Easter eggs

As an animation studio, Zagtoon tends to put in easter eggs as an intentional inside joke, hidden message or image, or secret feature of a work. This page lists all the known easter eggs that they put within their media. Feel free to add more references if you spot one that involves either ZAG Entertainment and/or a show/movie that made a reference to another show/movie.

Easter eggs

Within the shows/movies

• In a Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir episode "The Mime", the ZAG logo appears on the advertisement on the bus for The Mime's Extraordinary Adventures.
• Various Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir episodes would have the cars and/or buses have a license plate that reads "ZAG•100•UG". Aside from the obvious fact that "ZAG" represents ZAG Entertainment, "UG" represents Univergroup, its parent company.
• In Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, there are advertisements at the Parc des Princes stadium that feature the ZAG logo. Sometimes, the logo spells backward as "GAZ".
• In a Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir episode "Copycat", Théo Barbot owns a Maneki-neko (a cat figurine) that bears a resemblance to Néko, the main antagonist of Kobushi.
  • According to a now-deleted tweet by Thomas Astruc, Néko's cameo is a reference to one of ZAG animation's future projects. He might be referring to the upcoming CGI feature film of Kobushi that was in production at that time.
• In a Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir episode "Darkblade", there's a poster for a film called "Le Manoir de Grace Ouilette". If you look closely at the poster, it is said that the in-universe film is produced by Univergroup. Univergroup happens to be the parent company of ZAG Entertainment.
• Ivan Bruel's shirt has a picture of two crossing bones that's similar to the design that's seen on Zak Storm's shoes.
• As seen on Adrien's schedule, there's an illustration of a blushing sea turtle that resembles Ella from Sammy & Co under the April 19 to April 27 "vacation" slot.
• As seen in the Fox Miraculous page from the Miraculous spellbook from Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, one of the codes written in Nyctographic reads "Zazsqrx". But when rotate by 9 places, it reads "Ijibzag" (in ROT9) "Jib", "Zag", "Ijib" change into "Eajib" meaning "Wonderous" (in English) and "Iji" meaning "Maintain" (in English).
• In the English version of the Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir episode "Timetagger", when Bunnyx returns to the present time after she got send to the Cretaceous period by the titular character, she yelled, "Down, Denver, down!" to a green dinosaur. This is a nod to the 2018 CGI reboot of Denver the Last Dinosaur that ZAG produced.
• If you look closely at the poster for the in-universe movie Les aventures de Ladybug & Chat Noir from Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, it's said that the "filming location" is in Los Angeles, California. The city is where the American division of ZAG Entertainment located in real life.

Concept art

• As seen in the concept art of ZAG World, there're a bunch of references to Zagtoon's numerous shows/movies, including:
  • Tikki
  • The Eiffel Tower
  • The Chaos
  • ZAG Station
  • Adventure Park
• In a background concept art of Sweet Power, there's a cinema theater named "CineZAG". The posters seen at CineZAG shows three different ZAG Toon shows that were also in production at that time: Rosie, Transylmaniac, and Touftouf & Kenotte. The Transylmaniac poster reads "Who I am...", one of the working titles for the series.
• A concept art of a police car from Ghostforce has a license plate that reads "ZAG-FTW", possibly meaning "ZAG - For the Win".
• Another concept art of a car from Ghostforce has a license plate that reads "ZAG-1337".
• In a Melody concept art of a taxi ride, Néko from Kobushi made a cameo appearance.
• In a Melody concept art of a bedroom, one of the Rose Stellar posters reads "ZAG Arena October 12".

Other media

• In the Laura Marano's theme song music video, various comic book issues of the Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir comic series can be seen on the library shelves. These include:
  • Cover A of issue #6 at 0:25 and 0:49.
  • Cover B of issue #2 at 0:56.
  • Cover C of issue #1 at 0:56.
  • Cover A of issue #3 at 0:56.
• Various little easter eggs can be seen in "The Wall Between Us" music video.
  • At 0:15 and at 1:03, Lou is drawing a sketch of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
  • Lou's bedroom has a pillow of Ladybug, a framed photo of the Marinette and Adrien render hanging behind her bed, and three frame pictures on the wall featuring different renders of Marinette/Ladybug, Tikki and Adrien/Cat Noir.
• One of the Sino islands from the Zak Storm: Super Pirate mobile game is called "Zag on Ice".
• The Miraculous logo and numerous other promotional artworks can be seen throughout Miraculous Ladybug & Cat Noir.

Trivia

• Most of the Easter eggs have Jeremy Zag's last name on a license plate.

Gallery

Screenshots

Néko's cameo in "Copycat".

"ZAG•100•UG"

The "ZAG" logo at the Parc des Princes.

The "GAZ" logo as seen "Ladybug & Cat Noir (Origins - Part 1)".

One of the codes reads "Ijibzag" when rotated by 9 places.

Ella's cameo on Adrien's schedule.

"Filmed on location at Los Angeles California". Los Angeles is the place where the American division of ZAG Entertainment located.

Concept art

The movie posters for "CineZAG" can be seen on the left.

"ZAG-FTW"

"ZAG-1337"

Neko's cameo in a Melody concept art.

"ZAG Arena October 12"

Other media

The comic books can be seen on the right.

The "Zag on Ice" island on the official Zak Storm app.