Stormy Weather is Hawk Moth's first... I mean second foray into empowering angry teenagers: Aurore Beauréal, a TV weather girl hopeful with an oddly appropriate name, who we can only assume comes from a long family tradition of unstable TV weather girls. When she loses the final round of a kids' TV competition in a landslide to the shy, bland amateur Mireille Caquet, she is overrun by a decade's worth of stage-parenting, schoolroom teasing over her cruel given name, and other weather-related childhood trauma; she has a meltdown inside an elevator, making her a prime target for the mysterious Hawk Moth, a butterfly-themed supervillain who is way more intimidating than you might think.
Evilized by this moth's evil emissary, the Akuma, Aurore strikes a deal with this dark villain: her revenge, in exchange for the Miraculous - magic jewelry worn by the local superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir. Mireille is then transformed into Stormy Weather, the apparent offspring of Mary Poppins and an evil TV weather girl.
Anyway, while all this is happening, we get introduced to the main characters: Marinette, the clumsy, socially awkward only child, and her hypercompetent best friend Alya. Together, they must look after a small child and fail miserably at catching the attention of local fashion model Adrien.
Their plans are quickly cut short by the arrival of Stormy Poppins. Marinette must come up with a half-baked excuse to disappear and transform into her alter-ego Ladybug! Can she defeat this malevolent meteorologist in time and reverse the catastrophic death and destruction visited upon the city? Stay tuned! Also Adrien is Cat Noir.
This episode was the first in the production order, and it shows. Animation is more expressive, hair is flowier, the action is gripping, and early installment weirdness abounds. Most notable for the latter is Cat Noir, with some cat-like night vision that's never mentioned again, and a transformation sequence featuring a gray background and some much louder-than-normal lightning.
Plot-wise, we have ourselves a fairly vanilla episode. It wastes no time in establishing Alec as the biggest jerk this side of the English Channel, and it lays down the basic skeleton of the love quadrilateral.
Most importantly, it sets the tone for the series' monster-of-the-week formula: Marinette and friends partake in some slices of life, while someone in Paris gets angry and falls victim to the butterfly hordes. Later episodes even in this season might vary, having the slice-of-life plot directly cause the formation of a new villain; for this one, however, the two plots are nearly self-contained until Weather Woman gets the attention of our heroes and ruins their afternoon.
Evilized by this moth's evil emissary, the Akuma, Aurore strikes a deal with this dark villain: her revenge, in exchange for the Miraculous - magic jewelry worn by the local superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir. Mireille is then transformed into Stormy Weather, the apparent offspring of Mary Poppins and an evil TV weather girl.
Anyway, while all this is happening, we get introduced to the main characters: Marinette, the clumsy, socially awkward only child, and her hypercompetent best friend Alya. Together, they must look after a small child and fail miserably at catching the attention of local fashion model Adrien.
Their plans are quickly cut short by the arrival of Stormy Poppins. Marinette must come up with a half-baked excuse to disappear and transform into her alter-ego Ladybug! Can she defeat this malevolent meteorologist in time and reverse the catastrophic death and destruction visited upon the city? Stay tuned! Also Adrien is Cat Noir.
This episode was the first in the production order, and it shows. Animation is more expressive, hair is flowier, the action is gripping, and early installment weirdness abounds. Most notable for the latter is Cat Noir, with some cat-like night vision that's never mentioned again, and a transformation sequence featuring a gray background and some much louder-than-normal lightning.
Plot-wise, we have ourselves a fairly vanilla episode. It wastes no time in establishing Alec as the biggest jerk this side of the English Channel, and it lays down the basic skeleton of the love quadrilateral.
Most importantly, it sets the tone for the series' monster-of-the-week formula: Marinette and friends partake in some slices of life, while someone in Paris gets angry and falls victim to the butterfly hordes. Later episodes even in this season might vary, having the slice-of-life plot directly cause the formation of a new villain; for this one, however, the two plots are nearly self-contained until Weather Woman gets the attention of our heroes and ruins their afternoon.
