Lila Rossi is one of the characters from Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
In "Volpina", after Ladybug humiliates her in front of Adrien Agreste by exposing her lies about the both of them being close friends and her owning the Fox Miraculous, she is akumatized by Hawk Moth into Volpina, a fox-themed supervillain who is a master of illusions.
In "Heroes' Day", after Gabriel Agreste calls Volpina a false hero in comparison to Ladybug on TV, she is once again akumatized as Volpina. Afterwards she takes part in Hawk Moth's plan to acquire the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses.
Later in "Chameleon", in order to get revenge on Ladybug again, she willingly becomes akumatized into Chameleon, a shape-shifting supervillain.
In "Revelation", it’s revealed that Lila possesses multiple families and identities. Besides Mrs. Rossi, an Italian ambassador, she has two other mothers: one that believes she is in Africa helping endangered animals and one that is deaf-mute and communicates with sign language. Also, after being replaced by Kagami as the female face of the Gabriel Agreste brand, blaming Marinette and Gabriel for that, Lila decides to take her revenge on both of them by creating a situation at the classroom to force a re-election for the class representative so she can use her anger towards Marinette to lure Monarch to akumatize her into Hoaxer, her second fox themed akumatized form, receiving the superpower of the Fox Miraculous through her Alliance ring. Using her superpower to control people, she forces Nathalie to send her photos of all of Gabriel’s secrets, including information about his past, how he found the Miraculous, his contracts with Tomoe Tsurugi, the Miraculous spellbook, the location of Emilie’s body and a photo of one of Graham de Vanily Twin Rings that is on her finger.
In "Confrontation", Chloe and Lila got exposed by Sabrina in front of everyone. both she and Chloe are hereby expelled from school by Mr. Damocles.
In "Revolution", she and Chloe were exiled, forcing them to be banished from Paris forever, marking her final defeat indefinitely.
Appearance[]
Physical appearance[]
Lila is a slender teenage girl of average height with olive green eyes and long, hip-length chestnut brown hair with bangs similar to a horse mane. Her hair is loosely tied at the tips with orange bands where she has two shorter strands of hair.
Civilian attire[]
She has red-orange wristbands on her right arm. She wears a red-orange jacket over a dark gray romper that has tiny white spots. Additionally, she wears light gray tights and brown high heel boots.
As Volpina[]
- Main article: Volpina (Character)
Volpina wears an orange mask with black edges, and her hair bands are black. On top of her head, two fake orange ears with white and black insides are attached. The top of her hair is black and then quickly ombrés down to light brown with the tips of her hair being white. She also has orange lipstick. The necklace with a fox tail hanging off of it is worn around her neck. Her outfit is orange with a white section going down the front. Wrapped around her waist is an orange sash that looks like a fox tail. The edges of her collar and the tops of her upper arms have black lines, and her forearms and lower legs are solid black, with the soles of her feet being white with an orange fox foot printed on each. Her weapon is a replica of the flute staff.
As Chameleon[]
- Main article: Chameleon (Miraculous Ladybug)
After being akumatized into Chameleon, she retains her normal form. However, with her shape-shifting abilities, she can change it into whatever she kisses. She took the form of Adrien, a little boy, Cat Noir and even an oyster.
Personality[]
Lila is proud and loves attention, which she is willing to obtain by lying. This even means going beyond words to support her lies, like buying a necklace that looks like the Fox Miraculous to convince Adrien telling that she is a descendant of the fox-themed superhero. She gets jealous if someone gets more attention or love than her and doesn't like it when someone reveals that her lies aren't true, showing no remorse for lying in the first place. If anyone attempts to expose her, she won't hesitate to try to make them miserable or break them down just to get them out of her way. She also doesn't take advice from those who try to make peace with her or encourage her to be honest like Ladybug or Adrien.
Lila doesn't easily forgive people who she feels wronged her, as she is still furious at Ladybug for ratting her out harshly and ruining her chance to woo Adrien. Asides her lying ability, her desire for vengeance is so great that Gabriel Agreste actually decided to form a formal alliance with her, not just akumatize her.
As Volpina, her personality is still intact, while additionally determined to get revenge on Ladybug. Wanting to make Ladybug suffer, she nearly convinced Ladybug to give up her earrings twice, almost tricking her with illusions of people she threatened to hurt, like civilians and Adrien.
As Chameleon, because she is akumatized voluntarily, her personality still remains the same, using her powers to get even with the ones that she believes wronged her, like when she takes Adrien's form to make him look bad and at the same time to lead Ladybug into a "trap". Her desire to defeat Ladybug is so great that she rather advance to battle her than take an unconscious Cat Noir's Miraculous to Hawk Moth.
Abilities[]
As a civilian[]
Lila is a very crafty and sneaky liar. She is able to use her lies to manipulate people into doing what she wants. When this doesn't work, she tries to make others feel pity for her and manipulate them emotionally. Even Tikki, a being who has existed since before the dawn of humanity, thinks that Lila has lied better than anyone she met before.
As Volpina[]
Like Rena Rouge, Volpina can play a tune on her flute with an idea in mind to create a glowing orange ball of energy. She can throw the orange ball of energy anywhere with her flute and create whatever incredibly lifelike illusion that she wants. However, the illusions are intangible, and when touched will disappear in an orange cloud.
Volpina's flute is long enough to wield as a staff.
As Chameleon[]
Chameleon can transform into another person after kissing them, causing her victim to fall unconscious. As long she remains in their form, her victims remain unconscious. Once Chameleon takes another form, they wake up. When turned into a Miraculous holder, Lila is able to use their powers, like when she fights Ladybug in Cat Noir's form and her power allowed her to utilize Cataclysm.
List of Lila's Lies[]
In Miraculous[]
In Other Media[]
Trivia[]
- She is voiced by Lisa Kay Jennings.
- She will appear in Pooh's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
- She will be an enemy of Tino Tonitini, Bloom, Ash Ketchum, Littlefoot, SpongeBob SquarePants and their friends in Tino's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
- She will be the enemy of Ryan, Meg and their friends in Ryan's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
- Her name and abilities as the latter may also be based on the Spider-Man villain Chameleon.
- As seen in "Catalyst", Lila's room is decorated with masks, which symbolize hiding truth.
- Lila is the third person to be akumatized voluntarily, but the first to direct the akuma to an object.
- Her surname also reference to Valentino Rossi. A Motogp rider with 9 world championships since his debut back in 1996.
- Lila tells several stories assumed to be lies:
- She knows Prince Ali and flew with him in his private jet.
- Jagged Stone wrote a song about Lila.
- Lila knows all of the Hollywood directors. She promised she'd introduce Nino to Steven Besielberg.
- Ladybug saved Lila's life, and the two of them are best friends.
- Lila loves superheroes.
- Lila claims to be a descendant of a Fox Miraculous holder seen in the Miraculous spellbook, calling her Volpina. According to Lila, Volpina is "one of the most important superheroes, more powerful and celebrated than Ladybug." Lila also claimed her grandmother gave her the Fox Miraculous, showing a simular looking trinket she bought in a giftshop after seeing the miraculous in the Grimoire.
- In the French dubbed version, she tells Alya that her parents are diplomats and that she has traveled a lot.
- As Volpina, most of the things she says are lies. For example, she tells Adrien and all of Paris that she is a true superhero.
- She has a close relationship with Prince Ali.
- She saved Jagged Stone's kitten.
- She knows a famous manga artist.
- She knows several foreign languages
- She has a ball related fear
- Her mother was a student of Professor Oak.
- She met Will of the Johto Elite Four.
- Lila is the second person to rival Marinette for Adrien's affections, behind Chloé Bourgeois.
- Also, it is interesting to note that while Chloé becomes progressively more heroic over the course of Season 2, especially during the "Queen's Battle" trilogy, Lila, on the other hand, becomes much more antagonistic and dangerous than Chloé over the course of Seasons 2 and 3. Despite that, Chloé briefly becomes a villain in the two-part Season 3 finale due of being manipulated by Hawk Moth.
- Based on Lila's behavior and mindset, she has a classic case of anti-social personality disorder, a mental disorder characterized when a person is unable to feel empathy to others and only understands emotions that affect themselves, such as gratification.
- Volpina, along with Copycat, Antibug, and Queen Wasp, is one of the few Akumatized villains who is based on a pre-existing Miraculous holder.
- As such, her powers and appearance are very similar to Rena Rouge, as they can both create illusions and have similar fox-themed costumes. However, unlike Volpina, who can create multiple illusions without losing power, Rena Rouge can only make one illusion per transformation.
- Lila is the only known person, besides Hawk Moth and Mayura, that sees Ladybug as her enemy even while not akumatized.
- She is the first akumatized villain to have amplified Miraculous superpowers, as it's revealed in "Timetagger" that prolonged and multiply use of said powers only occur when a holder grows into an adult.
- Volpina appears another time in "Gamer 2.0" for Gamer's powers.
- Lila is the second person getting akumatized voluntarily, but the first to direct the akuma to an object.
- She is also the first akumatized victim to introduce herself to Hawk Moth instead of the other way around.
- In "Oni-Chan", it is heavily implied that the reason Lila is so attention-seeking is that her parents, particularly her mother, are constantly out of her life because of their jobs, though this has yet to be stated as fact.
- Despite her third akumatization being caused by Scarlet Moth, she didn't have a red-colored appearance.
- She is the the third akumatized villain who doesn't appear in the theme song or its animatic in Season 1. The others are Animan and Kung Food, both of whom appear in the animatic.
- Lila is the first previously akumatized victim to be reakumatized with the same supervillain identity but with a different akuma.
- Also, the akuma which affects her is the first seen akuma to be de-evilized by Hawk Moth himself and removed onscreen.
- People have speculated that Lila will receive the Butterfly Miraculous in a future episode around Season 6.
- In Liam's Adventure Series, because of her villainous schemes, she was revealed to have joined Team Rocket as one of their recruits due to her ability to lie and to manipulate, this was shown in TBA.
- She appeared in Liam's Adventures of Scooby-Doo where she was the culprit when she disguised herself as Loki in Why You Always Lila!, but was captured by Marinette who unmasked her and vowed to get revenge on those meddling kids.
- She has made a few appearances in A Filipina's Pokémon Journey.
- In Showdown at the Gates of Warp!, She was one of the characters who deaged by Dialga and Palkia's powers, along with her Pokemon who devolved all the way down into eggs.
- The only time she ever cried was because Sobble's tears infected her.
