Chloé Bourgeois

* Antibug
* Queen Wasp
* Miracle Queen
* Queen Banana
* Penalty
* Sole Destroyer
* Queen Mayor

Hawk Moth † (at times)

Get revenge on Ladybug and Cat Noir for forbidding her to be Queen Bee (failed).
Make her half-sister Zoé become a mean girl like herself (briefly succeeded, but failed)

### Why Do Some People Hate The Character?

Being denied a chance of redemption, instead becoming a more hateable jerk.
Having her selfish actions being treated as being in the wrong while Ladybug and Cat Noir's are exempt.
Her unsatisfying ending where she was forced to return to her abusive and neglectful mother.
Having her derailment justified due to the creator's bias towards her.

### Why Do Some People Love The Character?

Her tragic backstory of being abandoned by her mother makes her sympathetic for several fans, despite being subverted and not excusing her actions.
She became much more popular after her potential was denied by the show's bad writing.

### Type of Base Breaking Character

Wasted Fallen Heroine

**Chloé Bourgeois** is a major character in *Miraculous Ladybug*. She is the daughter of the former mayor of Paris, André Bourgeois, and a rival to series protagonist Marinette Dupain-Cheng. A former anti-heroine, Chloé sheds all of her redeeming qualities and betrays Ladybug by revealing her secret identity.

She was voiced by Selah Victor in the English dubbed version, and by Marie Chevalot in the original French version of the show.

## What Makes Her a Base Breaking Character?

#### What Do People Like About Her?

* While starting off as a simple bully in Season 1, she would get fleshed out in Season 2 where she was revealed to have a tragic backstory from being abandoned and neglected by her mother Audrey, and her lack of a healthy parental upbringing made her grow up to be a spoiled brat, despite having subverted all of that and having nothing to do with her actions.
* She slowly developed into a better person over the course of the first two seasons, such as giving Sabrina a brooch, apologizing in "Despair Bear" and saving Ladybug's life several times.
* In "Malediktator", she expresses her insecurities towards having no friends and considering herself useless, making her more sympathetic.
* As Queen Bee, she has an impressive design and powers, and played a big part in the battle against Scarlet Moth.
* Despite her betrayal and becoming a full-on hate sink, she gained much more popularity due to having her potential wasted, and her character's downhill turn was due to Thomas Astruc's bias against her rather than any fault of her own.

### What Do People Dislike About Her?

* Detractors reason that Chloé was not meant to last long as Queen Bee from the start, as she was too selfish to understand the values of heroism and was willing to endanger several people during her first stint as Queen Bee just so she could save them and be a hero. She also exposed her true identity to the citizens, leaving her identity vulnerable to being exploited by Hawk Moth.
* At the end of Season 3, she turned against the heroes to help Hawk Moth, before abandoning her chance at redemption to become a worse bully than before. Many believed that she had been wasted as a character despite her arc shaping up to change her for the better.
* Her selfish actions are always portrayed as being in the wrong by the narrative, even though Ladybug and Cat Noir have also made selfish decisions themselves and have been treated as being in the right. The most notable example is Ladybug choosing Kagami to deal with Heart Hunter instead of Chloé, not because of anything concerning Chloé but because she was jealous of Kagami's relationship with Adrien, which led to Chloe's betrayal.
* Many of her detractors claim that her tragic story does not excuse her crimes, since it clearly does not affect her, she overcame it and has nothing to do with her actions.
* Many of her bad writing can be attributed towards the show's creator Thomas Astruc, who states that Chloé was never meant to redeem from the start and she was supposed to be an example of someone who can't change or be redeemed. He also stated that Chloé was based on one of his bullies back in school, which led her fans to believe that that Astruc was projecting onto someone he hated from long ago to give her as many negative qualities as he could.

## External Links

* Chloé Bourgeois on the Villainous Benchmark Wiki
* Chloé Bourgeois on the Villains Wiki
* Chloé Bourgeois on the Heroes Wiki
* Chloé Bourgeois on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki
* Chloé Bourgeois on the Hate Sink Wiki
* Chloé Bourgeois on the *Miraculous Ladybug* Wiki

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