Rogercop

"Rogercop" is the ninth episode of the first season of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug &amp; Cat Noir. It will premiere on January 31, 2016.

Synopsis
After Chloé accuses Marinette of stealing her new bracelet] after she looses it in class and [[Mr. Bourgeois|Andre Bourgeois tells Rogercop to arrest Marinette but he believes it is unjust and disobeys Mr. Bourgeois. So Mr. Bourgeois unjustly fires Roger. Now angry at his boss for spoiling his daughter, Hawk Moth akumatizes Chloé's policeman father who is in fact Sabrina's father into the tyrannical Rogercop.

Plot
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Tom and Marinette are preparing for going to school, as it is the day the students bring their parents to school to show their jobs.

Then, at school, while Tom and Marinette are in front of the class, Adrien is just out of the classroom trying to phone his father, but only the voicemail answers. Because of that, Adrien is very sad and disappointed although, when Plagg asks him if he's ok, he answers yes. After that, Adrien gets back into the classroom.

In the meantime, Tom finishes talking and Marinette starts dispensing croissants to all her classmates, and she's sad to see Adrien in so much distress. Afterwards, when she reaches Chloé and Sabrina's desk, she witnesses a discussion between the two and Chloé's father, the mayor, regarding an expensive bracelet the blonde girl brought to school; then, while Marinette is giving a croissant to Sabrina, Chloé jokes that her father would have to sell the shop to buy her a bracelet like that. Therefore Marinette, to spite her, doesn't give her a croissant "because she's already too rich".

Meanwhile Plagg, from Adrien's bag, notices Chloé putting her bracelet back into her bag and he mistakes the round box for a shape of Camembert cheese. Thus, he immediately enters the other bag to eat it, and he's disappointed when he finds out that it wasn't cheese. However, he's interested by the shining object, and he starts playing with it by throwing it into the air. Unfortunately, while Alya's mother is talking, he fails the catch with disastrous outcomes: the bracelet gets stuck around his head covering his eyes, he knocks over Chloé's bag making Marinette trip on it and finally he rolls back under Adrien's desk.

Chloé reprimands Marinette for being clumsy (she also dropped all of the croissants from the tray and was crouching to pick them up); afterwards, while Agent Roger, Sabrina's father, was talking, Chloé notices that her bracelet was missing. She immediately accuses Marinette of stealing it and wants Roger to arrest her. Then, when she sees that both Tom and Roger were againist that decision, she calls out for help from her father, who threatens the policeman to fire him if he doesn't follow what Chloé said. However Roger still doesn't arrest Marinette because he can't do that without proof, and therefore the mayor sends him out of the room.

Agent Roger gets back to his policecar, very frustrated with the mayor who asked him to break the law. Hawk Moth senses his frustration and sends him an akuma which enters the agent's whistle and, after he accepts Hawk Moth's offer, turns the policeman into Rogercop, a robotic cop, and also enhances his car.

Meanwhile the discussion is still open in the classroom: André the mayor is fighting with Marinette's father and they only stop when Miss Bustier reminds them that the children are watching. Only then Adrien feels a bump to his shoes and sees Plagg who's struggling to free himself from the bracelet. He then picks him up and goes out of the classroom trying not to draw attention on him. Once he left the room he scolds Plagg for causing this mess and starts trying to free him.

In the meantime Rogercop wants to enter the school to arrest the mayor, and he meets Ms. Mendeleiev and Fred Haprèle in the process. He thinks both broke the law (the former because she littered by throwing a paper wrapping into the dumpster but missing it, the latter because he tried to stop him from entering the school), so he handcuffs them with the rays he fires from his wrists and then forces them to a punishment with his whistle: Ms. Mendeleiev is forced to pick up the trash from the ground and put it into the trash can and Fred is forced to run around the perimeter of the school courtyard.

Adrien sees Agent roger handcuffing and punishing Fred, but when he asks Plagg to transform, the kwami reveals that, if he did that, the bracelet would be sucked inside the ring and Adrien would be impeded too; hence, Adrien moves to the locker room to try and find other ways to free Plagg.

Meanwhile Marinette is still in the clasroom and tries to exculpate herself by accusing other people in the classroom: first, she accuses Sabrina because, in Nino's video of the lesson, she was holding the bracelet, and then Nathanaël because he drew the bracelet on a sheet of paper. Thus, Tom reprimands his daughter for being like Chloé, because she is accusing her classmates without a solid proof.

However, the discussion is suddenly stopped when Rogercop enters the room. He is immediately recognised by his daughter Sabrina and he asks the people in the room where is the mayor. Nobody gives him an answer even when he threatens them to arrest them, but he stops when he hears André's voice in the principal's office: the mayor was threatening not to pay the school if they didn't find the bracelet. Therefore, Rogercop starts moving towards the office.

In the meantime Marinette got out of the classroom and, after reproaching herself for behaving horribly towards her classmates, she transforms into Ladybug. Adrien too transforms into Cat Noir after managing to free Plagg by making him sneeze with a piece of cheese upon which he put pepper.

Ladybug, with her Yo-yo, stops Rogercop from firing at the mayor and buys him enough time to get out of the building. However Rogercop, completely ignoring Chloé who was trying to get his attention, sees him at the exit and follows him. Ladybug tries to stop him from walking, but she only falls flat on her face. Just when the policemen was firing at André, though, Cat Noir appears and jumps on his arm, making him fire what appears to be a microchip at the mayor's limousine instead. The mayor then enters the car and flees.

Cat Noir and Ladybug try to fight Rogercop, but the latter simply grabs Cat Noir's Staff and throws him inside a trash can (the same Ms. Mendeleiev was putting the trash in), and then flings Ladybug inside the school. Afterwards the villain tries to enter his own car to follow the mayor, but he is interrupted by Chloé who, demanding his attention, wants to be listened. Thus, the cop lets her enter the car and departs.

Cat Noir sees this scene from the trash can and, trying to save Chloé, immediately follows Rogercop and jumps on the back of his car. The villan notices it, activates the car's aerial mode and takes off. Ladybug, using her yo-yo, manages to cling to the car just beside Cat Noir. Rogercop tries to shake them off, but Ladybug catches Cat Noir before he falls. Then the policeman, still ignoring Chloé that asked him to land and arrest Marinette, activates the auto-pilot and climbs on the roof of the car to fight the two heroes.

The fight proceeds without any of the two parts prevailing, until the car starts to roll sideways. Ladybug and Cat Noir must run to avoid falling off, while Rogercop stays anchored to the car with his boots. After some rotations the robot knocks Ladybug off the car, Cat Noir fails to catch the yo-yo to save her and he's grabbed by the villain. However, before Rogercop can take his Miraculous, Cat Noir throws his Staff inside the exhaust pipe using his legs. This causes a small explosion that fires away the Baton and makes Agent Roger lose his grip on Cat Noir, who then falls.

Cat Noir manages to grab his stick while falling, but he's about to fall on his face when Ladybug saves him with her yo-yo by tying it around a lamppost and his legs, so that Cat Noir is hanged upside down in front of her. He then thanks her and tries to kiss her, but she leaves the string and lets him fall, saying that he'll repay her later.

Afterwards, the two heroes wonder where to go search for the akumatized villain, and Ladybug correctly suggests the City Hall. In fact, Rogercop followed the mayor's limo to that building, carved a car-shaped hole on the doors with his laser and flew in. Once inside, he handcuffed the mayor with his rays and forced him to give away his position by holding his daughter Chloé hostage.

Therefore, the mayor broadcasts a message to the population in which he gives his position to Rogercop. The latter then declares Ladybug and Cat Noir criminals and that every policeman who sees them must arrest them. The two heroes are in front of the City Hall the moment the message is given, and they are forced to flee because the square is full of cops.

The night falls, and the two heroes are still on a rooftop near the City Hall, which became a police stronghold, trying to find a way to get in, when they come up with an idea: Cat Noir descends the rooftop and distracts the policemen by dancing while Ladybug enters the building unseen. The cops are bewildered by Cat Noir's behavior, and only move when Rogercop tells them to arrest him. Then the boy, after jokingly declaring that "rejection hurts", starts fighting them.

Meanwhile Ladybug stealthily enters the mayor's office where Rogercop was looking out of the window and André and his daughter were held captive. However her presence is accidentally revealed to the villain by Chloé, who cheers for the hero. The two start fighting, with Ladybug trying to avoid being hit by his rays by hiding behind tables, and they are soon joined by Cat Noir who managed to beat the policemen.

Rogercop uses his whistle to order the ex-mayor and his daughter to attack the two heroes, but Ladybug and Cat Noir simply make them exit the office. Then the villain starts firing his lasers again (mindlessly, according to Hawk Moth) until Ladybug activates her Lucky Charm from behind a table. She recieves an oven mitt and, following her lucky sight, she moves around the room and collects a belt and another mitt. However, she needs a ring to complete her work, so Cat Noir takes Chloé's bracelet from a poket and tosses it to the other side of the room (so Ladybug doesn't understand that he had it the whole time). Then he points to it, Ladybug sees it and grabs it with his yo-yo to complete her handmade handcuffs.

Afterwards Cat Noir gets out of cover and uses Cataclysm on the floor as a diversion: with that he manages to sink Robocop waist-deep in the floor, even though he gets hit by his handcuffing rays in the process which tie him to a bookshelf. Then, Ladybug uses this distraction to jump on top of the villain and put her handcuffs on him, which stop him from firing his lasers. This makes it easy for Ladybug to get his whistle necklace, who then smashes it on the ground with her shoe. The akuma is thus revealed, Ladybug de-evilizes it and then frees the butterfly. Finally, after she throws the oven mitt up in the air, all the mess caused by Robocop is fixed and Agent Roger finds himself sitting on the mayor's office floor without any memory of his actions as a villain.

Ladybug and Cat Noir fist bump and then Cat Noir jokes that they could bump fists like robots (that is fist pounding with both arms stretched) when his Miraculous beeps. Therefore Cat Noir leaves saying that he has to go before Ladybug sees his true face because she would "swoon too hard and never wake up", to which she answers that it is never going to happen.

In the final scene, Agent Roger gives Chloé her bag, in which she finds her bracelet. Thus, under Ladybug's advice, the mayor rewards Roger by giving him a raise. After that Ladybug leaves because her transformation is about to run out.

Major characters

 * Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
 * Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
 * Hawk Moth
 * Akuma
 * Plagg
 * Agent Roger/Rogercop
 * Chloé Bourgeois
 * André Bourgeois

Minor characters

 * Tikki
 * Tom Dupain
 * Sabine Cheng
 * Alya
 * Marlena
 * Nino
 * Sabrina
 * Nathanaël
 * Ivan
 * Mylène Haprèle
 * Alix Kubdel
 * Kim
 * Max
 * Rose
 * Juleka
 * Miss Bustier
 * Ms. Mendeleiev
 * Fred Haprèle
 * Mr. Damocles
 * Police officers

Trivia

 * While describing his job, Tom says that he once made a Eiffel Tower cake. This probably references the cake that he made in the episode "Timebreaker".
 * If this is the case, this episode is set after the previously mentioned episode.