Adrien Agreste (Parallel Universe)

## Adrien Agreste

* Adrien Agreste
* Claw Noir
* Paw Noir

**Adrien Agreste** is one of the two titular main antagonists (alongside Marinette Dupain-Cheng) of *Miraculous World: Paris - Tales of Shadybug & Claw Noir*. He is the villainous version of Adrien Agreste from an alternate universe. When Plagg inhabited the Cat Miraculous, he transformed into **Claw Noir**, a black cat-themed supervillain.

In "Miraculous Paris", after Betterfly crossed space-time to get help from Ladybug and Cat Noir (the heroic versions of his villains), he followed him along with Shadybug to steal the Butterfly Miraculous. After his counterpart was able to inspire him to get the life he wanted to have, Claw Noir gave up on his evil purpose, revoked his Cataclysm, and, in this way, got a new costume. Now allying himself with Betterfly, he adopted a brand new form as **Paw Noir**, and became a superhero.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Adrien is a tall and fair-skinned teenage boy with blond hair that is swept all over to the left and faded shaved on the right. He also has emerald-green eyes and has a rosy tint on his cheeks, nose, and the tips of his ears.

He wears a black turtleneck with vertical yellow, green, and blue stripes on the right side of the collar, a white leather jacket, dark gray jeans, a black belt with a silver buckle, and black boots.

He wears a thick layer of black eye liner, his fingernails are painted black, and he wears a pair of small silver stud earrings.

### As Claw Noir

He had a wild mane of spiked green hair, purple eyes with slitted pupils, and black lips. He wore a black bodysuit with tears in the knees, a black mask over the top half of his face, fake cat ears on his head with a hole in the edge of the left ear, a black leather jacket, a spiky silver ball hanging from the front of his neck, a long black belt with silver spikes around his waist that stuck out the back like a tail, tattered at the end, and a pair of calf high steel-toed black boots with spikes at the top.

### As Paw Noir

After his redemption, he no longer has black lips, the under-cut of his hair grew and turned blonde, his eyes became green and his spiked bell turned into a golden one. While retaining his jacket but thinner and all the spikes he had on his costume are gone.

## Personality

Unlike his counterpart who is kind and caring, Adrien was cold and distant towards others after losing his mother as he missed Emilie so much. He also bore a strong resentment towards his father over how he got over his mother's death and moved on. Strange enough, he also felt attracted to Marinette Dupain-Cheng, admiring her from afar.

As Claw Noir, Adrien became more aggressive and destructive with his powers showing no hesitation or fear of hurting others or himself with them. But he was more impulsive and lazy as he let his guard down, allowing Shadybug to easily steal his ring, but he also showed his vulnerable and naïve side feeling hurt about how much the Supreme kept from them and even briefly tried to comfort his partner after seeing her sad about her good counterpart having a better life.

During his final confrontation with Cat Noir, like his partner Claw Noir poured out all his frustrations and anger towards him about what it felt like to be left behind, alone and forgotten after losing a loved one. Similar to Monarch, while fighting his heroic version as he wanted to get his good counterpart's and Ladybug's Miraculouses to summon Gimmi and use the wish to bring back his mother. But when Cat Noir mentioned feeling the same he still didn't believe him until he took Cat Noir's ring and saw his counterpart's true face shocking him even more when he realized that the latter's mother suffered the same fate. Cat Noir was able to convince Claw Noir that he too could change his life if he chose not to be alone, honor his mother's memory and give friendship a chance. This inspired Claw Noir to give up on his mission to retrieve the Butterfly Miraculous and pursue the wish, returning his counterpart's ring. This results in his costume changing in order to adapt to his newly found heroism. Now deciding to become a superhero and like Shadybug, he allied himself with Betterfly and adopted a new name, with that one being Paw Noir.

## Abilities

### As Claw Noir

As an alternate version Cat Noir, he exhibited most of the same abilities as his heroic counterpart as he exhibited massively enhanced strength, speed and agility, to the point where he and Shadybug proved superior during their two clashes against their heroic counterparts, though this could be attributed to their unrestricted powers and their more aggressive nature. Despite his physical superiority however, Claw Noir seemed less intelligent than his counterpart, as he was overall much more aggressive and wasn't able to realize Cat Noir intentionally exposed himself.

Much like Cat Noir, he also possessed the ability to use Cataclysm. Due to removed restrictions on his Miraculous however, he could use his power as many times as he liked.

However, Claw Noir's power came at a price as a result of the safety restrictions being removed on his Miraculous (be it due to the Supreme tampering with the Miraculous or of him using his Miraculous for evil), Claw Noir suffered side effects as a result from using his Miraculous (shown as a series of black veins across his neck and face), alongside his partner Shadybug. According to her, the effects were gradual, though Marinette attempting to summon Gimmi ended up accelerating the process, resulting in the affliction spreading to her face. It's unknown how the affliction affected Claw Noir physically or what happened if the affliction was complete, though according to Shadybug the use of their Miraculous superpowers "will slowly destroy [them]". The affliction seemed to affect the user physically however, as both him and Shadybug were able to feel the affliction when it was removed. Overall, the effects are similar to the effects caused by wearing a broken Miraculous.

After his counterpart convinced him to use his powers for good and become a hero, Shadybug used the Miraculous Shadybug to restore the damage from their battle, resulting in the removal of the affliction infecting her and Claw Noir. Since Claw Noir now uses his powers for good, it's unknown if he still possesses the ability to use Cataclysm multiple times, though presumably the modifications done by the Supreme still allow him to do so (though at the risk of restoring the affliction).

## Trivia

* In the original French dub, his supervillain name is **Griffe Noire**, with the first part being the French translation for the word "claw".
	+ His supervillain name in the French version uses the term "Noire" which is the feminine form of the adjective "noir" (meaning "black") and, in the series, has been used on the names of female Cat Miraculous holders (such as Lady Noire, Bug Noire, and Kitty Noire).
		- However, its use has nothing to do with the user but with the first part of the supervillain name, as "griffe" is a feminine word in the French language. Because "claw" is a neutral name, the term "Noir" in the English version is meant to refer to his own gender.
* It's unknown if he's a sentimonster like his good counterpart.
* Contrary to his good counterpart, he became depressed by his mother's death and was obsessed with bringing her back by using the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses to summon Gimmi, much like the evil counterpart of his father, who ironically was able to move on from his wife's death and find happiness in his life.
* After being unmasked by Shadybug, who transformed back into Marinette, alternate Adrien was shown to have a crush on her, with her unaware of this. Contrary to his good counterpart who is unaware of good Marinette having a crush on him.

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