| This article is about the character. You may be looking for the sentimonster. |
| “ | The media has paralyzed us with fear, but what we need to defeat Monarch is more love and kindness. People need to follow their dreams and have more hope. That way, we wouldn't be feeling all these negative emotions. | ” |
—Alec Cataldi, "Illusion" | ||
Alec Cataldi is a recurring character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. He is a French TV host and a good friend of Nadja Chamack.[6]
In "Wishmaker", after he came to regret his life choices and not following his childhood dream, Alec was akumatized by Shadow Moth into Wishmaker, a childhood dream supervillain who could turn people into what they wanted to be when they were children. He also received a Magical Charm from Ladybug that prevented him from being reakumatized.
Appearance
Physical appearance
Alec is tall, having tan skin, a shaved head, thin dark brown eyebrows, and dark brown eyes.
When he was a kid, he used to have a big red afro.
From "Wishmaker" onwards, he wears a large blonde wig.
Civilian attire
He wears a light blue V-necked T-shirt with two buttons below the collar, white pants, and black and white sneakers. On his left wrist, he has a black woven bracelet with white clasps, and on his right wrist, he has a leather wristband with a silver buckle.
As Wishmaker
As Wishmaker, Alec's skin turned dark mulberryish gray, and he had moderate mulberry colored eyes. His head was covered in black head cover with white eyelids that reached his lips, and his lips were painted with black lipstick just like people's lips who got infected with Kim's form of Dark Cupid's arrows. He also wore a black and white shoulder pad bodysuit with white diagonal, horizontal, and vertical stripes that were connected to each other. Just like Juleka's form of Reflekta, Wishmaker wore a pair of black thin rectangular platform shoes with medium gray triangular high wedges on his feet. He also held a black adult length baton with a microphone on top.
After deciding to pursue his childhood dream, he started wearing a bright gold V-necked leotard with shoulder pads, bronze gloves and a turtleneck collar. He also wore a pair of gold thin rectangular platform shoes with bronze high wedges on his feet. He also held a gold adult length baton with a microphone on top. He also wore a big gold wig.
- For more of Alec's outfits and designs, see Alec Cataldi/Designs.
Personality
Alec hosting the World's Greatest Chef.
Alec is enthusiastic and engaging. He enjoys presenting on television, and he tends to be optimistic. Sometimes, he can be unintentionally insensitive, like with Aurore Beauréal when she loses the KIDZ+ competition in "Stormy Weather", or when he mocks Denis Damoclès for his attempt at being a superhero in "The Dark Owl". With Wang Cheng's loss during the finale of World's Greatest Chef contest in "Kung Food", though, he shows a bit of sadness. He knows when to take a situation seriously, especially when akumatized villains are involved, as he listens to Ladybug's warning about XY's life being in danger and immediately cancels an interview with XY to get him to safety in "Guitar Villain". Outside of hosting television shows, he gets along well with others overall, including his co-worker Nadja Chamack.
In "Wishmaker", it's revealed that the reason behind his mocking attitude during his shows has to do with the frustration he has been feeling for not been able to make his childhood dream come true out of fear of being mocked, just like when he used to be mocked for his big hair, what also caused him to shave his head. After being deakumatized, he came to embrace his dreams and becomes the television host he wanted to be, encouraging others to follow their dreams.
As Wishmaker, he insisted on making people live out their childhood wishes, a desire born from a belief that he wasted his life not pursuing his own dreams because others always made fun of him. He did not seem to care that the wishes he made real caused chaos or if his targets wanted their childhood wish to come true, believing he was making them happy.
After the Akumatization, he decided to have a more uplifting and positive attitude on his shows, to inspire more dreams becoming reality.
Abilities
As a civilian
Alec is talented at being on television, knowing how to relay information, and interact with people that are often contestants and interviewees depending on the show. During those shows, he is both capable of bringing the best or the worse on a person, by either highlighting one's qualities or exposing their flaws in a mocking way.
It is shown in "Wishmaker" that he is skilled at playing the guitar, despite not owning one. He usually plays the guitar using an app on his smartphone.
As Wishmaker
Wishmaker was able to fire flying rainbow stars at any target he wanted by using his microphone scepter. Once a person was hit by a star, their childhood dreams would turn into reality even if the targeted person didn't remember them. He was capable of firing two stars at once. According to Ladybug, the targets of Wishmaker were unwillingly forced to live their childhood dream(s), meaning they had no control over it, regardless of whether or not they actually enjoyed it. His only weakness was that he had no offensive capabilities and apparently couldn't undo them once the person's dreams came into reality as when a man turned into a Dino Huggie he attempted to attack him with no effect.
He had a degree of combat, using his microphone scepter as a staff. Additionally, he was very agile, being able to leap onto rooftops.
Relationships
Nadja Chamack
Alec and Nadja are shown to have a healthy working relationship.
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
Alec and Marinette do not interact much often, but it is shown that he gets along well with her. He smiles and cheers for her and her great-uncle Wang Cheng in the end of Kung Food”. Despite his relatively good relationship with her, he does not show any hesitance when filming in her room in “Troublemaker”.
With Ladybug, Alec greatly admires her for keeping Paris safe and is shown occasionally reporting her heroics. In the end of “Wishmaker”, he realized that his true dream is to make other people’s childhood dreams come true. Alec asks Ladybug, Cat Noir and Viperion what their dreams are and did not show any ill towards the heroes when they reveal that even after they have dreams, they cannot tell due to their secret identities.
Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
"TBA"
Luka Couffaine/Viperion
In "Wishmaker", Alec tries to humiliate Luka in his show, but was genuinely touched and starts to cry by the sound of beautiful sound.
André
"TBA"
Jagged Stone
"TBA"
Caline Bustier
"TBA"
Harmonie
"TBA"
Sightings
Episodes
Others
Trivia
Alec (on the right) trying to interview Ladybug.
- He appears in Alya's video in "The Mime", trying to interview Ladybug.
- His last name, Cataldi, was initially revealed when it was seen written on the advertisement at the entrance of the TVi Tower in "The Puppeteer".
- It was shown in "Pixelator" that Alec lives in the Grand Paris Hotel. You can see him in his room when Pixelator is looking for Jagged Stone.
Alec's Magical Charm.
- In the episode "Wishmaker", Alec makes an allusion to RuPaul in his appearance and by announcing a quote very similar to one used at the end of each RuPaul's Drag Race episodes.
- RuPaul's quote was "If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you going love somebody else?", while Alec's quote is "Because how are you going to love other people, if you don't love yourself?"
- Alec's costume in that scene is also highly reminiscent of a drag queen like RuPaul.
- RuPaul's quote was "If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you going love somebody else?", while Alec's quote is "Because how are you going to love other people, if you don't love yourself?"
- Thomas Astruc stated that Alec doesn't need labels anymore.[7]
- Alec bares a physical resemblance to his English voice actor, André Gordon.
- In an earlier concept, Alec was a thirteen-year-old boy named "Alec Dotte". This name is possibly a pun on "anecdote", meaning "a short account of an incident", a reference to his job as a TV host.[8]
Gallery
Click here to view the gallery.
References
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BAcmYotTUVM/
- ↑ https://www.andispricht.de/sprecher
- ↑ https://twitter.com/bluemasa_peace/status/1007489134712086529
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/1424025142229934085
- ↑ Mentioned in "Re-creation"
- ↑ https://www.twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/686172026516684800
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/1424025142229934085
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CeYIQ1MtID_/