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is the main protagonist of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. Marinette is a school student in Paris. With her magical earrings, inhabited by a kwami named Tikki, she has the power of good luck and can transform into the superhero Ladybug.

Marinette is half-French and half-Chinese. She has light blue eyes, freckles, and dark blueish-black hair that she usually wears back in two pigtails with red bands.

She wears a dark gray overshirt with sleeves and a collar that are white with pink polka dots and outlined with black. Underneath, she wears a white t-shirt with a black collar and sleeve line and a design below the collar with black leaves and pink flowers. Also, she has pink jeans and light pink dress shoes with dark red soles.

She wears the earrings, which are silver when not holding Tikki.

As Ladybug, she wears a red suit with a black collar and black spots. Above her hips, she wears a string with circular red bag with black spots that lies on the left side her back, and she wears a red mask with black spots. Her earrings become red with five black spots, and the red bands holding her hair back become ribbons.

Described as a kind and clumsy girl, Marinette has a happy, cheerful personality, enjoys fashion, and is generous.

Marinette has a secret crush on Adrien. She longs to win his heart, but her shyness and awkwardness around him makes it a great challenge for her. Always struggling to get enough courage to talk to him, let alone hang out with him, she is often very afraid that he might think she is a weirdo not worth any second glance. However, Marinette mainly just wants to see him happy over herself. On Adrien\'s birthday, she accepts that he thinks that her gift is from his father because he is so pleased to have gotten such a cool gift from him.

When it comes to Cat Noir, however, while seeing him as a worthy partner in fighting crime, she doesn\'t have any romantic feelings for him. She gets annoyed whenever Cat Noir tries to woo her, partially due to thinking he is just teasing her. In "The Evillustrator", when he comes to help her (as Marinette) stop the Evillustrator, behind her back, she mockingly mouths his words with her hands and expresses irritation at his flirting. In whatever they face together, though, she has a lot of faith and trust in him, aware that he will always be there for her to help her. She often teases him, and they both cooperate well when fighting villains or forming plans. While aware that he wants to know her secret identity, she admits that it\'s better that he doesn\'t know, not wanting to disappoint him with her alter ego being plain old Marinette. Together, the two are an excellent team in stopping Hawk Moth from stealing their Miraculous or creating chaos with his akumas.

Marinette\'s kwami, Tikki, helps her transform into Ladybug. They have a good relationship as partners and friends, and Marinette appreciates whenever Tikki helps her or cheers her up about things, including her failures to win Adrien or her occasional incompetence as Ladybug. She thinks Tikki is very adorable, and she learns a lot from her.

Marinette enjoys spending time with Alya, her best friend. Although often frozen with fear whenever Alya assists her with doing something with or for Adrien, Marinette is thankful for her pushing her forward. Alya\'s desire to find out more about Ladybug and her secret identity has caused many problems for Marinette, who wants to let Alya know but realizing it\'s not the best idea. She panics when Alya discovers a history book that she dropped as Ladybug in one episode, and she is utterly astounded when Alya leaves her a note saying she believes Chloé is Ladybug in another episode. Alya\'s adventure for the truth about Ladybug can be exasperating for Marinette, but she does her best to conceal her identity from her. Both find Chloé awful, and both support each other in any way that they can.

Whenever she is with her parents, Marinette is shown to love them and support them, just like they do. When the Bubbler\'s bubbles take her parents away, Marinette deeply desires to save them and all of the parents.

Marinette strongly despises Chloé. She hates how Chloé mistreats everyone, including her "best friend" Sabrina. As Chloé\'s main target, she constantly deals with Chloé\'s despicable attitude towards her. Chloé being a big fan on Ladybug doesn\'t change anything, only peeving Marinette as she has to save her or sometimes be stuck watching over her. Considering Chloé to be her rival for Adrien\'s affection, she doesn\'t like how she is always throwing herself at him, at one time using her Lucky Charm out of jealousy to prevent her from kissing Adrien while slow dancing. Marinette especially dislikes it when people accuse her of being just like Chloé, yet she is sadly aware sometimes that it might be true to some extent. Nevertheless, Marinette reluctantly deals with Chloé with occasional thrilling success, like when she reveals that Chloé stole her bowler hat design by revealing a special design on that hat that is actually her.

Marinette isn\'t close to Sabrina, but she feels bad that Chloé abuses her so unfairly. In "The Evillustrator", when she stands up for Sabrina, she is surprised that Sabrina immediately tries to befriend her, including doing her geograph homework for her, much to her discomfort. Because she agrees to go to a party with the Evillustrator in order to defeat him, she sadly tells Sabrina that working on the presentation later at night won\'t work, which greatly upsets Sabrina, and she is hurt when Sabrina accuses her of being just like Chloé.

Marinette likes Nathanaël and thinks he is an excellent artist, but she never expected him to have a crush on her until Chloé reveals it to everyone in "The Evillustrator". She agrees with him (while he is Evillustrator) that Chloé is egotistical and nasty, and she gets frustrated when he, similar to Sabrina earlier, accuses her of being just like Chloé after she reveals that she is teamed up with Cat Noir to stop him.

Manon, being a child with an energetic personality, is tiring for Marinette, who doesn\'t have experience with having siblings or skill with bonding with younger children. No matter how exhausting it is to take care of Manon, Marinette does care for her and her safety, promising to her as Ladybug that she\'ll save her and Alya from the ice shield they\'re trapped in.

Marinette knows how to be a fashion designer. She sketches ideas in a notebook, and she can sew by hand or with a machine.

As Ladybug, she has enhanced skills, such as speed, agility, strength, and observation. She has remarkable talent with wielding her yo-yo, like using it as a grappling hook, rope, and attack. Her special power, Lucky Charm, helps her by summoning an object that\'ll help her achieve her objective, it often being to stop a villain. However, it drains her power and reverts her back to Marinette shortly afterwards, so she has to use it wisely. After the akuma is released from its corrupted object, she can open her yo-yo and throw it to grab it, remove the energy that Hawk Moth charged it with, and release it as a normal butterfly. Once the akuma is dealt with, Ladybug can throw her Lucky Charm object into the air, which will make it revert back to energy and fix all of the damage done since the villain was created.

In France, ladybugs are known as symbols of good luck.

Marinette\'s design changed from the anime version. Her anime design included jean shorts. As Ladybug, she had a red-orange face mask without black spots and two long red-orange ribbons attached to each pigtail.

Marinette\'s CGI design seems to have gone through a change, as well. Earlier footage and images of Marinette included dark blueish-black hair, red tips of hair at the end of her pigtails, and blueish-gray eyes.

Her anime version is less shy around her crush, as she\'s able to be very close to Félix without panicking or being nervous. She even asks him out while slightly blushing and looking right at him, although Félix coldly refuses.

During the earlier stages of development, Ladybug wasn\'t allowed to abuse her powers of good luck, or else something bad would happen to her. As of now, it is unknown if Ladybug still has this issue, especially as seen in one episode, when she uses her powers for selfish reasons, all that happens is that she runs out of power and loses her transformation.

In the English version, Marinette is pronounced with "mar" sounding like "marinade," but in the other versions, her name is pronounced with "mar" sounding like "market."

↑ She is called this as Ladybug by Cat Noir in various episodes.

↑ As Marinette, Cat Noir calls her this in "The Evillustrator"

↑ http://miraculeusecoccinelle.tumblr.com/post/130516241296/on-marinettes-adriens-ages-tldr-they-go-to (age explanation by Tumblr user miraculeusecoccinelle)

Tikki • Plagg • Butterfly kwami • Green kwami

The Bubbler • Chronogirl • Copycat • Dark Cupid • Horrificator • The Evillustrator • Lady Wifi • Mime • Mr. Pigeon • Pharaoh • Robocop • Stormy Weather

Alix Kubdel • Alya • Chloé Bourgeois • Ivan • Juleka • Kim • Manon • Max • Mylène • Nathanaël • Nino • Rose • Sabrina

Agent Roger • Alya\'s mother • André Bourgeois • Gabriel Agreste • Miss Bustier • Mr. Damocles • Mr. Kubdel • Ms. Mendeleiev • Nadja Chamack • Nathalie Sancoeur • Sabine Cheng • Tom Dupain • Xavier Ramier

Aurore Borell • Fu • Jalil Kubdel • Mireille Jattee • Theo • Volpina

Félix • Unused superhero team members (Kid Mime • Melodie • Mercury • Sparrow)