This name is hilarious and you’re about to find out why.
It really bugged me at first because I couldn’t figure out how it related to dogs or canines at all. But I knew the second part of the name comes from the word “formidable.” In English, it means powerful/capable/intense in a way that commands respect or fear (I.e. formidable opponent). In French, it can be the same, but also translates to “tremendous,” “amazing,” “terrible” (if you’re wanting a negative connotation).
Those definitions definitely go with how Felix sees himself (and he is definitely a formidable opponent).
But I was drawing a blank on “flair” or how else the name could refer to anything canine at all. So I just googled “flairmidable meaning” and see if someone else in the miraculous wiki figured it out lol. And they did!
Someone in a miraculous discussion post said “flair” means a dog’s sense of smell. I did some more googling to fact check it just in case, and found that it’s almost right: “flairer” (a French verb) means “sniff,” and “flaireur” means “scent.” Since Fetch is a tracking power, it’s a good connection to how dogs track.
Okay, now here’s the funny part.
“Flair,” by itself, also means “instinctive aptitude or ability for doing something well. Add that with “formidable,” and, well…
Felix literally went “hi I’m Talented and Powerful” to an entire team of superheroes and no one bat an eye (well, except Chat, but he was on jealousy brain).
(Then he proceeded to prove that he was exactly that. What a legend.)
I’m not even gon hold you. I actually enjoyed the season 4 finale of Miraculous Ladybug. It’s such a pleasant surprise because I really did not expect to like it. I haven’t actually enjoyed an episode in a hot minute so I did not have high hopes (hell, I basically had no hope 🙃) for the finale going into it. But I’ll be damned, I did, in fact, enjoy it. That last scene with Cat reassuring Ladybug that he and Paris were gonna stick beside her was beautiful and actually got me to shed a few tears of joy. Which is really something seeing as this show has not been able to invoke any emotions besides frustration and anger (and a lot of secondhand embarrassment 🫠) since somewhere in season 2. So I will give the Miraculous writers this ONE praise for the finale.
Hey remember when Mayor Bourgeois wanted to send all of Paris' trash to space but people protested saying that space is no dump
And remember two seasons later when Ladybug used the horse miraculous to send the Strike Back sentimonsters to the sun to immediately burn up
Why don.t. why don't they use the horse mira ulous to send the trash to the sun this way the trash won't just be floating in space,. And it can just immediately burn in the sun. And they won't even have to spend all the money on rockets. Mayor Bustier are you writing this down
Y’all I missed this detail for so long: the split-second Félix realizes who’s in front of him, he throws his bag back into the bathroom!
I guess it’s not really anything major, but it’s kinda cool and funny to me that was able to think “Quick! Must hide the evidence!” and act on it so fast and make it barely noticeable. Cool character moment!
All the rankings are in, and now it's time for the great conclusion: best Miraculous Ladybug episode to date!
I will be pulling the top 2 choices from these five polls I previously conducted, looking for the best Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, and the first part of Season 5 episodes.