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Jalil Kubdel has been akumatized. Jalil Kubdel has been akumatized into a scarlet akumatized villain. Jalil Kubdel is a former user of the Turtle Miraculous through the Alliance ring.

Nobody has ever fully deciphered the hieroglyphics, but I have! It's a magic chant that needs to be recited in order to complete the ritual! I'm sure of it!

—Jalil, "The Pharaoh"

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Jalil Kubdel[5] is a minor character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. He is a young historian and Alix Kubdel's older brother.

In "The Pharaoh", after his theories about an ancient Egyptian scroll were disregarded by his father, Jalil was akumatized by Hawk Moth and became Pharaoh, a supervillain with the powers of each ancient Egyptian god.

In "Reunion", when Jalil was upset over Alix's absence and resentful with Ladybug and Cat Noir for being the reason why his sister was away, while being determined to bring Alix back to the present, he summoned Monarch to reakumatize him into Pharaoh and received the Turtle Miraculous superpower through his Alliance ring.

Appearance

Physical appearance

Jalil is tall with chin-length moderate tangelo hair and brilliant phthalo blue eyes.

Civilian attire

He wears glasses, an orange scarf, a scarab pendant, a white shirt with a golden Eye of Horus on it, a grayish-green jacket, light yellowish gray jeans and sandals.

As Pharaoh

Pharaoh is tall and muscular, his pupil-less eyes are glowing pale, light grayish cyan and his skin is roseish black, like the ancient dioritic statues of the pharaohs. He wears golden bands on his wrists, ankles and biceps, a golden mask (which resembles Tutankhamun's funerary mask) with a nemes, a fake beard and a cobra on the top, a golden shendyt (a kilt-like garment) and two necklaces. One necklace has three lines of beads (alternating light blue and white) connected by golden pieces. The second necklace is his old scarab pendant that considerably changes after getting Akumatized: it becomes light blue, flat and winged and has a sun disk above its head.

When Pharaoh uses the power of a god, his face becomes the one of the god's sacred animal: when using the power of Thoth he gets a dog ape face, for Sekhmet a lioness, for Anubis a jackal, and for Horus a hawk.

For more of Jalil Kubdel's outfits and designs, see Jalil Kubdel/Designs.

Personality

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Jalil explaining his theory to his father.

Jalil is very passionate about his job: he is able to translate an ancient papyrus by himself and wants to perform the spell that is written on it. According to Marinette Dupain-Cheng, he jumps straight to conclusions, just like Alya Césaire. He is also willing to take the scepter from the exhibition to prove it, despite the spell being a theory and his father's job being at stake if he touches it.

Another example of his tendency to jump straight to conclusions is when he got convinced by the haters of social media that Ladybug and Cat Noir are the real villains, while Monarch is a misunderstood hero that is just trying to do good by taking their Miraculous, all because he resents the heroes for being the reason why his sister had to be away from the present. This caused him to willingly ally himself with Monarch to get the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous and have them to bring Alix to the present.

He's also a bit clumsy, as shown when he runs to the exhibition and bumps into Marinette and Alya, dropping everything he's holding in the process.

The Pharaoh seems to believe that he was the ancient pharaoh Tutankhamun, and he tried at all costs to perform the ancient resurrection ritual for his wife Nefertiti: he was even willing to transform a hundred people into mummies and to sacrifice Alya to Ra.

During his second akumatization as the Pharaoh, he was determined to force Ladybug and Cat Noir to bring Alix back to the present using the power of Maat, that asked people trivial questions. By having the heroes being asked a question about any event in the past or future, they would eventually need Bunnyx's help and she would need to come to the present. However, his anger towards the heroes and obsession in bringing his sister back caused the Pharaoh to miss the most obvious way to get the truth by simply asking his book that had the power of Maat.

Abilities

As a civilian

Jalil is able to translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

As Pharaoh

As Pharaoh, he got supernatural strength, the power of telekinesis and the ability to perform an ancient resurrection ritual, which consisted of using 100 mummies and a pure soul as a sacrifice to please the sun god Ra, who would then bring Nefertiti back from the dead. The ritual required Tutankhamun's scepter to shoot a ray towards a pyramid (like the one at the Louvre), which would then direct it towards the sky creating a black cloud, where the human sacrifice was supposed to go.

He was also able to use the power of an ancient Egyptian god at choice:

  • Thoth, the god of knowledge, gave him the power to create time-slowing bubbles that trapped people. This may have been due to the fact that Thoth is also the god of time measurement, and he once won 5 days gambling with Khonsu, the Moon, making the year of 365 days instead of 360.
  • Sekhmet, the goddess of fire, war, dance, love, the desert wind and medicine, gave him even more strength, making him able to create powerful shockwaves only by clapping his hands. This power may come from Sekhmet's name: "sekhem", in ancient Egyptian, means "power or might", so Sekhmet's name means "the (one who is) powerful".
  • Anubis, the god of funerary rituals and (in more ancient depictions) death itself, gave him the power to shoot rays from his eyes that turned people into undead mummies under his control.
  • Horus, the god of the sky and kingship, gave him the power to fly.
  • Maat, the goddess of truth, allowed him to transfer his power to a living book that would ask trivia questions and imprisoned those who answered incorrectly. The book could also answer with the truth to any question done to it.

In "Reunion", Pharaoh received from Monarch the power of Shell-ter, the superpower of the Turtle Miraculous, through his Alliance ring. With it, he could use the Turtle Miraculous shield to conjure protective barriers that were nearly unbreakable, except for Cat Noir's Cataclysm.

Family

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    = Gender Unknown



Relationships

Alim Kubdel

Jalil usually respects his father, but sometimes he doesn't when he is overconfident in his own theories, even to the point of willing to risk his father's job to prove them. At times, he has a hard time trusting his father. He believed his father was lying about Alix willingly traveling through time to protect the Rabbit Miraculous.

Alix Kubdel

In "Reunion", Jalil missed his sister dearly and was determined to get her back as he was reakumatized into the Pharaoh. But without knowing it, he put his sister in terrible danger as he fell into Monarch's trap. And upon discovering the truth about his sister, he rejected the villain's influence.

Sightings

Episodes


Comics and books


Other


Trivia

  • In the original French language, the akumatized villain is called Akhenaten, a genuine Egyptian pharaoh. This is perhaps ironic, as Akhenaten is remembered as the ruler who attempted to overthrow worship in the old gods and install a sun cult religion in Egypt, yet Pharaoh actively calls on those same ancient pantheon gods, not Akhenaten's "Aten" sun disk god.
    • Akhenaten is also the father of history's famous boy-king Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut.
  • Although Jalil is the older sibling, Jalil's father gives the family heirloom watch to Alix instead of him.
    • In the French version, Alim Kubdel says that the youngest child on his/her fifteen birthday inherits the watch.
    • According to Thomas Astruc, Alim didn't give it to him, since he knows that Jalil is too much "in his own world".[6]
  • Despite the fact that the show states that Nefertiti was Tutankhamen's wife, she was actually one of his father Akhenaten's wives.
    • In the Korean version of the show, Pharaoh tries instead to resurrect Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun's half-sister and wife. However, this is still historically incorrect because Tutankhamun died before Ankhesenamun.
  • Even though Thoth is represented as a baboon when he uses his power, Thoth was more commonly depicted as an Ibis in Egyptian mythology, although some Egyptians did believe he was a baboon too.
  • Pharaoh reappears in the two-part special event "Heroes' Day".
  • Pharaoh appears another time in "Gamer 2.0" for Gamer 2.0's powers.
  • As revealed in a tweet by Thomas Astruc, Jalil is a college/university student.[7]
  • According to "Party Crasher", it appears that Jalil plays a djembe drum, a goblet drum from West Africa.
    • This is most likely a reference to the fact that he and his family are supposed to be of Amazigh (Berber) origin.[8]
  • Jalil is the sixth person to voluntarily akumatize themselves following Gabriel Agreste, Nathalie Sancoeur, Lila Rossi, Chloé Bourgeois, and Tomoe Tsurugi.
    • He is the first person to voluntarily akumatized themself and not be a villain.

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References


ve Characters
Miraculous holders and related characters
French Miraculous superhero team
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/LadybugAdrien Agreste/Cat NoirAlya Césaire/Rena RougeNino Lahiffe/CarapaceLuka Couffaine/ViperionMax Kanté/PegasusKagami Tsurugi/RyukoLê Chiến Kim/King MonkeyZoé Lee/VesperiaMyléne Hapréle/PolymouseRose Lavillant/PigellaJuleka Couffaine/Purple TigressSabrina Raincomprix/Miss HoundMarc Anciel/Rooster BoldNathaniel Kurtzberg/CaprikidIvan Bruel/MinotauroxAlix Kubdel/BunnyxFélix Fathom/Argos
Other Miraculous holders
Jessica Keynes/Eagle
Miraculous holders with other Miraculouses
Ladybug Miraculous
Adrien Agreste/Mister BugAlya Césaire/Scarabella
Cat Miraculous
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Lady NoireAdrien Agreste/Cat WalkerZoé Lee/Kitty Noire
Snake Miraculous
Adrien Agreste/Aspik
Mouse Miraculous
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Multimouse
Dog Miraculous
Félix Fathom/FlairmidableAlix Kubdel/Canigirl
Unified Miraculous holders
Mouse and Fox Miraculous
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Multifox
Mouse and Ladybug Miraculous
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Multibug
Mouse and Cat Miraculous
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Multinoir
Ladybug and Dragon Miraculous
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Dragon Bug
Cat and Snake Miraculous
Adrien Agreste/Snake Noir
Butterfly and Peacock Miraculous
Gabriel Agreste/Shadow Moth
Ladybug and Bee Miraculous
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Lady Bee
Ladybug and Horse Miraculous
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Pegabug
Butterfly, Peacock and Cat Miraculous
Gabriel Agreste/Shadow Noir
Ladybug, Horse and Rabbit Miraculous
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Pennybug
Cat and Rabbit Miraculous
Adrien Agreste/Rabbit Noir
Dog and Rabbit Miraculous
Alix Kubdel/Bunny Dog
Butterfly and Ladybug Miraculous
Gabriel Agreste/Monarbug
Ladybug and Cat Miraculous
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Bug Noire
Villains
Cerise Bianca/Butterfly Miraculous holder
Kwamis
BarkkDaizziDuusuFluffKaalkiLiiriLonggMulloNoorooOrikkoPlaggPollenRoaarSassStomppTikkiTrixxWayzzXuppuZiggy
Former Miraculous holders
Ancient European Butterfly Miraculous holderAncient European Ladybug Miraculous holderAncient Egyptian Miraculous holderAncient European Cat Miraculous holderAncient European Rabbit Miraculous holderAramis/La CoccinelleBọ rùaCernunnosChloé Bourgeois/Queen BeeDark GrimalkinGabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/MonarchGilbert du MotierGōngjīGǒuGuīHēi MāoHeraklesHippolytaHóu ZiHua MulanHúdiéHúlíJeanne d'ArcKǒngquèKhepriLa MariquitaLǎohǔLóngMicazoyolinMìfēngMudangbeolleMudekudekuNathalie Sancoeur/MayuraNiúPiáo ChóngPied Piper of HamelinSasuke SarutobiShānyángShéShǔ BiāoSun WukongTentomushiTomoe GozenTùziWang Fu/Jade TurtleYi Sun-sinYingZhū
Future Miraculous holders
Brazilian Miraculous holderFuture Butterfly Miraculous holderLadyLionLadyBlue
Order of the Guardians
Su-HanMonk
Sentimonsters
Once Upon a Time
Others
Mage
Other teams of superheroes
United Heroez
Aeon/Uncanny ValleyAgent BlueAgent RedAgent YellowBarbara Keynes/KnightowlCamilla Hombee/VictoryDean Gate/DoormanHurricaneJessica Keynes/Sparrow/EagleMercuryOlympia Hill/MajestiaSnowflakeStingThorn
Future characters
Ghostforce
Andy Baker/FuryLiv Baker/MystMike Collins/Krush
Villains
Main villains
AkumaGabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/MonarchAmokNathalie Sancoeur/MayuraCerise Bianca/Butterfly Miraculous holder
Akumatized villains
AnansiAnimaestroAnimanAntibugBackwarderBakerixBefanaBubblerBugfighterCaptain HardrockCat BlancCatalystChameleonChristmasterThe CollectorCopycatDarkbladeDark CupidDark HumorDark OwlDarker OwlDespair BearDesperadaEphemeralEvillustratorFeastFrightningaleFrozerFurious FuGamerGigantitanGlaciatorGold RecordGorizillaGuitar VillainHeart HunterHoaxerHorrificatorIkari GozenKikuKing CashKing of PlasticKung FoodKwamibusterLady WifiLiesMagician of MisfortuneMalediktatorManipulaMatagi GozenMimeMiracle QueenMiraclonizerMiraculerMiss Sans-CulotteMoolakNightormentorOblivioOni-ChanPanicParty CrasherPenalty (Penalteam) • PharaohMr. PigeonPixelatorPrime QueenPrincess FragrancePrincess JusticePsycomedianPuppeteerQilinQueen BananaQueen MayorQueen WaspReflektaRena RageReverserRiposteRiposte PrimeRiskRobostusRocketearRogercopRyukomoriSafariSandboySanta ClawsSapotisShell ShockSilencerSimon SaysSimplemanSole CrusherSole DestroyerStartrainStoneheartStormy WeatherStyle QueenSyrenTechlonizerTimebreakerTimetaggerTroublemakerTruthUnmaskerVanisherVerity QueenVolpinaWeredadWishmakerYanLuoShiZombizou
Sentimonsters
Banana Boom-BoomButterfly SentimonsterDormant SentimonsterGabriel Agreste/The CollectorGuiltripHack-SanKuro NekoLadybugLollipop BoyLighteyeMega LeechOptigamiRed MoonReflekdollRobostus sentimonsterSentialecSentibubblerSentinino/SenticarapaceSphinxStrikeback
Other villains
CashChloé BourgeoisMike Rochip/Techno-PirateNathalie SancoeurLila RossiTomoe TsurugiBob RothSolitude
Future villains
Apkli • Dr. Sadness • Future Hawk MothIgnoblia • Pain and Tears • Mr. Rat
Parisians
Teenagers
Miss Bustier's class (Adrien AgresteChloé BourgeoisIvan BruelAlya CésaireJuleka CouffaineMarinette Dupain-ChengLê Chiến KimMylène HaprèleMax KantéAlix KubdelNathaniel KurtzbergNino LahiffeRose LavillantSabrina RaincomprixLila Rossi) • Ms. Mendeleiev's class (Marc AncielAurore BeauréalMireille CaquetJean DuparcZoé Lee) • Kagami TsurugiLuka CouffaineOndineSocqueline WangThéo BarbotVivicaWayhem
Children
AugustBoyChris LahiffeElla CésaireEtta CésaireFroggyHarmonieManon ChamackMrs. Michelle's sonQuentinRythm
Adults
Emilie AgresteAnne-Jeanne Théoxanne du BocqualeArletteThomas AstrucAugust's motherVincent AzaMr. BananaAndréAndré BourgeoisAudrey BourgeoisArmandCaline BustierAlec CataldiMarlena CésaireNora CésaireOtis CésaireNadja ChamackSabine ChengChrisHarry ClownClara ContardAnarka CouffaineDenis DamoclesArmand D'ArgencourtDoormanGina DupainRoland DupainTom DupainSimon GrimaultFred HaprèleGisèleFire captainClaudie KantéAlim KubdelJalil KubdelMarianne LenoirOlga MendeleievMrs. MichelleJean-Pierre MonlataingBertrand KingClara NightingalePhilippePlacide I.T.Roger RaincomprixXavier RamierPenny RollingMrs. RossiBob RothDidier RoustanSanta ClausSarahSarah (waitress)SophieJagged StoneJean TretiensTomoe TsurugiVéroniqueVincentXYDino Huggie
Animals
EdgarFangMinor animalsWhiskers
Groups
Kitty Section
Characters from the past
Darkblade (ancestor)
Miscellaneous
A.D.A.AlbertMarkov
Other characters
Teenagers
AliChungDelmarJiaoKang
Adults
Amelie Graham de VanilyCashChun ChengColt FathomMiss Soraya KhanShu Yin ChengWang ChengYen Cheng
Animals
Bastille
Prodigious Related
Fei Wu/LadydragonWu ShifuRenlings (Hou HouMa MaLong LongHu HuShe SheTang TangXiong XiongYing Ying) • Mei Shi
Others
Akumatized person with helmetIron Armor Akumatized Person
Non-canon characters
Adam/ReplayBreakerDany Boon/GagotorEllie/InvisigenceFisherman/SilurusGhetto BlasterHowardCharlotte Basquet/SculptiaJørgenKenyaKenya's father/Trash KrakkenKillabeeLibrarianMetal Face DPublic EnemyLindalee RoseShaolin SoulUnnamed superheroesUnused Quantic Kids members (GavrocheKid MimeMelodie) • Wealthy woman
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