Frightningale

"There you are! Here's a hug. Because you are Ladybug!

What?! I have no idea what you're talking about!

You did what Ladybug would have, just the same. Your heart is pure like hers. What’s your name?

Ma—Marinette.

Marinette, say it so. Will you please play Ladybug in my video?"

- Clara Nightingale and Marinette Dupain-Cheng "Frightningale"

"" is an episode of Season 2 of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. Its world premiere was in Spain on May 12, 2018.

Synopsis
A young singer gets akumatized into Frightningale. Armed with a magic microphone, she wants to turn Paris into a giant musical.

Plot
The episode starts with Clara Nightingale on Marinette's computer, singing her latest single called "Big Bang". Marinette tries to do the dance moves that are in the choreography of her music video but fails. After the music video ends, Marinette talks about how much she loves Clara's music and dancing. When Clara is talking with Alec in an interview about her new music video, she announces that the theme is "Miraculous", which centers around Ladybug and Cat Noir. She claims to have already found her Cat Noir but is looking for a Ladybug and some extras.

Marinette then receives a phone call from Alya and the other girls asking if Marinette has heard about the casting. Marinette says she has and agrees to meet the girls at auditions. When Marinette hangs up, Tikki follows her holder and speaks to her. As she is diligent for Marinette's identity to stay safe, she is concerned with the idea of her auditioning for the part of Ladybug. Marinette consoles Tikki and reassures her that she will always be cautious about protecting her secret identity and will instead audition as an extra for the music video. As they both leave, a relieved Tikki praises Marinette for making the right decision and kisses her on the nose.

At the Agreste mansion, Gabriel tells his son that he is going to play Cat Noir in Clara’s music video since the singer has been a supporter of his brand since starting her career. Adrien is discouraged by the task, believing that people will find out about his secret identity if he goes as the superhero. Regardless, he decides to just avoid putting the mask on and goes to the stage. Gabriel asks Adrien where his mask is and Adrien lies, stating that he couldn’t find it. A nearby sound guy overhears and goes to look for it. Clara tells Adrien that it’s okay and begins auditions.

There are several girls (and boys) eager to play Ladybug, but none of them are right. When no one else is left, Clara comes up with a plan to find the right Ladybug. She offers the extras a snack and then trips on purpose. Marinette runs to help her, and Clara declares that she has found her Ladybug, claiming that Marinette did exactly what Ladybug did and that she’d be perfect. Marinette wants to be Ladybug but knowing that she must keep her identity safe, she politely turns down the offer, stating that she’d rather be an extra with her friends. Clara understands and leads Marinette to a chair to wait for makeup. When she leaves, Tikki congratulates Marinette for being sensible and not giving into the temptation.

Meanwhile, a limousine drives up to the building the auditions are being held at. Chloé, dressed as Ladybug, walks inside and thanks everyone for coming, adding that they can leave now. Alya lets Marinette know, but the latter says that she does not have a chance at playing Ladybug. Chloé auditions for the role and nails it. Clara commends Chloé on her talent and asks Gabriel what he thinks. He thinks that Marinette would’ve been better, but decides that they have no choice but to use her for the video since she refused. Marinette, however, doesn’t want Chloé to play Ladybug and has a change of heart, deciding to be Ladybug after all despite Tikki’s protests. Clara allows this but tells Chloé that she can still be an extra. Chloé, however, is disgusted by the thought of being a mere extra and angrily exits the building.

Marinette puts on the Ladybug costume and fears being recognized as the real Ladybug. She decides to leave the mask behind and goes to the stage where she and Adrien begin rehearsal.

Meanwhile, at the limo, Chloé is upset about not getting the part of Ladybug and be close to Adrien. Despite her butler’s attempt to cheer her up with her teddy bear, Chloé blackmails her father into having Clara’s music video canceled by threatening to call her mother.

Back in the building, Marinette and Adrien continue rehearsing until a member of the staff finds the masks they hid. Clara wants them to wear it, and after insisting so much, Marinette and Adrien begin to slowly put the masks on, both worried that someone might recognize their heroic forms.

Before having the chance to do so, Chloé and André storm inside and stop the rehearsal, with the mayor showing Clara a bunch of papers that supposedly show that she doesn't have permission to make a music video in Paris or anywhere else in France. Chloé taunts Clara and throws her microphone on the floor, breaking the star decor on it. Humiliated and disheartened, Clara runs to her trailer crying, making her the perfect target for Hawk Moth. The akuma possesses her microphone and transforms her into Frightningale, a supervillainess capable of turning people into metallic statues if they don't sing, dance, or rhyme.

As Chloé dismisses all the extras, Frightningale makes her entrance and whips both her and the mayor. When Chloé confronts her, she fails to sing, dance, or rhyme, immediately turning her into a metallic statue. Her father frantically begs Frightningale to return his daughter to normal with a rhyme after she explains how he can avoid Chloé’s current condition, but fails to reason with her. Frightningale then leaves and starts to whip people all across Paris, turning them into metallic statues.

Marinette and Adrien transform into Ladybug and Cat Noir to face the new threat. Ladybug manages to stop Frightningale on the theater's roof and tries to convince her to give her the akuma, but to no avail. The villainess starts using Ladybug's own yo-yo against her until Cat Noir appears and trips her with his staff. Despite initially getting the upper hand, Frightningale manages to dodge their attacks, making them accidentally attack each other instead. With Hawk Moth's advice, Frightningale manages to whip both Ladybug and Cat Noir, and they realize they must sing, dance, or rhyme in order to keep fighting or else they will be defenseless.

After a close call, Ladybug and Cat Noir start to talk with each other in rhyme while dancing, avoiding Frightningale's attacks while trying to come up with a plan. Frightningale tries to distract them and make them fail the rhyme, but they manage to get away from her to make a better plan. After dancing and rhyming for a while, Ladybug uses her Lucky Charm, which provides her with some handcuffs. After pondering how they can be useful, she handcuffs herself to Cat Noir and they start attacking Frightingale in sync. Cat Noir uses his Cataclysm and holds it in until they get close enough. He takes Frightningale's microphone and destroys it, releasing the akuma so Ladybug can return everything back to normal.

Clara comes back and is excited to know she was saved by Ladybug and Cat Noir themselves. Ladybug then gives her an idea on how she can finish her music video, which Clara likes.

The video has a song identical to the series' theme song, and shows many people dancing with Ladybug and Cat Noir masks, including all of Marinette and Adrien's classmates, the teachers and some of their other friends like Ondine, Luka, and Marc. While watching the video, Alya and the others remark how outrageous it will be for Marinette and Adrien to be Ladybug and Cat Noir despite physically resembling them. They both nervously agree with the remark, with Marinette stating that Adrien doesn’t look like Cat Noir and Adrien stating that Marinette doesn’t look like Ladybug.

Major characters

 * Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
 * Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
 * Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth
 * Tikki
 * Plagg
 * Akuma
 * Clara Nightingale/Frightningale

Minor characters

 * Alec Cataldi
 * Alya Césaire
 * Juleka Couffaine
 * Alix Kubdel
 * Rose Lavillant
 * Mylène Haprèle
 * Emilie Agreste (pictured)
 * Adrien's bodyguard
 * Nathalie Sancoeur
 * Roger Raincomprix (background)
 * Mrs. Michelle (background)
 * Chloé Bourgeois
 * André Bourgeois
 * Butler Jean (background)
 * Audrey Bourgeois (mentioned)
 * Aurore Beauréal (pictured)
 * Mireille Caquet (pictured)
 * Ivan Bruel (background)
 * Nino Lahiffe (background)
 * Lê Chiến Kim (background)
 * Max Kanté (pictured)
 * Ms. Mendeleiev (pictured)
 * Caline Bustier (pictured)
 * Fred Haprèle (pictured)
 * Mr. Damocles (pictured)
 * Armand D'Argencourt (pictured)
 * Nathaniel Kurtzberg (pictured)
 * Sabrina Raincomprix (pictured)
 * Ondine (pictured)
 * Luka Couffaine (pictured)
 * Jagged Stone (pictured)
 * Marc Anciel (pictured)
 * Civilians

Trivia

 * This episode was first revealed in a promotional poster for Season 2 released by TFOU on October 16, 2017.
 * The episode title, Frightningale is a portmanteau of the words, "Frightening" and "Nightingale."
 * The French title of this episode is "Rossignoble."
 * This episode reveals that Chloé is still in contact with her mother, and reveals (or, at the very least, implies) that her mother has a higher status than her father.
 * This is the fourth episode in which Miraculous Ladybug is used before de-evilizing the akuma following "Simon Says", "Pixelator" and "The Collector".
 * Like Wang Fu, Clara used the method (tripping on purpose) that lured Marinette out, determining she's pure enough to be Ladybug.
 * A bus ad about the Weather Girl contest from "Stormy Weather" appears again.
 * A poster for the Paris' music festival from "Captain Hardrock" can be seen in the library.
 * In the French dub, Lou and Lenni Kim's rendition of "It's Ladybug" was used for the music video of Paris' citizens wearing Ladybug and Cat Noir themed masks.
 * The Lucky Charm and Cataclysm scenes are slightly altered where both Ladybug and Cat Noir have a pink outline when using their powers, due to them being hit by Frightningale.
 * This is the third time Cat Noir uses his Cataclysm to destroy an akumatized object.
 * This is the second time Alya mentions to Marinette that Adrien looks similar to Cat Noir (following "Lady Wifi") and Marinette replies that Adrien is "awesomer", or similar words.
 * This is the first time Cat Noir yells "Miraculous Ladybug" along with Ladybug.
 * Chloé's dance is a reference to the movie "Flashdance."
 * This is the second time Marinette was affected by an akumatized villain following "Pixelator".
 * The first time they were affected by an akumatized villain together.
 * Where Marinette was given the chance to perform with Adrien the same fantasy scene appears seen in "Despair Bear", "Gigantitan" and "Gorizilla".
 * Adrien's transformation music got a new soundtrack.

Errors

 * Throughout many dubs of the show, the Miraculous Ladybug theme song is reused, including Marinette's lines.
 * This has been confirmed to be a mistake by the creator himself.
 * The French version corrected this error by using Lou and Lenni Kim's version of the song throughout the music video.
 * "Frightningale has light blue pointed tip over each shoulder" do not appear for the interior episode.
 * Marinette's phone case is pink instead of black.
 * Alya's bangs are miscolored throughout the episode.
 * Gabriel hair is miscolored into white.
 * When Adrien is looking at himself dressed as Cat Noir in the dressing room mirror, his reflection isn’t reversed like how a mirror should reflect.
 * Clara's shoes were brown and then when she dipped Marinette it turned black.
 * Butler Jean's hair is miscolored grey instead of dark brown.
 * The stripes on Chloé's teddy bear, Mr. Cuddly, are missing.
 * Chloe's earring was red before she goes to the audition, however, after she calls her mom, it turns black.
 * When Marinette and Adrien are forced to hold hands, they are both using their right hand, even though when Nightingale connects their hands and in the photos after, Adrien is using his left hand.
 * In the picture Alya took of Adrien and Marinette holding hands, more specifically of them looking away with their hands on their faces, Marinette's face is not animated.
 * After Clara fell down, the chouquettes disappeared.
 * Cat Noir's staff is black instead of silver after he tripped Frightningale.
 * Before Cat Noir says "Cataclysm", the paws on his ring don’t glow.
 * When Cat Noir uses Cataclysm, the energy ball was transparent and not black.
 * That error was due to the glow effect from the dancing spell that replaced the normal effect when recorded.

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