Nino Lahiffe

**Nino Lahiffe**[4] is Adrien's best friend and a student in Miss Bustier's class at Collège Françoise Dupont. In "The Bubbler", when Nino can't get Gabriel Agreste to allow Adrien have a birthday party and is considered a bad influence, Hawk Moth akumatizeshim into **Bubbler**, a bubble-wielding supervillain.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Nino is tall, with short dark brown hair, brown skin, and golden brown eyes.

### Civilian attire

He wears a plain red cap atop his head. He also wears black-rimmed glasses. A pair of dark gray, blue, and orange headphones are found around his neck. He wears a short-sleeved blue shirt with an eye design on the front, having a black pupil, white sclera, dark gray upper eyelid with lashes, and light blue lower lid. Around his jeans is a brown belt, and while most of it is hidden by his shirt, one tip sticks out a little bit below it. Additionally, he wears lime green, pink, red, blue, and yellow bands around his right wrist, blue-gray jeans, and red and white high collar shoes with a white knight design on the tongues.

### As Bubbler

Bubbler has light blue skin, reddish-brown eyes, and black circles around his eyes, along with a black spot above his left eye and a black spot below his right eye. He wears a bright red, blue and yellow body suit, with many parts of the suit being rounded like attached bubbles. Around his head, he has a red helmet that features a red antenna on top with a red sphere. Also, he wears black boots, black elbow-length gloves with pink knuckles, and black pants. On his chest, an eye-like black and white circle with two dark gray tubes attached. The tubes connect to Bubbler's red, yellow, and blue bubble container, where he puts his bubble wand when he isn't using it. The bubble wand has a blue handle and a yellow head with a long, oval hole.

## Personality

Nino is fun-loving, enthusiastic, friendly, and compassionate. He enjoys being a DJ at parties and hanging out with friends. He is described as "a caring friend with a strong sense of right and wrong."[5] Noticing when someone, like Adrien, is upset, he does what he can to comfort them or cheer them up. If he has a vision for something, he stays dedicated to it, sometimes rather stubbornly.

But if things don't go in the fashion he wants them to, it exasperates and upsets him. He is more than willing to argue for his point, though he is able to change his opinions on situations or particular people. Nino becomes frustrated if he sees something that he considers unfair, like when Adrien's fatherwon't allow Adrien to have a birthday party. However, he doesn't hold grudges for long, and whether by choice or not, he will help others when they ask for it.

As Bubbler, he becomes less caring and more aggressive, being much wilder and louder than normal. Although one of his intentions is to let Adrien have the birthday party that he never gets, he also despises adults and uses his powers to get rid of them. His hatred can extend to his peers if they defy his orders. His rage proves to even be an issue for Hawk Moth when he traps Ladybug and Cat Noir and sends them into the sky instead of taking their Miraculouses.

## Abilities

### As a civilian

Nino is a skilled DJ, competing with his abilities and making it to the second round in *The Challenge*. With his cellphone, he likes to record videos, and, in "Horrificator", he films a movie with it. He is also knowledgeable in film tropes and film crew, noting how cellphones don't usually work in horror movies in "Horrificator" and mentioning Hollywood director Steven Basielberg in "Volpina".

### As Bubbler

With his bubble wand weapon, Bubbler can create giant impenetrable bubbles with various powers and colors.

* Purple bubbles can be used to chase and capture people, turning green. Additionally, Bubbler can use them to project his face and give a message, and he can stand on them to levitate.

* Red bubbles are his offensive attack: he can throw them at his enemies, causing a fiery explosion on impact. Additionally, Bubbler can turn existing red bubbles into swarming green ones that attach to people and morph into a giant green bubble. This is used to catch both Ladybug and Cat Noir in one go.

He is unable to levitate in mid-air without standing on a bubble, but he can jump very high and can fly from one place to another leaving a trail of purple bubbles.

His bubbles can't be penetrated by limbs or by Ladybug's yo-yo. However, the shields Ladybug and Cat Noir create by rotating their weapons do offer some protection. Additionally, the bubbles can be blown away by air currents and can be burst by Cataclysm and the Miraculous Ladybug.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Nino watches the Turtles fight and is fascinated that he wants to be a ninja too. Though he is weak during training and battle, Nino never gives up until the very end.

## Trivia

* Nino is a DJ during his spare time, and he manages the school radio station.[1][9]
* 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*.
* An earlier concept design for Nino involved a white shirt with red color included in the eye logo and dark gray headphones.[10]

* In "The Bubbler", Nino has black hair, but in all episodes afterward, he has brown hair.
* Nino sits next to Adrien and in front of Alya in class.
* Nino's family comes from Morocco.[11] It was previously assumed his family came from Réunion based on a series of tweets.[12]
* 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.
* In Season 2 and upcoming comics, Nino will have more interactions with Alya.[13]
	+ Season 2 will also reveal more about Nino in general and his family.[14]