Bertha Cheung is a supporting-turned-recurring character of the Crossover Time series. She is a student in Miss Simian's class at New York City Junior High School. She is also the younger twin sister of David Cheung.
Appearance[]
Juleka is a slender teenage pale-skinned girl who stands at a medium height (albeit slightly taller than most other girls at her school). She has brilliant red eyes with dark eyeshadow and long black hair with dyed purple tips at the end and bangs covering the left side of her face. She wears a very soft magenta lipstick and her fingernails are painted grayish pink with black nail art of intricate patterns on each one with different designs on each hand.
Juleka wears a black turtlenecked, swan-necked dress with a sea green lined collar, side pockets, and black mesh sleeves. She also wears brilliant purple ripped leggings with rips above the knees and black high top sneakers with white soles. On her hands, she has black fingerless lace gloves that have a diamond pattern design that right ends halfway up the forearm, while the left is slightly shorter as compared to the right one. On her right hand, She sometimes wears an arctic blue wrist mirror with a royal blue gemstone in the center.
Personality[]
Like Marc Anciel, Juleka is very timid and nervous around others, but she is very kind. She doesn't speak as often as the rest of her classmates, and when she does it is often in a self-conscious mumble. She is rarely particularly expressive, though she will be in some cases, including calling out being through with Lê Chiến Kim's "stupid dares". Because of her quiet nature, Juleka feels like no one ever notices her and forgets she is around, but she is aware that there are people that care about her, to whom she expresses compassion and gentleness. She can be affectionate with those she is close to where she shares hugs with her friends or cuddling with Rose Lavillant.
Juleka seems to like scary things or be unafraid of such, as she is the only student not to fear Horrificator, calling her "awesome". Despite her shyness, Juleka can be brave and supportive towards her friends as seen during the attacks of Darkblade, Befana, Gigantitan and Truth. However, she is very sensitive when she told her classmates about Rose's condition, which causes everyone to treat her differently and makes her feel guilty, leading to her akumatization.
As Purple Tigress, Juleka is more confident, braver and fierce. Just like a tigress, she is stronger, fearless, and loyal to her team. All the confidence she got after her first appearance as a superhero changed her in a way that, she even showed it as a civilian, having been facilitated thanks to Ladybug's incentive for her not to be afraid to speak up even when de-transformed.
As Reflekta, she was proud, arrogant, and vengeful because no one ever paid attention to her, she wanted everyone to look like her so that she would never be unnoticed again. In particular, she wanted to transform Chloé Bourgeois because she prevented her from being in the class photo causing her first akumatization. She was quite vain, constantly telling everyone that they'd look better once they ware changed and reassures them that they look amazing once they are. Due to her arrogance, she believed her victims liked their new looks, when they clearly did not. Without a second thought, Reflekta was ruthless, even transforming people who were nice to and noticed her, including Rose.
During a second time as Reflekta, she retained her vanity and pride but wanted to get back at her friends for excluding her from the photoshoot even though Marinette Dupain-Cheng pointed that she said she didn't want to be in it, but claimed she didn't let her explain. When her Reflekdoll went out of control, she panicked and begged for the superheroes' help. However, she didn't show gratitude and tried to transform them afterwards. For a third time as Reflekta, she, along with Lady Wifi and Princess Fragrance, wanted revenge on Adrien Agreste for sending an ungrateful message. However, after learning it was his cousin Félix, the Punishers Trio aimed their anger at him for making Adrien look like a monster and would also "punish" anyone who got in their way.
When akumatized a fourth time as Reflekta, she, along with Lady Wifi, Princess Fragrance, Timebreaker and Horrificator, wanted to expose Marinette's secrets in hopes of saving her and their friendship by forcing her to give them up so they can comfort her. She and the Gang of Secrets had no qualms putting bystanders in danger to find Marinette, such as transforming some people into images of herself. Her desire to persevere their friendship was so intense that she, Princess Fragrance, Horrificator and Timebreaker chased after an illusion of Marinette instead of taking Cat Noir's ring.
When akumatized a sixth time, unlike before, Reflekta lost her usual behavior, being consumed by immense guilt by letting herself get sucked into her sentimonster, and continued sulking, even losing her will to fight when Ladybug and Cat Noir found her. When Pigella gave her Gift, Reflekta became happy again and even willingly let herself be de-akumatized.
However, when akumatized a seventh time as Reflekta, she again thought that no one has ever paid attention to her and she wanted everyone to start understanding her perfectly by thinking exactly like her, with her accepting Nino's idea of always being together because if they were all the same no one would stop them from being together forever.
Abilities[]
Bertha seems to be skilled at applying makeup, as she is the makeup artist for Nino Lahiffe's short film in "Horrificator" and she became a model in Reflekdoll
She knows how to play bass and is the bassist in Kitty Section and in Migration, it´s revealed that Bertha has a beautiful singing voice.
She also has strong confidence and doesn´t get scared by things very easily, she can handle family feuds, and in Confrontation Bertha said that she wanted to be a mortician when she grows up.
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Trivia[]
- Juleka was originally supposed to be two years younger than her brother, Luka Couffaine. However, this was later changed and they were changed to be twins; Thomas Astruc noted in a tweet that she failed a grade and had to repeat a year. This makes her and Luka around 15/16, at least a year older than the rest of her classmates.
- In the intro for season 1, Juleka's face is blocked by Nino Lahiffe's hand, foreshadowing the conflict in her episode "Reflekta".
- In "Reflekta", Juleka and Rose Lavillant both reveal that they think that Juleka has a "curse" that causes her to be obscured in photos. At the end of the episode, they believe it has been broken thanks to Marinette and their classmates.
- Starting from season 2, her face is completely shown, as her jinx is broken in "Reflekta".
- In "Mr. Pigeon", during the derby hat competition, Juleka and Rose are standing next to a derby hat with gears attached to it, suggesting one or both of them made the hat.
- In the season 2 intro, Juleka has tiger stickers on her face.
- She also has the same stickers in the season 4 intro.
- This foreshadows her becoming Purple Tigress.
- In "The Evillustrator", Juleka sits next to Nathaniel Kurtzberg in science class instead of sitting next to Rose as she usually does.
- In "Copycat" and "Rogercop", Juleka is wearing white clothes instead of her usual dark gray clothes.
- According to Thomas Astruc, this is an error.
- Juleka's akumatized supervillain name may be a reference to the Reflekta camera.
- In the original French version, Juleka's dialogues are sometimes purposely made impossible to understand, while the English dub makes what she says clearly understandable. In the Dutch version, she even talks out loud more than in any other dub. According to Thomas Astruc, this modification ruins the character.
- Juleka's earlier concept design was different in many ways, including her shorter purple hair, black and white striped leggings, and dark purple boots.
- She also owned a purple bass guitar with a pink strap.
- Reflekta negates Cat Noir's Cataclysm with her powers by transforming him into her image, making his Miraculous disappear and preventing him from using his Miraculous superpower.
- In "Reflekta", Juleka, akumatized into the titular villain, revealed that she hates cats.
- A scarlet version of Reflekta briefly appears in "Ladybug", but her akumization was interrupted.
- That also makes Juleka one of the few characters whose akumatization (one of the many at least) has been interrupted before fully accepting Hawk Moth's offer. The others being Marinette, Sabine, Denis Damocles, Miss Bustier and Rose.
- Juleka is the only character to be akumatized and amokized at the same time twice, the first sentimonster being Reflekdoll in the episode of the same name and the second being Guiltrip in the episode of the same name.
- Although having only one akumatized form throughout the series, Juleka comes in third place for the highest number of akumatizations alongside Kagami Tsurugi, Lila Rossi and Roger Raincomprix and behind Mr. Ramier and Chloé Bourgeois, having become Reflekta 7 times. ("Reflekta", "Reflekdoll", "Félix", "Ladybug", "Gang of Secrets", "Guiltrip" and "Confrontation").
- She has also been amokized twice in "Reflekdoll" and "Guiltrip".
- She's been akumatized in a group with Princess Fragrance and Lady Wifi twice: in "Félix" and "Gang of Secrets".
- It should be noted that in "Ladybug", due to Nathalie's sickness, she and the other villains only got transformed and didn't use their powers to fight Ladybug and Cat Noir.
- Juleka is one of the few characters who appears in "Heroes' Day" that had been akumatized prior to that but aren't akumatized during the events of the special.
- She has also been amokized twice in "Reflekdoll" and "Guiltrip".
- It is shown in "Sole Crusher" that Juleka knows/is able to dye hair as she dyes a strand of Zoé Lee's hair alongside Rose.
- Juleka is the first member of the Couffaine family to own a magical charm.
- In "Crocoduel", Juleka and all her family and friends get together to celebrate her birthday, making her the sixth member of the French Miraculous superhero team to celebrate a birthday after Adrien in The Bubbler, Alix in Timebreaker, Nathaniel in The Evillustrator, Marinette in Befana and Luka also in Crocoduel.
- Tigresse Pourpre means Purple Tigress in French.
- Tigress is also what someone calls a female tiger or a woman that is beautiful, strong and can handle themselves with any problem.
- With her becoming Purple Tigress in "Crocoduel", she is the second temporary Miraculous holder to receive a magical charm before becoming one following Zoé.
- Purple Tigress, alongside her older twin brother, Viperion, making them the first superheroes to be siblings.
- She is the third Miraculous holder to be biologically related to another holder following Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch to Cat Noir and Flairmidable/Argos and Vesperia to Queen Bee.
- In the European Portuguese dub, her superhero name is Tigre Lilás, which is Portuguese for "Lilac Tiger".
- In the Italian dub, her superhero name is Tigre Viola, which also means "Purple Tiger".
- As of "Crocoduel", following Alya Césaire, Nino, Chloé, Nathalie Sancoeur, Luka, Max Kanté, Kagami, Alix Kubdel, Lê Chiến Kim, Adrien, Wang Fu, Zoé, Mylène Haprèle and Rose, Juleka is the fifthteen person to become an akumatized supervillain and a Miraculous holder, excluding Marinette and Félix Fathom whose akumatizations were unable to be completed and Gabriel, who akumatized himself.
- As seen in "Crocoduel", Purple Tigress is the ninth person to break an akumatized object, instead of Ladybug and Cat Noir, following Queen Bee, Rena Rouge and Carapace in "Mayura", Fang in "Lies", Marianne in "Furious Fu", Polymouse in "Mega Leech" and Anarka and Jagged in "Crocoduel".
- In "Confrontation", Juleka became the fourth and final member of the French Miraculous Team to receive the power of their primary wielded Miraculous through their Alliance Ring, following Kagami Tsurugi in "Perfection", Lê Chiến Kim in "Derision", and Sabrina Raincomprix in "Adoration".
- As of this episode, Juleka is also the only character that has been regularly akumatized, amokized, akumatized in a group of akumatized villains, akumatized in her scarlet version and akumatized with a superhero power.
- Also Juleka finally overcomes her "speech impediment" and spoke more louder, as she encouraged Denis Damocles not to give up.