Magical Charms

The **Magical Charms** are a set of anti-akumatization charms created by the Ladybug Miraculous holder with the leftover magic purified from the Akuma to prevent further Akumatizations of a once-transformed victim.

## Appearance

The charm is small, round and modeled after a ladybug with a string attached. Each individual Charm is unique, taking on the coloration of the person's akumatized form. The string can be extended to an unknown length, allowing the charm to be worn as a necklace.

## Abilities

Once the Ladybug Miraculous holder summons the Lucky Charm, in addition to the Charm itself, they receive a modified new suit. After the Lucky Charm object serves its purpose and the Miraculous Ladybug has been used, the modified suit reverts to the holder's standard costume.

Either before or after they utilize the Miraculous Ladybug, the holder's Yo-yo creates a Magical Charm to gift to the de-akumatized person. When worn by the akumatized person in their unempowered form, the Magical Charm prevents the Butterfly Miraculous holder from once more akumatizing them.

As seen in "Queen Banana", once the person keeps the charm on them, such as by wearing it as a piece of jewellery, or keeping it in their pocket, it creates an invisible glowing vivid magenta force field around the person that only activates when an Akuma comes near that person, preventing akumatization, no matter what emotion they possess. But according to Ladybug, the charm will not work unless the de-akumatized person actually accepts it, either directly from Ladybug herself or from another person, even if they must be tricked into taking it (as seen in "Queen Banana"), or putting it in their posession, without even knowing of the charm's existence (as seen in "Optigami").

In "Dearest Family", it is shown that the charm not only wards away the akumas, it also removes their magic, purifying them back into ordinary butterflies.

According to Ladybug in "Mr. Pigeon 72" and "Sole Crusher", Magical Charms are able to protect the individual from negative emotions, preventing Shadow Moth from bothering them any further. However, as shown in "Queen Banana", "Crocoduel", "Dearest Family", and "Penalteam" a Magical Charm holder can still feel negative emotions and they can still be sensed by Shadow Moth, though they are presumably safe from akumatization as long as they keep the charm on their person.

If an akuma empowers multiple people, Ladybug can use its residue to fashion more than one Magical Charm, one for each affected person. When she takes them out of her yo-yo, they are placed directly against each other then distributed to the desired person.

In "Dearest Family", Gabriel Agreste manages to evolve his powers, putting more power to the akuma to create a **Megakuma**, a more powerful akuma capable of breaking through the Charm's force field, destroying the Charm causing it to disappear and allowing him to re-akumatize people that have received a Magical Charm, like Rolland Dupain and Sabine Cheng, who are akumatized back into Bakerix and Qilin in the same episode. He accomplishes this is through the same principle that Ladybug used to create the Charms: expanding his power as he sees fit, the power of his Miraculous only being limited by the limit he puts on himself and channelling his drive to bring Emilie back.

This also implies that a magical charm protects against every akumatized form a person may have, as destroying Rolland's Simpleman-themed charm allowed him to become Bakerix.

In "Gabriel Agreste" and "Dearest Family", it's implied that anyone holding a Magical Charm is protected from akumas, as the Gabriel Agreste Sentimonster recieved a Magical Charm in "Gabriel Agreste", but Gabriel was protected from a normal akuma in "Dearest Family". However, it's possible that the charm only worked because it was intended for the real Gabriel, as Ladybug thought that the sentimonster was him.

As shown in the "Dearest Family", the Magical Charms also protect from remote akumatizations, where the object the akuma wants to enter will be blocked by a pink force field even if the person is not touching it.

## Trivia

* For a time, Shadow Moth was unaware of the Magical Charms. In "Queen Banana" he didn't understand why he couldn't akumatize Chloé Bourgeois a second time. Later in "Gabriel Agreste" he becomes aware of them and obtains one from his Sentimonster clone.
	+ The Akumas and Magical Charms were ironically causing Shadow Moth to harm his own operations. By akumatizing people, he had allowed for Ladybug to create the charms, which slowly shrunk his available pool of candidates for akumatization.
	+ Despite this, Shadow Moth can still sense the negative emotions of the Magical Charm holders, as revealed in "Crocoduel". However just like Chloé due to them constantly wearing the charm he couldn't use his victim's feelings anymore.
* The charms bear a resemblance to the mini Ladybug charm Alya keeps on her phone. Given that Alya is Marinette/Ladybug's best friend, and that she helped her create them, it's possible that this is deliberate, if subconscious, inspiration on Ladybug's part.
* The Magical Charms are created from the leftovers of an akumatization. This is the reason why Ladybug isn't able to create a Magical Charm for everyone in Paris yet.
	+ Also that just like the Lucky Charm and the Miraculous Ladybug (superpower) are linked it's likely the magical charms are linked too, meaning that with no akumatized villains or sentimonster there is no use for the three powers.
		- However due to Alya's lack of experience with the Ladybug Miraculous compared to Ladybug's she couldn't create the magical charms.
	+ Another reason why Ladybug couldn't make a charm for everyone starting back in Season 1 was because she didn't fully understand what her powers meant yet, meaning she had a lot of growing to do first.
* Since their debut, Magical Charms have appeared in every episode except "Sentibubbler", "Hack-San", "Ephemeral", "Kuro Neko" and "Risk".
	+ However, in "Ephemeral" and "Kuro Neko", Ladybug may have given Bob Roth, August, Roger Raincomprix, and Rythm magical charms off-screen.
* As of "Dearest Family", Sabine and Rolland are the first two people who got replacement Magical Charms.
	+ Rolland Dupain is also the first person to have more than one magical charm design.
* In "Dearest Family" it is seen that a regular Akuma is automatically purified when touching a Magical Charm's invisible barrier, though this isn't seen in "Queen Banana".
* It's unknown whether the magical charms protect their owners from Amokization, as all of Shadow Moth's victims who have been amokized and own a magical charm, were also akumatized when receiving it (Chloé in "Queen Banana", Mayor Bourgeois in "Mega Leech", and Juleka in "Guiltrip").