History Awesome / Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair

* Mikan managing to temporarily overcome her fears in the first trial, and providing key evidence when it seems like the group is about to vote the wrong murderer and get themselves killed.

!! Chapter 3

* Nagito gets one in Chapter 2's trial; having picked up on Fuyuhiko's reluctant behavior, he immediately pressures him to admit that Peko is his tool and that he's seriously willing to sacrifice everyone to escape. Fuyuhiko stays silent and [[OocIsSeriousBusiness Peko loses her cool for the first time in the trial]]. Nagito immediately notices this and remarks that it's unusual for a mere tool to panic, then flat out says that she's trying to protect Fuyuhiko of her own free will, which makes her human and not a tool. Both Peko and Fuyuhiko are rendered speechless, causing everyone else to lay into them too and finally make them admit that they mean something to each other. Of course, Monokuma basically admits later that he knew all that already and would have decided Peko was the blackened instead of Fuyuhiko, but it makes Nagito's skill at reading and playing people no less impressive.

* Makoto, Kyoko and Byakuya in their BigDamnHeroes arrival in the final act. Some of the biggest damn heroes in the whole series.
* Throughout the story, Chiaki Nanami is a ditzy and slightly isolationist girl whose talent is outright useless. When Monokuma outright declares [[PaintingTheMedium you're in a game]], she's already dead. As you get into an unwinnable situation, Chiaki then appears out of nowhere, and, well, [[BreakingTheFourthWall Danganronpa 2, Meet the Ultimate Gamer]]. [[CurbstompBattle She wins.]]

* Hajime and Chiaki destroying AI Junko's argument.

* Monomi [[TheDogBitesBack standing up to Monokuma]]. It doesn't work in the end, but that doesn't undermine the sheer heroism of the act by one bit and proves her sincere devotion and willingness to stand up and fight for her "students" no matter what it takes.
** At the end of the second trial, she manages to get Monokuma to save Fuyuhiko, [[BatmanGambit by appealing to his]] RulesLawyer nature. [[ExactWords Since Monokuma's own rules say that ONLY the killer will be executed if they're voted guilty]], he's ''obliged'' to rescue Fuyuhiko. Forcing Monokuma to do something he ''hates'', saving a life, by using his own rules against him is possibly one of the biggest "screw yous" the bear has ever received.
** Even better, she also outright ''CURBSTOMPS'' AI Junko Enoshima as Usami. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71WyaQlKkIA It has to be seen to believed about how awesome it is.]]
* The fact that Nagito played Russian roulette with only 1/6 of a chance of coming out alive and still pulling it off was pretty awesome. Expect nothing less from the Ultimate Lucky Student.
* Chiaki manages to work out his entire plan to get everyone but the "traitor" (her) killed, which relied entirely on luck, then [[HeroicSacrifice asks everyone to vote for her]]. As sad as it may be, she made good on [[DeclarationOfProtection her promise]] to protect everyone.
* The beginning of Chapter 3's trial, where Nagito immediately realizes that A. the entire trial will hinge on Hajime's testimony and B. when cornered, the culprit will inevitably attempt to cast doubt on him in order to save themselves. Nagito preemptively proves that Hajime couldn't have been the culprit before this even becomes a problem.
* Mahiru standing up to Fuyuhiko. Not only is this guy the ''Ultimate {{Yakuza}}'', he'd spent the first two chapters of the game making it clear he has no qualms about killing, even threatening her life more than once. After finding out about the death of his sister, she does show him some sympathy, but also tells him straight to his face that murdering Sato out of revenge was wrong. While it did cost her her life, it's still impressive nonetheless.

* You can hate what he's done, but there is no doubt that Nagito's ThanatosGambit was the most brilliant move made by any character in this game. Knowing that everyone except the traitor was part of Ultimate Despair, including himself, he engineers a plan to kill himself and everyone else - but he knew he couldn't kill the traitor as well, because his motive was never to kill everyone but to eradicate despair and let hope shine. To him, if everyone was already despair, then only the traitor symbolizes "hope". In order to make it such that the traitor will be the only survivor, he first fills a fire extinguisher with airborne poison and mixes it with the rest of the "clean" fire extinguishes, and then he badly injures himself and lies on the ground of a warehouse that is rigged to burst into flames upon the next person's entrance. His plan works, and when the warehouse is on fire, the six remaining people rushed to get the fire extinguishers to rescue him, but one of them ended up spraying poison that killed him. He deliberately did this because he knew that whenever something bad happened to him, good luck will follow, so he hurt himself badly enough that his good luck will make it such that the traitor will be the one who threw the poisoned fire extinguisher. With that, even if everyone else knew what his plan was, nobody would know who was the actual killer. They would almost certainly vote wrongly, and everyone except the traitor will be executed by Monokuma. Literally the only reason it didn't work was because Chiaki was willing to expose herself and pull a HeroicSacrifice.
** Ironically, the hope that Nagito had sided with... had hope in the others. This is awesome because her hope was absolute from the very beginning, and even Ultimate Luck cannot beat a 100% probability.

* Hiyoko calling out Fuyuhiko is also rather awesome as for once her {{Jerkass}} behaviour is severely warranted, Fuyuhiko's actions severely traumatized her yet she's still brave enough to inflict some BrutalHonesty towards the man who indirectly killed her best friend and directly framed her for it, unlike the rest of the class Hiyoko wasn't willing to let Fuyuhiko just let his crimes go unanswered and after the seppuku she decides to forgive him when she realises he is actually sorry and thinks about what Mahiru would want her to do. She had every right to continue despising him but put her desire to become a person Mahiru would be proud of over her own feelings.
** Even though her memorial turned out rather creepy there's something awesome in a bittersweet way about Hiyoko deciding to spend hours building a memorial for Mahiru both so that Mahiru isn't alone in heaven and so the rest of the class can remember the kind-hearted TeamMom who made everyone smile and while its initially seen as freaky, the class grow to adore the memorial and use it to remember Mahiru and the others (on a TearJerker note, Hajime thinks about Hiyoko after her death when he looks at the memorial). Hiyoko might be a {{Jerkass}} but this scene shows that her heart of gold is very much there.

** Ironically, the hope that Nagito had sided with... had hope in the others.

** Ironically, the hope that Nagito had... had hope in the others.

* You can hate what he's done, but there is no doubt that Nagito's ThanatosGambit was the most brilliant move made by any character in this game. Knowing that everyone except the traitor was part of Ultimate Despair, including himself, he engineers a plan to kill himself and everyone else - but he knew he couldn't kill the traitor as well, because his motive was never to kill everyone but to eradicate despair and let hope shine. To him, if everyone was already despair, then only the traitor symbolizes "hope". In order to make it such that the traitor will be the only survivor, he first fills a fire extinguisher with airborne poison ad mixes it with the rest of the "clean" fire extinguishes, and then he badly injures himself and lies on the ground of a warehouse that is rigged to burst into flames upon the next person's entrance. His plan works, and when the warehouse is on fire, the six remaining people rushed to get the fire extinguishers to rescue him, but one of them ended up spraying poison that killed him. He deliberately did this because he knew that whenever something bad happened to him, good luck will follow, so he hurt himself badly enough that his good luck will make it such that the traitor will be the one who threw the poisoned fire extinguisher. With that, even if everyone else knew what his plan was, nobody would know who was the actual killer. They would almost certainly vote wrongly, and everyone except the traitor will be executed by Monokuma. Literally the only reason it didn't work was because Chiaki was willing to expose herself and pull a HeroicSacrifice.

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--> '''Official English translation''': ''Tremblewithfear!#%'*)P()~)~%$#[=Iwilldie2wiceeeeeeeeeeeeee:@=] '?''

--> '''Official English translation''': ''[=SHITk=]&&p#spds~=~~+@:T:^--8y*? *DOIT:OGAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA''

* You can hate what he's done, but there is no doubt that Nagito's ThanatosGambit was the most brilliant move made by any character in this game. Knowing that everyone except the traitor was part of Ultimate Despair, including himself, he engineers a plan to kill himself and everyone else - but he knew he couldn't kill the traitor as well, because his motive was never to kill everyone but to eradicate despair and let hope shine. To him, if everyone was already despair, then only the traitor symbolizes "hope". In order to make it such that the traitor will be the only survivor, he first fills a fire extinguisher with airborne poison ad mixes it with the rest of the "clean" fire extinguishes, and then he badly injures himself and lies on the ground of a warehouse that is rigged to burst into flames upon the next person's entrance. His plan works, and when the warehouse is on fire, the six remaining people rushed to get the fire extinguishers to rescue him, but one of them ended up spraying poison that killed him. He deliberately did this because he knew that whenever something bad happened to him, good luck will follow, so he hurt himself badly enough that his good luck will make it such that the traitor will be the one who threw the poisoned fire extinguisher. With that, even if everyone else knew what his plan was, nobody would know who was the actual killer. They would almost certainly vote wrongly, and everyone except the traitor will be executed by Monokuma. Literally the only reason it didn't work was because Chiaki was willing to expose herself and pull a HeroicSacrifice.