Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug

**Marinette Dupain-Cheng (aka Ladybug)** is the main heroine in the show *Miraculous Ladybug*.

Marinette is a fashion designer who can can turn into the heroine **Ladybug**.

She also have a crush on Adrien Agreste who unbeknownst to her is also her partner Cat Noir.

In "Kwamibuster", after Tikki is captured by the titular villain, Marinette wears multiple Miraculous but activates the Mouse Miraculous to become **Multimouse**, a mouse-themed superhero. In the same episode, Multimouse's various copies transform with the Mouse Miraculous combined with the Ladybug, Cat and Fox Miraculous to become **Multibug**, **Multinoir** and **Multifox** respectively.

In "Feast", after defeating the sentimonster that was controlled by Hawk Moth and Mayura, Master Fu began to train Marinette in order to pass his title to her as the New Guardian of the Miraculouses.

In “Reflekdoll”, Marinette obtains the Cat Miraculous, which when inhabited by Plagg, will be able to transform her into **Lady Noir**, gaining the power of destruction.

In “Ladybug”, after being expelled from school, she is nearly akumatized by Scarlet Moth into **Princess Justice**. However, her akumatization is interrupted because of Nathalie Sancoeur's illness and it is never fully completed.

In "Miracle Queen," after Miracle Queen brainwashes the temporary Miraculous holders to be her slaves, Marinette wears the Dragon Miraculous combined with the Ladybug Miraculous she already owns, to become **Dragon Bug**. Since then, Marinette becomes the new Guardian of the Miraculouses after Master Fu relinquishes his role as Guardian and passes it to her.

In "Mr. Pigeon 72", after defeating the titular villain and with some help from Rena Rouge, Ladybug is able to expand the limits of her power, gaining a new costume and the ability to create magical charms that are able to protect people from reakumatizations. In "Optigami", to immobilize Style Queen, Marinette unifies the Bee Miraculous with the Ladybug Miraculous to become **Lady Bee**. It is also revealed that Alya is Marinette's heir presumptive to becoming guardian of the Miracle box.

## Trivia

* Marinette's surnames Dupain & Cheng each have meanings to it.
	+ The French surname Dupain means "of the bread" or "bread" (a reference to her father's job as a baker).
	+ The Chinese surname Cheng means "completed, finished, succeeded" (成) or "sincere, honest, true" (诚).
		- However, Cheng is usually written as "陈" when used as a surname in Chinese.
* Marinette's hair color is a homage to old comic books that would use blue highlights on black hair.
* Although not having any romantic feelings towards Cat Noir, in the webisode "Cat Noir as seen by Marinette", Marinette reveals that she's aware he may have a crush on her and she admits she might have given him a chance if Adrien hadn't been around.
* Marinette has stolen both Adrien's, Alya's, and Chloé's phones during the series. Ironically, however, both thefts were unintentional and involved her trying to hide a fact from the respective owners.
* Following Kagami, Marinette is the only other person that knows that Adrien has a crush on another girl. But like Kagami she is unaware that Adrien is in love with Ladybug, who is her alter ego.
* Her responsibilities as a superhero not only include fighting akumatized villains but also patrolling and many other things.
* In Season 2, as seen in "Queen Wasp" and "Malediktator", Ladybug would still give a chance to heroes who revealed their secret identity, as seen with Chloé in "Queen Wasp" when she tells her that everyone make mistakes, and gives her the Bee Miraculous in "Malediktator" to fight against the titular villain. The jewel is also given to her in "Catalyst" and in "Mayura".
	+ However, in Season 3, as seen in "Kawmibuster", if a superhero reveals his/her identity, Ladybug could no longer give them the Miraculous again. As in a mirage, she, as Ladybug, told that to Marinette, who revealed her identity as Multimouse to Cat Noir, and refused to give Chloé the Bee Miraculous again.
	+ This is probably because Mayura also aids Hawk Moth starting from Season 3, and they usually target Chloé and others if they become their alter egos, so Ladybug has to be very cautious while giving a Miraculous to a person.
	+ The same rule also applies to Marinette if anyone discovered her identity, then she have to give up Tikki and the Ladybug Miraculous.
		- According to Master Fu, Marinette is the first person in history to be able to mentally and physically handle wearing sixteen Miraculouses at once, something that even makes Wayzz recognizes that she is special.
* In "Oblivio", Marinette's ID number is revealed to be 01234567890.
	+ This is probably a placeholder number.
* Marinette has her own official Instagram account. You can find her under the username @marinettedesigned.
	+ In one of her Instagram pictures according to Marinette, she drew her first fashion design ever when she was 5 or 6 years old.
	+ In another one she mentions that she used to have a fear of getting lost in the Metro when she was younger.
	+ She used to do dance lessons with her father.
	+ In another picture Marinette mentions that she occasional takes part in taste testing her father's recipes.
	+ She sometimes meditates in the morning with her mother.
	+ She also created her signature flower design years ago.
	+ She always keeps a sewing kit in her school bag.
* As mentioned in "Ikari Gozen", Marinette's Chinese Zodiac sign is a Snake.
	+ With Marinette's Chinese Zodiac sign as the snake, while Kagami says that she is a dragon. This could mean that Kagami is a year older than Marinette and Adrien. The most recent years of the snake are 2001 and 2013, while the recent years of the dragon have been 2000 and 2012; hinting that Marinette was born in 2001.
	+ This may also be a nod to the fact, that both of her love interests (Luka Couffaine and Adrien Agreste) will wield/wielded the Snake Miraculous which is revealed in "Desperada".
	+ In the French dub, the line was changed to mentioned her Western zodiac sign, Leo.
* As of Season 3, Marinette holds the record for the most miraculous used on one person being the Ladybug, Cat, Dragon, Mouse, and Fox Miraculouses.
* Marinette's role as the future holder of the Cat Miraculous was foreshadowed in the second opening. In which she was shown with cat ears, snout, whiskers and tail.
	+ It's also a homage to a deleted inktober drawing of a female Cat Miraculous holder.
* Lady Noir's name translates to "Black Lady".
* Marinette is the first person to become a guardian in almost 200 years.
	+ She is the second known person to become a Miraculous holder and a Guardian following Master Fu.
* In the webisode "New Powers", Marinette mentions out of all the new abilities she has tried so far, her favorite time was when she tried Cat Noir's powers as Lady Noir.