| “ | I don't know why I'm in love with your father. He's disorganized, childish, selfish, and musically speaking, he's no David Bowie. Truth be told, your dad's a walking disaster. So why do I love him? | ” |
—Penny Rolling to Luka, "Migration" | ||
Penny Rolling[1] is a recurring character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. She is Jagged Stone's former agent.
In "Troublemaker", due to the pressure put on her by Jagged Stone, Alec Cataldi, Bob Roth and Marinette Dupain-Cheng from filming a TV show, Penny was akumatized by Hawk Moth into Troublemaker, an intangible punk rock-themed supervillain.
In "Migration", it's revealed that Penny and Jagged are dating. After Jagged gives up his fame as a rock star to be with his children and decides to take care of Luka when the latter decides to leave Paris to protect Ladybug and Cat Noir's secret identities from Monarch, Penny decides to accompany them.
In "Re-creation", after having joined up with Su-Han and the Order of the Guardians, Penny returns to Paris to help out in the fight against the Miraculized, along with Jagged, Luka, and Fang.
Appearance
Physical appearance
Penny is a slender dark-skinned woman with pixie-cut purple hair, strong fuchsia lipstick and light brown eyes.
Civilian attire
She wears a black jacket with a silver buckle and zipper over a white t-shirt with a V-neck, black pants, and black shoes. She also wears a silver necklace with a green skull pendant, one sphere-shaped earring on her right ear, and wristbands: a red band on her left wrist, and black and pink bands on her right wrist.
As Troublemaker
Troublemaker had light sapphire bluish gray skin, brilliant cerise eyes, vivid orchid colored-eyelashes and matching eyebrows, and her hair was spiked upward like a mohawk with light gray tips. The areas around her eyes were black, and her lips were painted with moderate cerise lipstick. A dark purple choker with silver spikes was around her neck, and she wore a dark purple vest with ripped sleeves and edges. Underneath, she had a black sleeveless skin-tight suit with rectangular wedged shoes and pink sections with jagged white outlines on the sides of her legs and hips. On her arms were black and pink cuffs with white edges. There was a logo of a silver skull over four diagonal pink spikes on the chest of her bodysuit.
- For more of Penny's outfits and designs, see Penny Rolling/Designs.
Personality
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Penny requesting a pair of sunglasses for Jagged Stone.
Penny is a very professional, helpful and hardworking person who is also kind, thoughtful and supportive. She helps to solve problems, usually disagreements between two sides, by looking over everything carefully and trying to find a middle point or compromise that satisfies everyone. She gives encouragement to Marinette Dupain-Cheng, finds amusement in a misunderstanding that André Bourgeois has relating to her, and she puts on a good face with dealing with business partners, acquaintances, and teenagers. While usually nice, Penny takes on a serious, curt, or confrontational demeanor depending on the situation, like when she sternly demands to Vincent Aza that he stops bothering and taking photos of Jagged Stone in "Pixelator".
Despite her immense patience, especially regarding Jagged and his many demands and whims, Penny sometimes can get exasperated whenever Jagged starts to neglect his work. However, despite that, she still loves him very much.
As Troublemaker, Penny was mischievous, conniving and sneaky. She was also a bit of a showboat, making a great deal out of achieving one earring from Ladybug. She was also short-tempered, angry with losing Ladybug's earring quickly after achieving it, and with Ladybug's plan to stop her.
Abilities
As Penny
Penny is skilled in business communication, cooperating professionally and strategically with the people she works for. She represents Jagged Stone by finding ways to fulfill his desires, but she also knows how to deal with the interactions between Jagged and his manager Bob Roth.
In "Re-creation", after spending sometime with the Order of the Guardians, she learned Mirakung Fu, by Grand Master Su-Han.
As Troublemaker
Troublemaker could switch between being intangible and tangible again by clicking her pen, and while intangible would pass through the floor after a short while. However, she couldn't touch or hold objects or people while intangible, nor make them intangible with her expect for her pen.
Relationships
Jagged Stone
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Penny giving a suggestion about Marinette designing the album cover while satisfying Bob.
Penny has a strong dedication to Jagged Stone as his agent. While aware of his eccentricities and stubbornness, she patiently works with him and helps to get him what he needs. She also understands his desire to be authentic to himself and his interests, but she makes sure to think about the business side of issues when he isn't as willing to think about it.
In "Troublemaker", Penny shows that she has romantic feelings for Jagged as she wants to make him happy and considers him as an "awesome" person. When akumatized, she kicks him and is determined to cause trouble for him despite his pleas. However, after being deakumatized, Penny is surprised when Jagged expressed his relief of her being back to normal and hugs her, to which Penny warmly returns.
In "Migration", it's revealed that Penny and Jagged are dating. While pursuing Jagged so he could come record a new album for Bob, Penny ends up venting to Luka how much his father can drive her crazy with his childish behavior, but that, nevertheless, she still loves him. When Jagged decides to cancel his contract with Bob and go with Luka away from Paris, Penny supports him and goes along with them.
Bob Roth
Penny is more respectful to Bob than Jagged is, but she does her best to remind him of the artistic side of issues, including Jagged's style and decisions. She starts the discussion on asking Marinette to design Jagged Stone's album cover in "Guitar Villain", pointing out the design will be modern and it will be created by someone in Jagged's target audience in order to get Bob to comply. It's because of her intervention and professionalism that she keeps Bob and Jagged working together at Bob Roth Records, despite the two men not getting along well with each other.
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
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Penny caringly telling Marinette to do her best on the album cover.
When Marinette gives Penny the pair of shades she made for Jagged to give to him for her, Penny takes them and closes the door before Marinette can thank her. However, Penny treats Marinette better with more friendliness in subsequent meetings, smiling politely when giving Marinette a ticket to Jagged Stone's concert. In "Guitar Villain", she encourages Marinette to do her best when she is designing a cover for Jagged's album and Marinette's final design pleases her.
In "Troublemaker", Penny apologizes to Marinette after accidentally getting the cameraman into her bedroom, thus showing on live television her pictures of Adrien and quickly tries to get everyone from her room.
Regarding Ladybug, while akumatized Troublemaker is determined to steal her Miraculous and takes sadistic pleasure when suceeding in stealing one of her earrings, however Ladybug manages to trick her into grabbing her earrings covered with glue, allowing Cat Noir to deakumatize her.
When deakumatized, Penny listened to Ladybug praising on her always being helpful towards others, but advised Penny to take care of herself as well and after asking Penny how she felt, Penny told her she felt well and thanked Ladybug.
Vincent Aza
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Penny warning Vincent and preparing to toss his camera to him.
Penny finds Vincent and his obsession with Jagged Stone greatly annoying and troublesome. In "Pixelator", when Vincent is caught trying to take photos of Jagged at Le Grand Paris, without any hint of remorse, she angrily makes him get out of the hotel's lobby and threatens to break his camera if she ever finds him around Jagged again. While not recognizing the titular villain being Vincent, Penny appears annoyed when he knocks on the door to Jagged Stone's suite, suspiciously asking who he is before he pixelates her.
Luka Couffaine
Penny telling Luka her frustrations about Jagged.
After Jagged started to pass time with his children, so did Penny. When going in pursue of Jagged so he could record a new album for Bob, Penny ends up venting all her frustrations regarding Jagged's many flaws, all while confessing that she still loves him nevertheless, with Luka being able to reassure her. When Jagged decides to cancel his contract with Bob and go with Luka away from Paris, Penny supports him and goes along with them and help Luka with his studies.
Sightings
Episodes
Others
Trivia
- Penny's last name and Jagged's last name are a reference to the rock band The Rolling Stones.
- Her first name "Penny" is a reference to The Beatles song, "Penny Lane".
- In "Pixelator", André Bourgeois confuses her name with Jagged Stone's pet crocodile, which causes Penny to be genuinely amused by his mix-up.
- Troublemaker appears another time in "Gamer 2.0" for Gamer 2.0's powers.
- In the French version, Penny's villain name is L'Insaisissable.
- Troublemaker was the first villain who was able to take off one of Ladybug's earrings.
- Troublemaker was originally supposed to reappeared in the two part special event "Heroes' Day", according to early concept art.[2]
- Following Marinette, she is the second known member of the Guardians to be a woman.
- In "Miraculous: Rise of the Sphinx", after André Bourgeois unjustly cancels one of Jagged's concerts due to the noise that was being made, she gets akumatized by Hawk Moth into Soundwave, a punk-rock themed villain who's able to use soundwaves as weapons and create massive instruments.
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