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| “ | To Luna, Maya, and Thalia. When I tell my daughters I've met you, they're going to freak out! | ” |
—Philippe to Santa Claus, "Christmaster" | ||
Philippe[3] is a recurring character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. He is a figure skating trainer who first appears in Season 2. In the French version, he is voiced by and based on the real-life figure skater, Philippe Candeloro.
In "Frozer," after getting no one to register for his ice skating lessons, causing him to lose his ice rink, he was akumatized by Hawk Moth into Frozer, an ice-skating supervillain.[2]
Appearance
Physical appearance
Philippe is at a regular adult height, his hair is long and brown, and his eyes are brown.
Civilian attire
Philippe wears a white workout jacket, with a silver zipper and blue accents inside the collar along the forearms, and white sweatpants. He also wears black ice skates and a black necklace with silver circle shaped pendant. He has a dangle earring in his right ear.
As Frozer
His skin was deep azure gradually turning to light blue and then white on his head, hands and feet. His hair was slicked up and back and his feet were huge, light blue and white ice skates. He also had a light ceruleanish gray snowflake symbol on his chest. His sclera and nose were light purple, and his irises were brilliant opal.
Personality
Philippe is a passionate ice skater. He regards his ice rink as his life and is enthusiastic on promoting his lessons.
He can be persuasive when wanting something, such as when he tried to convince Santa Claus to have Christmas come early. Philippe is also helpful at times like when he held off Christmaster's army while Ladybug, Cat Noir and Santa escape.
As Frozer, he was determined to turn Paris into a city of ice and take Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous for Hawk Moth. He was incredibly confident and proud of his skating abilities, which eventually led to his downfall.
Abilities
As a civilian
Philippe is very skilled at ice skating.
As Frozer
As Frozer, he could freeze entire cities with his ice skates. He also had the ability to shoot icicles out of his ice skates in midair.
Sightings
Episodes
Other
Trivia
- His villain form is similar to the Mega Man 11 Robot Master Tundra Man:
- Both are skilled figure skaters and incorporate their ice skating skills with ice manipulation to attack their opponents.
- However, Frozer is human while Tundra Man is a robot.
- He was first revealed on August 31, 2017, in a teaser released by TFou.[2]
- His villain form was later revealed on October 16, 2017 via an animated storyboard released by Thomas Astruc.[4]
- A scarlet version of Frozer reappeared in the two-part special event "Heroes' Day".
- His daughters share their names with Philippe Candeloro's real life daughters.[5]
- Although having only one akumatized form throughout the series, Philippe comes in fourth place, alongside Rose, Alya and Jagged, for being akumatized the most times behind Xavier Ramier, Chloé, Kagami, Juleka, Lila and Roger, having become Frozer 6 times. ("Frozer", "Mayura" and four other off-screen akumatizations as seen in "Mr. Pigeon 72").
Gallery
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References
- ↑ https://youtu.be/GDUIVwnQyg8?t=1927
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Image of the character
- ↑ https://tvschedule.zap2it.com/overview.html?programSeriesId=SH02296324&tmsId=SH022963240000&from=sl&aid=gapzap
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/900843948805148672
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Candeloro#Personal_life
