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{{Infobox episode
|season = 6
|episode = 8
|overall = 139
|photo = Vampigami - Header Image.png
|image = Vampigami - End Card.png
|prodcode = 608<ref>https://web.isan.org/public/en/isan/0000-0004-6226-009C-F-0000-0000-T</ref>
|writer = 
*[[Thomas Astruc]]
*[[Sébastien Thibaudeau]]
*Pierre Doublier
|storyboard = 
*Céline Foriscetti
*Andréa Rebel
*Bilal Tafrounti
|director = 
*Thomas Astruc
*[[Wilfried Pain]]
|studio = [[Dwarf Animation]]
}}
'''"{{PAGENAME}}"''' is a [[Season 6]] episode of the series, [[Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir]]. As based on the series' production order specifically, '''"{{PAGENAME}}"''' is the 8th written and produced episode of Season 6. It is also the 139th written and produced episode of the series, overall.

==Synopsis==
===TF1+===
Fearing he'd stop loving her if she didn't go to the movies with him, Marinette forces herself to go with Adrien to a special showing of a horror film. Marinette's worst phobia. Chills, anxiety, and terror guaranteed! Boo!

==Plot==
TBA

==Characters==
===Major Characters=== 
*[[Marinette Dupain-Cheng|Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug]]
*[[Adrien Agreste|Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir]]
*[[Rose Lavillant|Rose Lavillant/Pigella]]
*[[Juleka Couffaine|Juleka Couffaine/Purple Tigress]]
*[[Lila Rossi|Cerise Bianca/Chrysalis]]
*[[Tikki]]
*[[Roaar]] 
*[[Kamiko|Ultrakuma]]
*[[Prem|Prem/Count Vampigami]]
*[[Gabrielle Grassette]]
*[[Johnny Grassette]]

===Minor Characters===
*[[Alya Césaire]]
*[[Trixx]]
*[[Mylène Haprèle]]
*[[Zoé Lee]]
*[[Nino Lahiffe]]
*[[Nathaniel Kurtzberg]]
*[[Nathalie Sancoeur]]
*[[Placide I.T.]]
*[[Loïc Stompet]]
*[[Raymond Pugnant]]
*[[Nelson de Glusset]]
*[[Aglaé]]
*[[Sublime Varlette]]
*[[Luka Couffaine]]
*[[André Bourgeois]]
*[[Tomoe Tsurugi]]
*[[List of minor characters/Humans#Hairdresser|Hairdresser]] (flashback)
*[[Plagg]] (background)
*[[Nora Césaire]] (background)
*[[Marc Anciel]] (background)
*[[Lê Chiến Kim]] (background)
*[[Ivan Bruel]] (background)
*[[Émilie Agreste]] (pictured)
*[[Gabriel Agreste]] (pictured; Hawk Moth mentioned)
*[[Jagged Stone]] (pictured)
*Students
*Civilians

==Plot Developments==
*Rose is revealed to be bald, possibly related to the disease she has had since a young age that was revealed in "[[Guiltrip]]", and to have been wearing a wig.
**It is unknown if she had always been wearing a wig, or if she had just started recently.
**The fact she is bald implies that she is receiving a treatment which has a side effect of causing hair to fall out, like chemotherapy. This would further indicate that the disease she is or was battling is some kind of cancer, or leukemia.
***However, it should be noted that hair loss isn't a side effect exclusive to cancer or its treatment, and multiple diseases, conditions, medications, treatments, or even aggravated emotional stress can cause hair loss. Therefore, this is not confirmation that Rose has or has had cancer.
*Adrien making breakfast for Marinette and him is another showcase of his culinary skills, which he seemed to have picked up some time before "[[Climatiqueen]]". This culinary prowess is passed down in the family since his [[Gabriel Agreste|father]] showed this skill in episodes like "[[Illusion]]", [[Intuition]]" and "[[Pretension]]" and his paternal [[Johnny Grassette|grandfather]] and [[Gabrielle Grassette|grandmother]] showed theirs in  "[[Werepapas]]".
**Nathalie implies that Marinette regularly comes for breakfast alongside Adrien at the [[Agreste mansion]].
**When Adrien and Marinette talk on the phone with his grandparents, they are seen in their French fry restaurant, which they were stated to own in "Werepapas". Gabriel also worked there in his youth, as shown in his file in "[[Revelation]]".
*Johnny and Gabrielle Grassette, Adrien's paternal grandparents and Gabriel's parents, buy tickets for him and Marinette to come watch the [[Vampire Musical Horrific Show]] on its golden 50th anniversary, which Adrien does at the end. His grandparents expressed their desire to know/spend time with Adrien when they first met in "Werepapas".
**The movie is presented directly by [[André Bourgeois]]. In the cold open of "[[Grendiaper]]", he was shown to have become the new owner of the movie theater and lived in the same building alongside [[Zoé Lee]] since at least the beginning of the new school year.
**Marinette ultimately doesn't stay to watch the movie, partially because she dislikes horror movies. Marinette's dislike for horror movies was first mentioned by her in "[[Gorizilla]]".
**[[Nathalie Sancoeur|Nathalie]] is also a fan of the Vampire Musical Horrific Show, though she keeps this to herself.
*[[Alya Césaire|Alya]] tries to convince Marinette to be honest to Adrien about her dislike of horror movies. She previously gave relationship advice to Marinette in "[[The Illustrhater]]" and previously advised Marinette to be forward with her feelings towards Adrien and helped her stage possible dates in the first 5 seasons.
*[[Prem]], a character shown in the background of some episodes like "[[Daddycop]]", "[[Sleeping Syren]]" and "[[El Toro De Piedra]]", is fully introduced and shown to have befriended Marinette, Adrien and their other friends.
*[[Loïc Stompet]], [[Raymond Pugnant]], and [[Nelson de Glusset]] try to cause strife in Rose and Juleka's relationship. They were previously shown trying to damage [[Lê Chiến Kim|Kim]]'s and [[Ondine]]'s relationship back in "[[Sleeping Syren]]", in which they also tried to break them up .
**When [[Zoé Lee|Zoé]] tries to stand up to them, Ray blackmails her to stand down by threatening to show [[The Miraculers|her friends]] the video with a bad thing she did in while in [[New York City|New York]]. He first did that at the end of "[[Daddycop]]".
*Juleka is shown to be affected by Luka's distance since he is not personally there to comfort her in times of need. One of those times was in "[[Reflekdoll]]".
*Among her many disguises, seen in "Re-creation" and briefly in "The Illustrhater", "Sublimation" and "Sleeping Syren", Cerise is also seen to work at the movie theater.
*Cerise sent an already-powered ultrakuma and to akumatize Prem without the need to transform. This was seen when Gabriel akumatized himself in "[[The Collector]]", "[[Dearest Family]]" (briefly), "[[Representation]]" and "[[Conformation (The Final Day - Part 1)|Conformation]]" and in "[[Startrain]]", where the titular villain was akumatized without Hawk Moth, proving that the Butterfly Miraculous only needs to transform in order to produce a kamiko/akuma.
**It's revealed that not only can Butterfly Miraculous holders still sense emotions when detransformed, but that that they are able to establish a connection with their targets, since Cerise telepathically spoke with Prem before akumatizing him.
***Due to this and the similarly-powered Peacock Miraculous holders being able to sense amoks even when detransformed, it's possible that Butterfly holders are also able to sense Kamikos/Akumas when detransformed.
***Also, despite being transformed, Chrysalis was able to prevent herself from getting brainwashed and still use her powers as a clone, as she was about to shoot an [[antikuma]] at Cat Noir.
*Count Vampigami's power is very similar to that of Reflekta's, as both are capable of turning people into copies of themselves.
**Count Vampigami's power seem to take after Reflekta's powers from "[[Confrontation]]", where both turn people into themselves by throwing an object and their copies act like them.
*Cerise starts to suspect Marinette is Ladybug after watching her hiding in a restroom during an akumatized villain attack, but since the latter was warned by Tikki about the existence of a camera at the restroom and didn't transform, she doesn't have definitive proof of that. This was foreshadowed at the end of "[[Re-creation (The Final Day - Part 2)|Re-creation]]", when she said to herself that she awaited to meet Marinette again.
**Cerise did learn Marinette's identity during the events of "[[Miraculous London]]". but the knowledge was erased from her mind and she was stopped from finding out again by Chronobug and Bunnyx.
***Marinette/Ladybug stated she already had a feeling abut the new Butterfly holder's intentions, which was confirmed in this episode. This feeling may be due to the events of "[[Miraculous London]]".
*It is revealed that Cerise is an accomplice of Tomoe Tsurugi and that their main objective is not to retrieve Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses with the akumatizations, but, rather, discover their identities. The akumatized villains are treated by Cerise as more of distractions rather than actual competent henchmen, and their main purpose is to allow Cerise to examine and observe the heroes.
**Cerise previously took Tomoe's laptop after she dropped it in "[[Revolution]]" to enter the Agreste mansion during "[[Re-creation (The Final Day - Part 2)|Re-creation]]" to steal the [[Butterfly Miraculous]].
**At the end, she is shown to travel in a limousine similar to Tomoe's car, which also has the [[Tatsu]] AI.

==Trivia==
*"Vampigami" is a portmanteau of "vampire" (referencing the characters in the movie) and "origami" (referencing the origami bats used for the movie).
**It is similar to "[[Kagami Tsurugi|Kagami]]", leading many fans to believe she would be the one akumatized or focused on in this episode.
**It is also similar to "[[Optigami]]", another portmanteau of "origami" with "optic", referencing the [[Optigami (sentimonster)|Sentimonster's]] optic powers and origami-like appearance.
***Ultimately, had nothing to do with any of these references, except for origami.
*And as of this Orikko and Daizzi are the last Kwamis of the Miraculouses to receive a new 6 season look update yet.
**Sublimation and Amokization are the last Miraculous superpowers to be used with a season 6 update.

===Allusions===
*Prem refers to Marinette and Adrien as "Adri(e)nette", which is commonly used as their ship name in fan spaces.
*''The Vampire Musical Horrific Show'' is a cult horror musical film with a tradition of people dressing up for its showings and doing and reciting formulaic things throughout the movie, a clear reference to the 1975 film ''[[wikipedia:The Rocky Horror Picture Show|The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', a movie adaptation of the 1973 musical ''[[wikipedia:The Rocky Horror Show|The Rocky Horror Show]]'', both of which have gained a cult following in the [[wikipedia:LGBTQ community|LGBTQ community]].
*Prem's akumatization design is based on [[wikipedia:Count Dracula|Count Dracula]], the titular character and villain of [[wikipedia:Bram Stoker|Bram Stoker]]'s 1897 novel [[wikipedia:Dracula|of the same name]], which has inspired many vampire movies, as well as [[wikipedia:Tim Curry|Tim Curry]]'s potrayal of [[w:c:rockyhorror:Frank-N-Furter|Frank-N-Furter]], one of the main characters of ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show''.
*Count Vampigami's dance moves reference [[wikipedia:Michael Jackson|Michael Jackson]]'s moves for ''[[wikipedia:Thriller (song)|Thriller]]''.

===Errors===
*When Juleka calls Luka, her hair in her profile picture is missing the purple streaks.
*Before the end card, the sign with the vampire which scares Marinette is placed on the tiles. However, when the scene is shown again after the end card, it is placed on the bricks.
*At the beginning of the episode, Rose's new wig is colored brown in her reflection.
*When Ladybug and Cat Noir swing down to the road, all the Vampigamis are gone for a frame, and reappear in the next shot.

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