#Ml Strike Back

[belowthesurface]

more of this au (miraculous transformations make a trans holder their preferred gender even if they dont know yet, adrien and felix are transfem)

Bonus

[monpetitchattriste]

For personal reasons

[purplecatghostposts]

Ladybug/Pegabug in Strike Back 🤝 Pegasus in Miracle Queen

Teleporting Sentis into the sun

[familyagrestefanblog]

I think I'm soon gonna upload an explanation for why I say that in my opinion Marinette in the original french version of the season 4 finale obviously referred to ALYA having "abandoned her" when she said this:

Cause in my opinion the season 4 finale makes that more than obvious and it's wild to me that people claim she's referring to Fu as if that isn't some wildly out of pocket victim-blaming that has barely anything to do with what happened on-screen.

And no, this is not me salting on Alya. I'm mostly on Alya's side here. And I still wouldn't even call this Marinette salt either because all I'm doing is not blatantly ignoring what's on-screen in their conversation where Alya renounces the Fox miraculous:

Like, it's THERE. Marinette feels betrayed by Alya leaving 'despite' Marinette having voiced her forgiveness. It's on-screen, I don't have to ignore that just because yall rather wanna put it on Fu so you don't have to acknowledge that Marinette has actual flaws that are ugly and shouldn't be swept under the rug.

So yeah, I'll upload an analysis post on that soon. I brought it up here and there and I want to give the proper explanation for why.

[nemaliwrites]

what we want / what we need

[official-vampire-business]

have some frame redraws in these trying times (mr pigeon & strike back)

[wildtornado-o]

Flairmidable redeisgn I did for fun! I like his cannon design but it feels a little blank to me lol

Kept his thigh high boots those are like, a staple to me. Also kept his fluffier hair bcs I think its cute and works well with the dog theme

[iwasbored777]

This is one of my favourite comments that I ever got on my video. The video was explaining why it wasn't Marinette's fault for what happened in Strikeback.

The fact that it took me 1.17 minutes to explain the entire situation proves how clear it is what happened there.

[trashart00]

Tried to make one of those hidden wallpapers

[feather-of-argos]

Flairmidable: *dejectedly watching strikeback fall into the sun*

Ladybug: They died of natural causes

Flairmidable: You dropped them into the sun!

Ladybug: Gravity is natural

[belowthesurface]

[genderqueeradrien]

& never wonder if the same pressure would've pulled you under

surface pressure + marinette in risk, strike back, and gang of secrets

[karlrose]

He knows that his decision to have Felix face his father for him led to Ladybug giving him a miraculous, thinking he was Adrien. He knows that having this miraculous is what allowed him to gain access to the other miraculous. Ladybug, His Lady, had a panic attack in his room and a complete emotional breakdown on his bathroom floor while he listened from the other side of the door. Don't try to tell me he's not still carrying that with him.

[mrplushgore]

Season 4 finale went kinda hard, huh?

[mladybugbrasil]

Esse final acaba comigo...😭

[character-fan19]

MLB Season 4 Character Analysis: "Shadow Moth's Final Attack (Risk & Strikeback)"

Introduction

Here we are at last, the season 4 finale. Since you guys didn't tell me whether I should make this two separate posts or not in my Penalteam analysis I decided to make them one post since it's the season finale. If you missed that post you can find it here. If this is the first time you're seeing one of these posts, then you've arrived very late in the game. Here I look at the individual characters in every individual episode of season 4 to lay out their overall story and the reasons behind why they do what they do.

So this episode... I bet no one was expecting to see Gabriel actually get all the Miraculous. Granted he had help from Felix disguising himself as Adrien but he wouldn't have been able to do what he did without Shadow Moth making his move with both Risk and Strikeback. A lot of things go down this episode and I personally believe that it's the best season finale we've had by far so let's get into this analysis.

Character POVs

Marinette/Ladybug

"Why don't you just give up on me? I lost all the Miraculous! I'm the worst Guardian ever! I wanted to control everything! I didn't listen to you! I lied to you! I kept you at a distance! Every time you offered me a helping hand, I never took it! I really made a mess of everything!"

Just as Cat Noir solved his side of the miscommunication in "Kuro Neko", Ladybug solved her side in this finale. In that episode, she came to the conclusion that Cat Noir was feeling useless and she should do everything she can to let him know how much he means to her as we see at the beginning of the first part, "Risk" she assured him that he was still special to her even though things aren't the way they used to be anymore by giving him a kiss on the cheek when he once again voices his feelings to her.

But their relationship still continues to have problems due to Ladybug still sending the wrong messages to Cat Noir on her side which is understandable due to her Cat Blanc trauma as it was highlighted in "Strikeback". But despite her trying to control everything, what led to her downfall was something that was completely out of her control, that is Felix swapping places with Adrien on the same day Shadow Moth decided to launch one of his biggest attacks yet and by the end of the episode everything from her nightmare in "Sentibubbler" came true except for one thing. Someone she trusted with a Miraculous betrayed her (Felix disguised as Adrien), Alya revealed her secret to someone (Nino) and Shadow Moth got all the Miraculous. But the one part of her nightmare that didn't come true was Cat Blanc because even after all the mistakes she's made Cat Noir is still by her side, as loyal as ever.

One thing to note on the Marinette side of things is that when Adrien told her about how much he hated being a model and how much he didn't want to go on the trip, she unlike Felix and Kagami didn't ridicule or scold him for not being able to stand up to his father but understood his perspective and tried to help Adrien herself when her friends didn't believe her when she said that Adrien didn't want to go on the trip which is understandable because everyone (including the fandom from what I've seen) sees her as Marinette: the girl who comes up with ridiculous nonsense in her head and does stupid things.

2. Adrien/Cat Noir

"If only you knew how sick I was of all of it. The photos, the film shoots, all these people fawning over me who don't even know me, these ads that don't make any sense and now I'm expected to just leave my friends and travel to the end of the world for I don't know how long with Lila?"

Now moving onto Adrien who finally opened up to someone about how feels deep down about modelling and leaving his friends behind to go on a world trip with Lila and this strengthened his relationship with Marinette. All of Adrien's relationships have crumbled upto this point but his relationship with Marinette on the other hand has been unaffected at worst and improved at best as we've been building up to with the episodes like "Lies", "Queen Banana" and "Rocketear". When he saw the opportunity to not leave with Felix he was desperate and took it which was a grave mistake.

On the Cat Noir side of things, his relationship with Ladybug still has some work since Ladybug still hasn't opened up on her side which again is understandable with her Cat Blanc trauma but Cat Noir doesn't know that and that led to him believing that Ladybug doesn't care about him and is leaving him in the dark about everything which was their argument in "Strikeback" and when Ladybug tells him to go and detransform this led him to thinking that Ladybug doesn't appreciate him again and with the influence of Risk, he recklessly faced off against Strikeback which led to them obtaining the his Cataclysm. But towards the end of the episode when he as Adrien sees how much pressure Ladybug has been under this entire time he felt bad for her and went to their special spot as Cat Noir because he knew he needed her now more than ever.

3. Alya

"I'm sorry. I couldn't keep it from him."

Finally we have Alya due to whom Shadow Moth found out that she was still active as Rena Furtive due to telling Nino in "Rocketear" but to be fair though, if she hadn't told Nino she probably would've died in the scene where Carapace protected her so it was a lose-lose either way.

After Ladybug found out she felt remorse for her mistake and even though Ladybug forgave her and didn't intend to take away her Miraculous, Alya thought it best to renounce her Miraculous and give it back to her which truly shows how much she learned as has grown as a hero throughout this season.

Conclusion

Well, that's it. Here we are at the end of these character analysis posts, at least for season 4. After the English dub episodes of all of season 5 have been released I'll probably do analysis posts for those as well but for now this is the end. It's been a fun ride everyone, let me know what you thought of this analysis and the series as a whole and with that being said, I'll probably be seeing you again with season 5.