Lê Chiến Kim

**Lê Chiến Kim**[1] (**Kim Chiến Lê** in Western order) is a student in Miss Bustier's class at Collège Françoise Dupont. In "Dark Cupid", after being rejected and humiliated by his crush Chloé, he is akumatized by Hawk Moth and becomes **Dark Cupid**, a hate-spreading supervillain.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Kim is muscular and taller than the average student at school; he has olive skin and dark brown eyes. He styles his hair, which is black with the ends dyed gold, into a sharp quiff.

### Civilian attire

He wears a red, short-sleeved hoodie jacket with big front pocket and hoodie and some white outlines at certain places. On the front of the jacket, there is a white logo, which is a downward-pointing pentagon outline outside of a smaller, filled-in pentagon with a red corner and a star. He pairs his top with navy blue track sweatpants, and red, white, and black sport shoes.

### As Dark Cupid

Dark Cupid wears a black and red suit, along with large black wings attached to his back, each feather-like end of each tipped with two red stripes. On the sides of his neck, there are black lighting bolts. He wears a black head cover, the areas covering the top of his hair and around his eyes being red. The top of his suit is red, with a large white broken heart on his chest. To the waist down, the suit is black. From the elbow down to the hand is black, and from the knee down is red with a few strands of cloth sticking out above the back of each ankle. On his back is a black, red, and white striped quiver, which carries red arrows. On the quiver strap across his chest, the brooch, which is now red and black, is attached to it. His archery bow is based off a breaking heart. The handle is white with red heart halves at the ends, and on each side of the bow, there are two large gray and white spikes.

## Personality

Kim is the "king of competitions."[2] He enjoys making dares, much to the frustration of his classmates, and he is also very confident in himself and his athletic abilities, thus most of his dares involve using the person's body. Over-confident and proud, Kim sometimes boasts about his abilities and doesn't always take facts into consideration, believing he can beat a panther in a race in "Animan". He isn't afraid to tease others, either, as he gives Ivan a note telling him that he isn't brave enough to act on his romantic feelings. Behind his bravado are a few insecurities, like his fear of being humiliated and rejected. While hot-headed and rude sometimes, Kim is generally kind, appreciating Marinette's encouragement to confess his love to his crush in "Dark Cupid" — although Marinette isn't aware that his crush is Chloé.

As Dark Cupid, Kim is bitter at love, and plans to avenge his broken heart by transforming everyone into hate-filled jerks. He is still very prideful, but he has no issues teaming up with one of his victims, Cat Noir, to succeed.

## Abilities

### As a civilian

Kim is a very fast runner, being able to keep up with Alix, who is wearing roller skates, in a race for most of the time. In "Animan", Kim states that he came in first place in the County Athletics Tournament.

### As Dark Cupid

Dark Cupid can fly with his wings. Using his bow and rose-shaped black arrows, he shoots people, turning their feelings of love and friendship into hate.

The effect of the arrows varies from person to person; for example, Alya becomes mean spirited to Marinette, while Cat Noir gets filled by the desire to destroy Ladybug. The lips of people affected by his arrows turn black.

Similarly to fairy tales with curses, the effect of the arrows can be reverted by a kiss.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Kim believes he can beat Raph and Ryuko to a match but fails every time they sparred. Ryuko is tough towards him and acts like a rival to him.

## Trivia

* Kim is of Vietnamese descent. As such, his name follows Vietnamese naming conventions.[3]
	+ "Lê" is his family name, "Chiến" is his middle name, and "Kim" is his first name.
* In the French dubbed version, Kim's villain name is Dislocoeur.
	+ Dislocoeur is intended to be a pun in French, "-cœur" meaning "heart" and "dis-" alluding to "disloquer" potentially meaning "Heart breaker".
* While it is unknown what sports Kim plays specifically, Kim has made references to playing soccer in the French version, which is called football outside of the US.[4] In "Darkblade", he is holding a basketball.
	+ Kim also makes a baseball metaphor in the English version of "Dark Cupid".
	+ In the first issue of *Miraculous Adventures*, Kim is on a lacrosse team with Adrien, Ivan, and Alix.
* Kim secretly notices Marinette slip Adrien's phone back into his bag in "Copycat".
* He is responsible for Otis Césaire and Ivan's first akumatizations.