Butterfly Miraculous Superpower

* Akumatization
* Kamikotization

## Akumatization

* Normal
* Boosted
* Mixed with Amokization
* Reconfigured
* Akuma Creation - Hawk Moth
* Akuma Creation - Shadow Moth
* Akuma Creation - Monarch Beta
* Akuma Creation - Monarch

Seeking revenge or other things related to the circumstances of their akumatization

## Social Information

### Affiliations:

Cerise
Monarch (formerly)

### Enemies:

Miraculous superheroes
The police

## Miraculous Information

### Powers and abilities:

Enhanced physical abilities
Various superpowers

**Akumatization** is the special superpower granted by the Butterfly Miraculous to its owner when used for evil.

## Description

This superpower allows the user to transform an ordinary person into a superhuman with special superpowers, as well as make that person a loyal follower of the user.

### Miraculous owner

The Butterfly Miraculous owner first uses the Miraculous to detect strong emotions. When doing this, they can also hear the thoughts associated with those emotions. They then infuse magical energy into a butterfly, transforming it into an Akuma. The Akuma is then sent on its way to find the person it is supposed to bond with. The Butterfly Miraculous owner can also choose to akumatize themself, though they would first have to detransform after empowering the akuma, as seen in "The Collector" and "Dearest Family".

Once the Akuma reaches the intended person, it lands on and magically inhabits an important object belonging to them and establishes a telepathic link between the person and the Butterfly Miraculous owner so the Miraculous owner can convince them to accept the powers they are offering. The Akuma recipient is strongly compelled to accept the offer, even if it is against their better judgement.

Once the person agrees to work with the Miraculous owner, the person is enveloped in a magical dark-purple ether. When the ether dissipates, the person is transformed into a super-powered being. The powers granted correspond with the recipient's personality traits and/or circumstances. It works by transforming the recipients emotions into superpowers; the stronger the emotions the person was feeling at the time of the Akumatization, the stronger their powers will be.

In addition to giving them superpowers, the transformation can completely cure the Akumatized champion of physical impairments, such as poor vision or even blindness, seen in "The Bubbler", "Lady Wifi" and "Ikari Gozen", but the impairments will return when the champion is deakumatized. The transformation also seems to come with all of the knowledge and muscle memory needed for the champion to use their new powers effectively.

The Akumatization remains even when the Butterfly Miraculous owner detransforms, renounces the jewel or even if the Butterfly Miraculous and/or its owner are no longer of this world, as seen in "Simon Says", "Cat Blanc", and "Miraculous Shanghai".

The Butterfly Miraculous owner is limited to only one Akuma at a time, however, more than one person can share the Akuma and be Akumatized at the same time, if they both have some kind of emotional connection to the Akumatized object, an object that's the same for both/all of them, even if they are not making physical contact with it. In this case, the recipients could either be Akumatized into however many champions, as seen in ""Sapotis" and "Gang of Secrets", or be combined into a single champion with various possible levels of dual identity, as seen in "Oblivio" and "Heart Hunter". The Butterfly Miraculous owner could also bend the rules and create multiple Akumas at once if they first transform someone into a champion with the power to boost other people's powers, or if the Peacock Miraculous is used to manifest a sentimonster with the ability to duplicate Akumas. Another method would be to give the Butterfly Miraculous to another holder. Even if the holder has already created a champion, another Butterfly holder could create an additional champion, even if the current one is still empowered.

In the event that the strong emotions of the intended recipient vanish before they can be Akumatized, such as if an upset person receives support and love from their friends and starts to feel better, then it would no longer be viable to Akumatize them. In this case, the Akuma can choose, or be telepathically commanded by the Butterfly Miraculous holder, to empower a different person entirely who possesses strong emotions.

#### Connection

As part of the power, the Akumatized champion becomes the loyal follower of the Butterfly Miraculous owner, and thus follow the desires of the Butterfly Miraculous owner, with a few exceptions. The Miraculous owner can also see and hear through the eyes and ears of the champion. However, the Butterfly Miraculous user cannot control the champion’s mind.

The Butterfly Miraculous owner can telepathically talk to their Akumatized champion from a distance, and whenever they do, a butterfly-shaped light mask appears over both of their faces. In "Timetagger", it is revealed that a Butterfly Miraculous holder can still communicate with Akumatized champions even if they were Akumatized by a different Butterfly Miraculous holder. The same episode also reveals that an Akumatized champion can initiate telepathic communication with the Butterfly Miraculous holder. Up until then, the communication had only been seen invoked by the Butterfly Miraculous holder.

In "Félix", it is revealed that the Butterfly Miraculous owner can also talk through their Akumatized champions, much like how a Fox Miraculous owner can talk through their illusions and a Peacock Miraculous owner can talk through their Sentimonsters.

If necessary, the Miraculous owner has the power to inflict pain on their champion, either for disobeying orders or using their powers for the wrong reasons.

#### De-Akumatization

The Butterfly Miraculous owner can revoke the Akuma at any time, thus removing the Akumatized champion's powers and causing them to turn back into their normal self. In "Dearest Family", it is revealed that the Butterfly Miraculous owner doesn't require to be transformed to revoke the Akuma, so they can utilize this ability even in their civilian form. Though, as seen in "Robostus", the Butterfly Miraculous owner is unable to remove their champion's powers if they are preoccupied with something else.

Alternatively, if the object containing the Akuma is broken, damaged or destroyed, the Akuma will be released and the transformation will be undone. When this happens, the person is left with no memory of their time Akumatized. However, it should be noted that if an Akumatized person breaks free on their own, then the victim will retain all memories, as seen in "Gang of Secrets" when Alya broke free from her Akumatization and retained her memories as a supervillain. The same is true if the Butterfly Miraculous holder releases the victim.

If the Akuma is allowed to fly away after the object is broken, it will multiply into thousands of itself and the duplicates will spread out in all directions and possess any random people they come across. These people are transformed into physical duplicates of the original Akumatized champion; however, these duplicates will be frozen stiff like statues. Meanwhile, the original Akuma returns to the Butterfly Miraculous holder in preparation for the opportunity to re-Akumatize the original Akuma champion; if that happens, the duplicates will come to life and serve as the originals personal clone army. The only way to prevent this is to capture and purify the original Akuma before it can fly away. Currently, the only known way to do so is by using the Yo-yo granted by the Ladybug Miraculous.

After the object containing the Akuma is broken, rather than let the Akuma fly away and multiply, the Butterfly Miraculous holder can reuse it to turn a different person into a new champion, as seen in "Miraculous Shanghai", when Hawk Moth used Akuma from the defeated King Cash to akumatize Mei Shi into YanLuoShi.

In "Crocoduel", it is revealed that if the akumatized object is broken between multiple champions the moment the akuma inhabits it, and before the transformation is completed, then it is necessary for the pieces of said object to be reunited or fixed before being rebroken or destroyed to release the akuma. It's currently unknown if the object also needs to be put back together for the Akuma to be released by either the Butterfly Miraculous user or the Akumatized individuals themselves.

In "Deflagration" The holder can snap their fingers to release the megakuma and it is purified but the individual will have no memory of the incident or their time being akumatized.

In the case of the object being broken between more than one champion, there's seemingly no drawbacks and the akumatized people and their powers function normally.

In "Determination", it is revealed that an Akuma can inhabit multiple objects at once, as long as they are all pieces of a whole; a stack of pamphlets for example. In this case, if one of the objects is broken, only a fragment of the Akuma will be released in the form of a dark mist. All the objects need to broken to release the Akuma completely. It is currently unknown if the Butterfly Miraculous holder can revoke the powers if part of the Akuma has been released.

### Nooroo

The effects of Nooroo's Akumatization is unknown, but it would most certainly be unconstrained and results in some kind of catastrophe.

## Weaknesses

There are limitations to the power of Akumatization:

* After the powers of the Akumatized champions are removed, the user can’t do anything to fix the damage their champion has left behind, unless they create another Akumatized champion capable of fixing the damage.
* If the Akumatized champion was created from extremely strong negative emotions, or are too young to think rationally, the user will have a difficult time controlling them.
* The Akuma/Akumatized champion must be within a certain range of the Butterfly Miraculous owner for the mental connection to be established; if they are too far away from each other, the Butterfly Miraculous user will lose control of the champion, who will then act of their own accord.The Akuma/Akumatized champion must be within a certain range of the Butterfly Miraculous owner for the mental connection to be established; if they are too far away from each other, the Butterfly Miraculous user will lose control of the champion, who will then act of their own accord, and the Butterfly holder would be unable to revoke the Akuma.} The maximum telepathic distance seems to be around 150 miles (241.402 kilometers).
	+ However, in "Intuition", Monarch was able to communicate with Bugfighter from what should have been too far away. However, Bugfighter was an A.I. and Monarch had already hacked into her system, so that may have allowed him to modify his powers a bit.
* The victim's mind must be fully conscious for the link to work. If the champion becomes unconscious or knocked out then the link will be disconnected.
* Even though the Miraculous holder is telepathically linked to any akumatized champion or victim, regardless of where or when they're from, it can be hard for the holder to find them if they don't know what their champions look like unakumatized.
* In "Miraculous Paris", it is revealed that using the special superpower uses vital energy from the Kwami, but also from the miraculous holder. It's one thing for an adult holder, but for an underage holder, who is less physically and mentally capable of handling the strain, there is a security system in place that limits them to only using their special power once and causes them to detransform before it becomes dangerous. However, using the Miraculous for evil overrides the limiter, allowing an underage holder to use their powers to their full potential. As previously stated, a younger holder cannot handle the strain; dark veins of magical overload will gradually spread across their body, and they will inevitably be destroyed.

In addition to the conditions mentioned above, there are times where the akumatization itself might fail:

* Should someone overcome their negative emotions before being infected, the Akuma will ignore the intended target and go for the closest source of negative emotions, with or without the user's consent. This will continue as long as the Akuma manages to infect an object.
* Though the recipient is strongly compelled to accept, the user still needs the person's consent before Akumatizing them. If they deny the powers the user is offering them, the Akumatization simply won't happen. If someone were to refuse the user's offer, then the Akuma will fly out of and away from the object and search for another source of emotion. However, the recipient's will and awareness must be strong enough to both resist the akumization and the user's temptation. Should someone give in, the akumatization will be successful.
	+ This condition extends even after the process of Akumatization is completed, as akumatized champions can free themselves from it if their willpower is strong enough.
		- In the case of multiple champions sharing the same Akuma, one champion can break free while the others remain Akumatized. Though, this was done by a villain who didn't have the object containing the Akuma. It is unknown what would happen if the one who did have the Akuma was able to break free.
	+ As seen in "Migration", the victim can break free by breaking, damaging or destroying their object containing the Akuma before being fully akumatized.
* The victim's body must be strong enough to hold the transformation. If not, the transformation will drop and the champion will lose their powers.
* Even if the champion is about to accept, should the user transform back before their target accepts the offer, the akumization will be interrupted and consequently fail.
* The Ladybug Miraculous can be used to create Magical Charms that can ward away Akuma's, preventing the power from being used on the person who possesses the Charm.
	+ Notably, the defense offered by the Magical Charm can be broken through if the Butterfly Miraculous owner manages to evolve their powers and make a stronger Akuma, known as a Megakuma.

Notably, Gabriel Agreste grew and harvested real butterflies to imbue with magic. It is unknown if this is a requirement for the power to be used, or if it's possible for the user to magically make their own butterflies, as Hawk Moth has been seen releasing butterflies from his cane.

## Trivia

* Akumatization is the only known superpower that requires an external factor not provided by the transformation to work; the butterflies.
* According to Marinette in "Hawk Moth and the Akumatized Villains", the stronger negative emotions a person feels, the stronger they are as Akumatized villains.
* Villains decide what their suits are like. For example, Evillustrator’s suit is based on his design of "Super Nathan".
* It’s not just people that can be Akumatized, anything with emotions can be affected by this power, including AI machines, spirits, and Sentimonsters, as seen in "Robostus", "Miraculous Shanghai", and "Feast".
* The Butterfly and Peacock Miraculouses have rather similar powers:
	+ Both allows the user to charge small things with magic to infect objects of specific people and telepathic communication with them.
	+ They are also the only two known superpowers which the user does not need to say the superpower's name to activate it.
	+ Interestingly, both Miraculouses take the form of brooches, which may cast light on the fact that they have such similar powers.
	+ They are also both currently used for evil purposes.
	+ However, the Butterfly Miraculous's power of Akumatization cannot be used on the wielder (unless they renounce it), unlike the Peacock.
	+ Unlike Akumatization, however, Amokization can infect an object that's been destroyed, although it is still possible to damage it further to release the Amok.
		- Also, unlike Akumatization, the Sentimonster can only be controlled by the one who possesses the object containing the Amok, while the power to control Akumatized champions belongs to the Butterfly Miraculous owner.
* Season 2 had responded to the question that Akumatization works on more than just humans, such as robots, animals, and kwamis.
	+ "Robostus" reveals that Akumas can affect machines, like Max’s robot, as long as they have emotions.
	+ In "Queen Wasp", Pollen is indirectly Akumatized because of the Akumatization of the Bee Miraculous.
* Sometimes, animals or objects are indirectly transformed with the Akumatized person, including Roger Raincomprix’s car in "Rogercop", Jagged Stone’s alligator Fang in "Guitar Villain", Santa Claus’s reindeer in "Santa Claws", Gina Dupain's motorcycle in Befana" and the limousine Chloé Bourgeois was riding in in "Queen Banana".
* People can be Akumatized more than once, and it can be either with the same identity and/or powers or something different than before.
* People feeling insufficient emotion can decline to become Akumatized, such as those targeted by Hawk Moth if they don’t feel despair enough.
	+ In "Despair Bear", "Gigantitan", "Zombizou", and "Chameleon", it was shown that the Akuma will stop and turn away if its target has overcome their emotions.
	+ In "Catalyst", Hawk Moth’s powers were increased, and he no longer needed the consent of his target, though the Akuma still needed intense emotions to take hold of its target.
* Like Cataclysm, Akumatization doesn’t need the Butterfly Miraculous tool to activate it.
	+ However in "Backwarder", since Hawk Moth was not in his lair and instead hiding in a train bathroom, he used an Akuma that was contained within his cane.
	+ In "Heart Hunter" and "Miracle Queen" he also uses akumas that were contained in his cane, though only one reached its target.
* The Akumatized beings are meant to be superheroes, but the Butterfly Miraculous holder can also make them supervillains, Hawk Moth creating the latter for evil intentions.
	+ Akumatized villains are chosen by Hawk Moth because of their negative emotions, like sadness or anger, but it’s unknown if Akumatized heroes have to feel the same type of emotions to be sensed and/or transformed by the Butterfly Miraculous holder. Hawk Moth specifically goes after people who are in despair and are not happy because it is easier for him to manipulate people into doing bad things.
	+ If the person isn’t despaired enough, they can refuse the Akuma.
		- In "Zombizou", Caline Bustier almost manages to resist her Akumatization.
		- In "Miraculer", Chloé successfully resists her Akumatization, making her the first being to have ever done so.
		- In "Truth" Luka almost manages to resist his akumatization.
		- In "Gang of Secrets", Alya successfully rejects her Akumatization while she was akumatized as Lady Wifi, a feat that Shadow Moth saw as impossible and Ladybug saw as amazing.
		- In "Gabriel Agreste", Félix Fathom becomes the second person to successfully resist akumatization.
		- In "Rocketear", Nino successfully rejects his Akumatization while he was akumatized as Rocketear.
		- In "Qilin", Sabine almost manages to resist her akumatization at first, but in the end she rejects her akumatization while she was Qilin.
		- In "Penalteam", Chloe successfully resists her akumatization the second time.
* Akumatization usually happens immediately after the victim gives consent to the Butterly Miraculous user, there are exceptions:
	+ Gabriel Agreste closed his akumatized sketchbook before he was transformed.
	+ Penny Rolling's akumatization was seemingly triggered by clicking on her pen.
	+ Caline Bustier applied her akumatized lipstick before she was transformed.
	+ Marc Anciel threw his affected notebook into the air and stepped on it before he himself was transformed.
	+ Luka Couffaine put on the akumatized mask before he was transformed.
* Sentimonsters can be Akumatized as they are the embodiment of one’s emotions, as seen in "Feast" with the Dormant Sentimonster.
* Wearing a Miraculous doesn’t protect the holders from being Akumatized. In fact the Miraculous itself can be the object that the akuma inhabits.
* According to an official book of ambiguous canon, the Butterfly’s superpower is called **Evilize**.
	+ This is likely not true, as the book is known to be full of mistakes, and the Butterfly Miraculous’ intended purpose is to create superheroes.
	+ A second issue of the book calls the Butterfly’s superpower **Empower**.

## References

1. ↑ Mega Leech
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/872000705967554560
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/872020337164251139 and https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/872021350373896196
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/1420105014194868225
5. ↑ https://youtu.be/vtO8bbvmU0g?t=3012
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/872023423832162305
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/872023906080755713
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/872023423832162305

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## Kamikotization

* Normal
* Kamiko Creation - Betterfly

## Social Information

### Affiliations:

Betterfly
Ladyfly (temporarily)

## Miraculous Information

### Powers and abilities:

Enhanced physical abilities
Various superpowers

**Kamikotization** is the special superpower granted by the Butterfly Miraculous to its owner.

## Description

This superpower allows the user to transform an ordinary person into a superhuman with special superpowers, as well as make that person a loyal follower of the user.

### Miraculous owner

The Butterfly Miraculous owner first uses the Miraculous to detect strong emotions. When doing this, they can also hear the thoughts associated with those emotions. They then infuse magical energy into a butterfly they keep inside the head of the Cane, transforming it into a Kamiko. The Kamiko is then sent on its way to find the person it is supposed to bond with.

Once the Kamiko reaches the intended person, it lands on and magically inhabits an important object belonging to them and establishes a telepathic link between the person and the Butterfly Miraculous owner so the Miraculous owner can convince them to accept the powers they are offering. Unlike its evil counterpart, Akumatization, in which the telepathic conversation happens in real time, Kamikotization seems to allow the telepathic conversation to happen at the speed of thought, meaning basically no time passes in the physical world.

Once the person agrees to work with the Miraculous owner, the person is enveloped in a magical dark-purple ether. When the ether dissipates, the person is transformed into a super-powered being. The powers granted correspond with the recipient's personality traits and/or circumstances.

The Kamikotization remains even when the Butterfly Miraculous owner detransforms, or even if the object containing the Kamiko is in an entirely different universe.

The Butterfly Miraculous owner is limited to only one Kamiko at a time. Although, the Butterfly Miraculous owner could give the Miraculous to another holder, who would then be able to create an additional hero.

The Butterfly Miraculous owner can revoke the Kamiko at any time, thus removing the kamikotized champion's powers and causing them to turn back into their normal self.

### Nooroo

The effects of Nooroo's Kamikotization is unknown, but it would most certainly be unconstrained and results in some kind of catastrophe.

## Weaknesses

There are limitations to the power of Kamikotization:

* The Kamiko/Kamikotized champion must be within a certain range of the Butterfly Miraculous owner for the mental connection to be established; if they are too far away from each other, the Butterfly Miraculous user will lose control of the champion, who will then act of their own accord, and the Butterfly holder would be unable to revoke the Kamiko.
* In "Miraculous Paris", it is revealed that using the special superpower uses vital energy from the Kwami, but also from the miraculous holder. It's one thing for an adult holder, but for an underage holder, who is less physically and mentally capable of handling the strain, there is a security system in place that limits them to only using their special power once and causes them to detransform before it becomes dangerous. However, using the Miraculous for evil overrides the limiter, allowing an underage holder to use their powers to their full potential. As previously stated, a younger holder cannot handle the strain; dark veins of corruption will gradually spread across their body, and they will inevitably be destroyed.
* What one Butterfly Miraculous owner has done, another can undo. If the Butterfly Miraculous is stolen, or is being used in a fight against another Butterfly Miraculous from a parallel universe, then the enemy would be able to take away the champion's powers.

In addition to the conditions mentioned above, there are times where the kamikotization itself might fail:

* Though the recipient is strongly compelled to accept, the user still needs the person's consent before Kamikotizing them. If they deny the powers the user is offering them, the Kamikotization simply won't happen.

## Uses

### Miraculous Paris

  Guardian Angel |  Gabriel Agreste | Gabriel's Glasses

## Gallery

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