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| “ | If you would allow it, Mademoiselle, I could help you keep your friendship with Adrien. | ” |
—Armand to Chloé, "Despair Bear" | ||
Armand[1] is a minor character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. He is an employee at Le Grand Paris.
In "Despair Bear", after being fired by Chloé Bourgeois, he was akumatized by Hawk Moth into Despair Bear, a tiny supervillain who controlled a small teddy bear.[2]
Appearance
Physical appearance
Armand is tall with short dark brown hair and brilliant spring bud eyes. He also has a thin dark brown mustache.
Civilian attire
He wears a dark blue velvet dress tailcoat with a black bow tie, and the sleeves each have two black buttons and a pale yellow line around the cuffs. Underneath the jacket is a white collared shirt with four visible black buttons. He also has black slacks and black dress shoes.
As Despair Bear
When akumatized, he was doll-sized. His eyes were glowing green, and his mustache was long and black, bending upward at the tips. A black tear mark was on his left cheek below his eye. He wore a greenish black head cover that only left his face exposed, matching with a greenish black leotard, with glowing green lines around his neck and on his chest and glowing green line around his left knee, and dark colored gloves.
He controlled Mr. Cuddly, which was dark purple with a white chest, white muzzle, white inner ears. It also had a black mouth, black nose, and glowing green eyes.
- For more of Armand's outfits and designs, see Armand/Designs.
Personality
Armand serving Camembert to Cat Noir.
Armand is dignified, helpful, and quite polite. In "Mr. Pigeon", when Cat Noir needs a bathroom and Camembert, he assists him. At their request, he also tells Ladybug and Cat Noir about the events with Chloé Bourgeois the previous day in "Antibug". He is willing to pretend to be a super-villain to please Chloé and Sabrina Raincomprix, and he is concerned for Sabrina after Chloé gets upset at her and ignores her. As seen in "Despair Bear", he likes to encourage people's best traits.
As Despair Bear, he was very strict in expectations on how people should act and he was vengeful towards Chloé for being a terrible person. He didn't like losing, getting very angry and trying to attack Cat Noir despite being very tiny and unable to do damage without the bear.
Abilities
As a civilian
Armand knows how to act professionally, and follow orders, and he has useful skills as a butler, serving others and keeping the hotel clean by sweeping.
As Despair Bear
Despair Bear controlled an akumatized Mr. Cuddly from the inside using strings and metal levers. The bear moved very quickly and was able to crawl on walls.
The bear could latch onto humans' bodies (often their legs), which gave Despair Bear control of the mind of the human. When under his control, the person's eyes turned the same color of Despair Bear's eyes. Despair Bear used the strings and levers to control the person, and he could talk through the person he is controlling. Once he was knocked off, unable to hold on, or willing to let go of the victim, the victim gained control of themselves but didn't remember what happened during his control over them.
Relationships
Chloé Bourgeois
As an employee for André Bourgeois, Armand obeys his daughter Chloé's requests and commands, such as blocking a door to prevent Princess Fragrance's minions from following her and Prince Ali. He knows how much Chloé reveres Ladybug, even pretending to be a villain for whenever she and Sabrina play as Ladybug and Cat Noir respectively. However, he also gets to witness Chloé's awful behavior and mistreatment towards Sabrina. Aware of Chloé's nastier traits, he wants her to treat others better for her own sake and their sake. He worries about her relationship with Sabrina, and he suggests to no avail that Chloé should talk to her in "Antibug" when she is ignoring Sabrina's presence.
He encourages Chloé to be nicer by using Mr. Cuddly to remind her during the party, but he unintentionally embarrasses her because of it. He feels bad when she rejects his help, and while akumatized as Despair Bear, his intention is to punish her for her bad behavior. However, when he reverts back, he shows gratefulness towards her for letting him keep his job and he shows happiness that Chloé did a few good deeds. In "Revolution" he was fired by Chloe and was imprisoned by her. After being defeated by Caline Bustier and being exiled by Andre he was rehired.
Sabrina Raincomprix
Because he sees Chloé and Sabrina' interactions, Armand feels bad for Sabrina whenever she and Chloé get into arguments. He tries to vouch for Sabrina when Chloé is ignoring her, upset for Sabrina being shunned for an unintentional mistake, but it doesn't work.
Zoé Lee
He has a good relationship with Zoé as she is polite towards him and they often converse with each other. As seen in "Adoration", he often helps Zoé by distracting Chloé whenever she is mad at her. Zoé is usually quite polite to him back as they greet each other around the hotel when they do see each other. In "Delflagration" he was seen delivering food to someone while Zoé was trying to get Camabert for Plagg.
Sightings
Episodes
Others
Trivia
- Armand's hair color and dress coat randomly change within "Mr. Pigeon"; he has his regular colors in the first shot featuring him in the elevator, but in the next shot, his hair is black, and when he lets Cat Noir into a room, his hair and coat are both black.
- In "Antibug", Armand reveals that as part of one of Chloé's games with Sabrina, he was made to act out the part of the fictitious villain "Big Mustachio." His outfit is the same while he's acting as Big Mustachio, but he additionally wears Groucho glasses.
- In the French dub, his fictitious villain name is "Super Mustache."
- Starting in "Despair Bear", Chloé Bourgeois refers to Armand by various names starting with Jean, from "Jean-Luc" to "Jean-Something". One of the names she uses is Jean-Yves, the same name as the Director of Studios.
- Ironically, his real name doesn't begin with Jean at all.
- Despair Bear and the Sapotis the only akumatized villains to become smaller when transformed and have a smaller size by default. Horrificator, Animan and Animaestro can become smaller, although smaller sizes are not their default forms.
- Despair Bear reappears in the two-part special event Heroes' Day.
- Despair Bear appears another time in "Gamer 2.0" for Gamer's powers.
Gallery
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References
- ↑ Revealed in the episode "Adoration"
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3KfS2cnPew