In the animated series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir and Miraculous World, Marinette Dupain-Cheng's hair is intended to be black with a blue tint. 38 votes, 19 comments. trueMarinette's hair is black in universe.
One of the reasons why they make it look blue is bc 1. The show is very animesque, it it common for anime's to give their MCs vibrant hair colors/styles so they pop out in the crowd and your eyes are drawn to them. 2.
the creators intentionally made marinette and adriens color scheme exact opposites (inverted) of each other. Marinette's hair color is a homage to old comic books that would use blue highlights on black hair. [145] Currently, ten characters know that Marinette is Ladybug: Plagg, Alya Césaire/Rena Rouge, Su-Han, Luka Couffaine/Viperion, Alix Kubdel/Bunnyx, Marinette's counterpart from a parallel universe and that same universe's version of Adrien.
Overall, the blue colour of Marinette's hair in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug is a well-thought-out design choice that references anime characters with bizarre hair colours, pays homage to superhero comics, and enhances the visual appeal of the animation. What Color is Marinette's Hair? According to Thomas Astruc (on twitter), it is officially black, and turns a slightly different color when she transforms. Now if we look at this nerd she obvs doesn't look like she has some straight up jet black hair: Exhibit A: It's as blue as these uniforms.
The most significant feature of Ladybugs is their black, blue tinted hair, which is often seen in Asian characters. Gabriel's hair changes color from grey to blond all the time due to hair dye. Marinette's hair is canonically black, but it does look blue in some shots due to the way 3D animation works.
0 Aahhhmlb42 2/13/2025 It's supposed to be black, but in some shots her hair is clearly 100% blue. At this point I feel like the writers are going to consider Marinette's hair blue. 1 S11s6MLB 2/13/2025 It's black except i think it;s just the lighting that makes it look blue so when people draw or color her, they make her hair blue.
Miraculous Ladybug is a story of love between two Parisian high schoolers, Marinette and Adrien, who transform into the superheroes Ladybug and Chat Noir! While not knowing each other's secret identities, the two must put their romantic feelings aside to protect Paris against evil Monarch. Because to the other characters, her hair it still considered black-even as Ladybug, whose "blue shine" is supposed to be stronger/more saturated than Marinette's. We know this because we only have one place where her hair color is explicitly mentioned by another character, and it's this.
Marinette's hair is supposed to be black, but it is navy blue for the animators' sake. Black hair is difficult to animate due to its dark color, so they used blue instead.