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| “ | "Anyone can make mistakes, even a superhero; what matters is how you fix them. I personally made one by losing that Miraculous. Don't make the mistake of not giving it back. Act like a hero." "And show everyone how exceptional you can be." |
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—Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Chloé Bourgeois, "Queen Wasp" | ||
"Queen Wasp (Queen's Battle - Part 2)" is a Season 2 episode of the series, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.[4] According to the series' production/written order, it is the 19th episode of Season 2, as well as the 45th episode of the series, overall.
This episode is also the second and final part of the 2-parter, "The Queen's Battle."[1]
Synopsis
In an attempt to impress her mother, Chloé tries to become the superhero Queen Bee but is instead transformed into the supervillain Queen Wasp.[5]
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Ladybug faces the akumatized Queen Bee, now Queen Wasp.
Plot
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Gabriel gives up.
Picking up from "Style Queen", Gabriel is seen at his mansion's basement, speaking in front of the coffin of an unconscious Émilie. Despondent after Style Queen's defeat, he decides that he can no longer keep endangering Adrien and that he has done everything he possibly could've to get the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses. He asks his wife for forgiveness and renounces Nooroo and the Butterfly Miraculous. He then goes to the front of his office and sadly sulks. Nathalie notices and hugs him.
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After making his first public appearance in ages, Gabriel hugs his son in front of everyone.
The fashion show continues, with Adrien modeling Marinette's hat and Alya filming the whole thing. Suddenly, for the first time ever since his wife's disappearance, Gabriel appears in public, walking on the runway and hugging his son in front of everyone.
When the fashion show is over, Gabriel approaches Audrey and apologizes for the misunderstanding, saying that he fired the person responsible and knows that only the front row is befitting for her. Audrey accepts the apology and then notices Marinette's hat. She asks Marinette if she created it, and with encouragement from Adrien, she admits this. Audrey is very impressed with it and even offers her the chance to go with her to New York City and become a famous fashion designer. Marinette's friends and family are happy for her, but Marinette is unsure what to think of this.
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Chloé unveils the Bee Miraculous.
Chloé, however, is furious and angrily asks her mother why, out of all people, she would take Marinette to New York City instead of her own daughter. Audrey says that it's because Marinette is exceptional. Chloé retorts that she's exceptional, too, but Audrey says that the only thing exceptional about her is her mother. Hurt by this comment and wanting to prove her mother wrong, Chloé reveals that she has the Bee Miraculous in her possession and transforms into Queen Bee in front of everyone, including the press. She jumps onto a high structure and announces to everyone that she is Paris's new hero and will prove that she's exceptional before taking off. An unimpressed Audrey merely dismisses this as Chloé being a showoff and leaves the building. André, Gabriel, Adrien, Nathalie, Tom, Sabine, and Marinette all do the same. Meanwhile, Wayzz and Master Fu see the news broadcast about Chloé being a superhero. Wayzz doesn't understand why Marinette gave Chloé the Bee Miraculous instead of Alya, but Master Fu knows that's not the case and has confidence that she will set things right.
Queen Bee waits at the top of a Ferris wheel for someone to save but sees nothing. However, after noticing the subway station, she gets an idea: that if she can't find a mission to save the day, she'll make one instead. She calls Nadja Chamack and says that she should get to the subway station since she will be there to help save the passengers of a speeding train.
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Queen Bee paralyzes the subway driver.
Inside the subway, Tom and Sabine express their excitement over moving to New York City to help Marinette live out her dream. Marinette talks to Tikki about this, saying that it's her dream come true. Tikki, however, reminds Marinette that she wouldn't be able to go to New York City with her. Suddenly, Queen Bee arrives on the subway and uses her Venom power to paralyze the subway driver, causing the train to go incredibly fast. She announces to everyone onboard that she will save them but soon finds that she cannot stop the subway by herself.
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Ladybug scolds Queen Bee for abusing her powers.
Gabriel enters his lair and reactivates Nooroo. He reveals to his kwami that he has an opportunity to akumatize someone with a Miraculous and transforms into Hawk Moth. Meanwhile, Adrien goes into his room and transforms into Cat Noir, hurrying to the subways and getting there just as the press does. Marinette also transforms into Ladybug and joins him. The duo manages to save Queen Bee and the passengers onboard. Ladybug then notices that the subway driver was paralyzed and confronts Queen Bee on this in front of the press. She reprimands her for selfishly using her powers. Audrey even appears through a tablet and dismisses her daughter as irresponsible. Ladybug angrily demands the Bee Miraculous back, but Queen Bee refuses. Cat Noir is surprised when he learns that Ladybug lost a Miraculous, but Ladybug reminds him that he did the same and left her to fight Style Queen on her own. While they are arguing, Queen Bee sneaks off. Ladybug and Cat Noir soon notice and, assuming that she went home, head to Le Grand Paris. The press also follows.
Hawk Moth senses Queen Bee's sadness over being ignored by her mother and failing as a superhero, so he sends an akuma after her. It infects her Miraculous, and Hawk Moth offers her the power to prove that she is exceptional in exchange for Ladybug's and Cat Noir's Miraculouses. Queen Bee accepts the deal and is transformed into Queen Wasp.
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Queen Wasp confronts Ladybug and Cat Noir.
Ladybug and Cat Noir soon reach the balcony of Chloé's room, but she's nowhere to be seen. They decide to go to the lobby of the hotel only to find everyone paralyzed by stings. The duo is confused by this since Miraculous powers can only be used once. They then turn to find Queen Wasp surrounded by an army of paralytic wasps. She sends them to attack the superhero duo, who runs out of the hotel and runs over rooftops, trying to escape from the wasps. They succeed when they jump into the Seine River, as wasps don't like water. Once back on land, Ladybug uses her Lucky Charm and receives a snorkel. Cat Noir jokes that at least they won't drown, which gives Ladybug an idea.
Traveling through Paris under trash cans, Ladybug and Cat Noir arrive at the roof of Le Grand Paris where Queen Wasp had been waiting for them. Using the trash cans, Ladybug and Cat Noir swipe away the wasps and jump over Queen Wasp. While she is trying to shake Cat Noir off, Ladybug puts the snorkel on Queen Wasp and then pushes all three of them into the Seine River where the wasps can't follow. While Ladybug keeps Queen Wasp distracted, Cat Noir calls upon Cataclysm and touches the Bee Miraculous, freeing the akuma. Queen Wasp briefly turns back into Queen Bee and then back into her civilian form. Ladybug and Cat Noir take Chloé and jump out of the water in time for Ladybug to purify the akuma and use Miraculous Ladybug to return everything back to normal, including the Bee Miraculous.
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Ladybug and Cat Noir convince Chloé to do the right thing.
The press arrives once again, in time for Ladybug and Cat Noir to try to convince Chloé to return the Bee Miraculous. However, Chloé begs for a second chance. When asked by Nadja, Audrey reaffirms her earlier comment about Chloé not being exceptional, saddening her. Cat Noir understands that Chloé's actions were out of a desire to impress her mother. Ladybug adds that even superheroes can make mistakes, which she did by losing the Bee Miraculous, and encourages Chloé to not make the mistake of not returning it. Chloé gives back the Bee Miraculous and apologizes to Ladybug and Cat Noir.
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Chloé and Audrey bond.
Audrey impatiently waits for Marinette at her helicopter. When she arrives, Audrey prepares for the two of them to take off. However, Marinette says that she won't be going to New York City with her because she has a lot of things she still needs to do in Paris. Audrey insists that Marinette is making a mistake, but she reminds Audrey that a huge part of her life is also in Paris and reveals Chloé behind her, all packed and ready to go with her mother to New York City. Chloé asks her mother why she doesn't love her, to which Audrey hesitantly replies that she does. Marinette tells Audrey that Chloé is exceptional -- exceptionally mean. She lists all of Chloé's worst qualities, angering both her and Audrey but also making the two realize that they have a lot in common. When Marinette leaves, Audrey asks Chloé if she is really as bad as Marinette said, to which Chloé says that her only friend in school is Sabrina, and she enjoys giving her butler a hard time. Audrey takes back her earlier comment about Chloé not being exceptional, embraces her, and decides to stay in Paris with her.
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Gabriel decides not to give up after all.
Gabriel tells Émilie that Ladybug and Cat Noir made a mistake and that there will be others, but one day they'll be together again. Once he goes back to his atelier, he is confronted by Nathalie, who reminds him of his promise earlier to stop being Hawk Moth. Gabriel tells her that he can't give up, as he misses Émilie too much. A heartbroken Nathalie understands and exits the room.
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Marinette reminds her parents and Alya why she wants to stay in Paris.
While playing video games with Alya and Tom, the latter asks Marinette if she's sure she won't regret not going to New York City. Marinette insists that she's sure, as Paris is her city where all her loved ones and best friends are. Marinette and Alya hug, and Marinette winks at Tikki as the end card appears.
Characters
Major characters
- Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
- Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
- Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth
- Tikki
- Plagg
- Pollen
- Akuma
- Chloé Bourgeois/Queen Bee/Queen Wasp
- Audrey Bourgeois (Style Queen footage and mentioned)
- Wasps
Minor characters
- Nadja Chamack
- Alya Césaire (Rena Rouge mentioned)
- Émilie Agreste
- Nathalie Sancoeur
- André Bourgeois
- Tom Dupain
- Sabine Cheng
- Master Wang Fu
- Wayzz
- Nooroo
- Armand
- Placide I.T. (background)
- Alec Cataldi (background)
- Mireille Caquet (background)
- Clara Nightingale (background)
- Jagged Stone (background)
- Penny Rolling (background)
- Prince Ali (background)
- * Miss Soraya Khan (Prince Ali's chaperone) (background)
- Aurore Beauréal (background)
- Vincent Aza (background)
- Bob Roth (background)
- XY (background)
- Théo Barbot (background)
- Rose Lavillant (background)
- Nino Lahiffe (background)
- Simon Grimault (background)
- Vincent (background)
- August's mother (background)
- Nathaniel Kurtzberg (background)
- Sabrina Raincomprix (background)
- Alix Kubdel (background)
- Lê Chiến Kim (background)
- Ivan Bruel (background)
- Mylène Haprèle (background)
- Jean Duparc (background)
- Marlena Césaire (background)
- Sophie (background)
- Doorman (background)
- Mrs. Rossi (background)
- Lila Rossi (archive footage; animation error)
- Civilians
Trivia
- Internationally, this episode first premiered in Spain on Disney Channel.
- This episode was first revealed in a promotional video for Season 2 released by TFOU on August 31, 2017.[6][7]
- The episode confirms that a person can have more than one single akumatized form, with the specific case of Chloé, who now has both Antibug and Queen Wasp forms.
- This is the first episode in which Hawk Moth akumatizes somebody who has already been akumatized in a previous episode, that person being Chloé.
- This episode marks the first time a Miraculous holder's identity is revealed publicly.
- This episode reveals that a superhero can also be akumatized when they are transformed.
- By extension, it is revealed that a Miraculous itself can be affected by akumas.
- This episode shows Gabriel giving up the Butterfly Miraculous, just as happened with Marinette in "Ladybug & Cat Noir" regarding the Ladybug Miraculous. Also, just like her, Gabriel resumes his role as Hawk Moth later in the episode.
- If the Miraculous jewel is destroyed with the kwami inside it will revert back to its spirit form.
- The large repository where Émilie is kept is shown to be accessed from Gabriel's atelier via the same passage used to reach Hawk Moth's lair.
- This episode along with "Style Queen" premiered on October 6, which is fitting because the real fashion week in Paris finished three days before this episode came out.
- Like "The Evilustator" and a few other Plagg did not speak in this episode.
- This is the fifth time two people have been akumatized in one day (being that it's the same day as "Style Queen"), the previous times having been in "Volpina/The Collector", "Lady Wifi", "Princess Fragrance", and "Antibug".
- In both Spain and Portugal, the episode is named after Queen Bee: Reina Aguijón in Spanish and Abelha Rainha in Portuguese.
- It is revealed that the Bee Miraculous' transformation phrase is "Buzz On" and that its power is Venom.
- Hawk Moth's transformation music is changed completely.
- Once the akuma was released out of the Bee Miraculous despite being underwater, it was able to fly just fine when its wings should've been too soaked for it to fly right away.
- Chloé trying to stop a full speed train on her own wasn't going to work, because on top of not thinking things through, she would need super strength, not the enhanced strength her suit gives her. Also, if it wasn't for Ladybug and Cat Noir, Chloé could've have been severely hurt or killed along with the people on that train.
- As of this episode, the people of Paris had no idea how close they were to being free of Hawk Moth as well as Chloé being the one responsible for putting him back on his dark path and yet, Ladybug was indirectly responsible too as she lost the Bee Miraculous allowing Chloé to find it.
- Because of Chloé's anger and jealously towards Marinette as well as her own mother she actually begun her own downfall to losing her powers in "Miracle Queen" and yet, like Ladybug; Audrey was indirectly responsible for how her own daughter turned out.
- Like Ladybug, Cat Noir and the others, Hawk Moth too is also responsible as he created the situation that made the Bee Miraculous active.
- Gabriel using and trying the powers of the Miraculouses to restore the one he loved is a reference to how Maxillum Pegasus acted in the Duelist Kingdom Arc of the original Yu-Gi-Oh series.
- Gabriel's actions also has many references to the characters of "The Dragon Prince".
- By giving into his darker feelings he also made everyone including his own son suffer like King Harrow.
- Similar to Viren, Gabriel played the denial game and let his emotions and fears run wild using anything or anyone as a justification for his own selfishness until they accepted the truth with their deaths as a atonement.
- Like Soren by Viren, Gabriel too used Adrien as a motive for his dark ambitions and it led to something terrible: both families were broken, Lissa left them while Emilie fell into an endless slumber and the sons were treated with great cruelty.
- As both had something happened to them that wasn't their fault: Soren didn't ask to be sick while didn't Adrien ask to be created by the broken Peacock Miraculous.
- Both fathers explained their actions in a letter but unlike Gabriel, Viren talked out the whole truth but they both did the same thing hiding nor destroying the letters because they both knew if their sons had figured out the whole truth, then Soren and Adrien would end up hating them.
- Then between Adrien and Zym both were the heirs to their parents respected realms, however both were protected with a lie unlike Zym, no one had a reason to fear Adrien, but if the truth got out, then everyone would meaning both sons would've been put in or through terrible danger because of fearful people or what everyone would think they do.
- Similar to what Viren did with the Dragon King and his allies by undoing all the work they did just to imprison Aaravos, Gabriel did the same with Emilie by not respecting her wishes, warning, nor wisdom, he undid the meaning of her sacrifice setting himself up for a situation that's impossible.
- As well as Aaravos, both had motives that started out as love but along the way it got twisted and turned into revenge and both sought to use what their fallen loved ones admired or sacrificed themselves for: Leola loved everything and everyone about their world and her own father used the same to destroy it, while Émilie accepted her fate out of love not just for her family but everyone as she wanted a family so much that she couldn't live with herself if another was destroyed which was what Gabriel was trying do to get her back.
- Similar to "The Dragon Prince", all together this series deals with the same thing: Someone who's joy that didn't last long, then falling into grief and despair, taking revenge on others to fix their problems nor to make their suffering easier just to see that they get the opposite of what they wanted.
- When the akuma flies out of the broken Bee Miraculous, the music from Rena Rouge's transformation plays until Ladybug prepares to purify it.
- This is fourth one of the episodes from Season 2 that doesn't have a new character, following "Zombizou", "Troublemaker" and "The Collector"
- Similar to Alya in "Lady Wifi", Chloé could've gotten the opposite of what she wanted.
- Since this episode and "Style Queen" happen on the same day, this the first time where three lucky charms are summoned in a day.
- Four transformation sequences appear in the episode: Queen Bee's, Hawk Moth's, Cat Noir's, and Ladybug's, breaking the previous record set by "Sapotis". Four transformations later appear in "Desperada" and "Evolution".
- It's later surpassed by "Catalyst" and "Stormy Weather 2" with six.
Errors
- Gabriel's hair is miscolored gray.
- Similar to "Style Queen", Lila Rossi appears in the audience for the fashion show. But according to Thomas Astruc, this was actually an animation mistake.[8]
- In the audience for the fashion show, XY's hair is missing when he is sitting next to Lila.
- It is stated by Nadja Chamack on the news that it's the first time Gabriel Agreste set foot out of his house after the disappearance of Émilie.
- However, this is not true, as Gabriel Agreste had come out of his house in "Simon Says" and was taken to the Kids+ studio by the titular villain, which was also after the disappearance of Gabriel's wife.
- No one other than Gabriel himself and Nathalie knows anything happened in "Simon Says" more complex than the akuma dragging Gabriel out of the mansion. If Nadja intends to imply that this is the first time Gabriel has chosen to leave his home since Émilie disappeared, then Nadja is accurately reporting the facts as she knows them.
- When Chloé puts the Bee Miraculous in her hair, it is seen in its regular colors for a split second before changing back to its disguised form.
- When Queen Bee used her spinning top to exit the Grand Palais, another spinning top can be seen wrapped around her waist.
- Before contacting Nadja Chamack, Queen Bee messed up the right side of her bangs with her hand. After the scene shifts from Nadja to Queen Bee again during their phone call, the right side of her right bang is curled above her ear and obscured by her face again.
- When Chloé transforms, the mask has yellow around her eyes and at one point the yellow surrounding her eyes is gone and her skin and makeup is shown.
- When Adrien transforms, he is wearing his regular clothes, despite having worn his suit up until this point. Given that the last shot Adrien is seen before transforming happens during his ride home from the show, there is no way Adrien would've managed to change clothes before reaching his room.
- This is likely to avoid having to animate a special transformation for Adrien while he's wearing his suit.
- When the subway train is abruptly stopped by Cat Noir's staff, Tom's hair is miscolored blond. However, it returns to brown when Ladybug swings in.
- Ladybug saying that Miraculouses are indestructible was confirmed by Thomas Astruc to be a script error.[9]
- After Queen Wasp turns back into Chloé, she is seen wearing her sunglasses. However, prior to her transformation into Queen Bee, she discarded them at the Grand Palais so she could put the Bee Miraculous in her hair.
- Chloé's makeup should be wet when she is in the water.
- Despite Cat Noir having cataclysmized the akumatized Bee Miraculous, it is possible to see another Bee Miraculous still in Queen Wasp/Queen Bee's hair when she destransforms into Chloé.
- While underwater, Chloé takes the Bee Miraculous into her right hand, but once out of the water, she has it in her left hand.
- Nathalie's highlight is miscolored pink when she turns to leave Gabriel's atelier but turns red again after she has exited.
- When Audrey mentions that she is inviting Marinette on the flight to New York, she points out that the flight will be at 8 pm, but at the end of the episode Audrey is seen waiting for Marinette during the day, which contradicts the indicated time.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://web.archive.org/web/20210623201452if_/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/fyt89x/miraculous-tales-of-ladybug-cat-noir-season-2/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/DisneySpain/status/1045213399481815040 & https://twitter.com/ChikaraYT/status/1044217121637634049"
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- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Ybj6i3A6M
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20210713035653/https://www.netflix.com/title/80164216
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