Evolution

**Evolution**

**Season 5, episode 1 (Production order); Episode 105 (Overall)**

**"Evolution"** is a Season 5 episode of the series, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. As based on the series' production order specifically, **"Evolution"** is the 1st written and produced episode of Season 5. It is also the 105th written and produced episode of the series, overall.

## Synopsis

Following his victory over Ladybug, Monarch is now in possession of the Rabbit Miraculous. Now able to use the power of time travel, the supervillain wants to return to a point in the past when Ladybug and Cat Noir were weak and use that advantage to seize their Miraculous. Our heroes will have to face their enemy in a race through time… and their previous adventures.

## Plot

The episode begins by immediately following up on the events of "Strikeback": at sunset, on the rooftops of the Jardins du Trocadéro, Ladybug and Cat Noir observe as the people of Paris cheer for them. The newly named Monarch proclaims his rule on Paris, in a similar fashion to the events of "Stoneheart", but this time, through the illusion of the message retriever, which is surrounded by Shell-ter. He says that he will continue to attack Paris relentlessly unless they bring him the Miraculouses of Ladybug and Cat Noir. Nadja reports this and says that despite the threats of Monarch, the citizens of Paris still support the two heroes and throw stones at the message retriever; Monarch has won the battle but the war of the Miraculouses is just starting. Even Ladybug argues back, declaring that no matter who he is, Hawk Moth, Shadow Moth, or Monarch, he will never get their Miraculous, and Cat Noir adds that they won't stop fighting until they get back all the Miraculous back from him. Cat Noir destroys the Shell-ter containing the illusion of the message retriever, with only one strike of his staff, and Ladybug disposes of the illusion with her yo-yo. As the crowd continue to cheer for the heroes, Ladybug thanks Cat Noir, who replies that "it's you and me".

Meanwhile, Gabriel in his respository standing in front of Emilie, telling her that his victory is almost complete, whereas Ladybug assures people of Paris that Monarch's victory will never warns him about a big price to pay for doing such a thing, but Gabriel silences Sass, similar to what he did in "Sandboy" to Nooroo. Whereas Ladybug and Cat Noir on the other hand tell the citizens they'll never be silenced and won't be Monarch prisoners. Gabriel correspondingly threatens and insults the terrified kwamis, deeming them as his slaves. He then calls Nathalie to tell her about his recent accomplishemnts; he has all the Miraculous that were previously stored in the Miracle Box, even the all-powerful Rabbit Miraculous that grants the power of Evolution. A hesitant Nathalie attempts to slow him down, but Gabriel cuts off the call and unifies the Butterfly and Rabbit Miraculous, transforming into Monarch.

As Ladybug tries to figure out how Monarch stole all the Miraculous, she's instantly interrupted by a Burrow opening behind her and Cat Noir, from which Rabbit Noir and herself from a few minutes in the future are chasing Monarch, who is seemingly getting weaker unifying several Miraculous at once; all three of them exit via another Burrow. The befuddled Ladybug and Cat Noir are greeted by another Burrow, from which the adult Bunnyx appears and explains to the duo the situation. Meanwhile, Monarch plans to travel back to moments in time in which Ladybug and Cat Noir were vulnerably weak. He enters a Burrow portal, and travels back to the events of "Lady Wifi"; specifically, the scene where Lady Wifi had Ladybug pinned against a wall. Monarch enters the scene, stealing Lady Wifi's phone, pauses her with her powers, and prepares to steal Ladybug's Miraculous. Meanwhile, Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Bunnyx enter Borrow, noticing Monarch is creating an alternative timeline by changing the events of "Lady Wifi". Bunnyx rewinds time a few seconds back, removing Monarch from the timeline; Ladybug captures Monarch with her yo-yo. Monarch, in disbelief, asks how they were able to stop him since he has the Rabbit Miraculous, to which Bunnyx responds that Burrow can be accessed by any holder of Rabbit Miraculous regardless of what time they're from. Ladybug once again uses her yo-yo to catch Monarch, but he opens his cane, taking all the Kwamis out, preparing to battle.

He unifies the Miraculous of Butterfly, Rabbit, Bee, Fox, and Turtle; by doing so, he gets weaker. Ladybug tries to catch him, but he uses his strength to throw her off once freed. He uses Mirage to create clones of himself to distract heroes, as he paralyzes Bunnyx with Venom. Using Shell-ter, he tries to steal her version of the Rabbit Miraculous, but thanks to the heroes, it was prevented. With Monarch getting weaker, Ladybug lassos him, again but he fuses with the Dragon Miraculous, using Wind Dragon to escape through a portal to the events of "Riposte". Needing to match him, Cat Noir tosses the Rabbit Miraculous to Ladybug for her to use, as the Rabbit holders are the only ones who can open the portals. However, realizing her earlier mistake, she gives the jewel to Cat Noir, asking Ladybug if she's okay with this and the heroine replies that they are a team. Activating the Rabbit Miraculous, he unifies with the Cat Miraculous and transforms into Rabbit Noir. Following Monarch's trail, Rabbit Noir calls him coward for trying to ambush them in the past. The duo follows and fight Monarch through countless time portals, ending up in 1940's France. Seeing the mastermind failing to call on his powers Ladybug demands the jewels back, but Monarch uses the Dog Miraculous to tag the Rabbit's watch before the shocks of his multiple fusion get worse with Ladybug warning Monarch of the dangers. And soon the shocks get worse until Monarch passes out from exhaustion leaving the heroes stunned wondering if they defeated him checking him out and managed to retrieve the Rabbit Miraculous but in their brief distraction of seeing Master Fu and being struck the lights Monarch retrieves the watch back and escapes the duo again.

Aware of the situation Ladybug begins to panic but Rabbit Noir remains confident, and calm assured they'll catch him but also knowing they can't follow Monarch all throughout the timeline she calls upon her Lucky Charm receiving a Mini Miracle Box causing the duo to remember Heroes Day, but the heroine didn't see how to use it now until Rabbit Noir calms her down seeing Master Fu's phonograph, she knows what to do. Meanwhile Monarch exits the portal onto a moving car and notices Ladybug and Cat Noir inside, but he's falls off. However, seeing the heroes in their condition, he realizes he returned to Reserver's akumatization and thinks he'll have an easier time their jewels until he gets another painful shock. He crawls into alleyway and releases the Kwamis and demands an explanation. Sass explains that it's happening because he overused their powers until they had no energy left and needed to eat but Monarch didn't have any food seeing the shocks get worse Sass warns him if he continues the Kwamis won't only be destroyed but so will he. Opening another burrow Gabriel returned to the present and defused arriving at a surprised Nathalie demanding that she feed them.

All the while still in 1940's France, just after Master Fu and Marianne part ways he was grabbed by Ladybug and Rabbit Noir asking him for the Dog Miraculous and was shocked that they knew what he was carrying and was suspicious towards them. Until Ladybug explained that he will meet them in future and will live in fear of his mistakes but will eventually live in peace. With that, he entrusts the duo with the Dog Miraculous and asks that the jewel be returned to him, so no time catastrophes are caused, and Rabbit Noir said they'd have it returned to him shortly. Meanwhile, Alix is the entering the museum with her father as they both talk about doing what they love but seeing a sad look on her father's face she asks why with him saying so that he could remember on this important day.

Upon seeing Ladybug and Rabbit Noir emerge from the Rabbit's Burrow, Alix became excited as this was the day the heroine realizes how awesome she is Ladybug introduces herself to Alim asking his daughter for a big favor and presents Alix with the Dog Miraculous but was confused that it wasn't the Rabbit Miraculous.Ladybug explains that it was stolen by Monarch and they need her help in getting it back which left her more confused noticing Cat Noir fused with it with him saying it's complicated. Regardless, Alix puts the Dog Miraculous on releasing Barkk. And yet, unlike the other holders, Ladybug sadly told Alix that once the Rabbit Miraculous has been recovered she will keep it to protect it until Monarch is defeated, and with that in mind they both knew that Alix wouldn't be able to return to her time for a long period. Seeing her father so calm she realizes he knew, leaving Ladybug shocked asking how. Alim explains that she told him sending him postcards and letters of her adventures so he wouldn't worry and sharing a hug Alix told him she'll be back soon.

After the Kwamis are fed, Gabriel gets another idea from Nathalie about dropping off the information on fixing Peacock Miraculous to his past self and he retransforms to do so. He gets back to the time when he was together with Emile using the Miraculous of Rabbit, Monarch relives the moments and puts his hand to drop off the pen-drive which have all the information regarding fixation of Peacock Miraculous. Just when he was about to do so, he notices the Lucky Charm Object (Miraculous Box) and instantly recalls that it was from Heroes Day. He opens a time portal to the events of "Mayura", sees that Ladybug and Rabbit Noir are watching Scarlet Moth from a safe spot. Thinking that they going to take his Miraculous, he ditches the pen-drive and instead goes to the Heroes Day. After being there, Ladybug defeats Monarch with the help of Cani Girl and she takes off the Miraculous of Rabbit and merge with Dog Miraculous. Ladybug gets back to the Burrow, uses her power, and fix every damaged caused by Monarch himself. Adult Bunnyx also get back to normal and Cat Noir returns her Miraculous while saying something in backwards and Adult Bunnyx confirms that this is what happens when you mess with time continuum. Ladybug asks favor to both Present and Future Alix to give back Miraculous of Dog to Master Fu and bring back Monarch to present time. Meanwhile, Monarch makes a plan to defeat Ladybug and Cat Noir in their past ultimately changing their future, but Adult Bunnyx arrives and take him back to the present time. Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Monarch arrives back at the roof of the Jardins du Trocadéro.

Ladybug says he cannot run anymore from them, but Monarch uses Wind Dragon to escape once again. Cat Noir calms Ladybug down by saying at least they managed to retrieve one miraculous, and after defeating Monarch, they'll get all and Alix will be able to return. Gabriel sitting next to Emilie in his repository ask for forgiveness while admitting he could've changed everything, but he failed to do it. Gabriel receives a call from Nathalie and she ask if the plan worked, Gabriel responds with no by blaming Ladybug for stealing the Rabbit Miraculous from him and ask her to help him come up with another plan. Nathalie makes it clear for Gabriel that he could've changed the past, but instead, he choose his obsession of Ladybug and Cat Noir. Nathalie cuts off all ties with Gabriel and ends the call by saying that he doesn't deserve hers *or* anyone's help. Gabriel screams loudly in tension and the end card appears.

## Characters

### Major Characters

* Ladybug (Marinette background)
* Cat Noir/Rabbit Noir (Adrien background)
* Gabriel Agreste/Young Gabriel Agreste/Monarch/Scarlet Moth (Hawk Moth and Shadow Moth mentioned; Scarlet Moth background)
* Alix Kubdel/Canigirl/Bunnyx/Bunny Dog
* Adult Alix Kubdel/Adult Bunnyx
* Fluff (present)
* Fluff (future)
* Barkk (past)

### Minor Characters

* Emilie Agreste/Young Emilie Agreste
* Nadja Chamack
* Daizzi
* Kaalki
* Longg
* Mullo
* Nooroo
* Orikko
* Pollen
* Roaar
* Sass
* Stompp
* Trixx
* Wayzz
* Ziggy
* Xuppu
* Barkk (present)
* Nathalie Sancoeur
* Young Wang Fu
* Alim Kubdel
* Lila Rossi/Volpina (Volpina background)
* Tikki (background)
* Plagg (background)
* Young Marianne Lenoir (background)
* Alya Césaire/Lady Wifi/Rena Rage (Alya and Rena Rage flashback)
* Riposte/Scarlet Riposte (Scarlet Riposte flashback)
* Scarlet Pharaoh (flashback)
* Chloé Bourgeois/Scarlet Queen Wasp (flashback)
* Scarlet Malediktator (flashback)
* Roger Raincomprix/Scarlet Rogercop (flashback)
* Rose Lavillant/Scarlet Princess Fragrance (flashback)
* Scarlet Style Queen (flashback)
* Scarlet Mime (flashback)
* Nino Lahiffe/Shell Shock (flashback)
* Scarlet Despair Bear (flashback)
* Placide I.T./Scarlet Gorizilla (flashback)
* Juleka Couffaine (flashback)
* Lê Chiến Kim (flashback)
* Mylène Haprèle/Scarlet Horrificator (flashback)
* Sabine Cheng (flashback)
* Tom Dupain (flashback)
* Santa Claus (flashback)
* Marlena Césaire (flashback)
* Ella and Etta Césaire (flashback)
* Vincent (flashback)
* Scarlet Gamer (flashback)
* Scarlet Gigantitan (flashback)
* Scarlet Glaciator (flashback)
* Ivan Bruel/Scarlet Stoneheart (flashback)
* Scarlet Akumas (Scarlet Akumas flashback)
* Clara Contard (flashback)
* Jean Duparc (flashback)
* Civilians

## Trivia

* Internationally, this episode first premiered in Brazil on Gloob.
	+ If the current time versions of Ladybug and Cat Noir are followed, this is first time where both heroes spend an entire episode as their hero alter egos. This is also the first time where Marinette doesn't appear in an episode as well as the fifth time Cat Noir appears untransformed throughout the episode followed by "Prime Queen", "Christmaster", "Furious Fu" and "Qilin".
	+ It's the first episode in the series (and so far only episode) where both Adrien and Marinette don't make an appearance.
	+ Also, this makes Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch the only character to appear in every episode.
	+ And this is the first and second time where two different time versions of a kwami is seen as of Barkk and Fluff.
* The episode shares its name with the concept of the Rabbit Miraculous.
	+ This episode gives further insight about the Rabbit Miraculous:
		- Even though anyone can pass through the Burrow, only the Rabbit Miraculous holders can change the destination of the portals and open them.
		- The Rabbit Miraculous users can use Burrow as many times as they wish without detransforming, independently of being adults or not which explains how Marinette did it in "Strikeback". However, once the user detransforms, they suffer from a temporary temporal anomaly, like talking backwards which didn’t happen to her because she didn't open or use the Rabbit's Burrow as long as Rabbit Noir.
		- Burrow's pocket dimension is at the center of all the time flow, being shared by all the Rabbit Miraculous holders, regardless of point in time they're from.
			* It's unknown if the Burrow dimension was created when Fluff was born or when she first discovered or used her powers.
			* If said dimension was created when the first option happened that could imply that Fluff is about as old as Tikki.
		- Even though Rabbit Miraculous holders can choose what point in time they can go to, similar to Voyage and a few other powers if the user's mind isn't focused then the destinations of the portals aren't going to be completely chosen by choice implying that maybe sometimes the portals or the burrow dimension itself came sometimes chose where the traveler(s) need to go.
			* Or in Monarch's case, it was probably due to the power drain that he was suffering that made him change course.
	+ The concept of evolution is the process by which species adapt over time in response to their changing environment:
		- After gaining almost every Miraculous from the Miracle Box, Gabriel/Monarch makes use of each power but struggled to adept of using too much power.
			* It also means the threat he imposes would make Paris adept to the dangers Monarch will unleash.
		- Realizing the threat of the situation, Ladybug and Cat Noir include Alix of being the holder of the Rabbit Miraculous to keep it safe and watch over them like her future self has done.
		- The concept of evolution can also be applied to Ladybug and Hawk Moth, and how they managed to evolve their powers, as proven during "Heroes Day" and "Dearest Family" for Hawk Moth, and "Mr. Pigeon 72" for Ladybug.
	+ Also, the Rabbit Miraculous is a representative to show how special time can be, how even the smallest amount of it can make a difference nor how short it can be, what it means to be patient and what's going to happen if one isn't nor if time is wasted, extra time can come from unexpected people or places.
		- When Emilie was approaching her end she wanted Gabriel to spend his remaining time with Adrien but he wasted what time he had in doing the opposite.
		- Instead of asking the heroes and guardians for help Gabriel and Nathalie wasted time in hiding everything until they had none.
		- Instead of helping the French Duo with their duties, Su-Han criticized them and wasted time getting distracted by the modern world so much he didn't watch them properly.
		- In "Santa Claws", if Adrien was more patient with his dad and if Gabriel came a few minutes sooner with his gift then Santa Claus's akumatization wouldn't have happened.
		- How Andre regretted not disciplining Chloe sooner but made up for it in "Revolution".
		- For the kwamis not only do they not know who their next owner is going to be but they also don't know how long the crisis they're chosen to stop with their owner is going to last just like Tikki mentioned in "Miraculous Paris", about her kind making the most of the time they do have together.
		- Like how Ladybug and Cat Noir saved each other at the last second in various episodes.
		- Fei and her adoptive father spent their lives in happiness but thanks to Cash those times were over.
		- In "Anansi", Nino bought Ladybug the time to retreive the Turtle Miraculous as well as keep Cat Noir protected.
		- Such as Chloe's betrayal in "Miracle Queen", bought the duo and kwamis time preventing them ending up as Monarch's prisoners sooner.
		- From "Sapotis", "Malediktator", "Anansi", "Cataylst" and after "Miracle Queen", Ladybug had to be quick and decevise when picking other holders.
* This is the first episode to have a new title card scheme where the name of the episode appears on a ladybug-themed background instead of appearing with the credits on the first scene.
* This episode begins where the previous episode left off, making it the third season-opening to do so, after "The Collector" and "Truth".
	+ Similarly to "Origins", "The Queens Battle", "Heroes Day", "The Battle of the Miraculous" and "Truth" and "Lies", the events in this episode, alongside "Risk" and "Strikeback", take place during the same day.
* Nadja's quote "Monarch may have won this battle, but the war for Miraculous has only just begun" is a reference to the saying "You may have won the battle, but you haven't won the war".
* In this episode, Gabriel Agreste appears for the first time in a new Monarch look, wearing all the Miraculous except the Ladybug, Cat and Peacock Miraculouses.
* This is the first time where Emilie talks.
* The kwamis finally know who Nooroo's owner is, and why he wanted the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses.
	+ When Sass tried to reason with him, he said someone would take her place if he used the wish. And yet, through the kwamis perspective, seeing their Master's wife in a coffin it's likely they believed she died unless Nooroo explained what happened.
	+ Through the circumstances the kwamis don't know that they are actually close to Cat Noir.
		- Except Wayzz and Kaalki, possibly Sass too. Wayzz knew since the beginning, Kaalki found out his identity in "Sole Crusher" and Sass also possibly found out it when Luka did in "Wishmaker".
* This is the third time Gabriel shushes a kwami (in this case, Sass), after Nooroo in "Sandboy" and "Stormy Weather 2".
* This episode features callbacks to "Lady Wifi", "The Bubbler", "Animan", "Despair Bear", "Riposte", "Style Queen", "Reverser", "Mayura", "Santa Claws", and "Backwarder".
	+ The callbacks to "Lady Wifi", "Riposte", "Reverser", "Mayura", "Backwarder" and "Bubbler" have been reanimated.
		- Interestingly, all of the referenced episodes, with the exception of "Backwarder", were animated by SAMG.
	+ The scene of Lila looking at Nathalie on the train from "Strikeback" was also reanimated and reused.
* This episode showed Alya and Nino's first kiss when they were trapped in a zoo pen together in Animan.
* When speaking backwards, Cat Noir said, "Thanks. The power of time is way cool!"
* Monarch is shown to be able to make the kwamis go inside his cane. This is similar to how Trixx was able to stay in Scarabella's yo-yo, suggesting that it's a real ability of Miraculous holders to be able to put any additional kwamis with them inside their tools.
* It's revealed that Master Fu had met Marinette and Adrien long before he had decided to give them the Ladybug Miraculous and the Cat Miraculous respectively, since he got separated from Marianne when they were escaping the Nazis. This is probably the reason why he chose them in the future and knew they would make a great superhero team.
	+ Through their meeting Master Fu only knew what Miraculouses he was going to give out in the future based on the duo's superhero appearances but didn't know what the heroes looked like in their civilian forms except for the few physical features he could see. It could be possible that he remembered them from that day or that the Guardians are trained to see through the quantum masking provided by the Miraculous.
		- If the guardians were trained to see through the quantum masking, then they'd already know the identities of Hawk Moth and Mayura back in S3 finale and Su-Han wouldn't ask Ladybug to find out Cat Noir's identity in "Ephemeral".
	+ Interestingly, Master Fu would be about 110 years old on the day he fled.
* When Ladybug and Rabbit Noir traveled back to 1940s France, they came to the night Master Fu fled Paris. It's similar to "Rocketear", it's likely Adrien was aware or told by Ladybug that the woman his former master was with is his lover.
	+ Mentioning that he'll live in fear because of his mistakes is ironically what happened to Cat Noir being separated from his lover because of the Miraculous or because someone wants them for their own selfishness and Ladybug when she lived in fear of what Shadow Moth was trying or going to do.
* Similar to "Ephemeral", while not completely confirmed like Jeanne d'Arc, 1940's Barkk and her Miraculous were taken briefly to the future where she likely sensed Tikki's, Plagg's and Fluff's powers in her future guardian and Rabbit Noir, making her aware that some of her siblings will get owners or alter her current self's memory creating a different past timeline where she may have shared this information with them when her past self returned to the box.
	+ This technically means the first Miraculous given to the French Miraculous superhero team is the Dog Miraculous.
	+ Due to it being the past version of the Dog Miraculous and if Rabbit's watch is followed chronologically Alix is the first and last member of the team to get a miraculous let alone two.
* It's revealed that in "Backwarder", apparently Marianne had brown hair when she was younger.
* This is the nineteenth time where Ladybug's Lucky Charm is an object that appeared in a previous episode. This time, it's a mini Miraculous box that previously appeared in "Mayura".
* It's revealed that the Miraculous superpowers' effectiveness depends on how much energy their respective kwami possesses. If the kwami is left without food or their holders overuse their powers in one transformation, either by single-use or unifying powers with other Miraculous, the holder becomes weakened.
	+ This is probably the reason Master Fu said unifying too many Miraculouses is dangerous in "Kwamibuster" and which may explain how Cat Noir was able to break the Shell-ter with just one hit of his Staff.
	+ This is contradicting Adrien's using the Snake Miraculous in "Desperada", where only Sass was weakened by the 25,917 times Second Chance was used. Thinking that, it could be with time power related Miraculouses and what Rabbit Noir said maybe these particular ones aren't bound to the normal flow of time.
	+ Sass also said "If you destroy us, you'll destroy yourself too", implying that the more kwamis the holder fuses together or drains them dry by using their powers, then the electrical discharges will intensify possibly killing the holder and endangering the kwamis if they don't defuse.
		- With this in mind and from "Princess Fragrance", "Oblivio", "Miraculer", and "Psycomedian", this could contradict the kwamis' immortality making them possibly semi-immortal. Alternatively, it could mean that the kwamis are indeed immortal, but overuse of their powers without feeding to regain energy could destroy their physical forms. If true, it's unknown to what extent that could damage the Miraculouses.
	+ Also, this episode confirms what Monarch mentioned back in "Mayura" and since he said he didn't have any food for the kwamis that means he was using his own energy for everything or foolishly thought that the kwami's energy limitless. This also implies that he hasn't fed Nooroo at all since first using his Miraculous let alone he has no idea how to take care of the kwamis properly.
* It's revealed that Alix's father, Alim Kubdel, already knew about his daughter's future as the superhero Bunnyx, as her older self had been sending him postcards from the past, explaining everything to him.
	+ Even though Alim knew about the importance of the watch, the family tradition of passing it down was real, but the time he chose to give Alix the watch was a deliberate choice.
	+ Due to him knowing such importance meaning Alim knew how to keep secrets as Bunnyx mentioned in "Cat Blanc".
	+ It's unknown when Alim was given the Rabbit Miraculous by his future daughter if it was before or after Hawk Moth's debut.
	+ In a way, things came full circle as both Bunnyx made their debuts as Miraculous holders when a villain misused or abused the power of time travel - for adult Bunnyx it was Timetagger and for current Alix it was Monarch.
* Nathalie feeds all the kwamis pieces of bread, despite not being some kwamis' favorite food.
	+ When the scene begins, she had already given a piece to some of the kwamis, and we see her give one to Pollen, Orikko, Wayzz, Trixx, Sass, Fluff, and Daizzi. She doesn't seem to give one to Mullo, however. It's unknown whether this was intentional, or if it's just an animation error.
* This is the first time Ladybug and Cat Noir successfully retrieved a Miraculous back from Monarch, being the Rabbit Miraculous.
	+ This is unlike their previous attempts from "Mayura", "Miraculer", "Ladybug" and "Sentibubbler".
* It's revealed that when a Miraculous holder wants to activate three Miraculouses from civilian form, they can say "Triple Morphosis".
* Similar to what Alya did in "Sentibubbler", Ladybug and Rabbit Noir played on Monarch's greed.
	+ And Monarch tried to pull the same trick Timetagger did in "Timetagger" striking his enemies when they're weaker.
* This is the second time where unification is used back-to-back following "Miracle Queen" and "Truth".
	+ This is the second time where Cat Noir unifies two Miraculous and his first since "Miracle Queen".
		- However, this is the first time he receives a unification sequence.
* This is the first time someone other than Marinette, Adrien, or Gabriel is shown doing unification, as Alix unified the Rabbit Miraculous with the Dog while she was Canigirl.
	+ It's unknown how Alix knew how to activate the unification abilities despite not being taught it could be that Rabbit Noir told her, she figured it out for herself or is a fast learner.
* This is the second time an episode features three new unifications, following "Kwamibuster".
	+ Likewise, it's the second episode that features three new unifications that involve a single Miraculous, which in this case, is the Rabbit Miraculous.
	+ In addition, it is the first episode that has three new unifications, but none of them are from Marinette.
		- It also counts as the first episode in which there are three new unifications that don't involve the same person.
* This also makes Alix the fifth member of the French Miraculous superhero team to use another Miraculous. The first is Marinette with the Mouse, Fox, Cat, Dragon, Bee, Horse and Rabbit Miraculouses, the second is Adrien with the Ladybug, Snake and Rabbit Miraculouses, the third one is Master Fu with the Turtle and Peacock Miraculouses and the fourth one is Alya with the Ladybug Miraculous.
* Alix's transformation sequence into Bunnyx has the same motion as her older self in "Timetagger".
	+ However, as the symbol of the Rabbit Miraculous was changed, the symbol at the end is different, changed from a cotton tail to a rabbit head.
* Nathalie breaks ties with Gabriel as of this episode after he fails to prevent her sickness due to his obsession to get Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses.
	+ However, it's implied that this isn't permanent, as it's known that Lila will team up alongside Gabriel and Nathalie at some point in the season.
* Just like Chloé in "Miracle Queen", Gabriel didn't take responsibility for his mistakes at the end of the episode.
* This is the second time where both Tikki and Plagg make a background appearance following "The Dark Owl".
	+ This is the fifth time Tikki makes a background appearance following "Horrificator", "Feast", "Crocoduel" and "Penalteam".
	+ This is the third time Plagg makes a background appearance following "Gabriel Agreste" and "Strikeback".
* Not counting unifying, as of "Re-creation" this is the sixth time a character(s) appears as a Miraculous holder for a single episode, following Aspik in "Desperada", Multimouse in "Kwamibuster", Cat Walker in "Kuro Neko", Caprikid and Miss Hound in "Penalteam" and Flairmidable in "Strikeback".
* This is the ninth time where a Miraculous has its ownership transferred in the show following "Anansi", "Reflekdoll", "Desperada", "Kwamibuster", "Queen Banana", "Mega Leech", "Penalteam" and "Strikeback". But unlike the other instances, "Anansi" dealt with a holder who couldn't use it.
	+ Unlike the others, in "Penalteam" and "Strikeback" despite (the Dog Miraculous) being from the past and (the Rabbit with its time connections), this is the second and third time where a jewel was transferred quickly from person to person, if counting "Desperada" first.
* In the flashback of Gabriel giving Emilie the Peacock Miraculous, the back of the jewel is visibly broken, implying that most likely the couple knew the jewel was broken.
	+ Since the flashback was seen before they used the jewel it could also imply that maybe they found it broken but didn't know it was at first until that day or the first time they used it meaning the Peacock Miraculous could've been damaged during its travels or others found and used it before Adrien's parents and Nathalie.
* This is the third time the first episode of a season in production order was the same first episode that aired internationally, after "Stormy Weather" and "Chameleon".
	+ Thomas Astruc confirmed on Twitter that broadcasters will be extra careful trying to air the fifth season's episodes in production order
* This is the third time where someone else enters the Rabbit's Burrow that isn't Bunnyx following "Cat Blanc" and "Strikeback".
* Monarch and Nathalie were beaten by one of the qualities of the Miraculous. With the Rabbit Miraculous's power of time travel and due to its severe dangers, one of the qualities is to resist temptation and through his impatience he lost it. And yet, she didn't think about the full consequences of using such power.
	+ This is another reason why kwamis have to wait a long time for an owner. When a Miraculous is needed to protect the world, the jewel needs to be matched with a person of the right physical, mental and emotional qualities needed or learn to have them to use the powers properly.
		- That's the same thing Adrien learned in "Desperada", as he was so enamored with Ladybug that it distracted him but unlike his father he knew better (surrendering the jewel to Ladybug) and showed great improvement in "Miracle Queen".
	+ This also seems to be a viable trait for becoming a guardian. Due to them knowing all of the jewels' strengths and weaknesses, they had to resist the urge to use them in the event if they were ever captured.
		- Master Fu had and was capable of doing it too after his incident, but it wasn't out of discipline but fear.
	+ Alternatively, when looking at it another way the Rabbit's Watch could've been the answer to everything instead of trying to change the past Gabriel could've done the same as Bunnyx as in viewing the past. Due to him being aware that the guardians had knowledge on fixing broken Miraculous from the spellbook, he also could've viewed the past to see if there were any other ways to wake his wife without the jewels.
* Just like Adrien in the alternate future of "Cat Blanc" and in "Lady Wifi", it's most likely Gabriel wanted both his wife to be well and all the jewels for himself or at least have the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses just in case if changing the past wouldn't work but he could only choose one and no matter which pathway he chose the consequences would've been deadly.
* Alim Kubdel's watch displays 8:00pm at the time of his daughter becoming a Miraculous holder.
	+ She is the third person on Team Miraculous to debut as their hero alter-ego at night following Alya in "Sapotis" and Eagle in "Miraculous New York".
	+ But unlike, Alya and the others, Alix is the only member of the team to keep her chosen Miraculous after she got her following Ladybug and Cat Noir.
* This is the first episode with no Akumatization nor Amokization.
* Cat Noir using Cataclysm on Shell-ter and Monarch using Mirage is similar to the way Miraculer used it in the episode of the same name.
	+ It is also similar to how Gamer and Ladybug used Mirage in "Gamer 2.0".
* This is the first, and currently only time, Gabriel is shown transforming with any miraculous, and wearing his tie.
* It's revealed Alix has an interest in science and wants to study engineering after she graduates from school.
* The sequence where Master Fu lends a Miraculous to Ladybug makes a reappearance since "Kwamibuster".
	+ The only differences are that Rabbit Noir was with her, and it's done with the 1940's version of Master Fu.
* When Bunnyx is explaining to Monarch how she is able to catch up to him, she says in her second explanation that the Burrow is like a car and them both having keys to it, this could be a possible reference to the DeLorean, which is a car-like vehicle that allows people to travel through time, as seen in the film "Back to the Future".
* This episode also starts the beginning of Alix's photo journey with her in 1940's France with Master Fu.
	+ She is the fifth member of Team Miraculous to meet or know a guardian of the Miraculous followed by Ladybug, Cat Noir, King Monkey and Viperion. And yet, the sixth member if Alya is counted as she was likely told of Su-Han's existence and about her best friend's connection to Master Fu, but Alya hasn't officially met either of them yet.
		- But from the official "Miraculous Card Game", it's been told that Alya and her family have received Chinese treatments from Master Fu, meaning she did meet him, before season 1.
* Also like "Timetagger" this is the second time where a Miraculous appears in three different points in time.
* Like with Chloé in "Miraculer" and Master Fu in "Miracle Queen", the outcome for Alix getting the Rabbit Miraculous even though it wasn't desired the way it was it was for the best.
* The writers actually gave Monarch a new name for each transformation in the script. Only one of these names is actually used in the episode, by Rabbit Noir, on a jokingly tone.
* Interestingly, if Gabriel had succeeded in giving his younger self the knowledge of how to fix the Peacock Miraculous, it would have created a paradox; if Emilie never fell ill from using the damaged Miraculous, then he would have never become Hawk Moth and turned people into supervillains, which means the heroes would never have been given their Miraculouses and the events that lead to Gabriel possessing the Rabbit Miraculous would have never occurred, which would mean he never traveled back in time to give his younger self the knowledge of how to fix the Peacock Miraculous. But due to the heroes stopping him it's unknown what paradox he would've created.
	+ Even though if he did drop the drive in the past with the crazy chance there is no paradox then it would only solve half the problem sure it would prevent Emilie, Nathalie and Colt from getting sick by the jewel but only until the jewel got stolen, lost, or damaged again let alone at least their demises would've happened at the hands of something else.
* This is the first time where the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses are seen stored in the Miracle Box, however it's from a past event.
* Originally, the third part of 5-story episode arc was titled **The Rise of Monarch**.
* This is the only episode of season 5 where the Alliance rings do not appear, as they were only created and introduced in "Multiplication".
* When Monarch views the timeline of Lady Wifi pinning Ladybug against a wall, he questions why the Miraculous wasn't taken when there was a chance. Clearly something that didn't happen when he was Hawk Moth during that event.
* When Monarch grabs Lady Wifi's phone and pauses her, it seems the user of the Butterfly Miraculous can use the Akumatized villain's object that the akuma went into, but it is unknown if the user can use their weapons that don't possess the akuma.
	+ However, it is also likely, given the circumstances, an akumatized object could be use by anyone else, regardless if they are in the possession of the Butterfly Miraculous or not.

### Errors

* When Gabriel fuses Nooroo and Fluff, they appear as purple and bluish-white lights when with the other kwamis. But in the next scene of them entering the Miraculouses, they become pink and dark blue.
* In some moments focused on Rabbit Noir, the light blue marks under his eyes disappear.
* The Lady Wifi flashbacks features a bright blue sky outside the kitchen doors, despite the episode originally taking place during night-time.
	+ Lady Wifi's line "your crush will soon be *slush*" has a different tone of voice both times she says it.
* In the call-back to "Reverser", Ladybug's yo-yo is still attached to her hips as opposed to being loose and caught by the Taxi's doors.

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* When Canigirl is about to fuse the Dog and Rabbit Miraculous, Fluff's ears can be seen behind the Rabbit Miraculous symbol.
	+ Also, when fused, she doesn't have the Umbrella.
* The spots on the Rabbit Miraculous randomly appear as either black or orange.
* When the camera pans up to Monarch's face when the Dog Miraculous' ball roles back to his feet after he fails to retrieve the Rabbit Miraculous from Canigirl, his cane and belt are both layered over his body.
* When Monarch loses the Rabbit Miraculous and is left in the past, while laughing and planning on helping his past self, the Horse Miraculous phases through his face.
* When current Alix transforms into Bunnyx, her ears are already present.
* When Monarch unifies the Bee, Turtle, Fox, Dragon and Dog Miraculoses with the other ones, the Miraculouses don't turn into their charged modes.
	+ Additionally, Pollen inhabits the Monkey Miraculous instead of the Bee Miraculous, but exits the Bee Miraculous when Monarch divides her, Trixx, and Longg.
* When Gabriel talks to Nathalie at the Startrain, his voice is deep like Hawk Moth's, instead of being like his civilian voice.
* When Ladybug, Rabbit Noir and Canigirl travel to the Eiffel Tower during the events of "Heroes' Day", Scarlet Moth doesn't have any light mask on his face, despite having his and Catalyst's in different shots of the original episode.

### Inaccuracies

* One of Adult Bunnyx's postcards shows her being licked by a dinosaur's long tongue. In reality, dinosaurs had bones in their tongues that made them unable to extend, just like a crocodile.

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## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/ladyofacat/status/1505600314103279621
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/Winny\_IRL/status/1585316703474708481
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHDv1L4FFp4
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/1536756363317153792

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