Talk:Marinette Dupain-Cheng/@comment-24687381-20160609154322/@comment-61573-20160627074837

I don't think it is necessary to know who someone is in order to Akumatize them. Otherwise Hawkmoth would have to personally identify every single individual in Paris before he Akumatized them with more regular means. It doesn't seem practical nor possible.

It seems when they become vulnerable to Akumatization, they are like open books to Hawkmoth, he can read their minds, learn the source of their distress and how to use this to his advantage. There's no other way to explain how he can know so much about someone by just standing in a room talking to a open ornate windowframe.

Marinette has frequent cause to be angry for one reason or another (the most common reason is blonde and female), which should qualify her for Akumatization if she wasn't shielded.

Adrien is usually fairly cool headed, but he has lost his temper at least once, so he also must not be vulnerable.