Talk:Ultimate Miraculous Power/@comment-10390252-20200120183105

The thing about the Ultimate Miraculous Power is that it is a nightmarish trap. The Karmic Balance rule means that there is literally no scenario imaginable where the consequences of not using it are incontrovertably worse than the consequences of using it. So, why does it exist at all.

Well, remember that this is a result of oriental magic. The mystics and philosophers of the far east are renowned for their... cynical... view of magic and the use of magic. To them, seeking cheap and easy magical solutions is both a form of cowardice and a grotesque attempt to defy the natural order of things. So, quite possibly, the Ultimate Miraculous Power was developed intentionally to be impossible to use safely. This would achieve three goals that would be likely philosophically pleasing to the ancient mystics who created it. Namely:


 * 1) To teach the wise that, just because a power exists and can be used does not mean that it should ever be used;
 * 2) To punish those who seek to use magic to avoid the burdens that the troubles of life bring upon them;
 * 3) To make those who seek ultimate power a self-correcting problem.

There is a Miraculous fan-comic that illustrates this quite nicely and actually proposes that the Adrigami ship may actually be the consequence of Marinette having used the Ultimate Miraculous Power to save Adrien.

Basically, it was a Chat Blanc-like scenario where, in order to protect Adrien (both had discovered the other's secret identity and begun a relationship), Marinette surrendered the Miraculous to Hawkmoth. As many had predicted, this led to the Balance taking Adrien's life in exchange for Emilie's. Emilie, having sworn vengeance on her husband for murdering her son, helps Marinette reclaim the Miraculous and she makes a wish of her own (ignoring Tikki and Plagg's warning that there is no possible good outcome of doing so). Her wish is very specific and limited: To undo Hawkmoth's plan that had led to his victory.

Marinette got her wish: Adrien was alive; Hawkmoth had never thought of the plan that led to his victory but this meant that Adrien had never realised that Marinette was Ladybug and had never fallen in love with her. Instead, he was with Kagami. Marinette had saved Adrien but the Price was that she had also lost him in a very real way and had to live with seeing him in the arms of another woman.