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“ | He sure brings a whole new meaning to 'silent but deadly.' | ” |
Fred Haprèle is a recurring character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. He is an assistant educator at Collège Françoise Dupont, a mime performer, the leading actor in The Mime's Extraordinary Adventures, and Mylène's father.[1][2]
In "The Mime", when Fred was deceived by his understudy, Chris, into missing his performance, he was akumatized by Hawk Moth and became Mime, a mime supervillain.
In "Ephemeral", Fred was reakumatized by Shadow Moth into the Mime for an unknown reason.
Appearance
Physical appearance
Fred is tall and lanky with brown hair and brown eyes and eyebrows.
Civilian attire
He wears a white t-shirt underneath a dark green dress jacket. He also wears dark blue jeans and black and white sneakers. When he is performing as a mime, he has a black derby hat with a special pocket added in by Marinette to put a photo of Mylène.
As Mime
Mime's hair was blond, and his skin was periwinkle. His irises were dark grayish blue-violet, and he had black lining around the eyes, with a drop-shaped line below each. He still had the derby hat on his head. He wore a dark gray and white striped t-shirt underneath a bluish-gray dress jacket with two large black buttons and a dark blue collar. In addition, he wore high white pants with black lining on the pockets, and he wore high black and white sneakers.
- For more of Fred Haprèle's outfits and designs, see Fred Haprèle/Designs.
Personality
Fred is kind and hardworking. When he is working as an assistant at school, he is serious and firm about keeping people who enter the school without permission and might hurt others out, including Rogercop in the episode of the same name and Nadja Chamack and her crew in "Darkblade", but when off duty, he is very genial to other people, and he always shows his love for his daughter. However, he tends to procrastinate, such as getting his hat fixed right before he needs to leave instead of having it done earlier, and he is often late.
As Mime, he was cold and silent, fueled only by his intention of getting revenge on his crew, by ruining their show since he lost the opportunity to perform with them.
Abilities
As a civilian
Fred is a talented mime actor, able to act with imaginary objects and without saying a word. In "Party Crasher", he is seen playing the trumpet, implying he can play the trumpet.
As Mime
Mime was able to mime anything, and instead of it being imaginary, it worked like a real, solid, but invisible object. He could create anything, from swords, to bazookas, to working vehicles. He could also mimic strength, being able to hold up the Eiffel Tower. However, Mime could only mime one thing at a time, so if he started a new mime, whatever he previously created would cease to exist. In "Gamer 2.0", if he talked, the mime object would disappear.
Family
Tree
Fred Haprèle | Mylène's Mother | ||||||||||||||||
Mylène Haprèle | |||||||||||||||||
Notes
- In "Derision", it is said that Mylène's mother abandonded her and her father when she was young.
= Male
= Female
= Gender Unknown
Relationships
Mylène Haprèle
Mylène is his daughter and he loves her very much. He had Marinette place a pocket in his hat so that he can keep a picture of Mylène there for good luck, and when he misses his performance, he believes he has disappointed Mylène.
Sightings
Episodes
Comics and books
Other Media
Other
Trivia
- Mime is one of the first known villains in the world of Ladybug, being one of the only three villains featured in the Ladybug PV, the other villains being Mr. Pigeon and Hawk Moth.
- Mime has the same abilities as he did in the Ladybug PV, the only difference being that there are no shadows visible when he pantomimes.
- Mime was such a great character in producers' eyes that when the unused concept of the Quantic Kids was being developed, they decided to replace team member Sparrow with Kid Mime, a superhero with powers like Mime.[3].
- For Mime's objects, animators would create his objects, and then they would make them invisible.[4]
- Mime's design is a reference to French mime Marcel Marceau.[5]
- Along with Horrificator, Mime is one of the two akumatized villains to not speak in Season 1.
- Coincidentally, they are both from the Haprèle family.
- Mime reappears in the two-part special event "Heroes' Day".
- Mime appears another time in "Gamer 2.0" for Gamer's powers.
- A statue of Mime appears in the Musée Grévin in "The Puppeteer 2".
Gallery
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References
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/669619311930032128
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/668920456708284417
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/648970732551176197
- ↑ Facebook post from fan page with an image of Mime being animated.
- ↑ https://lupintyde.tumblr.com/post/160589733402/the-miraculous-mime