What Happened to the First Chat Noir?

I thought it would be better if we were all together on a day like this, don't you agree, dear? He's just standing there menacingly when it comes to Miraculous Ladybug characters. None of those characters have received worse treatment than Felix Graham Devanali. Maybe you know him. as Adrian Agreste's cousin and Gabriel Agrest's nephew, but he once played a much bigger role in the show, but

what

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to Felix and why was he reduced to a supporting character? Well, that's why today we're going to talk about felix graham. devanaly and his history with the series oh, they look like twins, don't they, gabriel?

Remember when they had so much fun pretending to be each other that one time they tricked you and Emily for an entire weekend? Fooled a second time, Felix was

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introduced to the canonical tales of Miraculous Ladybug from the Ladybug and Cat Noir cartoons in the season 3 episode. Felix within the episode reveals that he and Adrian used to be close when they were younger. and they like to make jokes. about their parents posing as each other, although this bothers Gabriel a lot, as he can see past the attempt to deceive him and Natalie, he proves to be more difficult to deceive than Alia Julica and Rose, who end up falling for his tricks and he is akumatized when he sends them a nasty message while pretending to be adrian felix has become jaded and malicious due to the sudden and recent loss of his father similar to adrian, the two now only have one father, although in direct parallel to adrian felix he still has A loving mother Gabriel, I think we can all agree, is not very loving and affectionate towards her son despite Adrian's clear desire to obtain parental affection and approval. felix and adrian's situations mirroring each other is not a mistake from a narrative and literary perspective considering

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felix's original role was in the show, I talked about this very briefly in my introductory video to Miraculous Ladybug, but I wanted to make a video that covered the situation in more detail.

Originally, Felix was the Cat Noir of the show and instead of being Felix Graham Devanaly, he was Felix Agrest. You can see it in the original 2D pv that was released in 2013 as a preview of what the series was supposed to look like before its transition to 3D. He was still the son of famous fashion designer Gabriel Agrest, but he was also a jaded rich man. child model, this contrasts greatly with Adrian, so we would know that he is a very loving and compassionate individual who lacks social skills, so why was there such a drastic change in his character?

It is normal for characters to have their names changed just before finishing the project. was put into production, but it's rare that they suffered such massive personality alterations after their trailers were already released, while overall their design stayed the same, the differences between Adrian and Felix's personalities are like night and night. day, the reason for this will be stated later. By the show's creator, a stunned Thomas claimed that Felix needed to be replaced by Adrian because he wasn't a compatible love interest for Marinette, their personalities clashed too much, and their dynamic just wasn't really there due to Felix being a much darker character. . with darker motives than Adrian and therefore simply wouldn't make a compelling couple when the chemistry just wasn't there, plus no one on the team, including Awesome himself, was convinced of their dynamic as heroes or lovers, part of the reason Ladybug and Cat work. so well together is because they are both empathetic and care about paris and its inhabitants felix was much more apathetic making his views contrast a lot with the ladybugs marinette also fell in love with adrian because of his compassion and how he gave her his umbrella so that she she wouldn't get wet from the rain while walking home from school and although they had previously quarreled upon meeting each other for the

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time, Adrian was still looking out for her and her well-being in the pv, Felix is ​​shown to look like both.

Aware and annoyed by Marinette's adulation towards Adrian, he has no idea of ​​her affection for him, he simply thinks she is socially awkward and is unable to read and understand her very obvious social cues, yet he is still kind to her and He does everything he can to make her feel better. comfortable with him, his dynamic makes a lot more sense than a Marinette fawning over an annoyed Felix oh adrian, what's up with the girls? At least you don't have this kind of problem with cheese, he stops making jokes. I'm sure I did something to mess it up.

Our friendship ended by accident. I have no idea about these things when you write a love story or a story where romance is one of the main components. It's incredibly important that your focal partner has romantic chemistry that they simply didn't have. chemistry or dynamic with marina and felix, so one of them needed to be cut, marinette was the main character and felix was the secondary lead, so there was no need to think about who was going to be cut, but as we see in this new The Felix's season wasn't completely removed from the story, so what's the point of him existing from this point on if he's not fulfilling his original purpose as Cat Noir?

Well, in literary terms, there is something we call a contrast in literature. A contrast is a character who has characteristics that are opposed to another character usually the protagonist the contrast character can be completely opposite to the protagonist or very similar with one key difference the contrast character is used to highlight some particular quality or qualities of the main character in this case felix is ​​a contrast to adrian where adrian is obedient and loving felix is ​​rebellious and manipulative he rummages through adrian's belongings and tries to destroy his relationships with his friends to hurt him in this episode felix highlights how empathetic and forgiving adrian is because despite how unpleasant he was to his cousin adrian still forgives him, the goal of this episode was to highlight that part of adrian's personality and how he doesn't have a bad bone in his body beyond the fact that the authors can use frustrated characters to show the internal strengths or weaknesses of their The protagonists frustrate the characters can also make an opposite decision regarding the protagonist, which is a way for the author to explore what would have

happened

if the protagonist had followed a different path because these two characters have identical situations.

It is clear that Adrian could have ended up like If Felix had reacted differently to his mother's disappearance, the two even live in similar situations being from rich families with influential parents, I mean, their mothers are even twins and they basically have the same name, for God's sake, listen, Felix Plague lost his father not long ago. probably not himself, sorry but there's no excuse, you never touched my cheese and yet you lost your mother not long ago, the term aluminum foil came into its current use as a literary device from the concept of putting aluminum foil behind a gemstone. to make him seem brighter, the contrast character works in the same way to make the protagonist seem more incredible or in an adverse way to make his flaws more obvious with the episode with felix, it made adrian seem like a much more sympathetic character and admirable than felix.

What he did to her was horrible, but the fact that he forgave him amplifies that compassionate part of his personality in the future. I think we can expect to see more of Felix fulfilling the foil position. It was made clear in her debut episode that she likes Adrian, but has animosity towards Gabriel, whether it be his unwillingness to give up Graham Devanali's twin rings or the way he treats his family members, it is unclear. . It is revealed in the episode that Adrian was not allowed to attend Felix's father's funeral, which is probably due to Gabriel's controlling tendencies, which may also be a reason for Felix's hatred towards his uncle, which also It would match well with Adrian's story.

Gabriel is hiding the truth of Emily's disappearance, which may be a direct parallel to him stopping Adrian from attending his uncle's funeral and Saying Goodbye Properly, this may perhaps be hinting at Adrian's future reactions and the relationship with his father once he discovers the truth of his mother's fate. We already saw in Cat Blanc how he would have a very visceral reaction to knowing the truth, even to the point of allowing it. Becoming Akumatized Felix's reaction to Gabriel may be a physical manifestation of what Adrian really feels toward his father, but they are feelings that he would never act on.

It's a good way to give us an idea of ​​what an abandoned child in Adrian's position could do. If they had succumbed to his trauma and allowed it to define them, I also think it's possible that Felix would play an important role in helping Adrian stand up for himself and tell Gabriel to leave. Felix is ​​much more sure of himself and is much less afraid of his cousin. Adrian is a very family-oriented person due to how he was raised, while his friends like Marinette and Nino have tried to help him in the past, the support of a A family member who better understands the situation would be essential to resolve the problem.

I could even see Felix becoming the chosen one to bark at the miracle dog Kwame if they really wanted Felix to be Adrian's foil, making him a dog while Adrian is a cat would certainly be the way to go from a literary perspective , the Agrests and Graham. The Devanalis are certainly a complex family and I hope to explore and analyze more as the show continues, so if you want to see more videos like this in the future, why not subscribe and hit the bell icon to get notified of when ? i upload a special thanks to my top sponsors, ambrose rothwood, brandon nunes, the lovely ghost lee taylor and zachary ansley, thanks to people like them, I can continue creating content like this and I hope to see you all in the next video, have a look an incredible day. guy