Why Adrien's NOT a Sentimonster (2024)

I can’t believe I felt it necessary to write such a post, but the way this theory blew up again, well… here we are.

Sentimonsters are beings created purely out of magic from a Miraculous. An amok (a feather) goes into an object and the holder of the Peaco*ck Miraculous shapes the monster they want and voila. The one who has possession of the object controls the monster.
But let me emphasize that they’re made of pure magic. They are not real. They are not human. They’re magic puppets that follow the will of their owners.

- Adrien has memories of and Chloe has memories of their early days of childhood together. Clearly he’s grown.
And before you can say “They must’ve made a new one to have him appear to grow.” No. Because that sentimonster would be an entirely new sentimonster. If sentimonsters are able to retain memories beyond more than they’re created for, a new sentimonster still would not have the previous one’s memories.
- Adrien has never mentioned being a sentimonster.
Considering how he knows about sentimonsters, we’d probably know that he was one by now if he really was. When a sentimonster is made, they’re aware of it. They’re aware what they are, what they’re supposed to do, and who they’re supposed to obey with no resistance or questions asked. None of this applies to Adrien, who has no knowledge of it and rebels and acts like a normal teenager. This also applies to the idea if they “edited” Adrien to make him appear to grow, instead of making a new sentimonster altogether. He’d remember that.
- Adrien’s warm and has an immune system.
Since sentimonsters are magic puppets and not human, he wouldn’t have a beating heart to make him warm (as Marinette mentions in Puppeteer 2), nor an immune system that has a problem with allergens (the few episodes where he’s allergic to feathers) and viruses (while not in the show, Adrien did get sick during the time where they gave us new Instagram posts).
- Remember that weird glow around SentiNino when Ladybug looked at the mirror in Optigami? Adrien’s looked in a mirror many times in the show and he’s never had that look around him in his reflection. That lucky charm being a mirror would not be needed just for the handshake being wrong. Only the mirror would visually show that that wasn’t the real Nino.
- If Adrien was sentimonster, Gabriel wouldn’t have been so bent on keeping him safe. Even when the Miraculous was broken, couldn’t he just make another one anyway if something happened to this one?
But even that aside, sentimonsters don’t appear to have free will.
SentiLadybug, when in Ladybug’s possession, was asked what she thought of the name for the 3 of them she came up with. SentiLadybug didn’t have an opinion at all and said it was up to her.
- Adrien is just like his mother. He takes after her in many ways, two of which Gabriel’s said himself (being “overly dramatic” and his temper.) Not exactly traits Gabriel would want him to have, obviously, by his annoyance when he explained he’s like his mother in that he’s overly dramatic.
- Gabriel and Nathalie would both be able to tell Chat Noir’s a sentimonster, and would be able to figure out that that would mean he’s Adrien. Yet neither are aware at all who Chat Noir is. They’re able to sense sentimonsters, even those that they didn’t make themselves. Both have been in Chat Noir’s presence multiple times, they’d know immediately.
- If the ring was in fact the object with the amok, well, Felix stole it… The one Gabriel’s wearing is the one Emilie always wore that he recently took for himself. He’d have no control at all over his son then.
- Sentimonsters go bezerk when Cataclysmed. Chat Noir just ended up getting hurt when he was Cataclysmed.

- That would mean Marinette fell in love with someone who’s not real, who’s not human. Meaning, her dreams of having kids with him someday (Emma, Louis, and Hugo) would be absolutely impossible to happen. Not to mention, someone that fights sentimonsters frequently would end up being uncomfortable with the idea of loving one. The Love Square we’ve all adored so much and

waited so long to happen, would turn out to have been a kind of lie all these years. Unlike shows where one of the characters is an AI, robotic, or otherwise non-human, that point is almost always brought up right away before any relationships start to build so the audience gets comfortable with the idea.
- Would you really like the idea of him not being actually real in the Miraculous Ladybug universe?
Considering how many people get really upset when they hear or think of this theory because Adrien’s such an important and precious character to most, that would make a lot of people really furious and hurt, where they’d stop watching, feeling like they were lied to. That would do extreme damage to the show, its ratings, merchandise sales, future seasons and movies, etc.
- This is still a kids show.
I know a lot of people who believe in this theory like to say that they made SentiAdrien because the real one died a long time ago, so he’s now replacing him… that’s honestly really dark. While Miraculous does things that are dark, implying that a young boy died and his parents went to find magic that could create a replica of their dead son that they’ve been controlling since is extremely messed up and is not what would be entertaining for the target audience (young kids) and most of those who enjoy the show.

The ending scene of Mega Leech showed Adrien explaining to his dad why he “defied him”, clearly unhappy with the situation. But as soon as Gabriel told him to go to his room, he obeyed. We saw Gabriel play with his ring and narrow his eyes before the episode ended. And thus, the blow up of the SentiAdrien theory again.