Location from Miraculous Ladybug by Thomas Astruc / ZAG
The City of Light — and the city that gets attacked by a new supervillain roughly every 22 minutes, yet somehow maintains property values and a functioning tourism industry.
Paris in this show is Paris as fantasy — every croissant is perfect, every sunset is pink and gold, every rooftop is accessible by yo-yo. It is the most romantically depicted version of the city in animation, and it is also under constant siege. Hawk Moth can sense negative emotions anywhere in the city. Every bad breakup, every failed test, every parking ticket is a potential supervillain incident. The citizens of Paris have developed a remarkable resilience — akuma attacks are treated like weather events. Schools have evacuation procedures. The news covers battles the way other cities cover traffic. Ladybug's Miraculous Ladybug cure repairs all physical damage after every battle, which means the city is perpetually pristine despite being demolished weekly. This creates a bizarre psychological landscape where destruction has no permanent consequences, but the emotional trauma of being transformed into a monster is something people carry forever.
Romantic, idealized Paris rendered in bright, clean animation — wide boulevards, Haussmann rooftops, the Seine shimmering, the Eiffel Tower visible from every angle. The city is perpetually beautiful, perpetually daytime or gorgeously lit at night, and perpetually being destroyed by akumatized villains and rebuilt by Ladybug's Miraculous cure. Rooftops are the superhero highway — Ladybug and Cat Noir vault across them nightly.
Also known as: City of Light, City of Love