The WORST episodes of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
Every episode of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir!
In modern-day Paris, there's a teen junior high school girl named Marinette Dupain-Cheng and her classmate, Adrien. When evil arises, Marinette transforms into Ladybug while Adrien transforms into Cat Noir. However, neither know each other's secret identities. Together, they fight to protect Paris against the mysterious villain Hawk Moth.
#1 - The Bubbler
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/8/2015
Adrien's best friend, Nino, is akumatized into the Bubbler, a villain who traps adults in bubbles and sends them floating away into the atmosphere.
#2 - Stormy Weather
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/1/2015
After losing a contest for TV weather girl, bitter Aurore is akumatized into the villain Stormy Weather, who traps Marinette's friend Alya in ice.
#3 - Illusion
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/2022
A secret network at school is determined to find out how Monarch's new power works by deliberately triggering an akumatization. Would Ladybug and Cat Noir agree with such a plan?
#4 - Guitar Villain
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/3/2016
Rock star Jagged Stone is akumatized into a supervillain who tries to transform all Parisians into fans and undermine his musical rival, Mr. XY.
#5 - Reunion
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/2022
While visiting the Louvre museum, Marinette discovers the secrets of the kwagatama that Tikki gave her on her birthday.
#6 - Pixelator
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/26/2016
Rejected by a rock star, an angry fan becomes Pixelator, who traps Parisians in his camera's memory until Cat Noir and Ladybug halt his photo spree.
#7 - Mr. Pigeon
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/29/2015
The akuma fighters try to apprehend Mr. Pigeon, a bird lover who has kidnapped all the park keepers in Paris, but Cat Noir's allergies interfere.
#8 - Derision
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/16/2023
What if the answer to Marinette's relationship problems lay in her own past? Back when she wasn't the Marinette we know today...
#9 - Bakerix
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/12/2019
Ladybug challenges her own grandfather. Transformed into Bakerix, he wants to destroy what he deems too modern to get back the Paris of his time.
#10 - Adoration
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/7/2023
When Marinette and Zoe are chosen to organize the end-of-school-year party, Marinette learns that Zoe is secretly in love with someone in ninth grade at school. Zoe says that she cannot talk about it. To Marinette, this can only mean one thing: Zoe is in love with Adrien! But before she finds out whether she is right or not, a common enemy of the girls will try to ruin their beautiful friendship…
#11 - Penalteam
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/2022
When one of Shadow Moth's favorite victims is akumatized into Penalteam, a fearsome team of supervillains, Ladybug calls on her own superheroes to face her. May the best team win!
#12 - Stormy Weather 2
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/2/2019
Chloé picks on Aurore after her grades slip due to her job as a weather girl, angering her and allowing Hawk Moth to transform her back into Stormy Weather, but this time with her powers much stronger than before. After defeating her, Marinette works up the courage to deliver some schoolwork Adrien missed due to a photoshoot.
#13 - Protection
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/30/2023
As the gang comes up with yet another overcomplicated plan to bring Marinette and Adrien together, Lila uses her talent for manipulation to persuade Kagami that Marinette is a liar who abuses everyone else’s kindness. Shocked, Kagami is akumatized into Riposte Prime. She lays into Marinette at the very moment when Adrien had managed to finally make her feel comfortable around him. Will Lila’s poisonous lie ruin the friendship between Kagami, Marinette and Adrien?
#14 - Gigantitan
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/2017
Marinette's plans to ask Adrien out on a romantic walk are foiled when Hawk Moth akumatizes a frustrated child into a giant, lollipop-seeking baby.
#15 - Guiltrip
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/20/2021
When Reflekta locks herself into a bottomless abyss of guilt, Ladybug calls on an ally with unfailing optimism.
#16 - Antibug
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/15/2016
Crestfallen when her hero Ladybug refuses to heed her advice, Chloé akumatizes into Antibug, an evil twin of Ladybug with identical powers.
#17 - The Mime
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/24/2015
When Mylène's father loses a part in a play to his scheming understudy, he akumatizes into the Mime, a villain whose pantomimes become real.
#18 - Rogercop
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/20/2015
When he's fired by the mayor, police officer Roger becomes Rogercop, a villain who thinks he's enforcing the law by ruling Paris as a dictator.
#19 - Malediktator
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 10/28/2018
When Chloé threatens to leave Paris, Mr. Bourgeois gets akumatized into Malediktator; invested with absolute power, he wants to make his daughter's dreams come true so that she stays with him.
#20 - Befana
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/2017
When Marinette elects to hang out with her friends on her birthday instead of her grandmother, grandma is akumatized into a candy-gun-wielding baddie.
#21 - Migration
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/16/2023
As the son of a celebrity, Luka piques special interest in Bob Roth, who would do anything to make money! But Luka himself would do anything to defend his values and his friends.
#22 - Reflekta
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/29/2016
Excluded from a class photo, dejected Juleka akumatizes into the villain Reflekta, who turns everyone, including Cat Noir, into copies of herself.
#23 - Horrificator
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/10/2015
During the filming of a short horror movie for Marinette's class, scared star Mylène is akumatized into a slimy monster that feeds on others' fears.
#24 - The Puppeteer
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/12/2016
Marinette babysits little Manon, who becomes akumatized into the Puppeteer while playing with dolls of Ladybug, Cat Noir and some infamous villains.
#25 - Truth
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/11/2021
Since becoming the new guardian of the Miraculous Box, Marinette has been overwhelmed. She doesn't see her friends anymore, abandons Chat Noir, and misses all her dates with Luka. Luka senses that Marinette has a secret, but she can't tell him that when she leaves, it is to become Ladybug and save Paris. Deeply hurt that Marinette doesn't trust him enough to confide her secret, Luka is akumatized into Truth. Helped by his sentimonster, Pharo, a giant eye capable of forcing people to tell the truth, he not only wants to know Marinette's secret... but also Ladybug and Chat Noir's secret for Shadow Moth!