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| “ | Villains! Thou impress me not. By the blade of darkness, I hereby declare all peoples of this kingdom are henceforth mine! | ” |
| —Darkblade, "Darkblade" | ||
"Darkblade" is the twelfth episode of the first season of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. It first premiered on February 28, 2016, on Nickelodeon and February 10, 2017, on Netflix.[1][2]
Synopsis
Nickelodeon
After losing an election, D'Argencourt gets akumatized into Darkblade and recruits the unwilling citizens of Paris into an army of knights.[1]
Netflix
While Marinette tries to retrieve her diary from Chloé, Adrien's fencing teacher is akumatized into Darkblade, a villain who storms city hall.
Plot
Nadja Chamack switches to another news report, stating that the previous day, Mr. André Bourgeois was reelected for the fourth time as the Mayor of Paris. Seeing Chloé's attitude in the news footage, Marinette comments that Chloé is acting like she is the one to have been reelected. This comment prompts Marinette to remember that the next day is the election for class representatives at Collège Françoise Dupont and that Chloé is in the running. Tikki suggests that Marinette run too, but Marinette feels as if she has too much to do between homework and saving Paris. The news report returns, bringing with it the face of Armand D'argencourt, the losing candidate, who is also a fencing instructor at the Collège. Marinette rests her hand on her chin, watching the report until she sees the time in the corner of 8:44 am, knowing she'll be late to school if she stays any longer.
In Miss Bustier's classroom, Chloé and Sabrina are standing in the front of the students. Chloé is running with Sabrina as her deputy. Just then, Marinette runs in, her excuse being that she missed the bus and she has a cold. Alya brings Marinette up to speed, mentioning that Chloé has been the class representative since elementary school. Miss Bustier dismisses them for lunch, letting the class mull over its decision.
During a break, Alya tries to help Marinette come up with a campaign platform. Marinette realizes that she had not put much thought into how to run a campaign, but is approached by Rose, Juleka, and Nino, who supply her with plenty of ideas. Alya spots Adrien descending the stairs and asks him if he will vote for Marinette. Adrien responds that he will vote for Marinette if she gives a good speech, thereby motivating Marinette further. Only meters away, Chloé and Sabrina watch the scene, and Chloé explains to Sabrina that according to her father, the best way to win a political race is to destroy the opposition's reputation and reveal its secrets.
Back in her room, Marinette lists what her classmates want in her diary, trying to come up with her speech. Marinette's cellphone buzzes, and when Marinette picks up she sees Alya, who appears angry. Alya explains that Chloé invited the entire class to the Hôtel de Ville to meet Jagged Stone. Marinette is excited since Jagged Stone is her favorite singer but quickly realizes that Chloé is buying her classmates' votes with autographs. Marinette leaves her room, leaving the diary box open on her desk.
As Marinette runs out of the bakery, Sabrina steps around the corner, on her phone with Chloé. Sabrina walks in past the customers Sabine is waiting on, claiming she needs to pick up a math book that Marinette borrowed from her. Sabine explains that Marinette just left, and sends Sabrina up to Marinette's room.
During his fencing class, Adrien is taken out by a remarkable attack from his coach, Mr. D’Argencourt, who reveals that the move was developed by his ancestor, Darkblade. D'Argencourt then explains how his ancestor once conquered Paris and ruled over it with an iron fist, but was overthrown by a wealthy Frenchman. Nadja Chamack appears behind him and asks him whether the story of his ancestor was what motivated him to run in the election. Infuriated, Mr. D’Argencourt ends Adrien’s lesson and storms off. Hawk Moth senses Mr. D’Argencourt’s frustration and sends an akuma after him.
Cat Noir continues fighting with Darkblade at the Pont des Arts but loses when his staff is thrown off the bridge. He hides under the bridge and manages to overhear Darkblade's plan to go after Mayor Bourgeois at City Hall.
Panicking about Darkblade, several students ask Chloé for help. Chloé replies that she can’t help her classmates unless they vote for her and that she’ll announce a solution the following day. Marinette realizes that Cat Noir needs her help to defeat the knights, but also realizes that her classmates are depending on her to protect them. Tikki suggests that she trust her instincts, and so Marinette begins guiding her classmates in barricading the doors and defending City Hall, and tells the mayor they have to retreat. Once everyone is out of the way, she turns into Ladybug and rushes to help Cat Noir.
Ladybug finds her way back inside and detransforms. Tikki expresses her pride in Marinette for being both Ladybug and a student leader at the same time. While the students removed the posters and chairs from the door, Marinette makes it public that Chloé had stolen her diary. The students surround and question Chloé, who tries to deny all allegations against her, but her efforts are in vain as Sabrina shows the box locked around her hand and pleads that Marinette opens it. Chloé's inexcusable actions lead most of the students to believe that she's already lost the race to be the class representative.
Characters
Major characters
- Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
- Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
- Tikki
- Plagg
- Hawk Moth
- Akuma
- Armand D'Argencourt/Darkblade
- Alya Césaire
- Chloé Bourgeois
- Sabrina Raincomprix
- André Bourgeois
Minor characters
- Nadja Chamack
- Caline Bustier
- Lê Chiến Kim
- Rose Lavillant
- Nino Lahiffe
- Mylène Haprèle (background)
- Alix Kubdel
- Ivan Bruel
- Max Kanté (background)
- Nathaniel Kurtzberg
- Juleka Couffaine
- Jagged Stone
- Sabine Cheng
- Fred Haprèle
- Penny Rolling
- Civilians
Trivia
- Internationally, this episode first premiered in Korea.
- This episode was the twelfth to air in France and Korea.
- In the Korean version, this episode is called, "I Appoint Thee As A Knight".
- In the image that appears behind Marinette when she says that she's too busy to run for class representative, there are images of Ladybug saving a baby, saving a train full of people, saving an airplane from falling on the Eiffel Tower, and stopping a meteorite.
- The transformation music in this episode is changed slightly with a rock-n-roll edge to it.
- André Bourgeois called Jagged Stone a pop star in the English dub.
- In the French, Korean, and English dubs of the episode, Juleka doesn't make any sense when Rose and Nino are asking Marinette to do things with her campaign. However, in the Spanish dub, she asks to be able to watch horror films.
- Cat Noir doesn't use Cataclysm in this episode.
Errors
- Marinette's computer doesn't have a keyboard in the beginning of the episode.
- When Marinette leaves for the City Hall, she leaves her pen beside the diary chest, but when Sabrina is in Marinette's room later, the pen is on top of the diary instead.
- When Marinette is rolling in her chair, her diary chest appears to be open. However, in the next scene, it is closed.
- When Alya asks Marinette what she is busy with, she appears out of nowhere rather than walking in.
- When Sabrina tries on the hat, the flower on the hat changes position from back to front.
- In several scenes, Sabrina is shown without the diary chest on her hand when it should be.
- Hawk Moth makes his typical remark, "It won't be long before Ladybug and Cat Noir show up to meet their doom!" after the pair has already been on the scene for some time.
- In the French and Korean dubbed versions, there is an error where Cat Noir's Miraculous beeps after Cat Noir and Ladybug defeated Darkblade. This has been corrected in the English version.
- Penny's hair is miscolored pink.
- Marinette puts the diary chest into her bag but the bag seems to be not big enough to hold the chest.
- Alya remarks to Marinette that Chloe has been classroom representative "since Kindergarten" when Alya has been stated to be new in the origin episodes.
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