History Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair / TropesEToM

** Just like the previous game, losing in the class trial will make everyone vote for the player character (in this case, Hajime) as the killer, regardless of what sense that makes in-game. Most notable in case five -- fail to convince everyone else that the current victim didn't kill themselves, and you'll get a game over screen where Hajime will ''still'' be blamed for the murder, even though nobody believes their even ''was'' a murder!

* EatTheDog: After the group gets locked in the funhouse in chapter 4, Kazuichi briefly contemplates having to eat Gundham's hamsters. Sonia quickly shoots that idea down.

* EmbarrassingAlibi: In Chapter 1, Peko Pekoyama's alibi for the Ultimate Imposter's murder is that she was stricken with terrible stomach cramps and as such, had been on the toilet the entire time. This is initially met with suspicion, until Nekomaru -- who was outside waiting to use the stall himself -- confirms it. The others sheepishly admit there's no way someone would lie about such a thing, and Peko is off the hook.

* EmbarrassingAlibi: In Chapter 1, Peko Pekoyama's alibi for the Ultimate Imposter's murder is that she was stricken with terrible stomach cramps and as such, had been on the toilet the entire time. This is initially met with suspicion, until Nekomaru -- who was outside waiting to use the stall himself the entire time -- confirms it. The others sheepishly admit there's no way someone would lie about such a thing, and Peko is off the hook.

* EmbarrassingAlibi: In Chapter 1, [[spoiler:Peko Pekoyama's alibi for the Ultimate Imposter's murder is that she was stricken with terrible stomach cramps and as such, had been on the toilet the entire time. This is initially met with suspicion, until Nekomaru -- who was outside waiting to use the stall himself the entire time -- confirms it.]] The others sheepishly admit there's no way someone would lie about such a thing, and [[spoiler:Peko]] is off the hook.

* MentalShutdown: [[spoiler:This was Junko's ultimate plot in orchestrating the killing game. With the avatars of the remnants dead, their bodies in the real world are left without functioning brains. Junko planned to infect the dead students' brains with her conciousness, but Hajime uses his newfound hope power to summon Usami and destroy her. At the end of the game, the living students isolate themselves on the real Jabberwock Island to hopefully restore the brains of their friends.]]

* MeleeATrois: Subverted. Monokuma makes the Future Foundation out to be an EvilOrganization that caused TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, making the story a three-way conflict between himself, the students, and the Future Foundation, but in the final chapter it turns out the Future Foundation (and by extension the "traitor" planted by them) are on the students' side, and Monokuma leading them to believe otherwise was just another plot to get them to kill each other.

* MentalShutdown: [[spoiler:This was Junko's ultimate plot in orchestrating the killing game. With the avatars of the remnants dead, their bodies in the real world are left without functioning brains. Junko planned to infect the dead students' brains with her conciousness, but Hajime uses his newfound hope power to summon Usami and destroy her. At the end of the game, the living students isolate themselves on the real Jabberwock Island to hopefully restore the brains of their friends.]]

* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: Chapter 3. Mikan's ruthless murder of Hiyoko and Ibuki happens because she's reverted to being a Remnant of Despair, which she was brainwashed into becoming by [[BigBad Junko Enoshima]]. However, it's not revealed that it's an indication of what the ''rest'' of the students (besides Chiaki) really are in the real world until the actual WhamEpisode of Chapter 6.

* {{Feelies}}: As well as a soundtrack CD and artbook, the NIS America Limited Edition also includes a Monocoin replica, the "I'm sorry, I was born stupid" sticker from Chapter 3, and Monokuma-themed sunglasses. The Japanese Limited Edition includes a Monocoin replica, a small medal of the Hope's Peak Academy logo, Monokuma and Monomi keychains, and a plush of Monokuma's head.

* ILoveTheDead: In the NISA translation, members of SHSL Despair apparently ''tried to impregnate Junko's corpse''.

* LighterAndSofter: The game starts out looking like this. Its first opening animation is very upbeat, almost dating sim-like, and the colors of the characters and the environment are notably much brighter than the first game. And then Monokuma comes into the picture. In the end, the game arguably still qualifies. Compared to the original, it keeps a much more optimistic attitude in regards to a lot of things, and ends on a much more overtly hopeful note. Additionally, most culprits are {{Sympathetic Murderer}}s with understandable motives in one way or another, and since all the murders happened inside a simulation, every student stayed alive.

* LighterAndSofter: The game starts out looking like this. Its first opening animation is very upbeat, almost dating sim-like, and the colors of the characters and the environment are notably much brighter than the first game. And then Monokuma comes into the picture. In the end, the game arguably still qualifies. Compared to the original, it keeps a much more optimistic attitude in regards to a lot of things, and ends on a much more overtly hopeful note. Additionally, most culprits are {{Sympathetic Murderer}}s with understandable motives in one way or another.

*** Also, later on in the chapter, Hajime wakes up with Mikan in bed with him and starts frantically denying it to a scandalised Fuyuhiko...then Hajime sees the video of someone hanging themselves...

** Early on in Chapter 5, Nagito boldly declares that he's going to discover and "weed out" the [[TheMole Future Foundation traitor]] in the group. He then enacts a very, ''very'' complicated to manipulates the traitor into killing him in an assisted suicide, while setting up multiple layers of deception (and ultimately, [[GambitRoulette relying on]] [[WindsOfDestinyChange his own insane luck]]) to ensure the resulting class trial would be impossible to solve logically. As the others questions what his motives were, Monokuma gleefully spells it out: Nagito only said he would "weed out" the traitor, not ''kill'' them. His plan was designed to make the traitor the SoleSurvivor by getting everyone else executed in an unsolvable trial, and it would've gone off without a hitch if not for Chiaki all but giving herself up to protect the others.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Teruteru, and Kazuichi to a lesser extent. Teruteru is an AnythingThatMoves type who hits on the boys just as much as the girls, while Kazuichi has SingleTargetSexuality for Sonia (although he certainly has no qualms about the other girls, as he ogles how nice Chiaki and Peko look in their bikinis).

** Mikan tries arguing (very poorly) that her double murder of Ibuki and Hiyoko wasn't her fault because everyone else obviously hates her and they drove her to do what she did by making her into her current self with their bullying, so everyone should just immediately forgive her. Never mind the fact that sans from Hiyoko and Fuyuhiko literally everyone else in the of the cast shows no hostility towards Mikan, and in fact, a lot of them have shown her the exact opposite. This is also a doubly awful excuse, as Hiyoko, the only person in the whole cast who is shown directly bullying Mikan, and thus the only one Mikan might have some ounce of justified hostility towards, was only killed out of necessity due to being a chance witness in Ibuki's killing. Ibuki, the most cheerful and friendly character bar none, never did anything to harm Mikan, despite being who she picks as her victim.

* JustEatGilligan: During the first trial, Nagito reveals himself to be highly dangerous, essentially being the reason why the first murder happened the way it did, even if he's not the direct perpetrator. To their credit, some of the students decide that Nagito is definitely too dangerous to be left to his own devices and tie him up at the start of chapter 2... But after Monomi frees him [[PacifismBackfire in a misguided attempt at teaching forgiveness]], the others just kind of forget about how much of a threat he is, despite him making it clear that his offer to cooperate with anyone planning to kill him still stands. Nagito is thus left to meddle with the following cases as much as he wants (which he surprisingly doesn't do much, but the others couldn't predict that). It takes until chapter 5 for them to attempt tying him up again, at which point it's too late to stop him.
** The class treat Fuyuhiko's constant death threats as a joke at worst and at best see him as a limited threat even though he's deadly serious, and is obviously very unstable snapping at everything for little to no reason, while Hajime takes note of this especially after its clear Fuyuhiko played twilight syndrome and is bordering on deranged when Hajime talks to him, and even thinks to himself that he should tell the class about this. He then doesn't say anything and the class doesn't act upon the very clear threat in front of them. Then Fuyuhiko proceeds to completely snap, luring Mahiru to her death and indirectly getting Peko killed, a very easily preventable situation if the class didn't ignore his 100 plus death threats and monitored his very suspicious activity instead of allowing him free reign to do whatever he liked.