Akumatized villains

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“	Yes, Hawk Moth.	„
	~ usual catchphrase

The akumatized villains are the secondary antagonist faction in the Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir franchise.

They are comprised of civilians-turned-pawns who each have a goal to fufill and serve as the minions of Hawk Moth.

Transformation[]

Whenever a person has strong negative emotions, such as anger, frustration, jealousy, disappointment, humiliation, fear, or sadness, Hawk Moth senses it from his lair and charges a butterfly with dark power to form an akuma. The akuma then flies away from Hawk Moth's lair to where the person is, and possesses an important object that belongs to the person. Immediately, Hawk Moth telepathically links up to the person in order to communicate, using a butterfly-shaped light mask that goes around his and the victim's eyes. Also, in that moment, the area around the person's eyes darkens into a dark rust color. He then gives them a new name for their supervillain identity and explains to the person that he'll give them the ability to accomplish their goals, if in turn, the person will retrieve the Ladybug Miraculous and Cat Miraculous from Ladybug and Cat Noir.

When the person agrees, black and purple smoke appears from the possessed object and surrounds the person. Once it recedes, the victim has transformed into a supervillain. If Hawk Moth needs to telepathically talk with them again, his light mask will reappear on both Hawk Moth and the villain.

Every villain, after being corrupted, remembers the cause of their distress and the person who caused it, so they usually try to get revenge. Additionally, some villains, namely Copycat, The Evillustrator, Horrificator, Stoneheart, Syren, Backwarder, Silencer and Oni-Chan remember the people whom they have romantic feelings for (Ladybug, Marinette (Evillustrator and Silencer), Ivan Bruel, Mylène Haprèle, Lê Chiến Kim, Wang Fu and Adrien respectively) and still care for them while transformed.

Hawk Moth can't mind control his villains, psychologically manipulating them instead. He can't read their minds either, however he can see through their eyes and sense their feelings, allowing him to see and feel what they do. If he needs to, Hawk Moth can control their bodies for a brief amount of time in order to inflict pain on them until they agree to do as he commands.

Hawk Moth can revoke the akuma, removing the villain's powers. He also uses this as a threat against his victims to keep them on task.

As stated in "Robostus", any sentient creature with emotions can be akumatized. For example, the robot Markov is akumatized in the aforementioned episode, and infant August is akumatized in "Gigantitan".

Sometimes, other living things or beings are indirectly transformed with the main victim, such as Fang changing into a dragon in "Guitar Villain" when Jagged Stone is akumatized, and Albert becoming a more advanced AI in "The Dark Owl" when Mr. Damocles is akumatized. Inanimate objects that are not the akumatized object can change because of the victim's akumatization, such as Roger Raincomprix's car transforming in "Rogercop".

In "Startrain", it's revealed that the mental connection is dependent on proximity. If the Butterfly Miraculous holder and the akumatized person are too far from each other, the communication can’t be established, and Hawk Moth can't control the akumatized person or revoke the akuma.

While it is theoretically possible for someone with extreme willpower to resist or even overcome Hawk Moth's influence, only Miss Bustier (in "Zombizou"), Chloé Bourgeois (in "Miraculer"), Luka Couffaine (in "Truth") and Alya Césaire (in "Gang of Secrets") have ever been shown doing so; Bustier and Luka succumbed after approximately 30 seconds, while Chloé and Alya remains the only person to ever completely reject an akuma to date.

Abilities[]

An Akumatized villain has an appearance and abilities that relate to their infected object, occupation, circumstances, and/or interests. For example, because of Xavier Ramier's love of pigeons and his possessed object being a bird call, he becomes Mr. Pigeon, a villain with a suit based off of pigeons and the ability to command pigeons. It appears that the powers come with all the knowledge and muscle memory the Akumatizated victim needs in order to use the powers effectively.

A majority of the time, their objects end up becoming their weapons, such as The Bubbler's bubble wand, Frightningale's microphone, and Guitar Villain's guitar.

Aside from their superpowers, Akumatized supervillains have enhanced strength, durability, and fighting skills. For example, Lady Wifi manages to pin down Cat Noir when they are both disarmed, and Reflekta is able to jump long distances.

Because of Hawk Moth's and the villain's mental connection, the villain can sense the location of Hawk Moth's lair if they want to find him, as seen in "Robostus" and "The Dark Owl".

In "Timetagger", it is shown that Akumatized villains can communicate directly with the Butterfly Miraculous holder, even if they are not the one who akumatized them initially, as seen with the titular villain who came from the future and was akumatized by a future Hawk Moth.

Defeat[]

In order to defeat an Akumatized villain, one must break the object containing the akuma. Once the akumatized object is broken, the Akumatized supervillain will de-transform back into their normal self.

After the object is broken, the owner of the Ladybug Miraculous uses the Yo-yo to capture the akuma. Once captured, the Yo-yo will "de-evilize" the akuma and revert it back into a normal butterfly.

If the akuma is not captured, it will multiply into thousands and possess any random people they come across. The people will be transformed into physical duplicates of the villain; the duplicates will be frozen in time like statues until the original is re-akumatized. Once the original becomes a villain again, the duplicates will come to life and serve as the original's personal army. It is currently unknown if there is any way to revert the duplicates back to normal without the original being re-akumatized and purified.

Those who are transformed into villains will have little to no memory of what happened while they were transformed (like a dream that can't be remembered), though, in some cases, they can remember at least part of what had happened (like Alya and Nino, who remembered their actions as Oblivio). However, those who volunteered to be akumatized will retain clear memories of their actions, examples being Gabriel Agreste (The Collector) and Lila Rossi (Volpina and Chameleon).

It's possible for an akumatized villain to free themselves from akumatization, but that requires a great deal of willpower.

List of akumatized villains[]