Juleka Couffaine, known as Purple Tigress is a major character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. She is also Luka's younger twin sister. In season 4, she receives the Tiger Miraculous from Ladybug, which, when inhabited by Roaar, can transform her into Purple Tigress, a tiger-themed superhero.
She was voiced by Erin Fitzgerald for Season 1 and later Reba Buhr for Seasons 2 onwards.
In "Reflekta", after being locked in the bathroom by Sabrina Raincomprix under orders from Chloé Bourgeois to prevent Juleka from participating in the class photo, she was akumatized by Hawk Moth and became Reflekta, a flamboyant supervillain who could transform people into lookalikes of herself.
In "Reflekdoll", after Juleka backed out of modeling in the photoshoot for Marinette Dupain-Cheng's design and was not given a chance to explain herself, Hawk Moth re-akumatized her into Reflekta. She was also amokized by Mayura, which caused her frustration and misery to form Reflekdoll, a doll-themed sentimonster that could also transform people into Reflekta lookalikes.
In "Félix", after being fooled by Félix into thinking that Adrien Agreste didn't appreciate his friends' kind videos, Juleka was re-akumatized into Reflekta yet again alongside Rose into Princess Fragrance and Alya into Lady Wifi. The three formed The Punishers Trio, a group of akumatized supervillains who wanted to get revenge on the disguised Félix, who later convinced Hawk Moth to let him help them, as he was after some jewelry too.
In "Ladybug", Lila Rossi orchestrated a plan that got Marinette in trouble for things that she did not do. Cheating on a school test, pushing her down a flight of stairs and stealing a fox pendant from her, convincing almost everyone Marinette did all those things. Hawk Moth seized the opportunity Lila handed him to re-akumatize Nathalie into Catalyst who powers him up into Scarlet Moth again. He created several scarlet akumas to akumatize the people at the school into scarlet akumatized supervillains, including re-akumatizing Juleka into a scarlet version of Reflekta. But Catalyst's use of the damaged Peacock Miraculous came back to bite her. Scarlet Moth de-transformed and checked on her, abandoning his plans and causing the de-akumatization of Nathalie, and therefore, all of his scarlet akumatized supervillains.
In "Gang of Secrets", when Marinette kept hiding secrets from her and her friends, which caused Marinette to end their friendship, Juleka was re-akumatized by Shadow Moth into Reflekta yet again along with Alya and Rose becoming Lady Wifi and Princess Fragrance yet again, and Alix Kubdel and Mylène Haprèle becoming Timebreaker and Horrificator again. The five formed the Gang of Secrets, a group of akumatized supervillains who wanted to reveal Marinette's secrets to make her feel better and become her friends again.
In "Guiltrip", Juleka revealed a secret to the class involving Rose: she has a medical condition, occasionally requiring hospital care because of it. After Rose snapped at the class for being too overprotective, Juleka, racked with guilt, was re-akumatized for the fifth time and re-amokized into Reflekta by Shadow Moth, with her guilt and sadness forming Guiltrip, a portal-like sentimonster that made people feel guilty. After being de-akumatized and de-amokized, she received a Magical Charm from Ladybug that prevented her from being re-akumatized or re-amokized.
After the events of "Strikeback", Juleka was temporarily unable to become Purple Tigress after Monarch managed to steal the Tiger Miraculous along with all the others contained in the Chinese Miracle Box from Ladybug's yo-yo.
In "Confrontation", when she found out that she would repeat her school year again from her false study options form, Juleka was once again re-akumatized into Reflekta and was given the power of the Tiger Miraculous through her Alliance ring. She also received a new Magical Charm from Ladybug after her first one got destroyed.
In "Re-creation", Juleka was reunited with Luka during the fight against Monarch. After Ladybug recovered the stolen Miraculous and reforged them following Monarch's defeat, Juleka was given back the Tiger Miraculous permanently and reunited with Roaar.
In "Revelator", it's shown that, after getting her Miraculous back, Juleka, along with the other secundary heroes of Ladybug's team, was trained to unlock her adult powers, no longer detransforming after using her power.
History[]
Season 1[]
In "Reflekta", she is corrupted by Hawk Moth into the titular supervillain, capable of turning people into copies of her.
Season 2[]
In "Santa Claws", she was celebrating Christmas with her family until she was alerted that Adrien was missing. Once he was safe and sound at home she joined Adrien and her classmates at the Agreste mansion for dinner.
In "The Collector", Juleka heard that Adrien was banned from going school by his father and rejoiced with her friends when he returned.
In "Despair Bear", she was watching Marinette's father teach a cooking class. Until the fire alarm got pulled by Chloé which resulted in everyone cleaning the courtyard as punishment. Then some later Juleka, Rose, and Mylène went to Marinette's house for a mini fun photoshoot and then get invited to a party being hosted by Chloé, which they attended.
In "Befana", Juleka was at her locker holding a bicycle pump until she got startled by Marinette. On Marinette's birthday, she worked with her classmates on Marinette's party. With decorations complete, Juleka and her classmates wished her a happy birthday and everything goes well. Until Befena crashed the party following Alya's lead and agreeing that Marinette was cool, Juleka worked with everyone to protect her but got turned into coal statue. After Juleka was revived with Miraculous Ladybug, she enjoyed rest of the party.
In "Robostus", Juleka was getting ready for science and like her classmates she was amazed at Markov.
In "Gigantitan", Juleka was invited to Marinette's house to help her pull off a romantic outing with Adrien. Like the others who came, she was already aware of Marinette's crush on him. She worked together to pull everything off at the Trocadéro and all went well until Gigantitan appeared. After Juleka and Rose made it to safety, they shared a group hug with Alya and Mylène. Noticing that Marinette wasn't with them they all went looking for her, but fled when they were seen by Gigantitan.
When Ladybug was in the villain's grip, Juleka and her friends worked together in getting Gigantitan to let her go. After keeping the baby villain distracted for as long as they could, she and the others abandoned the rickshaw and fled to safety. After August was returned to normal, she and the others were relieved to find Marinette alright.
Seeing Adrien not far away Juleka and everyone was happy that they could still pull off their plan, but Marinette decided to get straight to the point. Watching with her friends nearby, Juleka pushed Marinette into agreeing to Adrien's offer for a ride home. However, she became disappointed when Marinette declined the offer but praised her for making an effort. She then took a rickshaw ride home.
In "Gorizilla", Juleka arrived at the pool with Mylène, Rose, and Alya. While waiting for Marinette through a series of social media posts they discovered she was with Adrien after receiving more Juleka agreed with Rose with that they looked so cute together. When Alya called Marinette, like her friends she wanted the details of what happened while still waiting at the pool for Marinette.
In "Captain Hardrock", Juleka and her friends were helping her mother, Anarka Couffaine, set up for the Paris music festival. But the performance was halted when Officer Roger said their music was way too loud. But becomes saddened with her brother Luka to see their mother akumatized into Captain Hardrock. When everyone refused to play their music, Juleka ends up as one of the prisoners below the ship. Thanks to Ladybug and Cat Noir, Juleka was set free and getting the okay sign from Officer Roger Juleka performed in the festival with her family and friends.
In "Frightningale", Juleka was heading to Clara Nightningale's music shoot with Rose, Alix, Mylène, Marinette, and Alya to have fun as extra's in her video. She supported Marinette when Clara picked her to be Ladybug in the video, but when she turned down the offer, Juleka and the others gave her friend a group hug. But when Marinette changed her mind, she continued to show support and was completely in awe on how much Adrien and Marinette physically resembled Paris' favorite superheroes.
But she becomes disappointed when Chloé cancels Clara's shoot but fled to safety when the singer was akumatized into Frightningale. After she was defeated and under Ladybug's asking, Juleka and everyone was included in Clara's new music video.
In "Zombizou", Juleka asked Rose what she got Miss Bustier's birthday and Juleka was impressed by Marinette's gift. After making it to Miss Bustier's class she and her friends discover that Marinette's gift was ruined by no other than Chloé. But things go from bad to worse she saw her favorite teacher akumatized into Zombizou. Thanks to Ladybug's intervention, she and her friends escaped to the locker room and after being found by the heroine they all escaped to the school roof.
Then, they all evacuated to a nearby bus but when Chloé missed her mark and Rose tried to save her. Juleka told her not to go and showed great concern for her watching Rose almost become Zombizou's next victim. Once Rose was inside the bus, Juleka comforted her asking if she was okay but arriving at the Eiffel Tower she became infected too remaining on the bus with Rose and Alix. After Zombizou was defeated and everyone returned to normal, Juleka, Rose and Alix joined together for a group hug. She went to Miss Bustier's class the next day.
In "Syren", she was already in the theater and watched a movie with her friends. Upon seeing Alya and Marinette, Juleka and Rose gestured them over but before the movie could start. The theater became flooded with water Juleka and everyone else evacuated to the roof.
In "Reverser", Juleka was a part of the Art Club along with Marinette, Rose, Alix, and Nathaniel. She was introduced to Marc who was hesitant on joining and some time later she, Rose and the teacher were approached by Reverser demanding to know to where Marinette and Nathaniel are. But they were hit by the villain's arrows into destroying everything in the Art Room until being returned to normal by the Miraculous Ladybug. The next day, Juleka was given a copy of the boys comic about Ladybug sharing in a laugh that Marinette would've made a great hero if she wasn't a klutz.
In "Style Queen", Juleka attended Gabriel's fashion show with her friends to support Adrien and Marinette but was horrified when Style Queen attacked the event and turned Adrien into a glitter statue.
In "Malediktator", after laughing at Chloé about her presentation during her actions Queen Bee, Juleka like everyone else was ecstatic about her leaving Paris and celebrated with a party until Malediktator crashed the event and was instructed by the villain to destroy the school. But thanks to the heroes, Juleka and everyone was returned to normal with the Miraculous Ladybug and then attended a new party honoring Queen Bee.
In "Frozer", after Marinette began to doubt her relationship with Adrien, Juleka like her friends wouldn't accept that and started thinking of ideas to have Marinette continue her romantic pursue.
In "Catalyst", Juleka was getting ready for Heroes' Day with her classmates until she becomes devastated by watching a live video feed of Ladybug being akumatized and destroying Cat Noir. Then, soon things went from bad to worse when a swarm of red akumas attack the school, she was shocked when Rose was re-akumatized into Princess Fragrance and tried to run from the akumas. But by taking Marinette's advice, she was able to calm down and resist akumatization.
In "Mayura", after Hawk Moth's army was defeated, Juleka went to a picnic as a thank you present for Marinette due to her being their everyday Ladybug. As Adrien left, she was surprised to see Marinette plant a thank you kiss him and cheered for her progress.
Season 3[]
In "Reflekdoll", she gets akumatized again and Mayura created a sentimonster called Reflekdoll, a giant mech that can shoot lasers that turn its victims into copies of Reflekta.
Season 4[]
In "Crocoduel", Ladybug gives the Tiger Miraculous to Juleka to help defeat her parents Jagged Stone and Anarka Couffaine, who has been transformed by Shadow Moth into Guitar Villain and Captain Hardrock again. She meet Roaar, the tiger kwami, and transforms into Purple Tigress for the first time. She helps Ladybug and Cat Noir defeat her parents and starts bonding with her dad who gave her his first bass as a birthday gift.
Season 5[]
In "Jubilation", Purple Tigress is among the superheroes attending Ladybug and Cat Noir's wedding in the dream caused by Gift when they are fighting Darker Owl in reality.
In "Determination", to try and help restore morale to Paris because of losing Purple Tigress and the other heroes, Grevin Museum curator Veronique has a wax figurine of Purple Tigress made, alongside those of the rest of the team, in hopes of helping to boost hope. When Mayor Bourgeois, under Chloé's influence again, refuses to let the figures be displayed, Veronique is akumatized by Monarch into Manipula, bringing the wax figures of Purple Tigress and the others to life to try and make Manipula look like a hero by bringing the team back.
In "Confrontation", after Chloé and Lila sabotage the career forms that everyone was submitting, Juleka's was sabotaged so badly that, horrified of the falsified results, she leaves herself vulnerable to being turned into Reflekta again. After she is saved by Ladybug and Cat Noir, Juleka finally learns of Lila's true nature thanks to a trap set up by Marinette and Sabrina. As a result, Juleka is allowed to resubmit her career form as a final decision by Principal Damocles before he resigns to spite Mayor André Bourgeois, who threatened to fire him otherwise if he defied the Mayor's authority. As an added bonus, when Principal Damocles is about to be akumatized again, Juleka and the other students encourage him to fight it, with Juleka overcoming her speech impediment to show her support to Damocles, to everyone's shock. Their efforts allow Damocles to activate his Magical Charm and purify the Megakuma, leaving everyone cheering for Damocles, and still showing their support for him as he leaves the school after resigning and telling Mayor Bourgeois he's done being his pawn because of Chloé and Audrey.
In the season finale, "The Final Day", when Monarch unleashes his Operation Perfect Alliance, Juleka and the other members of the Resistance fight the Miraculized, soon being aided by Grandmaster Su-Han and the Guardians, with Luka having joined them alongside Jagged Stone to learn Mira-Kung Fu from Su-Han, reuniting him with his twin sister, whose happy to see him, and soon aided by the United Heroez and Ladydragon, but it is a losing fight as more and more Miraculized arrive to fight, and Luka is soon being overcome by Nightormentor's nightmares he was infected with. Thankfully, as shown in "Miraculous London", Ladybug uses her Miraculous Ladybug to save everyone and undo the effects of Operation Perfect Alliance and Nightormentor, freeing Luka from his nightmares and restoring the Miraculized to normal. Juleka later learns that Gabriel Agreste gave up his life to end Monarch's life for good. After Marinette restores the Miraculous to their original forms, Juleka is entrusted with Roaar and the Tiger Miraculous permanently, allowing her to become Purple Tigress again while Luka is entrusted with Sass and the Snake Miraculous permanently to become Viperion again, reuniting the French Miraculous superhero team to be ready for whatever the new Hawk Moth in Lila Rossi/Cerise Bianca has planned for them.
Season 6[]
In "Daddycop", Juleka, along with Mylène, Rose, Alya, Kagami, and Zoé, are preparing for their weekly girls movie night at Marinette's, but Marinette had planned to celebrate her 100th kiss with Adrien that same night. When they notice Sabrina and how she had been alone since Chloé was exiled from Paris, they decide to invite her, through Zoé, to the movie night. Unfortunately, Marinette assumed they were okay with her inviting Adrien so she could still have her dinner date with him, and when Sabrina is heartbroken after Marinette told her the truth, when they learn of it, fearing for Sabrina's well-being, they rush to help and comfort her, but are confronted by her father, Lt. Roger Raincomprix is akumatized into Daddycop by Chrysalis. Juleka is among the first victims of Daddycop to be brainwashed into becoming a zombie who loves Sabrina and attempt to chase her down to comfort her, but later, thanks to a group effort by Ladybug, Cat Noir, Pegasus, and Miss Hound, Juleka and the other victims are returned to normal, stunned and confused by what happened. Later, back at Marinette's, Sabrina apologizes for her sins when she was helping Chloé and hopes for a fresh start with the other female members of Team Miraculous. Juleka and the other girls reassure her Chloé is nothing but a bad memory for all of them now and Sabrina has a chance to truly be herself now and not be in the shadow of someone like Chloé anymore, giving Sabrina a group hug to show they are there to help her now. Later, Sabrina appears at school sporting a new appearance now that she can just be herself, and Juleka and the other members of Team Miraculous offer positive reactions to it.
Trivia[]
- Juleka Couffaine is the eleventh person to become a Miraculous holder who was also an Akumatized villain, following Nino Lahiffe in "The Bubbler", Alya Césaire in "Lady Wifi", Lê Chiến Kim in "Dark Cupid", Mylène Haprèle in "Horrificator", Alix Kubdel in "Timebreaker", Max Kanté in "Gamer", Chloé Bourgeois in "Antibug", Rose Lavillant in "Princess Fragrance", Kagami Tsurugi in "Riposte", Luka Couffaine in "Silencer", and Zoé Lee in "Sole Crusher" but excluding Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth, who akumatized himself in "The Collector" into the titular villain.
- She is one of two Miraculous holders who's weapon doubles as their tails. The other being Polymouse.
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