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| “ | Wayzz, Shell On! | „ |
| ~ Nino during his transformation into Carapace. |
| “ | Yo! Check it! Cat Noir is gonna save us! | „ |
| ~ Nino |
Nino Lahiffe is one of the deuteragonists of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir. In the season 2 episode "Anansi", he receives the Turtle Miraculous which, when inhabited by the kwami Wayzz, can transform him into Carapace, a turtle-themed superhero.
He was voiced by Ben Diskin for Seasons 1 through 3 and currently voiced by Zeno Robinson for Miraculous World: New York – United HeroeZ and onwards in English, and Takayuki Miyamoto in Japanese.
Appearance
Nino is tall, with short dark brown hair, tan skin, and moderate orange eyes. He dresses in skate punk fashion, typically seen with headphones around his neck and a cap on his head.
As Carapace, he wears a deep green turtle themed superhero jumpsuit with a hood and a chestpiece consisting of light-green hexagons. The suit also has even dark grayish green areas on the knees, arms and shoulders.
Personality
Nino is fun-loving, enthusiastic, friendly, and compassionate. He enjoys being a DJ at parties and hanging out with friends. He is described as "a caring friend with a strong sense of right and wrong." Noticing when someone, like Adrien, is upset, he does what he can to comfort them or cheer them up. If he has a vision for something, he stays dedicated to it, sometimes rather stubbornly.
But if things don't go in the fashion he wants them to, it exasperates and upsets him. He is more than willing to argue his point, though he is able to change his opinions on situations or particular people. Nino becomes frustrated if he sees something that he considers unfair, like when Adrien's father won't allow Adrien to have a birthday party. However, he doesn't hold grudges for long, and whether by choice or not, he will help others when they ask for it.
However he has a tendency to act nervous in certain situations seen in "Animan", when he tried to ask Marinette on a date and when he stuttered at the sight of being posted on Alya's Ladyblog. He also has some knowledge on how things work in certain situations like in "Horrificator" or "Anansi".
Like Alya, he can be caught up in the moment or excitement of things. However, unlike her Nino doesn't hesitate on returning the Turtle Miraculous.
When it comes those he cares about he is brave and loyal refusing to leave them behind in "Simon Says", where he didn't want to leave without Adrien. In "Anansi", when he was even willing to fight against the titular villain to save Alya or staying with her when she's infected in "Zombizou". He can become doubtful of his abilities at times but takes advice from others very well.
As Carapace, most of Nino's personality remains the same like his willingness to help others and bravery although he forgets to speak in a formal manner calling the heroine dude or dudette instead of Ladybug.
As Bubbler, he becomes less caring and more aggressive, being much wilder and louder than normal. Although one of his intentions is to let Adrien have the birthday party that he never gets, he also despises adults and uses his powers to get rid of them. His hatred can extend to his peers if they defy his orders. As Bubbler, if anyone doesn't listen to him, they get trapped in a bubble. His rage proves to even be an issue for Hawk Moth when he traps Ladybug and Cat Noir and sends them into the sky instead of taking their Miraculouses.
Powers and abilities
As a civilian
Nino is skilled at being a DJ. He also has knowledge of movie-related topics, as he points out in the episode "Horrificator" that cellphones tend not to work in horror films, and refers to the film director Steven Basielberg by name in the episode "Volpina".
As Carapace
Carapace has increased speed, strength, agility and durability, though he can't reach the same heights that Ladybug can with her yo-yo or Rena Rouge can with sheer agility. His Miraculous tool is a shield that also functions as a throwing weapon and can be used to activate his main superpower, Shellter, which creates a force-field around him, but also forces him to revert to his civilian form five minutes afterwards. However, if he is able to overcome the five-minute failsafe through sheer willpower, as Ladybug and Cat Noir demonstrated in "Revolution", he will be able to stay transformed indefinitely and use Shellter repeatedly without needing to revert back to recuperate.
Biography
Season 1
In "The Bubbler", he is influenced by Hawk Moth and becomes the supervillain called the Bubbler. When asked about Alya and Nino's ethnicity, Astruc wrote on Twitter that one of them was from Réunion, and later wrote that Alya was from Martinique.
Season 2
In "Anansi", Ladybug gives the Turtle Miraculous to Nino to help defeat Alya's older sister Nora, who has been transformed by Hawk Moth into the supervillain Anansi. When Ladybug tricks Anansi into making the Arc de Triomphe crumble, Carapace uses his Shellter superpower to protect himself, Ladybug, Cat Noir and Rena Rouge. After Anansi's defeat, Nino gives the Turtle Miraculous back to Marinette, who returns it to Master Fu.
Miraculous Shanghai
Season 3
Miraculous New York
Season 4
Season 5
In "Jubilation", Carapace is among the superheroes attending Ladybug and Cat Noir's wedding in the dream caused by Gift/Jubilation when they are fighting Darker Owl in reality.
In "Determination", to try and help restore morale to Paris because of losing Carapace and the other heroes, Grevin Museum curator Veronique has a wax figurine of Carapace made, alongside those of the rest of the team, in hopes of helping to boost hope. When Mayor Bourgeois, under Chloe's influence again, refuses to let the figures be displayed, Veronique is Akumatized by Monarch into Manipula, bringing the wax figures of Carapace and the others to life to try and make Manipula look like a hero by bringing the team back.
In the season finale, "The Final Day", Nino is part of the Resistance as they fight against the Miraculized as part of Monarch's Operation Perfect Alliance, joined by Grandmaster Su-Han and the Guardians, the United Heroez, and Ladydragon, but it is a losing fight as the Miraculized keep coming. At one point, Nino and Alya manage to rescue ex-Principal Damocles from being a Miraculized, and assuming his identity as The Owl, he joins them in fighting the Miraculized. It is only, as shown in "Miraculous World London", when Ladybug uses her Miraculous Ladybug to undo all the damage, that Nino and everyone else are saved as the Miraculized are returned to normal. He later learns that Gabriel Agreste sacrificed himself to end the threat of Monarch for good. After Marinette restores the Miraculous to their original forms, she entrusts Wayzz to Nino permanently, allowing Nino to become Carapace again and join the rest of the restored French Miraculous Superhero Team to prepare for whatever threats come from the new Hawk Moth in Lila Rossi/Cerise Bianca.
Season 6
Trailers for the first season using the new Unreal Engine animation show Carapace, along with Ladybug, Cat Noir, Rena Rouge, Miss Hound, Pegasus, and the rest of Team Miraculous as they engage in one of their impending battles together against Lila's Akumatized supervillains.
Also, in the gap since Gabriel's death, and the end of Monarch's threat, Nino and the rest of Team Miraculous have been able to, with Marinette's help, overcome the limiter failsafe on their respective Miraculous and are able to use their special abilities repeatedly without needing to revert back to give their Kwamis time to recuperate. They also have been granted permission by Marinette to use the Miraculous for other heroic acts when the city is not being threatened by an Akumatized supervillain, helping to take some of the stress and pressure off Paris' first responders and other citizens.
In "The Illustrhater", Alya and Nino are going to the movies with Marinette and Adrien, but when the bus is stuck on a damaged bridge and it is about to collapse, Marinette and Adrien shield Alya and Nino as they transform into Rena Rouge and Carapace to save the bus. Lieutenant Roger Raincomprix and the Paris first responders thank Rena and Carapace for their efforts, and after retreating to an alleyway to revert back, Alya decides to leave Marinette and Adrien to fend for themselves while she and Nino investigate the new carrier of the Butterfly Miraculous. However, when they interrogate Mayor Bustier, she explains what she was feeling at the time of her Akumatization, which was fear and concern for her baby daughter Harmonie, and what she heard before being Akumatized, but other than that, and interviewing other victims, they have nothing else to go on. However, when Maya, a young girl turned into the Akumatized supervillain Illustrhater, begins causing havoc around Paris with her drawings, Alya and Nino become Rena Rouge and Carapace again, contact Ladybug and Cat Noir to warn them they have an Akumatized villain on the loose, and join them to help stop Illustrhater. It was during the battle that, after Ladybug summons an art supply case as her Lucky Charm, Carapace offers to go fill it up with art supplies for Ladybug to use as a lure to attract Illustrhater to her. While he does that, Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Rena Rouge attempt to get some intel from Illustrhater about Chrysalis, but Chrysalis forbids Illustrhater from telling the Miraculous heroes anything under threat of taking back her powers if she double-crosses Chrysalis. Carapace soon returns with the Lucky Charm full of art supplies, then does as Ladybug orders and withdraws to lure Illustrhater into a false sense of security. With Rena using her Mirage to make Ladybug's attempts to lure in Illustrhater successful, Ladybug disarms Illustrhater of her sketchpad for Cat Noir to destroy with Cataclysm, returning Maya to normal, purifies the Ultrakuma, and repairs the damage to the city with Miraculous Ladybug. Afterwards, Ladybug grants Maya a Magical Charm to protect her, and Carapace shares a "Pound it!" fist bump with his fellow Miraculous users and Maya after offering her positive reactions to her sketches, especially one she gives to Ladybug, which Marinette tapes into her diary upon returning home.
At the start of "Revelator", Carapace is with the rest of the team as, under Cat Noir and Ladybug's guidance, they attempt to unlock their adult Miraculous powers through sheer willpower. While some fail and need to recharge their Kwamis and transform again before resuming, everyone manages to successfully unlock their adult Miraculous powers and enable their ability to stay transformed indefinitely before manually reverting back by saying their power down catchphrase. To celebrate their accomplishment, Ladybug dubs the team, "The Miraculers", which they all agree on.
Trivia
- Nino Lahiffe is the second person become to a Miraculous holder and first akumatized villain, excluding Gabriel, who akumatized himself.
- Nino is also the second akumatized villain to break free of Shadow Moth's power using sheer will. The first being his girlfriend Alya.
- He is the second in the show to find out the identity of another Miraculous holder, as well as the third to reveal his secret identity as Carapace. Chloé Bourgeois previously revealed her secret identity as Queen Bee in the episode "Queen Wasp". Ladybug and Cat Noir also found out each others' identities in "Oblivio", but they were amnesiac at the time and lost all of their memories gained while amnesiac when Ladybug's Miraculous Ladybug cured them.
- He shares his first English voice actor with two kwamis, Nooroo and Sass.
- He shares both English voice actors; Ben Diskin and Zeno Robinson with Miraculous holder Pegasus.
- His first English voice actor, Ben Diskin, also voices Shoutmon and Cutemon from Digimon Fusion, Sai from Naruto Shippuden, Eugene Horowitz from Hey Arnold! Seasons 2-5, Nigel Uno and Hoagie Gilligan from Codename: Kids Next Door, Humphrey from the Alpha and Omega sequels, Stitch from Stitch!, and Ban from Seven Deadly Sins.
- His second English voice actor, Zeno Robinson, also voices Keigo Takami/Hawks from My Hero Academia, Goh from Pokémon Journeys: The Series, Remy Remington from Big City Greens, Garfiel Tinsel from Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World and Genya Shinazugawa from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
- His armor and shield is similar to Marvel's Steve Rogers/Captain America.
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