Mr. Pigeon

"Mr. Pigeon" is the second episode of the first season of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug &amp; Cat Noir. It premiered on December 13, 2015.

Synopsis
When Mr. Ramier is akumatized as Mr. Pigeon, he gains the ability to communicate with birds and plans to turn Paris into a nature reserve for his bird friends.

Plot
Mr. Damocles is in Miss Bustier's classroom, telling the students about a design competition to be hosted at the school. It is for a derby hat which will be judged by fashion mogul Gabriel Agreste. The winner of the competition will have his or her design worn by Adrien at his next photo shoot.

Marinette flips through her design diary, searching for a derby hat; she has never made one. Alya watches as Marinette paces the courtyard, slowly becoming more tense over the fact that she's never made a derby hat. She's made silky ram hats, bell hats, berets, and sombreros, but never a derby hat. While worrying, Marinette develops a worst-case scenario of her tripping over the hat, knocking over Mr. Agreste, earning hate from Adrien, and losing her dream of becoming the world's best fashion designer. Marinette dramatically cries into Alya's lap before Alya cheers her up, asking to look through Marinette's sketchbook.

Setting the sketchbook down on the bench, Alya turns away from Marinette as Marinette brings her knees to her chest. Adrien, seeing the open book, glances at the pages and compliments Alya for her sketches. Alya corrects him, telling him that it was actually Marinette, who is hiding behind the bench. Adrien congratulates her on her designs, telling her that he thinks she might even win the contest. This gives Marinette the confidence she needs to make her design and she runs off.

At the same time, Chloé and Sabrina overhear what Adrien says to Marinette. Chloé can't stand what Adrien said, so she resolves to have Sabrina steal designs from Marinette's sketchbook.

Hawk Moth, in his lair, wonders who is up to the task of stealing Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses.

Marinette sits outside at the Trocadéro, sketchbook open on her lap. She sketches various versions of derby hats before ripping them out and crumpling them beside her. As she becomes more dejected, a man appears, moving his arms like wings and cooing to the pigeons. Xavier Ramier sits on a bench and calls the pigeons to him with a whistle. He then brings out a bag of bird food, tossing it to the pigeons.

Agent Roger stalks over, yelling at Xavier for feeding the pigeons. Confiscating the bird food, Roger kicks Xavier out of the park. Marinette feels sorry for him. Tikki gives her the idea to make the hat based off pigeon feathers. Inspired, Marinette hurriedly sketches the idea.

Meanwhile, Xavier sits on a bench overlooking the Seine, dejected. Hawk Moth senses Xavier's sorrow and sends an akuma to him, it embedding itself into Xavier's pigeon whistle. Xavier grins, turning into Mr. Pigeon. He takes off, flapping his wings and cooing.

At the same time, Marinette is finishing her sketch. Holding up her book to admire it in the light, Sabrina takes a picture of the sketch with her phone, handing it to Chloé. Chloé sends the design off to a seamstress so that she won't have to ruin her manicure.

Marinette returns to her house, making the hat in her room. Tikki helps her, giving Marinette an apple to replenish her energy. At 1:21 pm, Marinette freaks out, realizing she forgot to grab a feather for the hat. She and Tikki run back to the Eiffel Tower, disturbing the pigeons until Marinette grabs a feather. Elated that she has one, she skips off, bumping into Agent Roger before returning home. Agent Roger, however, goes on his merry way after she apologizes and departs. A dark cloud of birds hovers over him, taking him away.

While Marinette is in the bus, she asks the driver why they can't go faster. The driver says that they have a situation and tells the people to get off the bus. Marinette sees that pigeons are causing the traffic jam, along with other problems all over Paris. Nadja Chamack, on a nearby screen, reports about this, and is then told that Mr. Pigeon will make an announcement: Paris belongs to the pigeons. Marinette runs to the subway, wasting no time by transforming into Ladybug.

Ladybug runs along Paris' rooftops until she sees hordes of pigeons flying in the sky, all in the shape of airplanes. Just then, Cat Noir appears, lounging on a rooftop. He sneezes, rolling down to Ladybug. This is due to his allergy to feathers. Cat Noir tells Ladybug that the park keepers in all of Paris are disappearing. Ladybug states that they must find Mr. Pigeon. Cat Noir asks where, and while Ladybug doesn't know where they can find him, she knows where he can find them.

Cat Noir poses as a park keeper, keeping an eye for Mr. Pigeon. He starts to dance. Ladybug tells him to act natural, or Mr. Pigeon will never appear. Cat Noir responds, saying that he is acting naturally, still dancing. A pigeon sees him and flies off to report to Mr. Pigeon. Mr. Pigeon praises the pigeon for telling him. A flock of pigeons takes Mr. Pigeon away.

Ladybug wonders where Mr. Pigeon is. Suddenly, Cat Noir sneezes, a flock of pigeons taking him away. Ladybug follows the cloud to the ceiling of the hotel Le Grand Paris. Cat Noir sneezes again, free now, and sees that the pigeons are watching him. Suddenly, Mr. Pigeon appears, standing on a flock of pigeons. He blows his bird whistle and the pigeons surround Ladybug and Cat Noir, trapping them in a big cage.

Mr. Pigeon, under Hawk Moth's command, tells Ladybug and Cat Noir to give up their Miraculouses, or the pigeons will attack them with poop. Cat Noir uses his Cataclysm, making the metal bars of the cage rusty. The cage falls apart and they are free. As soon as they come close to Mr. Pigeon, he escapes by walking off the side of the hotel, shouting, "Merry Christmas." He sends the remaining pigeons to attack the two heroes.

Ladybug and Cat Noir run inside, slamming the door shut on the pigeons. They head go downstairs, but Cat Noir's ring beeps: he has 4 minutes left before his transformation deactivates. The two head to the ground floor finding Mr. Bourgeois. He tells them that if the pigeons keep invading Paris, all the tourists will leave and he will lose money. He asks them to stop the pigeons, which Ladybug and Cat Noir agree to do.

During this, Cat Noir is bouncing up and down in a hurry. He tells Mr. Bourgeois that he has an urgent need. Mr. Bourgeois picks up on this and allows Cat Noir to use the Royal Suite. He also has Camembert delivered to Cat Noir's room. Cat Noir turns back into Adrien, an exhausted Plagg falling on the bed. Adrien gives Plagg the unpasteurized Camembert that matured for two years.

Ladybug, at a higher vantage point, glances out a window and sees that the pigeons are flying in the same direction. Cat Noir appears in an elevator and the two follow the pigeons. They reach the Grand Palais and find the park keepers caged inside. They climb up to the roof to enter the Palais from a window. However, Cat Noir sneezes, so Mr. Pigeon notices them, beginning a fight sequence. He attacks with his pigeons, sending Ladybug and Cat Noir into the park keepers' cage's bars. Ladybug uses her Lucky Charm, and a coin appears. Using her lucky vision, Ladybug spots a support beam and a vending machine. Ladybug runs toward Mr. Pigeon, sliding underneath him while her yo-yo wraps around his ankle. She then jumps up to the support beam, swinging over it once, wrapping up her yo-yo's string. Ladybug runs ahead, using the coin on the vending machine, a popcorn snack appearing. She throws the snack in the air and Cat Noir uses his staff to break it. All of the popcorn get on Mr. Pigeon.

The pigeons surround Mr. Pigeon, eating off him. Ladybug yanks on her yo-yo, pulling Mr. Pigeon off the ground. The bird call slips from his neck, landing on the ground. Cat Noir to grabs it, but he sneezes, throwing it away accidentally. Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Mr. Pigeon go after it. They grab it at once, Mr. Pigeon's hand directly on top of it, then Cat Noir's, then Ladybug's. Ladybug grabs Cat Noir's hand and smashes it down on Mr. Pigeon's hand, breaking the bird call. The akuma flies out from it. Ladybug catches it, purifies it, and returns everything back to normal. Mr. Pigeon turns back into Mr. Ramier. Hawk Moth swears revenge on Ladybug and, surprisingly, pigeons as well.

Marinette, at her house, finishes creating her derby hat. At the school, the design competition is about to begin. Nathalie introduces herself to Mr. Damocles, and he wonders where Gabriel Agreste is. Nathalie shows that he is going to be judging via her tablet. Gabriel orders Adrien to take Nathalie around the school. Chloe and Sabrina Notice him, turning their faces aside with a posh expressions. Mr. Agreste begins to judge the derby hats when Marinette arrives. Alya wonders where she has been, but Marinette doesn't answer. Marinette sets her hat on the podium and Alya points that it is the same as Chloe's. Mr. Agreste sees Marinette's hat and sees it is identical to Chloe's hat, much to Chloe's shock. Marinette proves to him that her hat is original by showing him that her signature on the hat. Chloe runs away and Mr. Agreste declares Marinette the winner of the competition. Adrien congratulates her, moving to put on the hat. When it nears his nose, he freezes, sneezing. As Adrien walks away, Marinette jumps for joy, ending the episode.

Major characters

 * Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
 * Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
 * Hawk Moth
 * Tikki
 * Plagg
 * Xavier Ramier/Mr. Pigeon
 * Akuma
 * Chloé Bourgeois

Minor characters

 * Alya
 * Sabrina
 * Agent Roger
 * Miss Bustier
 * Gabriel Agreste
 * Mr. Damocles
 * Nadja Chamack
 * Nathalie Sancoeur
 * Pigeons
 * Nino
 * Rose
 * Juleka
 * Alix Kubdel
 * Mylène Haprèle
 * Kim
 * Max
 * Ivan
 * Nathanaël
 * Andre Bourgeois
 * Park guards
 * Civilians

Trivia

 * In Korea, the title is "Revenge of the Pigeons".
 * From a PowerPoint slide in the beginning of the episode, it can be inferred that the episode takes place on May 18.
 * Mr. Pigeon and his use of pigeons as an attack appeared previously in the Ladybug PV.
 * This is the first episode where Hawk Moth appears before his akumatized victim.