Style Queen (Queen's Battle - Part 1)

"Oh no, it's Audrey Bourgeois! Only the harshest fashion critic in the entire world! I didn't know she was coming!"

- Marinette Dupain-Cheng

"" is an episode of Season 2 of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, and it is the first part of "Queen's Battle". Its world premiere was on October 6, 2018, in Spain, on Disney Channel.

Synopsis
Humiliated by Gabriel Agreste, Chloé's mother gets akumatized into Style Queen. Armed with a scepter and determined to get revenge, she attacks Adrien. Will Ladybug manage to stop her without Cat Noir here to help her?

Plot
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It's Fashion Week in Paris and Adrien is going to be modeling the hat Marinette submitted to Gabriel Agreste's fashion design contest. Marinette fears that no one will like her hat since there's a synethetic pigeon feather and not a real one, but Tikki reassures her that it's fine and reminds Marinette of Adrien's allergy. The two then head to the fashion show, but once they arrive, Marinette discovers that Audrey Bourgeois, the harshest fashion critic in the world, is in town for the event. Following her appearance, Marinette is unsure about presenting the derby, especially when she overhears the fashion critic tell Nadja Chamack that glitter is what's in style since there is no glitter on her hat. Marinette attempts to sneak away, but Nathalie catches her and takes her to Adrien. On the way, she accidently bumps into Chloé and Audrey, dropping her hat in the process. Chloé shows Audrey the hat and makes fun of it, but Marinette denies to Audrey that the hat is hers before taking off with Nathalie.

In his trailer, Adrien feels a little odd about the suit he has to wear for the fashion show and is teased by Plagg for it. Marinette and Nathalie then arrive. Marinette walks over to Adrien but trips over the trailer stairs and drops her hat, causing the side feather to fall off. Together, Adrien and Marinette go to pick it up. Adrien realizes that the feather has fallen and expresses worry that Marinette's work is ruined. Marinette says it doesn't matter since Audrey Bourgeois didn't like it, but Adrien reassures her that the hat is fine and puts it on, practicing his catwalk with it. After Marinette compliments him, she and Nathalie leave.

Back at the fashion show, Tom and Sabine wonder if Marinette is nervous. Alya tells them that she probably is since it's Marinette's first fashion show. Audrey and Chloé then show up, with Audrey sitting besides them. However, Alya tells her that the seat is reserved for Marinette. Marinette and Nathalie arrive as Chloé boasts that her mother is the best fashion critic. Nathalie tells Audrey that Gabriel reserved a seat for her, which pleases her until Nathalie says that it's in the second row. Refusing to sit anywhere but the first row, Audrey attempts to fire Nathalie until she reminds her that she works for Gabriel, not her. Enraged, Audrey calls Gabriel, but he ignores her call and turns to speak to his wife Emilie, who is inside a coffin in Gabriel's secret basement. He aplogizes to her about taking so long but promises that his newest prey has more malice than anyone who's ever been akumatized before, calling her his masterpiece.

Audrey is further angered when Gabriel doesn't pick up her call. Claiming that she will not watch a fashion show from the second row, Audrey turns to leave with Chloé and André following behind her. Hawk Moth picks up on Audrey's anger and sends an akuma after her, which infects the gold rose on top of her hat. Hawk Moth offers her the power to show everyone that she is the queen of style in exchange for Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses. Audrey accepts the deal and is transformed into Style Queen, a villain who can turn others into gold glitter statues.

The fashion show starts and Adrien walks down the catwalk when suddenly, Style Queen appears and demands that Gabriel Agreste kneel before her. Adrien tells her that his father is not present, so Style Queen decides to settle for Adrien instead, turning him into a glitter statue, much to the crowd's horror. Plagg, who was watching everything from above a rail, realizes that Adrien being turned into a statue presents a problem and takes off. Hawk Moth is equally horrified at what's happened to Adrien, but decides that he has no choice and tells Style Queen to capture Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses as soon as possible. Meanwhile, Marinette hides and transforms into Ladybug.

As everyone runs away, Style Queen turns more and more people into glitter statues. André attempts to convince his wife to stop, but she merely turns him into a glitter statue, too. When Chloé appears in front of her, Style Queen nearly turns her into a glitter statue, too, until she offers to be her assistant. Agreeing to put Chloé on trial, Style Queen is then confronted by Ladybug. Style Queen criticizes Ladybug's costume, but Ladybug pays no mind to it and engages her in combat. However, without Cat Noir around, Style Queen gains the upper hand and very nearly turns Ladybug into a glitter statue. But Chloé then intervenes, offering to take Style Queen to Gabriel Agreste's house and suggesting that she finish Ladybug off later. Agreeing, Style Queen takes off with Chloé and Adrien.

Arriving at the Agreste mansion, Style Queen searches everywhere but Gabriel is nowhere to be found. She turns to Chloé and asks her where he is. Chloé says that Gabriel usually never leaves his house. Hawk Moth then makes contact and tells Style Queen that Ladybug and Cat Noir are protecting Gabriel and that in order to get to him, she must first capture Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses. Style Queen agrees and takes off to the Eiffel Tower with Chloé and Adrien.

At the tower, Style Queen puts Adrien on a golden table, puts her akumatized object in his mouth, and makes a barrier over the two. She then orders Chloé to find Ladybug and Cat Noir and call her if it does happen. Once Style Queen leaves, Chloé desperately tries to free Adrien but with no luck. She then notices Ladybug, who'd arrived at the tower and left a voicemail to Cat Noir to hurry up. Trying to usher Ladybug to hurry, since Adrien was starting to vanish, Style Queen catches them both, realizing that Chloé had betrayed her and then turns her into a golden statue. Ladybug and Style Queen face off once again, but her yo-yo is as useless as before. She then calls upon her Lucky Charm, which turns out to be a hammer. Trying to make sense of it, Ladybug realizes that it's an indication to go see Master Fu. She quickly backs out of the fight against Style Queen and leaves, Style Queen waiting patiently for both superheroes to arrive.

Meanwhile, Marinette arrives at Master Fu's place, all desperate. She then learns that Cat Noir wouldn't appear, as he'd lost his Miraculous and Plagg was there. However, Plagg suggests fighting along with her side, to which Master Fu quickly dismisses, reminding Plagg of the disaster his caused without his owner. Finally, Master Fu brings out the box with the Miraculous for Marinette to choose a new temporary partner. She chooses the Bee Miraculous and then leaves.

In the Eiffel Tower, Alya had been climbing up to get more footage for her LadyBlog, only for Ladybug to arrive. Ladybug starts to offer her the Bee Miraculous, but Style Queen appears. Alya then pushes Ladybug out of the way, turning into a golden statue, and in the fall, Ladybug loses the Bee Miraculous. Without many options, Ladybug faces off Style Queen once again, calling on her Lucky Charm once more, this time as a tube of glue. She finally forms a plan and uses the glue on a French flag nearby. As Style Queen attacked as a cloud of golden dust, Ladybug uses the flag with glue, gluing parts of her and even leaving her without a midsection. Style Queen though manages to attack Ladybug, pushing her back and losing the flag. Suddenly, Plagg arrives, protecting Ladybug from Style Queen. He then calls upon Cataclysm, destroying half of the Eiffel tower, a nearby bridge, and the Tour Montparnasse. It gives Ladybug enough time to break the barrier surrounding Adrien, take the akumatized object, and break it. Using her Miraculous power, all of Paris is once again as it should, the people back to their normal selves, and Audrey no longer akumatized, much to Hawk Moth's anger. Plagg quickly leaves, so as to not be seen by others.

After assuring her that she's alright, a still "high and might" Audrey leaves down the stairs the Eiffel Tower, followed close by Chloé. Meanwhile, Adrien is a little worried he won't get to the show on time. Ladybug offers him a lift and takes him back to the show. After a brief conversation between the two, Ladybug leaves just as she detransforms back to Marinette. However, her victory is short-lived when Tikki comments on the Bee Miraculous. Marinette had assumed her powers would've returned the Miraculous back to Master Fu, but horrified, learns that the Bee Miraculous is lost. Marinette plans on finding another hiding spot to turn back into Ladybug and go back to the tower to search for the Bee Miraculous, but her parents find her and usher her back to the show. Marinette quietly assures Tikki that she would have to search for the Bee Miraculous later, though she and her kwami are terrified of the concept of waiting.

At the tower, Audrey and Chloé are still climbing down the Eiffel Tower, not having been able to reach an elevator yet. As they continue their way down, Chloé stumbles upon the box, which unbeknownst to her, holds the Bee Miraculous. Later on at her room, she opens the box to reveal the Miraculous and the kwami, Pollen.

Major characters

 * Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
 * Adrien Agreste
 * Alya Césaire
 * Chloé Bourgeois
 * Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth
 * Tikki
 * Plagg
 * Akuma
 * Audrey Bourgeois/Style Queen

Minor characters

 * Nadja Chamack
 * Adrien's bodyguard
 * André Bourgeois
 * Roger Raincomprix
 * Nathalie Sancoeur
 * Lê Chiến Kim (background)
 * Nathaniel Kurtzberg (background)
 * Max Kanté (background)
 * Alec Cataldi (background)
 * Mireille Caquet (background)
 * Clara Nightingale (background)
 * Jagged Stone (background)
 * Penny Rolling (background)
 * Alix Kubdel (background)
 * Ivan Bruel (background)
 * Rose Lavillant (background)
 * Nino Lahiffe (background)
 * Tom Dupain
 * Sabine Cheng
 * Juleka Couffaine (background)
 * Prince Ali's chaperone (background)
 * Ali (background)
 * Bob Roth (background)
 * XY (background)
 * Aurore Beauréal (background)
 * Vincent Aza (background)
 * Sabrina Raincomprix (background)
 * Mylène Haprèle (background)
 * Théo Barbot (background)
 * Simon Grimault (background)
 * Vincent (background)
 * August's mother (background)
 * Clara Contard (background)
 * Mrs. Michelle (background)
 * Jean Duparc (background)
 * Emilie Agreste
 * Master Wang Fu
 * Wayzz
 * Pollen
 * Lila Rossi (animation error)
 * Students
 * Civilians

Trivia

 * This episode was first revealed in a promotional video for Season 2 released by TFOU on August 31, 2017.
 * This episode takes place before "Queen Wasp".
 * Two clips of this episode are seen at a panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2018.
 * This is one of the few episodes Ladybug is not happy during her transformation.
 * This the fourth time Adrien has been put in direct danger due to Hawk Moth's villains following "Simon Says", "Riposte", and "Gorizilla".
 * Style Queen is derived from the phrase "beauty queen".
 * The episode reveals that Emilie lays in a windowed contianer in the basement of the Agreste Mansion.
 * This is currently the only known episode to have almost all characters from Season 1 and Season 2 who make an appearance in this episode.
 * Style Queen is one of the few villains Hawk Moth doesn't name because "Style Queen" is the title of Audrey Bourgeois' magazine.
 * It is revealed that a Plagg is able to perform Cat Noir's Cataclysm, apparently stronger as it destroys the Eiffel Tower along with a nearby bridge and Tour Montparnasse.
 * This episode reveals that Plagg is responsible for multiple disastrous events in the past when he used his powers without his owners, such as sinking Atlantis, leaning the tower of Pisa, and wiping out the dinosaurs.
 * Marinette planned to offer the Bee Miraculous to Alya, making her the first known person to be considered to wield two Miraculous.
 * Chloé finds the small Miraculous Box containing the Bee Miraculous on the floor of the Eiffel Tower instead of Ladybug giving it to her.
 * This episode doesn't have an end card.
 * This episode premiered on October 6, which is fitting because of the real fashion week in Paris was over four days before it came out.
 * The way Style Queen called Adrien "Sleeping Beauty" is a reference to Princess Aurora from the 1959 Disney movie, Sleeping Beauty.
 * Style Queen is one of the few villains that isn't in constant possession of their akumatized object following "The Dark Owl" and "Captain Hardrock".
 * This is the first time an akumatized object looks the same way as it is when not akumatized.
 * Marinette officially meets her partner's kwami Plagg.
 * before winning her mom's approval, Chloe is referred to by six incorrect names: Claudine, CourtneyClothildeCC, Kylie, Casserole, Claudette and Chlorine.
 * Chloe's mom refers to Marinette as Maria then Martha after Marinette's criticism of them unites mother and daughter.

Errors

 * During the fashion show, Lila Rossi appeared in the audience. But according to Thomas Astruc, this was actually an animation mistake.
 * Alya's bangs are miscolored throughout the episode.
 * When Marinette grabs the Bee Miraculous, the other Miraculous sections aren't open
 * Pollen's coat and stinger were pink in some shots.
 * Gabriel's hair is miscolored grey.
 * Audrey only has half of her eyelashes.

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