Nino Lahiffe/Carapace

**Nino Lahiffe (aka Carapace)** is Adrien's best friend and a student in Miss Bustier's class at Collège Françoise Dupont.

In "The Bubbler", when Nino becomes frustrated with adults after failing to convince Gabriel Agreste to allow Adrien to have a birthday party, Hawk Moth akumatizes him into **Bubbler**, a bubble-wielding supervillain.

In "Anansi", after Nino receives the Turtle Miraculous from Ladybug, he, when the Miraculous is inhabited by Wayzz, becomes **Carapace**, a turtle-themed superhero who helps Ladybug and Cat Noir "during particularly difficult missions" in the second season and the third season.

In "Mayura", during the fight with Scarlet Moth, after Rena Rouge falls victim to an akuma, Carapace is akumatized into **Shell Shock** a turtle-themed super villain.

In "Oblivio", due to his and Alya's embarrassment at being caught playing the *Super Penguino* game together, they are both akumatized into **Oblivio**, a memory-erasing supervillain.

In "Rocketear", after coming to the belief that Alya and Cat Noir are secretly a couple behind his back, Nino is akumatized into **Rocketear**, a supervillain with the power to cry exploding tears.

## Trivia

* Nino aspires to be a film director, as hinted in “Horrificator”, as well as “Volpina” when he says “Lila knows all of the Hollywood directors, she promised she'd mention me to Steven Basielberg himself!".
* Nino is a DJ during his spare time, and he manages the school radio station.
* In "The Bubbler", Nino has black hair, but in all episodes afterward, he has brown hair.
* Nino's family comes from Morocco. It was previously assumed his family came from Réunion based on a series of tweets.
* Carapace means "a protective shell".
	+ It is also the technical name for a turtle's backshell.
* Following Alya Césaire, Nino is the second person to become a Miraculous holder and an Akumatized villain, excluding Gabriel, who akumatized himself.
* When Nino and Alya become Oblivio, their supervillain name is a pun on the word oblivious.
* The Bubbler appears another time in "Gamer 2.0" for Gamer's powers.
* He shares his English voice actor with two kwamis, Nooroo, Sass and Miraculous holder Pegasus.
* His English voice actor, Ben Diskin, also voices Shoutmon and Cutemon from Digimon Fusion, Sai from Naruto Shippuden, Eugene Horowitz from Hey Arnold! Seasons 2-5, Nigel Uno and Hoagie Gilligan from Codename: Kids Next Door, Humphrey from the Alpha and Omega sequels, Stitch from Stitch! and Ban from Seven Deadly Sins.
* He is the second in the show to find out the identity of another Miraculous holder, as well as the third to reveal his secret identity as Carapace. Chloé Bourgeois previously revealed her secret identity as Queen Bee in the episode "Queen Wasp". Ladybug and Cat Noir also found out each others' identities in "Oblivio", but they were amnesiac at the time and lost all of their memories gained while amnesiac when Ladybug's Miraculous Ladybug cured them.
* The orange markings on the side of Carapace's hood are likely based on the red-eared slider.
	+ Coincidentally, this is the species of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
* His transformation sequence seems to have been inspired by part of the opening credits of the 1987 version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where Michelangelo spins on his shell while break-dancing, a move emulated by Nino.
* In the French version, Nino's villain name is Le Bulleur.
	+ In the English version of "The Bubbler", Nino is only referred to as the Bubbler by Tikki while everyone else calls him Bubbler.
* In the online game Miraculous Mission Ladybug, Bubbler is the enemy, but he is colored blue and appears multiple times throughout the game.
	+ Also, in Ladybug Contra os Vilões, he is the enemy, this time with the right colors.
* Ironic as much his villain name came from a turtle-themed monster named Shellshock from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

## Gallery

As CarapaceAs BubblerAs Shell ShockAs Oblivio (with Alya)As Rocketear