Hawk Moth is secretly the rich fashion designer Gabriel Agreste’s who found the Butterfly miraculous that turned him into Hawk Moth. He was armed with a dark purple cane with a purple gemstone on top of it. Hawk Moth's superpower was akumatization, the ability to charge butterflies with dark energy, transforming them into akumas and then sending them out to possess an object of someone vulnerable. If his targets agreed to serve him, he transformed them into supervillains giving them powers.