Also, in the episode "Cat Blanc," Marinette travels to an alternate future in which the world basically gets destroyed, and in that timeline, she and Cat Noir know each other's identities, but the end of the world isn't directly caused by that knowledge. After all, Tikki says Adrien's name plenty of times throughout the show, both before and after she learned his secret. To be fair, Plagg states in the episode "Sandboy" that kwamis are unable to say the names of their current owners, but no such prohibition exists against saying the name of another Miraculous holder. Despite Marinette's continued insistence that she's just a klutzy loser who has zero chance with Adrien, if you actually pay attention to the events of the show, you'll see that all of Marinette's supposed "unpopularity" only exists within her head. As early as the show's fourth episode, we learn that her entire class is overjoyed to see her when she arrives to hang out after school, and Adrien even winks at her. If you're paying close attention, you'll see that even within her own peer group, Marinette is a total social butterfly. If that's not enough, Marinette's best friend is a popular blogger, she babysits the child of a famous newscaster, and she's even the granddaughter of the world's most famous chef. She even appears on magazine covers and on television because of this. In a later episode, Jagged asks Marinette to design the cover to one of his albums, which ends up becoming a chart-topping bestseller. And this isn't just a passing acquaintance, either. Marinette's secret rise to stardom is mainly due to the events of the episode "Pixelator." In this episode, Marinette ends up befriending the world-famous rock star Jagged Stone. Not that we mind seeing these same characters all the time, but it just provides more evidence that the Paris of this world has a only a few dozen inhabitants and is otherwise totally empty. That being said, the end result of this is that the version of Paris we get in this show ends up feeling totally devoid of life, almost post-apocalyptic.Ĭontributing even more to the feeling that not that many people live in Paris is the show's remarkably consistent cast of minor recurring characters. Rather than rescuing total strangers each week from the forces of Hawk Moth, Ladybug ends up coincidentally crossing paths with the same characters over and over again, like rock star Jagged Stone, newscaster Nadja Chamack, and mayor André Bourgeois. It would take an enormous amount of time and money to model and animate a hundred bystanders whenever the characters go outside. We assume the main reason behind this is most likely a technical one. Whenever Miraculous features an outdoor scene on the streets of Paris, our main characters are often the only people around, walking down totally empty sidewalks, with only the occasional car passing by in the background.
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