Talk:Hawk Moth/@comment-3245042-20161003172648/@comment-28080187-20161003193040

Buckmana, the possibility that a Miraculous can alter somebody's physical appearance isn't off the table yet. And also, if being attacked by an akumatized villain meant somebody couldn't be Hawkmoth, then that would mean Gabriel Agreste couldn't be Hawkmoth either, since he was targeted by Simon Says.

If I were trying to find evidence against André Bourgeois being Hawkmoth, I'd point out the times that he's been mind-controlled by various villains—for instance, Princess Fragrance and Kung Food. In these situations, it would be unreasonable to suspect that he could still be communicating with the villains as Hawk Moth while mind-controlled and deeply involved in the situation. We could also point out when he was transformed by Reflekta…since that made Cat Noir lose his powers, it would likely make Hawkmoth lose his powers too.

But regardless of this evidence, I'm curious to see what Primarch11 has to say about this idea; I'm very interested to know why he thinks that.