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Shell-ter is the special superpower granted by the Turtle Miraculous to its owner.
Description[]
This superpower allows the user to materialize a protective barrier. It is activated by the user speaking its name.
Miraculous owner[]
The Turtle Miraculous owner holds up the shield and materializes a transparent green spherical barrier with a segmented hexagonal pattern, like that of a turtle shell. The user can erect the barrier around themselves, or around someone or something else.
As seen in "Intuition", the barrier can even be erected from many kilometers away, even all the way in outer space.
The force field is incredibly strong and durable, enough that it can endure a massive, incredibly heavy structure, such as the Arc de Triomphe, the collapsing on top of it, and it can stop incoming projectiles, even very fast and powerful ones, like Penalteam's soccer ball or large structure sent flying by the power of Clout. In "Mega Leech" and "Rocketear", it is revealed that the barrier can also be used as a cage, it can even contain a herd of rampaging dinosaurs. Shell-ter is also capable of cutting through anything that crosses its border upon materialization, such as Anansi's webs, implying that Shell-ter can be used for bladed combat if shaped correctly.
Its size and shape can vary as the user wishes; in terms of its size, it has so far been seen to range from being small enough to protect only a single body part, as seen in "Miraculer", to large enough to cover an entire soccer field, as seen in "Rocketear". In terms of shape, it is revealed in "Kuro Neko" that Shell-ter doesn't have to be perfect a sphere or a dome, as the one Carapace used to capture Gigantitan was a long spheroid.
In "Optigami" and "Ephemeral", it is revealed that the barrier is also portable; it can move and follow anyone it's surrounding, as well fall to the ground when they do. This also means that if the barrier is only protecting a single body part, then the barrier will follow the user the same way a normal piece of armor would when it's being worn. Furthermore, as seen in "Mega Leech" and "Strikeback", if the barrier is surrounding something that is floating in mid air, then the barrier itself will float as well.
Notably, as seen in "Transmission", if the user of Shell-ter also has the Ox Miraculous superpower, Resistance, then the two powers can be combined to make the barrier impervious to superpowers, effectively making it truly impenetrable.
The Turtle Miraculous owner can dematerialize the barrier by speaking the cancellation phrase: "Unshield".
Wayzz[]
The effects of Wayzz's Shell-ter 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[]
The force field is strong, but not completely impenetrable. It can be broken with sufficient force. Several hits from a Sentimonster, or a herd of dinosaurs, was capable of cracking the barrier and eventually breaking through it. What's more, Cataclysm is capable of breaking and destroying the barrier in a single hit/touch.
The barrier is transparent, however, as seen in "Transmission", the view can be obscured if the barrier is covered with something, such as ink.
As seen in "Party Crasher", the barrier can be bypassed by the power of Voyage. It is unknown if other teleportation powers, such as Doorman's would also be able to get through.
Assuming the user can use Shell-ter more than once, they would only be able to materialize and maintain one barrier at a time, as seen in "Miraculer" and "Protection". Upon materializing a new barrier, the old one will disappear.
If is used against an Ox Miraculous user, then Resistance can cancel out the effects and the barrier won't be formed.
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[]
Season | Episode | Summoner | Reason | Image |
Season 2 | "Anansi" | Carapace | Used to protect Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Alya Césaire as the Arc de Triomphe was crumbling down. | |
Season 3 | "Miraculer" | Used to protect Ladybug from Miraculer's attack. | ||
"Party Crasher" | Attempted to use to protect Cat Noir, Viperion and Pegasus from Party Crasher, but Carapace was absorbed by the villain before he had a chance to activate it. | |||
Used to protect Ladybug and her team from Party Crasher's attacks. | ||||
"Heart Hunter" | Jade Turtle | Used to protect himself from Hawk Moth's and Mayura's attacks. It was almost broken by the Butterfly sentimonster's stinger. | ||
"Miracle Queen" |
Episode | Summoner | Reason | Image |
"Mega Leech" | Carapace | Used to trap all the akumas and amoks Ryuko gathered around the city after Polymouse defeated the Mini-Malediktators so they won't escape, allowing Ladybug to capture and purify them all back into white butterflies and feathers. | |
"Optigami" | Senticarapace | Used to protect Lady Bee from Style Queen's attacks. | |
"Rocketear" | Carapace | Used to keep the dinosaurs from escaping until Ladybug came back. | |
"Ephemeral" | Used to protect Vesperia from Moolak's attacks. | ||
"Kuro Neko" | Used to trap Gigantitan. | ||
"Penalteam" | Used to prevent Penalteam from scoring into their goal. | ||
"Strikeback" | Used to protect Rena Furtive from an incoming ferris wheel, but ended up exposing her to Shadow Moth. | ||
Used to contain the three Strikebacks so Pegabug can teleport them to the sun. | |||
Monarch | Used to protect the akumas of his message transmission as he talks to all the people of Paris about Ladybug's downfall of losing fifteen of the Chinese Zodiac Miraculouses, so that the Mirage showing the symbols of the Chinese Zodiac Miraculouses won't be touched, and Ladybug won't purify the akumas, as she did back in "Stoneheart". |
Episode | Summoner | Reason | Image |
"Evolution" | Monarch | Used to protect the akumas of his message transmission as he talks to all the people of Paris about Ladybug's downfall of losing fifteen of the Chinese Zodiac Miraculouses, so that the Mirage showing the symbols of the Chinese Zodiac Miraculouses won't be touched, and Ladybug won't purify the akumas, as she did back in "Stoneheart". | |
Used to keep Ladybug and Cat Noir from preventing him from taking the Rabbit Miraculous from future Bunnyx. | |||
Used to protect himself from Ladybug and Rabbit Noir when they tried to take the Rabbit Miraculous from him, so he could escape back into the Burrow. | |||
"Reunion" | Pharaoh | Used twice, both to protect the Book of Truth. | |
"Transmission" | Kiku | Used to protect his helmet from Scarabella's and Kitty Noire's attacks, as it was the akumatized object. | |
"Intuition" | Monarch | Used to trap Astrocat so he wouldn't escape and Cosmobug wouldn't be able to help him. | |
"Protection" | Riposte Prime | Used it on Placide I.T., as he was trying to protect Marinette. | |
Used it on Adrien to prevent him from interfering on her objective. | |||
Used it against Marinette to prevent her from lying or manipulating anyone else, especially Adrien. | |||
"Revolution" | Queen Mayor's robots | Used to trap Ladybug and Cat Noir and wait for them to detransform to reveal their identities. | |
Used to trap the citizens who started the revolution against Queen Mayor and also used by the citizens who made the robots trap each other. | |||
"Re-creation" | Monarch | Used 3 times to protect his hand and prevent Bug Noire from taking his rings. |
Episode | Summoner | Reason | Image |
Episode | Summoner | Reason | Image |
"Miraculer" | Miraculer | Used to block Rena Rouge's attack. | |
Used to prevent Carapace from reaching her akumatized object. | |||
Used to protect her armpit from being tickled by Ladybug's Lucky Charm feather. | |||
"Conformation" and "Re-creation" | Miraculized | The Miraculized were able to use the powers channeled by Monarch after detecting Ladybug and Cat Noir's quantum aura, but they didn't use Shell-ter. |
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Trivia[]
- The name of the superpower is a play on the words "shell" and "shelter".
- In the French dub, this superpower is called "Protection".
- In the Korean dub, this superpower is called "Shield".
- In both Russian and Brazillian dubs, this superpower is called "Shell".
- In the European Spanish, this superpower is called "Protección" while in the Latin American Spanish is called "Caparazón".
- In the episode "Optigami" it is revealed the user can also say "Shell Off," but it should be noted that this is most likely an error as it's also the Turtle Miraculous' detransformation phrase.
- It is possible that this cancellation phrase was changed in order to not be confused with the detransformation phrase of the user.
- Following Mirage, Shell-ter is the second Miraculous superpower to have a cancellation phrase.
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