sabrina when he saw how poorly Chloé treated her, therefore he reversed their personas.

### Chloé Bourgeois/Queen Bee

As Reverser, he was disgusted by the way Chloé treated Sabrina, calling her the "Meanest person ever", before he reversed their personas.

## Trivia

* Marc made his first appearance in "Frightningale" as a dancer for Clara Nightingale's music video alongside Nathaniel, Mylène, Ivan, and Sabrina.
* His first name was revealed in a UK episode synopsis on May 19, 2018.
* His akumatized form was first seen in a photo taken by Jeremy Zag of the show's production for Season 2.
* On May 21, 2018, Thomas Astruc revealed on Twitter that a (at the time unspecified) character was based on a personal friend of his named Hope Morphin, who is genderfluid and bisexual. A few hours after "Reverser" premiered on Family Channel, Morphin themself revealed that the character Astruc was referring to was Marc, and also that Marc is androgynous. Feri González confirmed this, and also later confirmed on Twitter that Marc identifies as part of the LGBTQ+ community and has a "fondness" for Nathaniel.
	+ Marc's full name, Marc Anciel, is a play on the French word "arc-en-ciel", which translates to "rainbow" in English. This wordplay both references his multicolored outfit and him being a part of the LGBTQ+ community.
	+ Astruc confirm that Marc and Nathaniel are officially in couple.
* Hope Morphin has confirmed that Marc's three favorite animals are the sheep, peacock, and goat.
* His visible eyelashes and pink lips may imply that he wears makeup.
* He is one of the youngest of all of his friends as civilians and of the French Miraculous superhero team.
* Reverser appears another time in "Gamer 2.0" for Gamer's powers.
* As of "Penalteam", following Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Chloé Bourgeois, Nathalie Sancoeur, Luka Couffaine, Max Kanté, Kagami Tsurugi, Alix Kubdel, Lê Chiến Kim, Adrien Agreste, Zoé Lee, Mylène Haprèle, Rose Lavillant, Juleka Couffaine, and Sabrina Raincomprix, Marc Anciel is the sixteenth person to become a Miraculous holder and akumatized villain, excluding Gabriel Agreste, who akumatized himself, and Marinette Dupain-Cheng who almost got akumatized.
* Coq (in Coq Courage's name) is the French word for Cock meaning a rooster.
	+ His English name, Rooster Bold, may be a reference to DC superhero Booster Gold.
	+ This name was changed in the English dub due to concerns about using inappropriate sounding words.
	+ In the European Portuguese dub, Marc's superhero name is "Galo Bravura", which, when literally translated, means "Rooster Bravery".
* Rooster Bold's superpower, Sublimation grants the user any ability they want. This is a reference to Marc's love for writing, esentially writing his own story using his powers.
* Excluding Félix, who has never been fully akumatized, Marc and Zoé are the only members of the French Miraculous superhero team who have been akumatized only once.
* So far, Marc, Zoé and Luka, are the only members of the French Miraculous superhero team that have not met nor interacted with Lila/Cerise.
* So far, only one character knows Marc is Rooster Bold.
	+ Marc joins Sabrina, Zoé, Mylene, Rose, and Juleka to have only one character knowing their superhero identity.

## References

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