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| “ | Roaar, stripes on. | „ |
| ~ Juleka during her transformation into Purple Tigress. |
Juleka Couffaine is a major character from Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir. She is also Luka's younger twin sister. In season 4, she receives the Tiger Miraculous from Ladybug, which, when inhabited by the kwami 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 onward.
Appearance[]
Physical appearance[]
Juleka is a slender teenage girl with pale skin who stands at a medium height. She has brilliant red eyes with dark eyeshadow and coccyx-length black hair, with dyed moderate mulberry tips at the end and bangs covering the left side of her face. She wears a light violetish gray lipstick and her fingernails are painted light sapphire bluish gray with black nail art of intricate patterns on each one with different designs on each hand.
Civilian attire[]
Juleka wears a black swan-necked T-shirt with a sea green lined collar and side pockets, and black mesh sleeves. She also wears purple leggings with holes above the knees and black high top sneakers with white soles. On her hands, she has blue-violetish black fingerless lace gloves that have a diamond pattern design and end halfway up the forearm. She sometimes wears an arctic blue, royal blue, and gold wrist mirror on her right hand.
As Purple Tigress[]
Purple Tigress has long, dark grayish heliotrope hair with deep fuchsia highlights tied up in a high ponytail with long bangs. She wears a pale, light grayish fuchsia superhero body-jumpsuit with dark cerise tiger like stripes and brilliant crimson marks on it. She has golden eyes and has dark fuchsia and light heliotropeish gray tiger ears. She has dark grayish blue-violet lipstick on her lips, and a deep fuchsia & light magentaish gray mask.
Personality[]
Juleka is a shy, quiet student at Miss Bustier’s class. As Purple Tigress, she has more confidence and is wild and loud like the Tiger.
Powers and abilities[]
As a civilian[]
Juleka is good at applying makeup, being chosen to be the makeup artist in the class's film.
As Purple Tigress[]
Purple Tigress has enhanced abilities such as speed, strength, durability and agility. Her weapon is a bolas, a whip-like weapon with three weighted, striped balls on one end. It's worn as a belt when not in use, appearing like a tiger's tail. Her power, Clout, charges her fist with powerful energy. When Purple Tigress punches something, she completely overpowers her target and sends them flying. However, once she uses Clout, she is on a time delay before reverting back to her civilian identity, but if she can overcome the failsafe through sheer willpower like Ladybug and Cat Noir did with their Miraculous, she'll be able to use Clout repeatedly without needing to revert back to recuperate.
Biography[]
Background[]
Season 1[]
In "Reflekta", she is corrupted by Hawk Moth into the titular supervillain, capable of turning people into copies of her.
Season 2[]
Miraculous Shanghai[]
Season 3[]
In "Reflekdoll", she gets Akumatized again and Mayura creates a Sentimonster called "Reflekdoll", a giant mech that can shoot lasers that turn its victims into copies of Reflekta.
Miraculous New York[]
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 Hawk Moth into Guitar Villain and Captain Hardrock again. She meets Roaar, the tiger kwami, and transforms into Purple Tigress for the first time. She helps Ladybug & 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/Jubilation 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 Chloe'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 Chloe 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 a repentant 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 Andre 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 Monarch sent after him, 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 Chloe 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 World 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.
Trivia[]
- Her first voice actress, Erin Fitzgerald, also voiced Kodachi Kuno in Ranma ½ Season 5, Nazz in Ed Edd 'n Eddy, Seiko Kimura in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School and Abbey Bominable, Spectra Vondergeist, Rochelle Goyle & Scarah Screams in Monster High.
- Her second voice actress, Reba Buhr, also voiced Karen Kohiruimaki in Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online, Misty in Pokémon Masters EX, and Katie Forester and Hidabat in Yo-Kai Watch.
- She also shares the same voice as Rose Lavillant.
- 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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