Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth

**Gabriel Agreste (aka Hawk Moth)** is the main antagonist of *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir*.

In "The Collector", in order to avoid the suspicion of being Hawk Moth, he akumatizes himself into **the Collector**, a supervillain who has the power to imprison any person or object within his magical notebook.

In "Catalyst", which is part of the Heroes' Day special, he becomes **Scarlet Moth** with the enhancement given to him by the titular villain.

In "Mayura", he is amokized by Mayura and his emotions form a Moth-themed sentimonster to help him escape the French Miraculous superhero team.

In "Miracle Queen", he is amokized again by Mayura and his emotions recreated the Moth-themed sentimonster to help him destroy Jade Turtle's Shell-ter.

## Trivia

* Gabriel is named after Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, who created the French designer brand, Chanel.
* Hawk Moth's appearance is very different from his appearance in the Ladybug PV. In the PV, he doesn't wear a mask, has white hair and silver eyes, and wears a white dress suit with a pale tan vest and bow.
* The design of Hawk Moth's mask is a reference to the supervillain Fantômas from the 1964 French film with the same name.
* After sending an akuma, he rotates his staff with his left hand, which possibly indicates Gabriel is left-handed.
* Gabriel is one of the tallest characters in the series.
	+ Strangely, Hawk Moth is depicted taller than Gabriel, while in reality they are the same height.
* Gabriel's phone number as listed in Adrien's phone contacts is +33678424.
* Gabriel has a secret safe behind the painting of Emilie Agreste in his atelier. It contains the Peacock Miraculous, a picture of Emilie Agreste, tickets for Tibet, and a book about the Miraculouses.
	+ In "Volpina", Adrien takes the Miraculous book, unbeknownst to Gabriel, and the book eventually ends up in Marinette's hands. Once he discovers that it is missing in "The Collector", he, despite having the book's pages saved digitally, becomes very angry and punishes Adrien, most likely due to the book making him the primary suspect for being Hawk Moth.
	+ The painting of Emilie Agreste also conceals another secret — access to the entrance to Hawk Moth's lair. The passage opens when certain spots of the painting are pressed.
* Hawk Moth is called "Butterfly" in other early sources.
	+ In the Castilian Spanish version, Hawk Moth's name is Lepidóptero, which comes from the scientific order called Lepidoptera, which contains all butterflies and moths.
* During Season 1 when his secret identity was unknown, there were clues suggesting that Gabriel was Hawk Moth are:
	+ Gabriel and Hawk Moth have the same voice actors in many dubs, including English, French, Castilian Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Italian, and Korean dubs.
	+ In "The Bubbler", it was not actually confirmed that Gabriel had been kidnapped by the bubbles of the titular villain.
	+ In "Mr. Pigeon", Gabriel was imaginated in Marinette's mind with a purple brooch resembling the Butterfly Miraculous.
	+ In "Ladybug & Cat Noir", the silhouette of the civilian form of Hawk Moth is very similar to that of Gabriel, and they seem to have the same clothes, in addition to having a picture of Emilie.
	+ In "Simon Says", Hawk Moth states that "it's risky" when he hears Simon Says say he will take Gabriel Agreste when he never showed any concern for anyone else is akumatized villains endanger.
		- As soon as Gabriel is left alone, Hawk Moth appears and is seen to walk ahead, and still in the same scene, he still seemed worried about what Simon Says was doing.
		- When Gabriel is hypnotized, Simon Says tells him that he is a butterfly.
		- Gabriel proves to be attracted to Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses.
* Hawk Moth usually reveals his name to his victims when he corrupts them. However, he never gave out his name to the Evillustrator or Darkblade.
* As seen in episodes like "Darkblade", "Antibug", and "Princess Fragrance", Hawk Moth has the time to akumatize more than one person a day, even though it is not more than one person each time.
	+ In "Timebreaker", however, he is able to twice akumatize Alix for the two of them to operate concurrently, by virtue of the timeline of events being altered by her time-traveling ability.
	+ In "Sapotis", he was able to akumatize both of Alya's sisters because they were both holding onto the same object.
	+ Despite being busy with job in his atelier, Gabriel is constantly seen in his lair. This is likely because he is rarely seen out of his mansion, as mentioned by Marinette as Ladybug and reporter Nadja Chamack. He is always seen in his home or through Nathalie's tablet, except for "Queen's Battle", "Backwarder", and in "Party Crasher".
* In some dubs, Gabriel and Hawk Moth have different voice actors. Examples are the Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Hungarian (only Season 1), and Dutch dubs.
* Hawk Moth is named after the Sphingidae; a family of moths that are generally referred to as "hawk moths" because of their swift flight patterns.
	+ Hawk Moth surrounding himself with darkness may also be a reference to these moths, as most types are nocturnal.
* It has been confirmed that both Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste (Ladybug and Cat Noir's civilian identities) would be extremely hard for Hawk Moth to corrupt, as Marinette always has an extremely positive attitude and Adrien is too used to being disappointed and upset for anything to truly aggravate him.
	+ Despite this, he still came very close to akumatizing Marinette on several different occasions.
		- In "Zombizou", Miss Bustier cheered Marinette up, resulting in her anger fading.
		- In "Chameleon", when Marinette was stricken with fear upon seeing the akuma, Tikki encouraged her to think positive, resulting in her fear fading.
		- In "Ladybug", Scarlet Moth manages to infect Marinette's pouch, and she was nearly akumatized into Princess Justice as a result. However, Nathalie's condition from usage of the damaged Peacock Miraculous manages to interrupted the process, making it narrowly avoid completion.
		- In "Cat Blanc", Cat Noir destroyed the akuma with his Cataclysm before it could akumatize Marinette in an alternate timeline where Adrien discovered Ladybug's secret identity.
	+ Adrien finally did get akumatized (as Cat Noir) in an alternate timeline where he and Hawk Moth found out each other's secret identities in "Cat Blanc".
* Despite being the main villain of the series, Hawk Moth makes very few physical appearances in the Miraculous Secrets webisodes and makes no appearances in the Tales From Paris spin-off.
	+ However, as opposed to this, the Miraculous Secrets episode "Gabriel" centers entirely around him, as it features him talking to Emilie inside his repository and promising to take care of Adrien and one day get his hands on the Miraculouses to undo their past mistake (which, as he confirms, was using the damaged Peacock Miraculous).
	+ Additionally, despite his presence throughout the series, he is rarely ever fought by the heroes directly, only ever being confronted by Ladybug and Cat Noir in "Stoneheart", "Mayura", "Ladybug" and "Miracle Queen".
* It is unconfirmed as to whether Hawk Moth shall appear in the special episodes "Miraculous New York" or "The Chinese Legend", as they both take place outside of Paris.
* As revealed in "Timetagger", sometime in the future, the role of Hawk Moth will be assumed by someone other than Gabriel, with his successor continuing to be an enemy to the current - but older - Ladybug and Cat Noir. There is almost no confirmed information on this individual; it is also not known how or why Gabriel relinquishes the identity.
* Prior to "The Collector", Hawk Moth's true identity had been foreshadowed/hinted at numerous times:
	+ As Ladybug points out in the aforementioned episode, the signature logo of Gabriel's brand is a butterfly, and most of his decor bears a butterfly symbol.
	+ In "The Bubbler", Gabriel is not seen among the adults being carried into space by Bubbler's bubbles, despite the fact that Nathalie and The Gorilla are both seen floating away.
	+ In "The Mime", Gabriel is unavailable coincidentally after Hawk Moth surfaces.
	+ In "Ladybug and Cat Noir (Origins - Part 1)", the visible portions of Hawk Moth's civilian form resemble Gabriel. Additionally, Hawk Moth holds a locket with a picture of Emilie Agreste in it and has a silver ring on his left middle finger, similar to Gabriel's.
	+ In "Simon Says", Hawk Moth states that "this could be risky" upon learning of Simon Says' plan of going after Gabriel Agreste. Later, Hawk Moth suggests Simon Says to not go after Gabriel, despite having never shown concern over the people his victims want revenge on before. Hawk Moth then does not appear for the rest of the episode after Simon Says captures Gabriel.
* The design of Hawk Moth's mask is a reference to the supervillain Fantômas from the 1964 French film with the same name.
* As revealed in "The Dark Owl", Hawk Moth's intentions for getting Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses is to change a past event.
	+ In "Zombizou", he mentions that his cherished wish is linked to love.
	+ In "Queen Wasp" and "Catalyst", it is hinted that Gabriel's intentions for getting the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses are linked to a promise with Emilie.
	+ In "Party Crasher", Gabriel mentions that the past event seems to be a mistake he and Emilie made.
* Hawk Moth's power is similar to Whampire. However, Whampire's corrupturas were used to make evil armies by his species and used by Whampire to make allies, Hawk Moth's akumas were meant to make superheroes and used to make supervillians.
* The episode "Catalyst" marks the first time Hawk Moth appears outside of his lair, and the next episode, "Mayura" marks the first time he directly fights Ladybug and Cat Noir. "Mayura" also confirms that Hawk Moth can stay transformed even after using his power.
* In "The Evillustrator", Chloé bribes Sabrina by using a beret that Gabriel designed.
* Gabriel admires Marinette's talent, as shown in "Queen Wasp".

## Gallery

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