I'm glad Tikki's no longer having faith that Marinette can find love. It's decent character development.

Honestly Adrien not being able to recognize that Marinette is uncomfortable makes sense to me sense Marinette acts like that to him all the time.

Honestly, despite what people think, i love the designs of Mister Bug and Lady Noire, especially the latter

Adrien: Maybe I can get Marinette a ring? Plagg: How about no?

I think Astruc mentioned that the reason Ladybug's costume looks so basic while the rest of the Ladybug users don't is because she wasn't ready to be a superhero when she said "Spots on" so that's what she became and it stuck. I'd like to imagine if she was properly ready to go and confident, she'd be using her lucky charm outfit from the get-go. But that's more of a retcon than anything

I feel like Gabe knows that he will eventually die. And is trying to spend as much time as he can with Adrien to make up for everything if he fails in obtaining the miraculous in time.

I don’t see Adrien’s love for Marinette as too crazy a switch up. In my mind, he’s always had feelings for her without realizing it. Everytime he finds out she’s Ladybug it’s like Christmas morning for him. They’re both pretty much the same in terms of character, as in Marinette’s personality doesn’t have any major changes when she’s Ladybug. Also, once he realized his feelings it wasn’t just two weeks for his feelings to grow, as he has a year’s worth of memories of all their moments together and all the ways she showed herself to be someone who’s always there for him. While the difference between Adrien and Cat Noir made it hard for Marinette and Kagami to accept the side of himself that Adrien doesn’t often show.

The Nathalie and Adrien bonding in this episode made me love it. It was also great seeing Mister Bug and Lady Noire again!

Hahaha I’m pretty sure in the beginning Tikki was tryna help Marinette tell Adrien how she feels but as time went on she’s just sitting back and rolling her eyes😭 because let’s be honest if you were forced to listen to a teenage girl come up with stupid plans to get with her crush from school and get ABSOLUTELY nowhere and self sabotage themselves for months you’d get annoyed quickly too and watch the train slowly crash.

"Poor Adrian, he just wants a mum" had me crying 😭

Passion IMO is the best episode of Season 5: Natalie was awesome, and continues being the Queen of Season 5 Safari was a badass, both in appearance and performance The writers actually let Cat Noir/Mister Bug shine, which is such a relief Adrien is getting better control over his love for Marinette, even if it still is BS Actually info on Emilie in the past that I want more of. What can I say? Ignoring Lady Noire’s flirting, this episode is great. I approve

Natalie: practically giving Gabe death glares, snapping at him, and she and Gabe are giving “divorced parents” vibes Adrien: thinks they’re in love

Honestly it hits harder seeing Marinette fall for Chat Noir, because she's seeing him in a heroic light and appreciating him for all he does. But it does feel a bit weird that she would jump on the "this is a good idea" train so quickly.

If Monarch ever decides to give his next akumatization the power of second chance, it’s over. I honestly don’t understand why he hasn’t done that yet. Plus, when ladybug used to use it, they always succeeded.

Personally, I think Adrien’s feelings for Marinette have always been there but he’s never identified them as romantic feelings (cuz let’s be honest, Marinette isn’t that clear about her intentions either 💀). Especially if you take into consideration his interactions with her as Cat Noir. They’ve had pretty adorable platonic interactions as MariChat!

I just died of cuteness when Adrien and Nathalie hugged at the end of the episode. That was so wholesome.

I love the switched miraculous dynamic, including Marinette acting like Cn and visa versa. it is so funny.

"Meanwhile, Gabe's partaking in his favorite hobby - monologuing to his wife's refrigerated corpse..." And you question Adrien's ideas of a romantic encounter? Seriously, that boy is TAME by comparison.

11:58 In this scene, Tikki is drawing those croquettes (or whatever they were) that she got addicted to last season. Lol.

I really like how Adrien was in the spotlight in this episode Also I like how he took charge and how well he did it

I quit watching MLB, but this video's thumbnail caught my attention. Because as much as I dislike Marinette's bad behavior in this series and Thomas Astruc's treatment of others, Adrien will always hold a special place in my heart. He's such a sweetie❤

Adrien's relationship with Nathalie and how Nathalie basically bossed on Gabe is what make it one of the best episode. Her design as Safari also really good

technically ladynoir didn't accept his plan at first, he had to outright tell her "how many times have you had a plan and i trusted you with it, now is the time you need to trust me"

I just notice how the lucky charm loves mister bug more than ladybug I mean he ask for a mirror he gets a mirror he ask for a thing that will give him an excuse to go to his house he get the perfect thing for it

Oh come on Mari is not just a smooth brain when in love she is smooth brain all the way, everyone in this show is a smooth brain it just happens to be that Gabriel wins the prize for the smoothest brain

I absolutely love the chemistry and interactions with Tikki and Plagg. I totally hope we see more of it in the future.

Natalie: How dare you put banana on Adrien's pancakes! Natalie. Really?! Is this really what your mad about?!🤧🤦🏻‍♀️🤭😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I’m guessing in Adrian’s smooth brain he thinks ladybug just noticed he wasn’t giving flirty banter anymore and decided to do it herself or something

Passion was a nice episode to see the dynamic of Mr Bug and Lady Noire and that Marinette is falling for Cat Noir more and more as well as Adrien for Marinette and to even seek out advice from Natalie on this and not SMOOTH BRAINED GABE is ironically funny. I like how Plagg and Tikki hang out in a semi careful manner and discuss the imminently failing love journey of their holders and Natalie is really being developed in ALL the right ways, and I mean that character wise, ya pervs. She was a much better Akumatized villain than when she was Catalyst for Hawkmoth becoming Scarlet Moth and she is defidently still a player in this Miraculous game and even Monarch can't manipulate her like all the other villains and yeah............this was a nice little followup from Determination but still adding more detail to the lore and story of this show.

Loved this episode, although the writing this season makes me kinda sad. Yeah it's good, but that's the problem. They could've been writing the show like this the entire time but deliberately chose not to, I mean this whole season so far proves that they actually know how to make a good show.

I enjoyed the part where mr. Bug mentions that the black cat has a strange effect on her. Plus the line where they criticize how Safari breaks the laws of physics

“Adrien is hitting us with our daily dose of cringe” fr lmaooooooo

15:19 well i am surprised. It's pretty much unwritten rule of this show that Cat Noir is the one who gets paralyzed, mind controlled, etc. It doesn't matter it it's LB's, CN's or someone else's fault, he is always the target.

I gotta say the fact that they use teleporting villains/powers to help sell the illusions of villains is actually pretty big brain... and whether or not it's the same character, it's been done twice. So at least the writers know that it's a good concept.

Adrian and Marinette are perfect for each other because they are both weird obsessive and slightly creepy about their crushes. Also if Nathalie can request the exact power she wants and Gabriel can make akumas that time travel why doesn't he just akumatize himself or Nathalie to have the power to time travel. It's not like it would be suspicious as long as he fakes being mad or sad at something. He's even got the perfect excuse to have time travel by just saying he missed his wife or smth.

I was so surprised that Plagg and Tikki don't want Marinette and Adrien be together yet. It makes total sense when you look at Ephemeral and Cat Blanc, but I've seen so many fanfics where Plagg and Tikki ship them, that I was very surprised. And Tikki is sooo evil.

Theory I've had . Lila is gonna be Lila in the resistance and sabotage everything . Marinette is gonna snap out over it , Lila is gonna make it look like she ruined a plan by being suspicious of Lila as usual, and Chloe's is going to be the only one Marinette has left to try and talk to about Monarch when Aliah has a falling out with her and puts their friendship on hold and like wise Sabrina finally cuts off Chloe to help the rest of the class and she in general stops being a beta female . Which leads to Marinette and Chloe actually learning to respect each other and that they have things in common particularly fashion , superheros from other countries , maybe even video games and crafting. Chloe finds out the secret,and is responsible with it and Bada Bing Bada boom Queen bee and Lady bug are friends again when Marinette and Chloe are finally really friends and Chloe apologizes for her behavior and maybe even by some miracle Marinette apologizes for her bias Against Chloe AND Kagami . Even if she doesn't face consequences for it .

So the reason Marinette wants to pursue someone else is because she felt like she was too reckless when it came to loving adrian, its what caused her to accidentally lose her miraculous, plus, from her perspective she can't even speak to Adrian normally. When she was working with catnoir she never actually noticed how charming he really was, because at the time her only focus was saving Paris, and being in love with adrian. because she is trying to deny adrian it has once again given her a chance to see other options. I feel she genuinely has feelings for catnoir, she just wants control for once on who she can love, if not the boy of her dreams, then at least the hero of her dreams. As for Adrian he deserves to move on. Although I loved him being so passionate about ladybug he is understanding that no means no, and if someone doesn't reciprocate your feelings there is nothing wrong in finding someone new. Kagami was a fail for obvious reasons. In my opinion they clashed and didn't fit, Marinette however had always been there for him, was someone who listened to him, and to an extent does know him a bit better then everyone else. Because he was so obsessed with ladybug it was hard for him to ever admit he had real feelings for Marinette.

I was definitely glad that for once Ladybug needed to be rescued. Cat noir needed the ego boost for once

I can't really symathise with Gabriel as well. I am afraid they're gonna redeem him, but after all he has done, this man needs to go to jail. xd

Natalie did always have a little bit of protective instinct, but I don't think she originally realized how toxic Gabe was because love is blind and also shes been with him and his wife for freaking YEARS- I'd imagine Gabe must have slowly influenced her regarding Adriens 'safety'. Until, instead of saving his wife by using time travel, Gabe goes after the heroes. Then she snapped. She loved BOTH Gabe and Emilie. Gabe losing sight of what truly mattered in her mind, and instead of him finding a way to move on from the grief (Violent grief, but grief), his motive and his means get switched.

I don't even watch miraculous ladybug anymore, instead I just watch your reviews so I can be updated on what's happening. Honestly, I find your videoes more entertaining.

god i love that gabe (gabe!!) - adrien - nathalie interaction so much. the pancake saga where they prioritised their personal argument over what adrien actually wanted- as usual, even though they're trying to change. gabriel coming in with the de-escalation because if you think about it, he does have social skills- he was good at redirecting akumatized victims as hawkmoth- but he's just been using them to manipulate people. how both nathalie and gabriel's imminent DEATHS both raise the stakes and change the dynamic in the household. they for sure stepped up their writing game this season

I personally loved this epsiode so much. It is my fav episode so far of season 5.. I loved a lot of things in it ... the villain was also so cool

Both Marinette and Adrien are insane. Their insanity has gotten worse and I’m done. I’m grateful to have this review so that I don’t have to sit through an entire episode of Marinette and Adrien’s insanity.

I bet u my soul, that when a kwami holder transform they take the kwamis personality into their own. So we know why cat noir acts cheeky like plagg in the early seasons and ladybug chill and logical as tikki. It’s all connected Oh yea it’s all coming together

17:03 This has happened many times before, it's a recurring plot hole, not because of Adrien 😅

Honestly, Marinette should’ve got the Cat miraculous in the beginning. They both look so much better as the opposite! Just imagine the black-blue/purple color pallet for Marinette! And Mr. Bug just looks perfect, his green eyes with the ladybug look so much more nature-esc.

Love how the cat miraculous promotes flirting. Though the Agreste smooth brain gene strikes again. He can't be a sentimonster they both share the same smooth brain gene.

I would definitely watch a Miraculous Mr.bug spin off. I live their dynamic and outfits so muchhh

I feel like at this point Plagg has taken a somewhat father type role in Adriens life, sure he does it in his own way, but we often see him sick up for Adrien, give Adrien advice and just be there for him in general. It’s rather sweet, considering that Adrien really does have anyone else.

My best guess as to why venom wore off when they took Ladybug's earrings has to do with the Crippling Overspecialization of the power to never lose the target, it detaching when she was no longer Ladybug.

I think Nathalie was the best part of this episode, but honestly I also enjoyed Lady Noire because yes, she was flirty but she ALSO realized how creepy she was being. That was very funny, watching her being embarassed with herself (also I really loove her design). Is it me though, or is Mister Bug costume a lot more likeable then when he first appeared ? Perhaps it's just me, but this time around I found it suited him very well ^^

Honestly I didn’t think a love square reverse would’ve been so annoying 😅

I really hope the Agrestes can be one big happy family again, Nathalie is kinda the closet person Adrien even has to a mom left and I really want to see Gabriel back on the straight and narrow path for him and Nathalie's sakes

S3 Natalie is my favourite version tbh, she gets more screen time as mayura, her relationship with Gabriel kinda grows as we see in heart hunter / miracle queen and I rlly like mayuras design. I find it kind of odd how she and Gabriel were getting along season 1-4, and now she is mad? In miraculous secrets “Natalie as seen by Gabriel” we find out she found the miraculous for him and Emilie. So it’s kinda odd to me

Did anyone notice how gabriel decides to put a banana with its peel on the pancake pan , THATS NOT HOW U DO IT GABE!I

I feel like I’m the only one who read the whole Nathalie backstory as her falling in love with Emilie but that’s fine 😂 I’ll sit alone in my obscure ship

At this point we need a suit ranking😅

What if Nathalie got reakumatized into catalyst tho? Scarlet Monarch would we dope as hell

5:36 I always had those beliefs that Gabriel had his demands with the things he wants.

Something you didn't fully go into, but is this the first time Adrien has been the person to actually figure out what was needed to win the day? In Season 5!

people (even you) don't seem to realize that adrien liking marinette and ladybug liking chat noir is justified. as much as i hate how the romance plot goes (honestly, wtf. just fuck already, we've already seen you kiss), marinette's relationship with adrien has gone closer season after season (For adrien's perspective), giving gifts, talking to him, bonding, platonically lovey-dovey (idk how either). i can see how adrien see her as a potential interest (other than ladybug). While ladybug finally has eyes for chat noir he's someone she can rely upon, no matter how much rejection she did to his invitation, or the fact that she's been neglecting her in the season 4, he never went against her. when he found out ladybug lost the miracle box because she made a mistake, he didn't blame, belittle, or let out his emotion to her, he stayed by her side even if the world is against her and promised they'll bring it back. (seriously, who wouldn't fall in love with him after that?) also, chat noir haven't lost his love to ladybug, like marinette haven't on adrien. he focused on marinette more to keep his mind away from ladybug plus all the things i've said earlier. whilst marinette...i don't know either. her excuse is so she doesn't lose focus on her mission (even though she literally admits on liking chat noir, her partner IN mission). basically just copium all in all adrien/chat noir is the best character in this series.

I love Misterbug's design. But give him Antenna's damnit!

5:10 In Gabe's defense they hinted at Natalie being a trained martial artist more than once

My god, did u see how fast gabe ran to Natalie when she de akumatized, like he can one up usain bolt

Despite the show’s writing going downhill throughout the years, i rlly like the entire subplot theyre doing with Natalie,

12:39 Except for the fact that in the episodes that comes after she went pretty far and even had a date with the person she likes...don't be so sure about that Tikki 😉

8:00 ok, I do love this rant, as it reminds me of Friends season 1 when Ross felt like he needed to express his feelings for Rachel despite the fact that she had already said she was ok with him asking her out in the first episode, then he tries to woo her later on instead, oh I don't know, just asking her out, and then completely gives up on her without telling her how he felt and surprise surprise, all it took for her to be interested in him was to reveal his feelings for her!

Even if Gabe took an internist in adrien since the beginning he wouldn’t have health relationship boundaries. Remember Gabe plans to delete and recreate the universe to brink back his wife

The darkest episode of Season 5 is this one by far. Gabriel fucked up so badly that now Gabriel has no choice but to continue hunting the Miraculous due to the fact that their lives are literally on the line!!!!

I am still so flabberghasted about how the venom works… so apperently it doesn't just paralyze you (maybe besides from the normal bodyfunctions otherwise the victim would die because they didn't breathe anymore) but also freezes all of you peripheral functions? Like Ladybug a hundred percent saw and heard adrien when he detransformed because he was in her eyesight… the only other explanation i can muster up that would answer all questions is that venom just freezes you in time, thus making excluding the breathing function redundant and also explaining why people just 'wake up' wihtout knowing what happened when they're frozen… weird misnamed power that one…

I love these videos, they get me laughing at every turn. XD Keep up the good work, my man! ^^

This kind of thing makes me very confused with Nathalie, I like her and I even have empathy for her, but then she does something that makes me angry. So she knew about these messages recorded by Emilie and even kept them instead of destroying as Gabriel wanted, but didn't do anything about it? What happened? Has she seen these messages before or not? She seems to have a lot of respect for Emilie to the point of being touched by the message and already had affection for Adrien, but still never thought about stopping or doing something? Not even the new Miraculous game escapes this, in this game Nathalie arranges a normal birthday party for Adrien and he invites his friends and all, but on the day of the party Nathalie as Mayura activates a sentimonster and starts her own plan without Gabriel's knowledge to win help him which causes chaos and the party is canceled. Really Nathalie? Adrien just wanted a happy normal party and you get one just to destroy later? Couldn't you wait just one more day to use your sentimonster? The plan was hers and it was a secret, so she was in no hurry and had anyone to demand it go faster, she could wait another day as the first part of the plan had already caused some trouble...

This episode puts Reflectdoll to shame. I love this episode not my favorite, that's the next episode, but still very well done and shows how far the writing has come. The swap felt better and was more funny then before. And before anyone who loves Reflectdoll says anything I didn't think it was bad. I just think this was better done. Also the both of them not being able to tell the other voices out of costume has been a thing since season 2 so its not new at all, and is not only done by Adrian. The action scenes were great ,and the most engaged I've been with the action in a while. And Ladynoir was so funny. She new she was being weird, but she couldn't stop I guess it just what the cat miraculous does to you. Anyway very well done 9.5/10

Plague already knowing where tiki and Marinette is, if he really had to go talk to someone besides Adrian.. but his nickname is stinky sock so I doubt he would. Amazing video you did an excellent job.

The part where he said monologing to his wife’s refrigerated corpse was so funny

I used to hate younger me for starting this show but now I think she deserves an apology, this show is still super frustrating but it’s fun to watch the train crash and now I know a few more things not to do when writing.

I love Nathalie, she’s an icon and I love that she cares for Adrien and for Emile and Safari was SOOOOOO COOL

6:40 Gabriel’s slowly receiving his n-word pass

It's so sad that people thought that the writing as improving when it would ultimately become much worse.

I miss LB and CN's old dynamic. Their playful banter and easy camaraderie, I mean. I don't miss Chat being pushy. I just wish that we could see more of them being friends without one or the other getting caught up in awkward flirting. Here's hoping that LB with dial it back now, after what happened in Elation. I don't have a problem with her having a crush on him, quite the opposite actually, but I HATE listening to her drool over Chat the same way she used to drool over Adrien.

I think she got unfrozen after detransforming because it was not regular Venom, it was hunter's venom that searched and affected Ladybug specifically

I admire your love for this show despite being aware of its flaws, it's an interesting viewpoint that I respect.

Marinette went from lusting to Adrien to Cat Noir. Adrien is sadly love poisoned for Marinette. But seeing him not take Ladybug's romance approach seriously honestly puts a smile on my face. Also Emilie isn't evil! I told you so! Also Emilie X Natalie anyone? Also Tikki and Plagg were fucking savage in this episode! I'm glad Plagg doesn't approve of Adrien falling in love with Marinette! Thank God!

I thought the power of passion cant make the object it makes magical But it literally used a miraculous power💀

6:15 because it's at that point that she realises that Gabe doesn't care for anyone but himself!

Tikki the kwami of savageness

I hope they flesh out Adrian’s emotions when Natalie and Gabe die also I reckon they’re gonna show more uncontrollable anger from cat noir from what we’ve seen so far

I thought this episode was cute- I wouldn’t enjoy it if Mari wasn’t self aware that she was being cringe, but she was, and that makes those horrible- horribly cringe situations actually funny

Tikki and Plagg freely meeting up at school worries me because it might be a Kwamibuster situation all over again if someone saw them.

"Whoo whoo, guess old Gabe has needs too, eh? Gabe you old dog" 😅😂 idk how to feel about that one, but it got me cracking me up.

More art class Plagg and Tikki conversations please, it is so cute!

I agree, we haven’t rlly gotten an actual story until season 4

Omg... So Adrien thinks he is finally getting his dad back (if he was actually involved before Emily died?) and that he is getting a new mom too, and they will be a happy family and it will be just great, and in reality both "parents" are rapidly dying and hate each other... That's really sad.

The only explanation of how cringy Anyone whos with the cat miraculous to anyone who has the bug miraculous, is that plagg has a crush on Tikki, we do know since Kwami's and Avatars merge into a new being (kinda like What fusion in DB) and merging shares the Personality of each other, also interests.

honestly it willbe "better" in my eyes when they actually commit to a chloe redemtion arc (which from thelooksof things isnever)

Looking back on all of this after the finale, I think what would’ve made season 5 (or at least early season 5) a lot more interesting is if Marinette didn’t figure out the felix switch until later and thought that Adrian was the one who betrayed her and gave all the miraculous to Hawk/Shadow Moth or I guess monarch now It would have given us a status quo change of the highest order making marinette secretly hate Adrian (secretly because she wouldn’t have a reason as Marinette only as ladybug It would also make the love square flip make so much more sense with Marinette trying to distance herself from feelings for Adrian and looking to Chat Noir Adrian’s side still wouldn’t make sense though IDK just a thought

3:23 c’mon. It’s cute 😍 Gabriel making pancakes however - that’s creeping me out 🥞 🥶

Speaking of fashion, I have a theory that someone responsible for the 3d models hates Adrian for some reason. It looks so silly when he is always wearing the same outfit. In bed, right after a shower, always! Man, give the poor guy a pajama suit and a bathrobe if you keep putting him in those settings, ya know? XD