Miraculous Ladybug: Episode Articles/Plots

Mr. Pigeon

Plot

Mr. Damocles is in Miss Bustier's classroom, telling the students about a design competition to be hosted at the school. The objective of the competition is to design and create a derby hat, which will be judged by fashion mogul Gabriel Agreste. The winner of the competition will have their design worn by Adrien at his next photo shoot.

Marinette flips through her design diary, searching for a derby hat, to discover that she has never made one. Alya watches as Marinette paces the courtyard, slowly becoming more tense. She states that she has made silky ram hats, bell hats, berets, and sombreros, but never a derby hat. While worrying, Marinette develops a worst-case scenario of her tripping over the hat, knocking over Mr. Agreste, earning hate from Adrien, and losing her dream of becoming the world's best fashion designer. Marinette dramatically cries into Alya's lap before Alya cheers her up, asking to look through Marinette's sketchbook.

Setting the sketchbook down on the bench, Alya turns away from Marinette as Marinette brings her knees to her chest. Adrien, seeing the open book, glances at the pages and compliments Alya for her sketches. Alya corrects him, telling him that it was actually Marinette, who is hiding behind the bench. Adrien congratulates her on her designs, telling her that he thinks she might even win the contest. This gives Marinette the confidence she needs to make her design and she runs off.

At the same time, Chloé and Sabrina overhear what Adrien says to Marinette. This distresses Chloé, so she resolves to have Sabrina steal designs from Marinette's sketchbook.

Hawk Moth, in his lair, wonders who is up to the task of stealing Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses, but does not yet send out an akuma.

Marinette sits outside at the Trocadéro, sketchbook open on her lap. She sketches various versions of derby hats before ripping them out and crumpling them beside her. As she becomes more dejected, a man appears, moving his arms like wings and cooing to the pigeons. Xavier Ramier sits on a bench and calls the pigeons to him with a whistle. He then brings out a bag of bird food, tossing it to the pigeons.

Roger Raincomprix stalks over, yelling at Xavier for feeding the pigeons. Confiscating the bird food, Roger kicks Xavier out of the park. Marinette feels sorry for him. Tikki gives her the idea to make the hat based off pigeon feathers. Inspired, Marinette hurriedly sketches the idea.

Meanwhile, Xavier sits on a bench overlooking the Seine, dejected. Hawk Moth senses Xavier's sorrow and sends an akuma to him, it embedding itself into Xavier's pigeon whistle. Xavier grins, turning into Mr. Pigeon. He takes off, flapping his arms and cooing.

At the same time, Marinette is finishing her sketch. Holding up her book to admire it in the light, Sabrina takes a picture of the sketch with her phone, handing it to Chloé. Chloé sends the design off to a seamstress so that she won't have to ruin her manicure.

Marinette returns to her house, making the hat in her room. Tikki helps her, giving Marinette an apple to replenish her energy. At 1:21 pm, Marinette freaks out, realizing she forgot to grab a feather for the hat. She and Tikki run back to the Eiffel Tower, disturbing the pigeons until Marinette grabs a feather. Elated that she has one, she skips off, bumping into Agent Roger before returning home. Roger, however, goes on his merry way after she apologizes and departs. A dark cloud of birds hovers over him, taking him away.

While Marinette is in the bus, she asks the driver why they can't go faster. The driver says that they have a situation and tells the people to get off the bus. Marinette sees that pigeons are causing the traffic jam, along with other problems all over Paris.

Nadja Chamack, on a nearby screen, reports on the pigeons, and is then told that Mr. Pigeon will make an announcement: Paris belongs to the pigeons. Marinette runs to the subway, wasting no time by transforming into Ladybug.