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* {{Mediator}}: Subverted. What Akita is supposed to be doing but decides not to. [[spoiler: Averted. The first Monokuma File refers to Chiyo Jinya as the Ultimate Mediator, leaving Akita's true Ultimate unknown. That is until it's revealed to be the Ultimate Ringleader... which she made up. Yes, the real Akita Yamazaki isn't even an Ultimate.]]
* MysteriousPast: She is the protag, yet there are still many questions. How did she get that scar? Why is she so mad at Kazuhiko? What is her deal with Hideyoshi? And how does Ms. Torr have anything to do with the Killing Game? [[spoiler: For added mystery, why is she the Ultimate Mediator when she doesn't even do her job and apparently has split personalities?]]
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* {{Adorkable}}: Some of the things Shinichi does can be seen as cute, and his appearance makes him look like a nerd...which he totally is.
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* ZettaiRyouiki: Type B.

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* ZettaiRyouiki: Type B.
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* HairDecorations: Zig-zagged. Instead of being in her hair, she has a lot of hair ties all over her arms although she has been seen using them.
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* HairDecorations: Tsukiko has this, mostly to keep hair from falling on her face.
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* MsFanservice: Akita herself has pointed out that she is supposed to be hot and wears revealing clothing. Even though she still questions why Satoshi likes her because of the scar.
** [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven by Akiza, a doppelgänger of Akita within her dreams whose clothing is even more revealing.]]
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* BiTheWay: During her section in the Christmas special, it is heavily implied that she develops a crush on Emilynn [=McKay=] from Despair in Our Stars, another book in this series.

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* BiTheWay: During her section in the Christmas special, it is heavily implied that she develops a crush on Emilynn [=McKay=] from Despair in Our Stars, another book in this series.
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* BiTheWay: Has a pretty obvious crush on Mitsuru and even calls Cassius good looking. The author reveals that Akita is indeed bisexual.
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* [[spoilers: AbusiveParents: Yasu's mother died when they were born, while their father abuses them using very disturbing methods. Most of it is up to interpretation, but their father emotionally degrades them and forced them into conversion therapy.]]

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* [[spoilers: [[spoiler: AbusiveParents: Yasu's mother died when they were born, while their father abuses them using very disturbing methods. Most of it is up to interpretation, but their father emotionally degrades them and forced them into conversion therapy.]]

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* DyingSmirk: [[spoiler:Akita was smiling in her death, it is revealed that it is because of the despair.]]



* [[spoiler: GoOutWithASmile: Subverted. Although Akita was smiling in her death, it is revealed that it is because of the despair.]]



* [[spoiler: LostLenore: She is Minato's love interest. She also happens to be the first victim.]]

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* FragileFlower: Naoko cries a lot during the story and is noted to be overly sensitive.


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* ProneToTears: Naoko cries a lot during the story and is noted to be overly sensitive.
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* [[spoiler: BungledSuicide: During chapter four. Miyuki tries to kill herself so she won't fall into despair and become Kaneshiro's pawn. However, this fails, causing Namia to be forced to kill her.]]


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* LadyOfWar: Due to her talent, Miyuki has seen a lot of battles. She is also a calm woman, who is beautiful enough to become Satoshi's main target of affection. [[spoiler: Miyuki has also been in a family war, where she was one of the only survivors.]]


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* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: All over the place in chapter four. Not only is she in a loving secret relationship with Namita, Miyuki shows that she can get pissed off as well. She also tried to kill herself to stop falling into despair but that did not work.]]

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* AntiHero: Akita is not exactly the best person. She has a bad habit of punching people and making things way harder than they have to be in the game.



* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream: When Natsumi used the coding of the program to take control of Hotaru's body. She was forced to cause things such as Hayato's almost death. Unlike most cases of this trope, however, Hotaru does get better.]]
* [[spoiler: RevengeBeforeReason: When Hotaru kills Natsumi. If Natsumi was alive, Hotaru would have learned many more things, such as the truth behind the deaths of Ayano and Takara, as not even Junko and Kaneshiro know the full truth.]]
* [[spoiler: TookALevelInCynic: Because of the continued abuse that Kaneshiro forces her to go through during the story, Hotaru becomes more and more jaded. What really pushes her into cynicism, however, is when Natsumi forced control over her own body. Hotaru didn't react to all the things that he did while using her very well.]]



*** [[spoiler: After the events of the fourth trial, Ayano is hinted to have Acute Stress Disorder than is turning into severe PTSD. She even has flashbacks and panic attacks.]]

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*** [[spoiler: After the events of the fourth trial, Ayano is hinted to have Acute Stress Disorder than that is turning into severe PTSD. She even has flashbacks and panic attacks.]]
* [[spoiler: AntiHero: Even though Ayano is trying to do good things, sometimes her morals can be called into question. The most obvious is when she tries to kill or attack (it is up to the reader what she really was planning) Kaneshiro after figuring out he is Atsuto. This causes the deaths of Ayano and Takara, which could have been avoided easily.
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* [[spoiler: TheDeterminator: After his character arc, Hayato will not give into despair. Even after he is ruthlessly tortured by Kaneshiro, he will not give in. Hayato has been put through an endless amount of killing games during the epilogue and still clings onto hope.]]


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* [[spoiler: HeroicSelfDeprecation: Revealed when Yasu becomes the narrator. They have saved their classmates so many times but blames themself for the torture that Kaneshiro does to them. Doesn't help that they have horrible self-esteem.]]

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* HiddenDepths: Tsukiko absolutely loves cute things but does not show this side of hers to most of the students so they would take her seriously as the leader. Also really doesn't understand why red grapes are called purple and green grapes white.
** [[spoiler: Like stated afterward, Tsukiko has a lot of SurvivorGuilt. She misses all of her friends and wants to know how they're doing.]]



* TheParagon: Tsukiko is the team leader that most fits the paragon. She tries to help others so they can take care of themselves, the biggest of these examples being [[spoiler: Hayato.]]



* [[spoiler: SurvivorGuilt: Is revealed to have this during chapter five. She feels like she should have been a better leader, and then all of her friends should still be alive.]]
* SweetTooth: Tsukiko is noted to like many treats.



!!Satoshi Nakajima [[spoiler: Atsuto Togami]] [[sppiler: Kaneshiro Kazuma]]

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!!Satoshi Nakajima [[spoiler: Atsuto Togami]] [[sppiler: [[spoiler: Kaneshiro Kazuma]]


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* [[spoiler: TheCorrupter: As the mastermind, Kaneshiro focuses on bringing out the worse in people so they will kill. His successful victims have been Akemi, Namita, Tsukiko, and Ayano, along with many others.]]

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* [[spoiler: AntiHero: Kira was the traitor for Kirigiri. Even though Kira clearly cares about the students, to the point she was willing to kill herself for their benefit, she was still on board to let them all participate in the game Kirigiri made.]]



* [[spoiler: CruelAndUnusualDeath: Kira was strangled to death by Tsukiko. She tried to fight against her but then eventually succumbed.]]



* [[spoiler: CruelAndUnusualDeath: Takara was drowned in the pool. The. Pool.]]



* [[spoiler: CruelAndUnusualDeath: Got a heart attack because he got his heart broken by Kaneshiro.]]



* [[spoiler: AlliterativeName: "Ka"neshiro "Ka"zuma.]]



* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard: With his talent being the Ultimate Brainwasher, and being in charge of the Killing Game, it is heavily implied that he is this.]]



!!!Kaneshiro Kazuma

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!!!Kaneshiro Kazuma!!!Mochi



* AlliterativeName: "Ka"neshiro "Ka"zuma.
* [[spoiler: BigBad: Is revealed to be the mastermind in chapter two. He is heavily hinted to be one of the other students in disguise.]]
* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard: With his talent being the Ultimate Brainwasher, and being in charge of the Killing Game, it is heavily implied that he is this.]]
* [[spoiler: WalkingSpoiler: Like all the other masterminds. All of his tropes do have to have the spoiler label after all.]]

!!!Mochi
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** [[spoiler: After Ayano dies in chapter six, the point of view changes between Hotaru, Hayato, and Yasu.]]



* DeathOfPersonality: Hinted at. [[spoiler: This is suggested to be what happens to some people thanks to the Personality Experiments, such as Sae Emiya and Chiyo Jinya who have been completely erased from reality.]]



* EvilDuo: [[spoiler: Kaneshiro and the traitor.]]

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* EvilDuo: [[spoiler: Played around with using the duos of Kaneshiro and the traitor.Akemi and Ayano Kirigiri and Kira.]]



** [[spoiler: Another has formed with the three remaining students: Hayato, Hotaru, and Yasu. They have to stick with each other because they are the only people they have left.]]



!!Satoshi Nakajima [[spoiler: Atsuto Togami]]
!!!Ultimate Bartender [[spoiler: Ultimate Unlucky Student]]

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!!Satoshi Nakajima [[spoiler: Atsuto Togami]]
Togami]] [[sppiler: Kaneshiro Kazuma]]
!!!Ultimate Bartender [[spoiler: Ultimate Unlucky Student]]Student]] [[spoiler: Ultimate Brainwasher]]


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* [[spoiler: BigBad: Is revealed to be the mastermind, Kaneshiro Kazuma.]]


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* [[spoilers: AbusiveParents: Yasu's mother died when they were born, while their father abuses them using very disturbing methods. Most of it is up to interpretation, but their father emotionally degrades them and forced them into conversion therapy.]]


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* [[spoiler: EvenEvilHasStandards: Even though Kirigiri planned for the cast to go through a Killing Game, she does not agree with how Kaneshiro deals with things, viewing it as overly cruel. This is one of the things that cause her death.]]
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* BigBad: This is set in the DanganRonpa timeline so...yeah, he's the baddy.

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* BigBad: This is set in the DanganRonpa Franchise/DanganRonpa timeline so...yeah, he's the baddy.
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* TheHeart: Kazuhiko is the heart while Ayano is TheBrain.

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* TheHeart: Kazuhiko is the heart while Ayano is TheBrain.TheSmartGuy.
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!!Characters other than the students themselvesthemselves.
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* [[spoiler: InterruptedSuicide: At the end of the third trial. Hayato tries to shoot himself in the head but Tsukiko stops him.]]
* [[spoiler: MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction to figuring out that killing Kyoto and Mirabilis was useless...and then he tries to kill himself.]]
* [[spoiler: OnlyFriend: Before the game, Cassius is implied to be Hayato's. He does know a lot of people but does not trust them enough to call them friends.]]

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** [[spoiler: Confirmed in the fifth chapter. Ayano wonders why she is not dead when her own parents tossed her in the sea to drown.]]



*** [[spoiler: After the events of the fourth trial, Ayano is hinted to have Acute Stress Disorder than is turning into severe PTSD. She even has flashbacks and panic attacks.]]



* TheBrain: The brain to Kazuhiko's heart.



* [[spoiler: FrameUp: What the culprit of the second trial tried to do to her.]]

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* [[spoiler: FrameUp: What the culprit accomplice of the second trial tried to do to her.]]


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** [[spoiler: In chapter five, Ayano tries to commit suicide again, but is stopped by Hayato, Kira, Takara, and Atsuto.]]
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* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler: For Atsuto and Yasu. OPERATION ATSUSU COMMENCE!]]
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** [[spoiler: In the second trial, he was so upset by Yasu and the others outsmarting him that he executed an innocent person, Cassius.]]
** [[spoiler: You thought that was bad? How about the entire events of chapter four? Even before the trial, he was psychologically torturing Ayano and had somebody literally shoot her in the back since she wasn't behaving as he wanted her to.]]
*** [[spoiler: Then, dear lord, the trial. Hayato, being the leader of the students who didn't investigate, now wants to not be part of the trial itself. Monokuma then gives him a box with Mirabilis's head. This does not stop the others from trying to protect Namita from her own execution, however.]]
*** [[spoiler: During Namita's execution, Monokuma punishes the students that tried to rebel by drowning them. Akemi and Yasu, however, save everybody before anybody dies, including Namita.]]
*** [[spoiler: Then, because Ayano succeeds in escaping the game, Monokuma murders all of the Saviors of Humanity and uses his human form to make her fall into despair in the lowest way possible.]]
*** [[spoiler: And then he forces Atsuto, Akemi, Yasu, and Tsukiko to eat some of Mirabilis. And Ayano is used to kill Minato. Plus, Namita still gets executed. Talk about emotional trauma. Kira and Takara were lucky that they were knocked out for most of the trial.]]
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* [[spoiler: BlackSheep: The only member of the Kirigiri family interested in Hope's Peak Academy. She does not have a good relationship with her family either.]]



* [[spoiler: FollowInMyFootsteps: Kirigiri refused to do this with the Future Foundation, so she instead sided with the Committee.]]




!!!Nicole Torr


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* [[spoiler: ArtificalIntellienge: Is one created by Ayano Kamukura.]]
* [[spoiler: LikeFatherLikeSon: Played with. While Izumi has some things in common with Ayano, such as their base appearances, there are many things Izumi doesn't have in common with Ayano as well.]]

!!!Nicole Torr
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* [[spoiler: CruelAndUnusualDeath: At first, Namita's execution doesn't seem as bad as some of the others, with her being stabbed in the heart. But then the robots don't stop stabbing her. Its unknown how long they continued, it could have been minutes or even days.]]


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* AlmightyJanitor: Miyuki was the one that cleaned most of the school. Everybody used to be involved but they figured out it was a lot more effective to just let Miyuki do it.


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* HumbleHero: Has saved hundreds, if not thousands, of people from death, but never takes credit for it. She could easily prove herself to be the urban legend yet decides to continue to live in the shadows.


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* NeatFreak: Implied with her cleaning of the school. Although she probably doesn't say anything about it to make sure she doesn't upset the others.


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* [[spoiler: DefiantToTheEnd: Never gives into despair even with Kaneshiro trying so hard.]]


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* [[spoiler: CruelAndUnusualDeath: Gets slowly torn apart by the chains on the ceiling while being poisoned. Even Hotaru is somewhat disturbed.]]
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* EvilDuo: [[spoiler: Kaneshiro and the traitor.]]



* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents: It's heavily implied that Naoko's father is abusive towards her. She has to get the scars on her legs somehow and her mother is confirmed dead with her sister being away.]]



* [[spoiler: DeathByOriginStory: Is confirmed to have been murdered and is a big player in the backstories of Ayano and Kazuhiko. Also her death is hinted to be one of the reasons why the Killing Game is happening in the first place.]]

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* [[spoiler: DeathByOriginStory: Is confirmed to have been murdered and is a big player in the backstories of Ayano and Kazuhiko. Also Also, her death is hinted to be one of the reasons why the Killing Game is happening in the first place.]]
* [[spoiler: LackOfEmpathy: To do the things that Kotori has done, you need no empathy whatsoever.]]
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** [[spoiler: Then, when Ayano has a period of despair, Hotaru takes over as the narrator for the rest of the fourth after trial.]]



* LastNameBasis: Once again, some of the characters, like Hayato and Miyuki, only refer to characters by last name, except if they are asked to directly or know the person personally.

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* LastNameBasis: Once again, some of the characters, like Hayato and Miyuki, only refer to characters by the last name, except if they are asked to directly or know the person personally.



** [[spoiler: Poor Namita. She was in a secret relationship with her girlfriend, Miyuki, got found out, and now her girlfriend is dead.]]

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** [[spoiler: Poor Namita. She was in a secret relationship with her girlfriend, Miyuki, got found out, and now her girlfriend is dead. And she was forced to kill her by Kaneshiro.]]
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* ActionGirl: She's literally an onna-bugeisha. Of course she's a badass!

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* ActionGirl: She's literally an onna-bugeisha. Of course course, she's a badass!



* [[spoiler: MisscarrageofJustice: Was executed for Shinichi's death even though he was innocent. The cast was spilt on whether he or Kira did it.]]

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* [[spoiler: MisscarrageofJustice: Was executed for Shinichi's death even though he was innocent. The cast was spilt split on whether he or Kira did it.]]
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* [[spoiler: AcquittedTooLate: Was completely innocent in the murder of Shinichi. It was Kira that accidentally caused his death. Monokuma wanted to punish the students so he killed Cassius instead.]]


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* [[spoiler: MisscarrageofJustice: Was executed for Shinichi's death even though he was innocent. The cast was spilt on whether he or Kira did it.]]
* [[spoiler: MurderByMistake: In the events, Monokuma lied about, Cassius accidentally poisoned Shinichi and did not mean to murder anyone. Turns out this is true because he is innocent.]]

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