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** This exchange from ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma''. Keep in mind that throughout the promotional material it's always referred to [[TomatoSurprise the child]] as Q.
--->'''Child:''' Zero is... YOU, [[UnexpectedCharacter Delta]]!\\

--->'''Kay''': The real Yatagarasu... was my father!

--->'''Courtney''': The defendant.... Blaise Debeste! I hereby indict you!

--->'''Ray''': He's a member of the circus, Knightley's friend...and Dane Gustavia's son. Wh-Who'd have thunk it...?\\

--->'''Simon Blackquill:''' ....Hmph. Thank you for helping, Wright-dono. ...Fool Bright. Arrest this woman.[[note]]Sasha Buckler, the woman who'd asked Phoenix to help defend Orla[[/note]]

--->'''Simon Blackquill:''' "Upon thorough analysis, the fingerprints were found to belong to [[{{Sidekick}} Athena Cykes]]". So says the report.

--->'''Aura Blackquill:''' So I lowered my emergency ladder like [[EvilAllAlong the detective leading the evacuation told me to]].

--->'''Edgeworth:''' The man you see there before you... Bobby Fulbright... [[DeadAllAlong is already long dead]].

---> '''Maya:''' Polly! Polly! Have we forgotten something?
---> '''Polly:''' *Squawk* "Don't forget DL-6!" *squawk* [[labelnote:Explanation]]DL-6 is a murder case that remained unsolved for 15 years, and is at the center of the first game's plot.[[/labelnote]]

---> '''Lana:''' Drastic crimes require drastic measures...That's just the way it is. [[IDidWhatIHadToDo We did what we had to...in order for him to get the verdict he deserved.]] Even if it involved "forging" evidence.

---> '''Gumshoe:''' (''On the phone'') I'll be waiting for you! Goodbye, Mr. Edgeworth.

--->'''???''': "I would've won." Is that what you want to say?
--->'''Von Karma''': ...! Wh-Who!?
--->'''Phoenix''': That voice... E-Edgeworth!!
--->'''Edgeworth''': It's been a long time...Wright.

---> '''Sister Bikini:''' So I guess you already know that Iris is Morgan Fey's daughter.
--->'''Phoenix:''' IRIS IS [[BigWhat WHAT?!?!?!]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Phoenix knows Morgan Fey personally and thought that she only had one child, and Iris never revealed her past.[[/labelnote]]

--->'''Judge:''' It's been a long time, [[FallenHero Mr. Wright]].

--->'''Brushel:''' "Thalassa Has Another Child Besides Trucy", end quote.

'''Kamen''': I... I actually loved her... [[SchoolgirlLesbians I loved Momo]].

--->''"Support Group for {{Asexual}} People in a World So Sexualized [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall It Might As Well Be A Dating Sim]]"''

*** In Case 3 of the second game, there's Susato's reaction to seeing Prosecutor Barok van Ziek's apprentice, a masked man who seems familiar to Ryunosuke.
---->'''Susato''' It's you... isn't it, Kazuma-sama?!
*** The response to the above line, "Ka...zu...ma?" reveals that Kazuma doesn't remember his true name.

---->'''Asogi''': F...Father?

*** From the first game, we have a wham ''laugh'', when Shih-Nah laughs in the exact same highly-distinctive manner as Calisto Yew, sparking instant recognition from Edgeworth, Franziska and Kay.

%%[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
%%* ''Literature/TheFourGospels''
%%-->'''[[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Jesus Christ]]''': Tonight, one of you will betray me.
%%[[/folder]]

*** At the end of Case 5, the characters uncover the contents of a top-secret Morse code message, and find that a fragment of the message says "A... So...Gi..."- the name of

---->'''Gina''': [[TryingNotToCry It's...it's the boss...]][[MentorOccupationalHazard The boss is...He's...He's dead.]] (later in conversation) They got 'im already...It was the Reaper

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade.'' The ''Schism'' chapter of ''Beckett's Jyhad Diary'' describes the Web of Knives, a cult serving the incredibly powerful and ancient Ur-Shulgi. He seeks to destroy all non-members within Clan Assamite, an independent Clan seperate from the Camarilla/Sabbat/Anarch conflict. Such an event would almost certainly lead to the destruction of the Masquerade (a single skirmish between the two groups where Beckett and his allies got stuck in the middle of became an international headline). Beckett introduced the influential Assamite Tegyrius to several important figures within the Camarilla. After explaining the gravity of the siutation, the risk it poses to the Masquerade and the final prediction of a seer with unmatched accuracy that supports this claim, Tegyrius makes the following statement:

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade.'' The ''Schism'' chapter of ''Beckett's Jyhad Diary'' describes the Web of Knives, a cult serving the incredibly powerful and ancient Ur-Shulgi. He seeks to destroy all non-members within Clan Assamite, an independent Clan seperate from the Camarilla/Sabbat/Anarch conflict. Such an event would almost certainly lead to the destruction of the Masquerade (a single skirmish between the two groups where Beckett and his allies got stuck in the middle of became an international headline). Beckett introduced the influential Assamite Tegyrius to several important figures within the Camarilla. After explaining the gravity of the siutation, the risk it poses to the Masquerade and the final prediction of a seer with unmatched accuracy that suppports this claim, Tegyrius makes the following statement:

---->'''???''': "I would've won." Is that what you want to say?
---->'''Von Karma''': ...! Wh-Who!?
---->'''Phoenix''': That voice... E-Edgeworth!!
---->'''Edgeworth''': It's been a long time...Wright.

*** Later in the ending when discussing an unconcious person who looks just like Sigma:

--->'''Aoi''': I killed Sakura!

--->'''Monokuma''': It's a suicide letter. The one Sakura wrote.\\

--->'''Byakuya:''' This is a life-or-death elimination match. The only way to survive... is to win. There can be no doubt that those are the rules of the game. [[HeelFaceTurn Which is why... I am bowing out of the game.]]

--->'''Kyoko:''' Mukuro Ikusaba.\\

--->'''Monokuma:''' This school life of mutual killings is being completely broadcasted live on TV all over Japan!

--->'''Monokuma:''' I've been waiting until all of you get here. We can't begin without the entire group, can we?

--->'''Kyoko:''' Because [the headmaster]'s my father.

--->'''Monokuma: ''' There are 16 and only 16 high school students participating in this school life of mutual killing... By the way, ever since we started this game, those beary same students are the only people to have set foot in this school.

--> '''Nagito''': [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/danganronpa/images/6/6c/Danganronpa_2_CG_-_Nagito_Komaeda_showing_his_true_colors_%281%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20180430065514 Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! The Ultimates are working together to combat the despair of their friend's death! Ah, how wonderful, how beautiful it is!]]

--> '''Teruteru''': "I told ya to wait a sec, ain't IIIIII!?"

-->'''Mikan:''' Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...! Haaa... It's been suuuuuuuch a long time... This feeling... I know it well... Like the floor is collapsing... Like the sky is falling down upon you... ...This feeling of ''[[ArcWords despair]]''!

--> '''Chiaki''': "But ... there’s nothing they could have done ... since even if they had wanted to confess ... they couldn’t have ... Because they weren't made that way. So ... I want you guys to try and guess. (...) The Future Foundation spy, the traitor hidden amongst us... who do you think it is?"

--->Izuru Kamukura is very much alive. [[TomatoInTheMirror Isn't that right...]] ''[[AmnesiacHero Hajime]]''?!

--->'''Tenko''': Do you know who the culprit is?!\\

--->'''Kokichi:''' Right...miss Ultimate Assassin?

--->''' Himiko:''' (referring to the port to plug the consciousness cord in) H-he couldn't have messed it up! I said it over and over! (holds up right hand) Right is the hand you hold your chopsticks in!
--->''' Gonta, holding up his left hand:''' Oh, but Gonta hold chopsticks with ''this'' hand.

---> '''K1-B0''': ItsQuietTooQuiet... And yet this silence is quite refreshing. I used to hear my [[ArcWords inner voice]] with perfect clarity... it would fill me with the power of hope... guide me along the right path... [[DoingInTheWizard I can't hear it anymore.]] All I hear now...is silence. That silence means my will is now my own. Even if despair is all we have to choose... even if hope no longer exists... I will never give in to despair! [[WellIntentionedExtremist I...I will end this! No matter what, I will force this to end.]] This school, this Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles, is steeped in despair...\\

--> '''Shuichi''': So who the hell are you!?\\

--->'''Tsumugi (as Makoto):''' If what I said was the truth[[note]]that she can only cosplay as fictional characters and has an allergic reaction if she tries to cosplay as a real person[[/note]] then Hope's Peak Academy was...\\

--->'''Keebo:''' Everything is gonna be ok! We'll definitely find Hop--\\

---> '''Tsumugi''': Oh, there's no need to worry about that. I didn't vote either.

** Delivered ''very reluctantly'' during the first chapter of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''. After Kaede clears Shuichi's name, it is revealed that someone turned on the flash on the cameras Kaede and Shuichi set up in the library. Since Shuichi couldn't have done it, that leaves only one person...

** Midway through the fourth trial, Kokichi becomes the most suspicious, resulting in Shuichi lying to trick Kokichi into admitting that he'd gone to the roof (the crime scene). In retaliation, Kokichi decides to reveal everything he knows about the murder in order to take away Shuichi's "fun." It sounds as though Kokichi is going to admit to the crime, but then Kokichi says "Now then, the culprit is Gonta." Gonta had never been considered suspicious until this point, but Kokichi's absolutely right.

*** PlayedForLaughs in Chapter 1, when Teruteru [[OohMeAccentsSlipping suddenly drops his laid back composure and starts speaking in a country accent]] after being accused of being the killer.

** During the final case of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', [[BrainUploading Junko]] turns the discussion towards [[BrokenAce Izuru]] [[TranshumanTreachery Kamukura]], a former Hope's Peak student who was surgically altered to [[AllYourPowersCombined possess all the SHSL talents]], but who apparently went rogue and ended up inadvertently setting up the events of the entire series, and more directly orchestrated the events of this game. Despite Makoto's protestations, Junko reaffirms that Izuru is indeed still alive...and then promptly drops '''this''' bombshell.

** In chapter 5 of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'':

-->'''Iris''': You and my sister... you only met twice.[[note]]The first time being when Dahlia gave Phoenix her necklace, and the second being when she tried to kill him to get it back[[/note]] [...] [[TwinSwitch For those 6 months, the woman that you thought was Dahlia Hawthorne, wasn't actually my sister]]. I hope one day you can forgive me... [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Feenie]].

'''Edgeworth''': [An apprentice beast tamer? Heh...he's no amateur. For the beast he has tamed is none other than this entire case! ''Simon Keyes!'' [[TheDogWasTheMastermind He is the mastermind behind this entire incident!]]
* WhamShot:

--->[[FamousLastWords It just stops moving]]

** A minor example in the second case, which serves as the first indication we get that Phoenix and Edgeworth knew each other before that trial.
--->'''Phoenix:''' Edgeworth... you've changed.

** ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' manages to fit one into the ''first case'', with the Judge's reaction to your previously [[NoNameGiven unnamed client]] at the start of the trial:
-->'''Judge:''' It's been a long time, [[FallenHero Mr. Wright]].
** In the last case of the same game:
-->'''Brushel:''' "Thalassa Has Another Child Besides Trucy", end quote.
** From ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'', we have a wham ''laugh'', when Shih-Nah laughs in the exact same highly-distinctive manner as Calisto Yew, sparking instant recognition from Edgeworth, Franziska and Kay.

*** An interesting example in Case 5. At the time this line is said in the previous chapter (which is closely tied to this one), the player is likely to think nothing of it. But when a flashback occurs later in the case, when the player has worked out that the ladder was used by a double murderer and an international spy, [[PlayerPunch it hits the player like a ton of bricks]].