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Okay, I was watching Malediktator, and it's supposed to redeem Chloe. Only after I watched it, it didn't change a single thing. It's just the way they handled Chloe's reformation. It's so....botched and bad. Like, it didn't make me sympathize with her at all.
Here's the thing. So the episode begins with Chloe bragging about her being Queen Bee, then throwing a tantrum and blaming it on Marinette. Then later, she confesses to Ladybug that it's not Marinette, it's that she feels useless and has no friends because no one loves her. Yeah....but isn't that her own fault? She's bullied, humiliated, trashed, roasted, hurt, belittled, blackmailed and even physically abused her classmates. How does she EXPECT to have friends and be loved like that? It's entirely on her that she has no friends. And keep in mind no one is forcing her to be that way, she does it out of her own accord.
Not only that, when she saves Paris with Ladybug, she gets a party. What? Um, on several occasions (Befana, Gigantitan) we've seen Marinette's classmates help out in taking down akumas as well. Why is it only Chloe who gets a party? And in my opinion, superheroes are just doing their jobs by saving everyone, so it's not really worth a party. And the fact that everyone forgives her after ONE little deed is also jarring. Yes, it's nice, but you have done the same thing, and it isn't worth constant abuse.
Not only that, the fact that Chloe bullied Marinette for FOUR consecutive years is never brought up, or that she hurt her classmates multiple times either. And what's hypocritical and chilling about this is, she whines to Ladybug about being "useless, not being loved by anyone and having no friends..." well, so was Marinette (before she became Ladybug)! Marinette was also friendless, useless and not loved during those four years. So Chloe hurt someone with the same issues as her for no reason, and this is never addressed.
And at the end, Marinette tells Master Fu that "being Ladybug made her a better Marinette, so being Queen Bee could make a better Chloe", but that comparison holds no water because unlike Chloe, before becoming a hero Marinette still had good in her. She saved an old man, hence earned the miraculous. Chloe on the other hand unfairly stole a Miraculous, and the only reason Ladybug took her on as a comrade was because she happened to have connections with Malediktator.
Chloe seems to get off scott free for her actions, no one is mad at her, she even gets warm hugs and a party. She isn't given time to explore her flaws and receive character development, nope, it as all just rushed in her favour. This is one of the worst redemptions I've ever seen. I guess all the hype was for nothing in the end.
Thoughts