| “ | I free you from your nightmares! | ” |
—Eagle, " Re-creation" | ||
Liberation is the special superpower granted by the Eagle Miraculous to its owner.
Description[]
This superpower allows the user to free people of any personality traits that hold them back from their full potential. It is activated by the user speaking its name.
Miraculous owner[]
The user shoots a magic golden feather at their target and the feather disappears into the target's body. The user can choose to shoot only one feather at a time or multiple feathers at once.
Once the feather is inside the targets body, the user can free the recipient(s) from any mental or emotional restriction of the user's choosing that prevents the recipient(s) from reaching their full potential, such as a code of ethics, a vow to not do something, or the fear of the destructive potential of one's own power. Notably, when used on multiple people at once, the user can choose a different restriction for each of them to be freed from.
Some people freed from Nightormentor's nightmares due to effects of Liberation.
In "Re-creation", it is revealed that Liberation can also nullify limitations that the target didn't put on themselves or are innate to them, and that were put in them through other means, even magical ones. In "Conformation", Gabriel Agreste akumatized himself into Nightormentor and used his powers to spread his nightmare-inducing dust all over the world, effectively trapping his victims in their own nightmares, thus limiting their true potential. Later on, by using Liberation, Eagle was able to free some of the victims in New York City and in Paris and get rid of the effects of Nightormentor's powers.
United Heroez doing whatever they want.
The Eagle Miraculous owner is able to use this power to assist their allies, like Lafayette did with his troops during the War of Independence. Ironically, the user can also free people as means to hinder them; after Miraclonizer freed the United Heroez of their restrictions, they stopped caring about trying to recapture him and instead focused on making up for lost time with their new freedom.
Apart from removing their inhibitions, the recipients personality seems to go unchanged, Doorman still had his unquenchable curiosity and Knightowl was still just as cranky and stubborn as she normally is. The recipients memories also appear to go unaffected, as Knightowl remembered that she had told Sparrow to stay at the hotel.
Interestingly, once the Eagle Miraculous owner frees someone of their metaphysical restrictions, the recipient(s) remain free even if the Eagle Miraculous is stolen and used by someone else.
Eagle cancelling out the power.
The Eagle Miraculous owner can dispel the effects of their power by speaking the cancellation phrase: Cool Down. Notably, the Eagle Miraculous owner can use this cancellation phrase to return people to normal even if they were freed by another Eagle Miraculous owner. Once the trigger phrase is spoken, the feathers used to affect the victims leave their bodies and disappear.
Liiri[]
The effects of Liiri's Liberation is unknown, but it would most certainly be unconstrained and results in some kind of catastrophe, though he would be able to restrain it somewhat.
Weaknesses[]
Majestia destroying part of New York City after being freed from the fear of the destructive potential of her own power.
The user must be careful in choosing the binds they wish to break, or else the person being freed may go out of control, following their every whim without any concern for the consequences. This can be especially problematic when the power is used on people with superpowers and/or advanced gadgets.
While Liberation can embolden people, it cannot increase or enhance their abilities, nor can it give them any additional abilities. It can only give people the courage to utilize the potential that they already have.
The heroes using a fake gift to remind Doorman about a certain curiosity of his.
Someone who has been freed of their restrictions can be very predictable and can therefore be tricked and taken advantage of; after Doorman was freed and started using his powers only to satisfy his own curiosity, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Sparrow, and Uncanny Valley were able to use his curiosity against him, to trick him into opening a portal into the Statue of Liberty so they could sneak up on Miraclonizer from behind.
Despite Nora is free from the nightmares, she is not free of the Miraculized costume.
As seen in "Re-creation", Liberation is unable to free the Miraculized from their transformed state. This either means the transformation into a superpowered villain is not considered a limitation as far as the power of Liberation is concerned, or that the power can only free people of mental and emotional weaknesses and is powerless against physical ones.
It's possible that this power requires the user to know thy enemy, so they know what bonds to free them from. Of course, it's also possible that the power gives its user a full analysis on their opponents.
Resistance can cancel out the effects of Liberation.
In "Miraculous Paris", it is revealed that using the special superpower uses vital energy from the Kwami, but also from the miraculous holder. It's one thing for an adult holder, but for an underage holder, who is less physically and mentally capable of handling the strain, there is a security system in place that limits them to only using their special power once and causes them to detransform before it becomes dangerous. However, using the Miraculous for evil overrides the limiter, allowing an underage holder to use their powers to their full potential. As previously stated, a younger holder cannot handle the strain; dark veins of corruption will gradually spread across their body, and they will inevitably be destroyed.
Uses[]
| Episode | Summoner | Target | Limitation | Result |
| "Re-creation" | Eagle | 
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Their respective nightmare | New Yorkers are freed from the effects of Nightormentor's power. |
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Her nightmare | Nora is freed from the effects of Nightormentor's power. | ||
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Their respective nightmare | Parisians are freed from the effects of Nightormentor's power. |
| Episode | Summoner | Target | Limitation | Result |
| "Miraculous New York" | Miraclonizer | 
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Her fear of her own power. | Majestia began experimenting with her powers to see exactly what she is capable of, even going as far as to fly into space and push the moon out of orbit. |
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Her code of ethics. | Knightowl started punishing people for minor crimes, such as late library books, by resorting to extreme measures, such as blowing up their cars. | ||
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Her promise to protect people's freedom. | Victory became tyrannical and accessed various military grade weapon systems as a means to subjugate others. | ||
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His qualms about using superpowers for personal gain, as he believes they should only be used for the greater good. | Doorman began opening portals to various locations all over the world so that he could fulfill his own curiosity. | ||
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Using her powers when needed. | Snowflake used her powers to create ice all over the street and went ice skating on it. | ||
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To use her powers usefully. | Hurricane started playing with her powers, and even played with a cloud. | ||
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To be quick on his feet and to help people. | Mercury pulled up a folding chair and began to lounge lazily. | ||
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Unknown | Unknown | ||
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To grow plants for the good of the health, not for the sake of rapidness. | Thorn started using his powers to make plants grow all around, covering everything in plants. | ||
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Not to steal | Agent Red, Agent Blue, and Agent Yellow got a shopping cart and ran around, filling the cart with anything they wanted. | ||
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Trivia[]
- This is the fifth Miraculous superpower that can be called off by the user; following Akumatization, Amokization, Shell-ter, and Mirage. But the fourth to have a cancellation phrase; followed by Mirage, Shell-ter, and Amokization.
- It's the fourth Miraculous superpower to use an object to affect their targets following Akumatization, Amokization and Uproar.
- It's the second Miraculous superpower that uses feathers to affect their targets.
- The effects of Liberation on their targets will remain even if the user detransforms, or if they or the jewel are no longer of this world.
- However, Amokization and Akumatization does it indirectly, infecting objects that people have, and Liberation is more direct, affecting humans on a mental and emotional level and unlike the other two, these feathers don't need to purified by a Ladybug Miraculous user.
- When the user is an adult they can shoot multiple feathers at multiple targets, however the adult users of Amokization and Akumatization must have their powers amplified or their victims have to touch the same object and as well as shared the same feeling to be affected.
- It's also possible that akumatization may have allowed Miraclonizer to use multiple feathers at the same time.
- Jessica Keynes is seen using the power multiple times in "Re-creation", however this doesn't really answer the question due to the revelation in "Revolution", that growing up does not necessarily have to be in the physical sense to get adult powers.
- It could be that this Miraculous it similar to the Rabbit and Snake Miraculouses can give the user multiple uses of it's power but has a different unknown limitation.
- Liberation and Amokization are the only feather-related powers so far.
- Similar to an amok it's unknown what will happen when the feathers misses their target.
- Since Eagle only used her powers to undo the effects of Liberation and didn't use the power herself, it's unknown if the timer was activated.
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