Reverser

"Looking for this?

Oh. Did you read it?

Oh no! Yeah.. sorry. It was too tempting.

Oh, how embarrassing. So, so, lame.

No, its not! You should turn it into a comic book. Why don't you team up with Nathaniel."

- Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Marc Anciel

"" is an episode of the second season of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug &amp; Cat Noir. Its world premiere was on July 23, 2018 in Canada for English viewers on Family Channel.

Synopsis
A student named Marc gets akumatized into Reverser. Convinced that Marinette and Nathaniel made a fool of him, he's determined to get revenge. Will Ladybug and Cat Noir manage to reverse the situation?

Plot
Click here to see spoilers for an unaired episode plot.

As the bell rings, Marinette pauses to speak to a new student, Marc Anciel, who is hiding under the stairs with his notebook, writing a new installment of “Diary of Ladybug”. Marinette encourages him to come to the art room and meet everyone there. Later, Marinette, Nathaniel, and their art teacher discuss finding a creative author to help Nathaniel write scripts for his illustrated comics. Marinette spots Marc hanging out outside the classroom door, calls him in and introduces him to everyone. They briefly discuss having Marc and Nathaniel work together, but Marc doesn't believe he has it in him. He flees the room, inadvertently dropping his “Diary of Ladybug” in the process. Marinette finds it and decides to read it. She finds it to be "...not exactly the truth... but definitely a fun read!”

After she returns it to Marc, she encourages him to team up with Nathaniel, but Marc is not confident in his abilities and fears rejection. They decide to give it to Nathaniel without telling him who wrote it. While the two of them are spying on Nathaniel to see his reaction, Adrien shows up behind them, saying that it's "...a bit rude to spy on people" before winking at Marinette but she nervously says that they were working on a surprise for him for his birthday. Understanding he says that's nice of her and offers his help before leaving. Marc comments that Marinette, just like himself, is shy, to Marinette's chagrin.

Outside the school, Marinette gives Nathaniel the story, but Nathaniel had been deceived by the title and thought that Ladybug wrote the diary herself. Marinette tells Nathaniel he can meet the writer out by the fountain after school. When Nathaniel shows up,he starts blushing bright red thinking its Ladybug and he gets Marc confused for Ladybug. he is shocked to find Marc. He believes that Marinette and Marc teamed up to play a joke on him. Nathaniel, showing his dark side, rips up Marc’s stories and rejects Marc’s suggestion of writing a comic book. Then, Hawk Moth senses Marc’s devastation and akumatizes him into the Reverser, a character with the power to reverse certain qualities in people.

Marinette who watched the whole thing from her balcony transforms and engages Reverser, only to be carried throughout Paris on her yoyo string. She is pulled past Adrien in his car, who is stuck in traffic. Claiming he left his fencing gloves behind and leaves to get them and jumps out to transform.

Ladybug and Cat Noir are both hit by Reverser’s superpowers - Ladybug is hit while protecting a citizen, and Cat Noir is caught off guard by Ladybug, causing him to be hit as well. She becomes madly clumsy and Cat Noir becomes scared of everything around him causing the two fall into the river with the heroes weakened Hawk Moth commands Resverser to find them. But seeing the heroes as no threat he leaves to look for Marinette and Nathaniel. Meanwhile Nathaniel arrives at the museum and Reverser arrives at the Art Room demanding to know where they are. At the time Cat Noir and Ladybug pull themselves to shore despite their condition they must stop Reserver knowing that the villain is looking for Nathaniel the heroine has an idea of where to look. Cat Noir who is still under the effects of Reverser's powers doesn't want to fight until being encourage by Ladybug but with their conditions they realize they're not going to get very far. After taking a cab to the school they find that Reverser has already reversed the personalities of the art class students and teacher. Eying one of the Nathaniel's drawings the heroes find out that he's at the Louvre Museum.

Reverser asks Chloe and Sabrina where Nathaniel and Marinette are, but when they refuse he reverses them, causing Chloé to tend to Sabrina instead of the other way around. Reverser then throws a paper airplane at Mayor Bourgeois during his announcement of relocating trash to space in an effort to make Paris the cleanest city. As a result, the mayor then releases the space dumpsters back to Paris. Alix talks Nathaniel about him, making things up with Marc knowing that Marinette is not the type to embarrass others rethinking Nathaniel believed he jumped the gun. Ladybug and Cat Noir enter the museum to warn Nathaniel and Alix, and they hear of Reverser's ultimatum through the news and needed him, Alix who wanted to help them defeat Reverser but denied it deeming too dangerous but being reminded of their status the heroes accepted their help.

They arrive at the Eiffel Tower and see the space dumpsters coming down with the end result of the city being covered in trash. Cat Noir quivers in fear until she reminds him despite their condition they're still a team summoning her Lucky Charm Ladybug receives a bamboo roll. Using a traffic cone as makeshift Ladybug offers Reverser Cat Noir in exchange for him to reverse his actions but the villain wants Cat Noir and Nathaniel to which the heroine agrees. When they deliver Nathaniel and Cat Noir, Reverser tells them this better not be a trick but Ladybug retorts saying what trick could she pull but discovers that its a trap. Cat Noir jumps off while riding the kite made from his coat and the sticks from Ladybug's lucky charm. With Alix steering he blindly uses Cataclysm to destroy Reverser's paper hoverboard and Ladybug, successfully reverses the actions of Reverser and de-evilizes the akuma.

With everything back to normal Cat Noir saves Marc from falling, Ladybug has boys make up while Hawk Moth vows for revenge. The next day, Nathaniel and Marc make a comic book about Reverser and they dedicate it to Marinette, saying she'd make a great hero "if she wasn't such a klutz". Marinette laughs along with her friends, and the ending card appears.

Major characters

 * Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
 * Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
 * Hawk Moth
 * Tikki
 * Plagg (transformation sequence only)
 * Akuma
 * Marc Anciel/Reverser
 * Nathaniel Kurtzberg
 * Alix Kubdel

Minor Characters

 * Rose Lavillant
 * Chloé Bourgeois
 * Sabrina Raincomprix
 * Kung Food (drawing)
 * Xavier Ramier
 * Roger Raincomprix
 * Nadja Chamack
 * Adrien's bodyguard
 * Mr. Kubdel
 * Juleka Couffaine
 * André Bourgeois
 * Ivan Bruel
 * Mylène Haprèle
 * Queen Wasp (cartoon)
 * Art teacher
 * Students

Trivia

 * This episode was originally going to air on May 26, 2018, in the UK and Portugal, but it didn't due to a sudden change of schedule.
 * The title of the episode may be derived from the word "reverse".
 * In other dubs, the title is "Inverso".
 * This is the third time Ladybug was affected by an akumatized villain following "Pixelator" and "Frightningale".
 * This episode marks the second time both Ladybug and Cat Noir were affected by an akumatized villain, following "Frightningale".
 * This episode marks the first time Chloé is seen with her sunglasses on her face.
 * This is the second time Ladybug says Miraculous Ladybug with someone else following “Frightningale”.
 * This episode marks the fifth time Ladybug uses the Miraculous Ladybug before purifying the akuma following "Simon Says", "Pixelator", "The Collector", and "Frightningale".
 * This is the third time Plagg does not appear outside the transformation sequence following "Guitar Villain" and "Evillastrator."
 * It’s confirmed that Nathaniel no longer has a crush on Marinette, but now on her alter-ego, Ladybug.
 * In this episode, Nathaniel, Juleka, Marinette, Rose, Alix and Marc are shown to be part of an art club.
 * This episode marks the second time where Alya does not make an appearance following “Riposte”.
 * This episode possibly takes place after "Queen Wasp", given that the character of the same name appears in Nathaniel’s drawing.
 * This is the sixth time Cat Noir uses cataclysm to destroy the akumatized object, following "A Christmas Special", "Sapotis", "Captain Hardrock", "Frightningale", and "Troublemaker".
 * Hawk Moth's part has a changed soundtrack/theme.
 * Several new soundtrack themes are heard in this episode.
 * This is one of the few times when Hawk Moth allows a supervillain to have revenge instead of immediately taking Cat Noir and Ladybug's Miraculouses.
 * This episode shows that Mr Kubdel probably has a home in the Louvre and Alix is living with him. This gives the idea of them living there because Nathaniel had pressed their doorbell.
 * When Chloe says "All he ever draws anymore is Ladybug, ever since she de-akumatized him." referencing to Evillustator.

Errors

 * When Cat Noir breaks the akumatized object, the akuma is shown purified before Ladybug de-akumatizes it.

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