History Roleplay / Airlocked

* Roleplat/AirlockedRoundFive

Round 1 began on February 12, 2017 and ended April 1st that same year. Round 2 ran from May 14th through July 8th. Round 3 began on August 14th and ended in late September. Round 4 is set to begin October 13th.

** [[spoiler:Thanks to it's premise as a prequel, all of the characters in Round 4/0 that aren't Bolton or Jamie are doomed to die.]]

* PublicExecution: Culprits are killed in front of everyone. Round 1 has them all ThrownOutTheAirlock, while Round 2 is set to bring back the traditional personalized executions.

* VerbedTitle: Referring to the theme of all the executions.

Round 1 began on February 12, 2017 and ended April 1st that same year. Round 2 ran from May 14th through July 8th. Round 3 began on August 14th and is currently running.

* ForegoneConclusion: To ensure that enough players will qualify for [[BackForTheFinale round 5]], no player is allowed to have more than one character survive rounds 1-3. As a result, if a player whose character survived round 1 or 2 comes back with a new character in the next round, that character is guaranteed to die.

* Roleplay/AirlockedRoundThree

Round 1 began on February 12, 2017 and ended April 1st that same year. Round 2 ran from May 14th through July 8th. Round 3 is set to begin on August 14th

Round 1 began on February 12, 2017 and ended April 1st that same year. Round 2 ran from May 14th through July 8th.

* Roleplay/AirlockedRoundTwo

Round 1 began on February 12, 2017 and ended April 1st that same year. Round 2 will run from May 14th through late June or early July.

* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: Even a SympatheticMurderer has to be executed, after all. [[spoiler:Though Xander gets out of it.]]

* TheIntern: [[spoiler:Along with promoting real suffering as fictional entertainment, [=InterGal=] 7 doesn't pay their interns, either.]]

* LimitedWardrobe: Champions wake with only their SpaceClothes, not even any spare clothes from home like other games have offered. Other outfits only appear in the limited number of personal regains or must be made by the characters in-setting.

* BreakTheGameBreaker: Regains that would give an unfair advantage are modified before being handed out. For example, in Round 1, Lightning's combat knife was replaced with a plastic replica and the Doctor's screwdriver was covered in gunk that rendered it useless until he could get it off, which took the entire round to do.

* FutureFoodIsArtificial: The space food and military food all over the stations qualify.

* ImmoralRealityShow: [[spoiler:The game is part of a series, being broadcast to aliens, under the out-of-universe WorkingTitle and with spinoffs and a huge fanbase. The audience is led to believe that it's fiction.]]

* {{Holodeck}}: The average round's or test drive's setting has one so advanced that the Champions can program in locations they know from memory.

* BroughtDownToNormal: One PIP setting lets the Overseers temporarily block someone's powers in full. The dead also go through this.

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Round 1 began on February 12, 2017 and ended April 1st, 2017.

[[folder:Round 1]]
* AncientAstronauts: Yurika mentions ancient alien structures from a memory she regained out of context, and Jane assumes she means on Earth and starts thinking about this.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The survivor pool commandeers the ship that their stasis pods were being kept on, renames it the ''Temerity,'' and goes to track down their friends.]]
* AnimalEaredHeadband: Part of Lightning's catgirl costume.
* AnswersToTheNameOfGod: When Xander says "gods" in awe at the Doctor's holodeck creation, the Doctor responds "no, just me."
* AppealToObscurity: In the intro log, Seth lists off places, people, and things from his world and asks if anyone else would know them. Expecting a no, he follows up by declaring this proof that they're all from different worlds.
* AprilFoolsDay: The final trial began on April Fool's, and a good way through it, one of the moderators made an "accidental early mastermind reveal" that made no in-universe sense, revealing it as a joke shortly after.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: The Doctor has this all the time. Togami lampshades the trope as well by asking why Jane doesn't expect him to believe her about her vegetables getting stolen when they've both seen plenty of hard-to-believe things right on the space station.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The Doctor dislikes Seth because he's a MadScientist, he looks suspicious when someone's died, and his profile contains a spelling mistake.
* AscendedMeme: The "Tiny Car" item being renamed "Christine Junior," its FanNickname.
* AsceticAesthetic: The station itself and the uniforms, until people start getting into the art supplies, anyway.
* AwfulTruth: Many of the characters this round have these in their memories. It causes {{Heroic BSOD}}s fairly regularly, inspired the third murder, and even if a character hasn't remembered one, they'll start to imagine it, as with Xander. Thomasin's memories in particular are a TraumaCongaLine.
* BackgroundMusicOverride: In true ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' fashion, Yurika does this [[spoiler:during the fifth trial when Lightning tells her to keep up the group's hope]].
* BadassFamily: It's often joked in OOC text that, by ''Fire Emblem'' rules, Xander and Lightning will end up with a child with GameBreaker stats.
* BagOfSpilling: When [[spoiler:the survivors awaken in the real world]], everyone loses their entire inventory, though those who made rolls that day still get their new stuff. [[spoiler:After the final test, they get all their stuff back and more, though.]]
* BangingPotsAndPans: Bolton does this to annoy [=McBurn=] awake.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Xander wonders if this might be the case, being separated from his home so long. [[spoiler: [=McBurn=] agrees and stabs himself just before he gets thrown out the airlock.]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: [[spoiler:Deadland is plagued with giant centipedes of increasing size.]]
* TheBigDamnKiss: If Xander and Lightning in the Week 5 party doesn't count, [[spoiler:their kiss in that week's trial before Lightning dies]] definitely does.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Margulis and [=McBurn=] look like an example of OppositesAttract, but behind their carefully crafted images of a strait-laced professional and a LazyBum are two people who [[SpiritedCompetitor love a challenge]], [[CombatSadomasochist share an interest in pain]], and [[HehHehYouSaidX keep accidentally making innocent conversation sound dirty]].
* BizarreAlienBiology: [[spoiler:The alien showrunners and most of the aliens out in space have vastly varied biology, many have a ton of limbs, at least one staff member eats via photosynthesis, and one sleeps in green slime a la ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''.]]
* BizarreInstrument: One of the standard gift items is an otamatone.
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:C.E.C.E. breaks out a secrets motive when Jamie and Bolton give the Champions one too many breaks.]]
* BlanketFort: Jane builds a huge one to hold a meeting in. [[spoiler:Max also built one in the surf shack.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: Natsuhi's memory regains do this over time, and while Togami keeps himself together better, it seems to be wearing on him, too.
* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: After trying to cover for Jamie in Week 4 and screwing it up, Bolton is clearly sleeping on the couch. The Champions can all tell how awkward the situation is even if they don't know what caused it. The two of them reconcile the next week.
* BridalCarry: Xander effortlessly lifts Thomasin to keep her from breaking something in her rage at the third motive.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Subverted as Kurumi imagines herself and Xander in this dynamic, but her crush is unrequited and Xander ends up with someone even more gloomy and hard-line than he is.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Some Champions' abilities are completely dampened, and even those who got nerfed instead can become this temporarily at Overseer discretion.
* BuryYourGays: While straight ships get killed off too, the same-sex player ships were killed, [[spoiler:both times one at the hands of the other,]] before anything happened to a het ship, [[spoiler:and then it turned out that the NPC gay ship didn't have immunity either.]]
* TheCatCameBack: Ricky and Kurumi try to get rid of a toy car they dub "Christine Junior" after reading ''Literature/{{Christine}}'' and getting freaked out. So far, they've simply been gifted with a new one whenever the old one is tossed in the trash. Many times.
* {{Catgirl}}: One of Lightning's regains is a skimpy catgirl costume. Xander ends up with it.
* CelebrityParadox: Jane recognizes the celebrity Bolton is based on.
* CentralTheme: It may be noble to put TheNeedsOfTheMany over your own, but throwing the people you love under the bus to do so just turns the pain into a cycle.
* CherryBlossoms: They're all over the park that Jamie programmed into the holodeck, which is a recreation of something from home. Xander notes that he's never seen these trees outside of a battlefield before.
* ComfortFood: A lot of the diner's fare, for most people (though Natsuhi and Togami are [[UpperClassTwit too rich for "nasty additives"]] and hate the place).
* CompanionCube: Stabby and the Roomba Cats, a clowder of robot vacuum cleaners. One, armed with a knife, is called "Stabby" and given to Natsuhi, the others are outfitted with fake cat ears and take the place of real cats in a cat cafe.
** Christine Junior would be this, but is more of a companion ''pest'' considering Ricky's and Kurumi's many attempts to get rid of it.
* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: Thomasin gets Xander out in the dodgeball game while he's focused on Jane.
* CrappyCarnival: [[spoiler:Deadland has an abandoned fairground, and while most of its suckiness is because it's been abandoned and left to decay, Max says it was a cheap tourist trap with rigged carnival games even in life.]]
* DefacementInsult: Seth draws detailed portraits of the Champions, only to deface them in ways reminiscent of how they died. He calls it an incentive not to kill, though it's clear he's just enjoying how horrified and offended the dead's surviving friends are.
* DesecratingTheDead: The fake hanging in case 2, and while it doesn't involve actual corpses, Seth's vandalized paintings of the dead evoke this.
* DestroyTheEvidence: The second culprit rips up his attempts to copy his victim's handwriting and hides them in the bedroom.
** The third culprit disposed of some evidence in the trash compactor. One piece was a partially burned unitard.
** In weeks 5 and 6, the culprits disposed of evidence in the incinerator.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: The second culprit's evil gloating is full of this in his trial, laughing at the notion that he ''really'' cared about anything or anyone like he would imply to get people off his back.
* DisgustingPublicToilet: Thomasin is so grossed out (or at least unsure) at a port-a-potty that she digs a trench in the garden to go there instead.
* DodgeballIsHell: The second "motive" is actually a fun dodgeball game. "Fun" being subjective, since it becomes SeriousBusiness to a lot of the characters who either want to use it as a way to learn to work as a team or just want to make someone on the other side suffer.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Thomasin snaps this at Xander when she talks about how badly her life ended up.
* DressedToPlunder: One of Xander's regains is a fancy pirate costume. Lightning ends up with it.
* DrowningMySorrows: Xander skips the third afterparty to do this after [[spoiler:having steeled his nerves to implicate Lightning, even though he's starting to fall for her -- and being ''wrong'' and chewed out by her before the real culprit was outed.]]
* DysfunctionJunction: Nobody here has had a particularly easy time before they got here, even the rich and powerful ones.
-->'''Shadow:''' I imagine one might not be a Champion if their life was simple.
* EggSitting: For one sabotage, Togami has to look after an annoying robotic baby. He just turns it off.
* EmbarrassingAnimalSuit: Seth has to wear a gorilla suit for a sabotage once. Yurika later regains a bunny suit, but she isn't embarrassed by it.
* EverybodyLives: Complete with a reference to (and by) the TropeNamer. [[spoiler:While Bolton is still murdered, during the ensuing trial, the Champions' rioting and Jamie's advanced PIP manage to rescue both Xander and the rest of the group in Week 6.]]
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Lightning and Xander are the last to acknowledge that they're in love.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Margulis booby-traps his trunk and covers Shadow in glitter. The poor hedgehog is covered in the stuff for days, though showering removes most of it. Later, there's another glitter trap on the incinerator to catch would-be killers. During case 4, glitter on a shoe exposes the culprit. Finally, during case 5, a glitter round gets thrown at Natsuhi, causing her to be covered in glitter.
* ExactWords: [[spoiler:C.E.C.E. announces the sixth motive by saying that they're granting a request to leave everyone alone. It's a lockdown motive, and the [=PIPs=] shut down.]]
** Xander also suspects that Jamie telling him that "Nohr is at peace" means "because [[spoiler:Xander is dead]]."
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Jamie throughout Week 4, as he's pretending to be fine and everyone is pretty sure he's not.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Rukia. Even her MTB is set to slow music and not much of a battle at all, just her walking the others through what happened.]]
* FailuresOnIce: Lightning gets a sabotage that's this with roller skates. She ends up figuring them out, though.
* FairyTaleMotifs: References to different versions of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' abound, with Temerity's rose motif tying into it as well.
* {{Fanservice}}: The Week 4 sabotages put [[MrFanservice Xander]] in a speedo and bind his arms. It's described as "for the greater good."
* FireForgedFriends: The survivor pool is this. Sure, they still have their problems, but most of them get over it at least temporarily to stand together, and [[spoiler:only Natsuhi refuses to "lower" herself to wearing a Temerity shirt.]]
* FirstGrayHair: Xander gets teased about this.
* FirstNameBasis: Jane considers dropping the "Mister" before Xander's name late in the game, but decides only to do it when she's cross with him. Around the same time, the Doctor [[spoiler:had usually kept his distance from the Overseers, but starts using nicknames like "Jimmy-boy" for Jamie after learning the truth about them. He figures out that using Jamie's real name probably reminded him of the abuse inherent in a SoulSuckingRetailJob.]]
* FishOutOfWater: Most of the Champions have never been to space. Margulis theorizes that so many of those were selected so they'd be more likely to miss home and give in to the motives.
* FlippingTheBird: Seth gives [=McBurn=] "a rather rude hand sign" during dodgeball. [=McBurn=] also gives one to Bolton during case 3's trial.
* {{Foil}}: Xander and Togami are this to each other. Both are aristocrats with a brutal side thanks to competing with [[MassiveNumberedSiblings a ridiculous number of half-siblings]] in the past, but Xander is a friendly [[TheLeader team leader]] and Togami is an IneffectualLoner, both hiding their pain in [[StepfordSmiler different]] [[StepfordSnarker ways]].
* FluffyTheTerrible: Seth names a giant killer bug "Cleo."
* ForeignQueasine: Xander and Ricky treat octopus this way. Xander is even repulsed by the idea of "octopus-style" sausages before he has it explained to him that they're just beef cut to look like little octopi.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: An unintentional example when [[spoiler:Margulis arrives in deadland]]. Margulis tells the Griffin which fellow Champions he thinks will ensure the whole group's survival if they live. While no one, OOC or IC, knew it at the time, [[spoiler:Margulis gets his wish; Xander and Yurika both make survivor pool]].
* ForYourOwnGood: Whenever the Overseers use the PIP to punish someone, like shocking them or damping their powers, it comes with a side of this.
* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Lightning is the Cynic, Yurika the Optimist, Xander the Realist, Seth the Apathetic, and Jane is the Conflicted. Others tend to describe their philosophies in relation to one or more of these people, who are the strongest examples of them. [[spoiler:Fittingly, the three closest to the cynical end of the [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism scale]] each kill someone.]]
* FramesOfReference: Jane has oval glasses and she's more approachable, Togami's are sharp rectangles and he's an analytical jerk, Natsuhi never wears hers even if she needs them because she wants to keep up appearances (but changes her mind and gladly wears them when they finally show up), Seth's are thin with only one working eye because he's creepy, [=McBurn=] was foreshadowed as more messed-up than his lazy facade would suggest when his glasses were broken, and Bolton not being evil after all is foreshadowed by having ''rounded'' square glasses.
* FromACertainPointOfView: [[spoiler:Everything that Max tells the dead about Temerity, since he still doesn't trust them fully and he knows they don't trust Bolton, is true of Temerity the tabletop character, not Bolton, the person Max would know is using her name.]]
* FullFrontalAssault: Xander makes a one-off comment that the uniform supplied offers so little protection, they might as well be fighting in the nude. He and [=McBurn=] then joke that maybe they ''should'' attack the Overseers naked.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial: The space food and military food all over the setting qualify.
* GreasySpoon: There's an out-of-place diner on the second floor that quickly becomes very popular.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: [[spoiler:We find out that Bolton and Jamie were ''very'' occupied in their year on the space station around the same time that we find out that they're not the villains they seem to be.]]
* GottaCatchEmAll: [[spoiler:The dead have an early quest to find all of Max's paintings.]]
* GroinAttack: Lightning notes that, during the dodgeball motive, headshots may have been banned, but this was not.
* HairContrastDuo: As a StudentAndMasterTeam, Jane and Lightning invert the [[AloofDarkHairedGirl usual]] [[RoseHairedSweetie stereotypes]] of their hair colours. ''Jane'' is the lovable innocent and ''Lightning'' the hard-nosed, detached one.
* {{Holodeck}}: The station has one so advanced that the Champions can program in locations they know from memory.
* HolodeckMalfunction: Starts happening when the [=PIPs=] get messed with late in the game. The holodeck gets rid of any custom settings and makes the defaults creepier, and while they don't cause lasting damage, the sims will still inflict pain.
* HumiliationConga: Togami gets no less than three sabotage challenges inflicted on him at once during the second week.
* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: [=McBurn=] and Margulis shoot these at each other in the dodgeball game, every single one of them by accident.
* IconOfRebellion: The red flower is Temerity's symbol, and they call on any Champion who wants to support their ambiguous agenda to paint it on their doors.
* IdiosyncraticShipNaming: While real-life players and viewers use [[PortmanteauCoupleName pairingsmush]], in-universe, [[spoiler:the audience has ship names like "Stormy Knight" (Xanlight) and "Tiny Car" (Kurumi/Ricky).]]
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Lightning feels like this [[spoiler:about Chitanda after she had decided to prioritize saving only her and Chitanda ''still'' died first.]] Yurika does later when [[spoiler:Kurumi kills Ricky with a boon Yurika sent her]], though Xander says it would have happened anyway; she [[spoiler:starts to wear the ''Nadesico's'' master key on a cord around her neck, reminiscent of the murder weapon,]] to remind herself.
* TheILoveYouStigma: The reason Xander and Lightning's initial LoveConfession doesn't outright say either loves the other. Both are very serious about their responsibilities and fear that they can't be together anyway. However, they manage it later.
* ImprobableFoodBudget: Temerity actually calls attention to this, urging the Champions to question the space station's supply lines.
* InnocentInnuendo: [=McBurn=] and Margulis both do this a lot, especially at each other.
* InterfaceScrew: During the lockdown motive, the profiles, map, and rules pages are locked, since the [=PIPs=] are deactivated.
* TheIntern: [[spoiler:Along with promoting real suffering as fictional entertainment, [=InterGal=] 7 doesn't pay their interns, either.]]
* InUniverseCatharsis: The gym is very popular simply because people can throw balls and beat on the punching bag to try and get past their problems. [[spoiler:It's a lot less popular when two bodies in a row are found there, though.]] The dodgeball room becomes similar for Jane at her Week 4 memory regain [[spoiler:and Margulis uses deadland's ball toss similarly in Week 5.]]
* InVinoVeritas: [=McBurn=] decides that the best time for a LoveConfession is when he's too drunk to stand.
* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: Jane at the third afterparty, when despair has been weighing on her for weeks. She gets an even worse case when [[spoiler:she remembers her resurrection powers]].
* ItemGet: Parodied when people try to pick up items in the holodeck.
-->* You got the Holographic Cherry Blossom!
-->A good memory made tangible. It might bring you luck, if you could take it out of the holodeck with you.
-->ATK: 0 DEF: 5
* ItsAllMyFault: Ricky after the first culprit's confession, not that Kurumi helped anything.
* ItsPersonal: Many of the Champions take Seth's paintings hard and bear grudges against him for it. Lightning directs her team to make him pay for it in [[SeriousBusiness the dodgeball game]].
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Angelica shows up to the dodgeball game in a frilly dress and promptly starts wreaking havoc on the field.
* KillItWithFire: Done to Seth's paintings when Margulis suspects he cursed them, though Shadow keeps his own for a while.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:In the very first case, after everyone in- and out-of-universe has gotten attached to the sweet and adorable Chitanda. The chorus of "did we just trigger the bad end in Week 1?" wasn't entirely exaggerating.]]
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:When Kurumi wants to kill to try and save her secret from getting out, she targets Ricky, her closest CR. Lightning finds them, fails to save Ricky, and sees Kurumi's nerves get her when she tries to kill herself too. Fearing Kurumi being ThrownOutTheAirlock, Lightning kills Kurumi to be executed in her place.]]
** [[spoiler: [=McBurn=] and Margulis could technically count, even if there was no confession between them. Not like anyone actually believed their denials of being in love anyhow.]]
* LivingToys: Christine Junior isn't really this, but her reluctant [[TheCatCameBack serial owners]] imagine her as the offspring of HomicideMachines.
* LonersAreFreaks: [[spoiler:Seth exploits this by getting close to the unsociable Angelica before killing her, presuming less risk than if he'd killed somebody a lot of people got along with.]]
* LoveConfession: Xander and Lightning in Week 5. [[spoiler:In the same week, Kurumi confesses to Ricky... just before killing her. Kurumi then tries to kill herself, is killed by Lightning, and no ship makes it out alive.]]
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Lightning gets a shield as a boon.
* MasochistsMeal: Anything Margulis cooks, due to his love of BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce.
* MeaningfulRename: After Case 5 [[spoiler:kills off the characters the car was haunting]], the "Tiny Car" item is officially renamed in the Benefactors' Hold (where new inventory items are distributed) to its FanNickname, "Christine Junior."
* MonsterClown: The space station has a room filled with NonIronicClown paintings that are nonetheless there to freak people out.
* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: Lightning finally stops Thomasin from hurting herself or anything else at the third motive by asking if Thomasin's brother, whom she'd just remembered was dead, would have wanted anything to happen to her.
* MisterSeahorse: While none of the guys actually get pregnant, Xander investigates his PIP and finds the health tracker functions, looking through all of them -- including the pregnancy test.
* MoleInCharge: [[spoiler:Xander was intended to be this. When he grew to love the others and refused his initial motive, though, the mysterious E.P. forced him to act by threatening ''them''.]]
* MoodDissonance: Seth is delighted to be kidnapped to another dimension. The Doctor is weirded out by this and sarcastically asked if Seth had JuryDuty he wanted to ditch.
* MundaneLuxury: Toilets, for Ricky. Also several people react to the diner that appears in Week 2 this way.
* MurderByCremation: The incinerator is specifically noted as large enough for a body, [[spoiler:though no one dies this way]].
* MurderByMistake: According to the first culprit, [[spoiler:Chitanda]] wasn't the actual intended victim of his murder attempt.
* MurderTropes
** '''Culprits & Intervention Attempts:''' ThrownOutTheAirlock
** '''Victim 1:''' HumanPincushion, InTheBack
** '''Victim 2:''' TamperingWithFoodAndDrink, NeverSuicide
** '''Culprit 2:''' DisintegratorRay along with [[ThrownOutTheAirlock the usual]]
** '''Punishment:''' HighVoltageDeath
** '''Victim 3:''' HumanPincushion, DuelToTheDeath
** '''Culprit 3:''' DrivenToSuicide along with [[ThrownOutTheAirlock the usual]]
** '''Victim 4:''' KillingInSelfDefense, SuperDrowningSkills
** '''Victim 5-A:''' DeadlyHug
** '''Victim 5-B:''' NeverSuicide, BungledSuicide
** '''Victim 6:''' OneHitKill, BloodFromTheMouth
* MusicalSpoiler: [[spoiler: The choice of music for the [=MTB=] in case 3 actually was the music that played when [=McBurn's=] demon form was revealed in his canon, hinting at the fact that a reveal was going to happen before the trial ended. Interestingly, the scene that reveal happened in was a duel with a character who shares Margulis' English voice actor.]]
* MyEyesAreLeaking: [[spoiler:C.E.C.E. refers to crying as "leaking from the face," since she's an AI made to passively watch people break and isn't great for emotional support.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Xander wakes up and immediately says this to himself at his first memory regain.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: [[spoiler:After an [[OutWithABang embarrassing]] second death in deadland, [=McBurn=] respawns butt naked on the beach.]]
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: All but the [[ForTheEvulz second culprit]] have ended up killing to try to save many more people than the few still alive on the station. [[spoiler:Technically, Lightning only wanted to spare Kurumi by killing her, but Kurumi still killed Ricky to protect her friends at home and didn't want to sacrifice the rest of the station either.]]
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Jane fixates on this as she sinks into despair after the first murder.
* NonHumanLoverReveal: Every PC couple has one of these.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Yurika catches [=McBurn=] and Margulis sneaking out of a locked private study room and bolts before they can explain that nothing was going on.
* NukeEm: Jane suggests that the Champions do this to [[spoiler:the leftover [[FoeYay Togami/Jane]] merchandise]].
* NutritionalNightmare: While it's all pretty normal, Togami sees the snacks and diner food as this, complaining about the preservatives.
* OminousFog: During the HolodeckMalfunction, this is part of the only setting the holodeck will show. [[spoiler:It's actually deadland, but the fog dissipates at the end of the round.]]
* OnlyInFlorida: Joked in-game to be the reason that [[spoiler:deadland is a run-down replica of the Floridian tourist town Max called home]].
* OpenSaysMe: Some once-locked doors in deadland have been kicked open.
* OutWithABang: While none of the murders are this, [[spoiler:[=McBurn=] respawns in deadland after an accident with Margulis that's heavily implied, and [[WordOfGod player-confirmed]], to be of this nature.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: Despite being a bit young to be her actual parents, Jane sees Lightning and Xander as this over time.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The Doctor tries multiple stock passwords, "swordfish" included, to try and access the MasterComputer. A working example is also found in deadland with a password found in the picture frame next to the computer.
* PetTheDog: Angelica offering Ricky a pot lid shield and advice on defending herself, especially since Angelica is usually such a jerk.
** Bolton comforts Thomasin after she has a panic attack.
** Togami telling Jane not to lose hope, though she [[CondescendingCompassion doesn't take it at face value]] and lashes out at him.
* PhoneCallFromTheDead: The second motive inverts this, offering to let the winning Champion contact any loved one, including the dead.
* PlayingWithFire: The round's most common nerfed superpower by far.
* PlentyOfBlondes: Angelica, Ricky, Xander, Togami, Chanel, Thomasin, and [[HairColorDissonance maybe]] Bolton. [[spoiler: So is [=McBurn=] when he transforms.]]
* PlotAllergy: Xander speculates that Bolton's avoidance of peanuts is this rather than [[DoesNotLikeSpam personal preference]]. Averted, since Bolton simply tells [=McBurn=] that he doesn't like them, not that he's allergic. [[spoiler:He ''is'' lactose intolerant, though.]]
* PlotSensitiveSnoopingSkills: Deadland narration flat-out tells [[spoiler:[=McBurn=], when he tries to break into the lighthouse,]] that he hasn't tripped the right event flags for that yet.
* PokeThePoodle: Alignment-inverted when Jane engages in petty, pointless acts of rebellion like stealing dice from the game room.
* PreciousPuppies: [[spoiler:Wilson, Max's plush dog, which he talks to. There's even merchandise of him in-universe.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: Jane when voting for the first culprit.
* ProductPlacement: [[spoiler:The snacks in the cat cafe are confirmed to be this for the in-universe audience.]]
* PsychologicalTormentZone: Deadland is one of these [[spoiler:for Max specifically: he was left alone there to GoMadFromTheIsolation, it's a run-down version of his own hometown, and the centipedes target him over anyone else (the little ones hurl verbal abuse amid static noise, the big ones can and will eat you). It gets better once the centipedes and fog are cleared out.]]
* PublicSecretMessage: Temerity communicates in these, with codes hidden in innocuous letters. Togami's notes are also this when he leaves them out, and the other Champions start to communicate like this as well.
* PutOffTheirFood: Thomasin stops eating syrup with her waffles after a crime scene is covered in it.
* QuicksandSucks: The holodeck malfunctions during Week 6 and calls up a pit of sand with a sinkhole instead of anything that was actually put into the settings.
* RageAgainstTheReflection: Xander punches ''through'' his bathroom mirror and its backing, injuring his hand, when he wakes up after his worst memory.
* {{Ragequit}}: Margulis during Cards Against Humanity. Not because he was doing badly -- he was winning -- but because the game's gleeful inappropriateness repulsed him. Much later, Thomasin, hopped up on caffeine and sleep-deprived, ragequits her embroidery and throws the project across the room.
* RealDreamsAreWeirder: When Jane polls the others on their memory regains, she asks about anything that might have seemed too normal and coherent to be a dream.
* RealityEnsues: Happens to Jane when her former love for mystery stories sours ''fast'' because real murders are painful, traumatic, and take away people she cares about.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Xander and Lightning finally kiss during week 5.
** After case 5, it was found out that Ricky and Kurumi had confessed their love [[spoiler: right before Kurumi killed Ricky. They still stay together.]]
** [[spoiler:Once deadland was unlocked,]] the others finally found out that [=McBurn=] and Margulis became a couple back in week 4.
* RevengeByProxy: Thomasin, enraged at Bolton's handing down of motives, goes into a berserker frenzy and has to be held back from taking her revenge out on [[MustHaveCaffeine the espresso machine]] to make Bolton suffer loss too.
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: [=McBurn=] says he must be hated and feared if he got a sabotage, but Yurika asks how the goofy sabotages handed out are supposed to kill anyone anyway, especially his, which subjected him to having to play ring toss.
-->'''Yurika:''' How could you kill someone with ring toss?
-->'''[=McBurn=]:''' Those thoughts are definitely not ones I should be vocalizing.
-->'''Yurika:''' You know that was rhetorical...
* RunningGag: Referring to any or all of the younger Champions as "the (superlative adjective) teenage girls [[JournalRoleplay DWRP]] has to offer." Has extended to other descriptors for other Champions ("grown adults," etc.)
** "I can't believe Xander is dead" in reference to the various things he does for training/exercise purposes.
** "Shoutout to (Victim from ''Roleplay/ItsCurtains'' who died in a similar manner)" often appears in evidence bullets. In Case 4, it was "Shoutout to [[Roleplay/TrustfellRoundOne Cabanela]], I guess," but that only referred to the broken ribs he came in with and not to a death.
** Lots and lots of furry-related puns during case 4.
** Thrown objects during trials (and Ricky reacting to them getting a little too close to her). In the first three it was fireballs, then [[spoiler: after [=McBurn=] and Margulis died]], Jane took over and threw Kurumi's shoe at Togami. During case 5 there was also a glitter round thrown by Natsuhi which ended up being directed back at her.
* SadBattleMusic: The fourth and fifth [=MTBs=].
* SchmuckBait: [[spoiler:"Revenge of the Clowns," one of Max's paintings, is part of the world's most obvious JumpScare trap, with actual arrows pointing to it.]]
* ScoobyStack: When the media room door is suspiciously ajar, multiple Champions look in at once, making one of these. Lightning gets annoyed and just pushes in past them.
* ScreamingAtSquick: Jane and Yurika when the FridgeLogic of waking up in unfamiliar uniforms hits them.
* SecretDiary: The PIP has a notes function, making CR charts canon and readable.
* SecretTest: What Togami's "notes" in his "private office" turn out to be.
* SeeYouInHell: Jane tells the second culprit this at voting. [[spoiler:Margulis' final letter to [=McBurn=] also says this, as does Xander to EP when he's ordered to kill Bolton.]]
* SensualSpandex: Most of the characters get embarrassed at the skintight uniforms. Jane really seems to like the men wearing them.
* {{Seppuku}}: [[spoiler:Kurumi tries to do this to herself after killing Ricky, but her nerves get the better of her.]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Kip narrates one to the in-universe viewers, hyping up the next round's Overseer.]]
* SerialEscalation: When the Machine Gun Talk Battle [[Roleplay/DanganRoleplayRoundTwo was first introduced]] into the murdergame genre, it was used sparingly for especially intense trials. It's gotten more common since then, and this round takes it to the logical extreme: ''every'' trial uses one, though some have SadBattleMusic.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The first motive is a "fix your greatest regret" motive.
* SexyWhateverOutfit: Lightning's catgirl garb.
* ShaveAndAHaircut: Jane knocks this on the diner kitchen door to test the robots' intelligence.
* ShipTease: After Kurumi comes down from her IrrationalHatred upon seeing Ricky's horror at the first execution, she ''doesn't'' beat her up like the implied threat she made, and instead they become very close and start getting a lot of this.
** There's also heavy ShipTease with Lightning/Xander after Chitanda starts shipping it, such as the two of them trying not to stare at each other in the gym.
** There's also another ShipTease between Margulis and [=McBurn=] after their innuendo-filled remarks in dodgeball.
** And who can forget Bolton and Jamie?
** Jane and Togami are often speculated to be in the throes of a [[BelligerentSexualTension blackrom crush]] by some of the players. [[spoiler:By the end of Week 6, their rivalry seems to be warming up to at least VitriolicBestBuds territory.]]
* ShirtlessScene: Xander working out in week two. Lightning gets very flustered and uses Thomasin's delicate sensibilities as an excuse to get him to put his clothes back on.
* ShrineToTheFallen: A twisted example with Seth, who makes paintings of all the Champions and mutilates the ones that represent the dead. Case 3's after party has a more normal example.
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Temerity's messages point out weird observations, like how the stars change but they can't feel the station move, [[spoiler:that hint that the whole setting is a virtual space]].
* SummoningRitual: [[spoiler:Thomasin gets desperate enough late in the game to try and summon the devil. It doesn't work, thankfully, but the holodeck does start acting up when she does it.]]
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The thread where Margulis converses with a drunk [=McBurn=] about rooftop safety is full of the narration stepping back to insist that they most definitely are not blushing, enjoying being in close proximity, or thinking about inappropriate things. Their LoveConfession follows right then and there.
* ATankardOfMooseUrine: Xander compares an energy drink to "chilled wyvern piss."
* TheStarsAreGoingOut: Toby mentions that this is the case back home, as opposed to the vast, bright space they're in.
* TakingTheBullet: When the secrets motive spurs Natsuhi to rage, Bolton throws himself in front of Jamie.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Some of the Champions make a point of antagonizing the others and not caring, which makes trials a pain for them all.
* {{Teleportation}}: The teleporter takes people from one floor to the next.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The first victim was defenceless enough that eight knives InTheBack and one in the leg are mentioned by the others as overkill.
* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: Kurumi to Ricky in the first trial for supposedly inspiring the culprit. Kurumi backs off and apologizes later, though. [[spoiler:It's probably fitting that Ricky actually does die because of Kurumi.]]
* TogetherInDeath: The Case 1 culprit and the intervention attempt.
** The Case 3 victim and culprit are also an example of this.
** And so are the case 5 victims.
** A meta example during case 4, with [[spoiler:Rukia being executed as the culprit, with her canonmate and [[TrueCompanions True Companion]] Orihime dying as the victim over in ''Roleplay/Trustfell4TrustFallOrDieHard'', not two days before.]]
* ToiletHumour: Both Thomasin and the Griffin misunderstand the purpose of the toilet and think you're supposed to drink out of it.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:Chitanda, the beloved first victim,]] is treated like this both in- and out-of-character for the entire round.
* [[invoked]] TooSoon: Jane shuts down Xander's joke (if he could call it that) about giving Bolton peanuts to kill him. She'd just remembered Dream Jake's assassination via peanut allergy.
* TruthTellingSession: Xander sets one up to defy the secrets motive. Another happens the next week, since more characters have remembered things getting worse in their worlds.
* VivaLasVegas: [[spoiler:The survivors head to the Vegas Quadrant in the end, which turns out to just be Space Las Vegas.]]
* WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture: [=InterGal=] 7 is an example of this. [[spoiler:It's the network that ''Airlocked!'' runs on.]]
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: The Champion uniforms are white and light grey, and they die a ''lot.''
* YouAreTooLate: [[spoiler:Lightning arrives ''just'' too late to save Ricky from Kurumi.]]
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Most members of the DwindlingParty realize that their homes have gotten worse and they have little to go back to, especially changed as they are.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Discussed when [=McBurn=] insists that his hair colour is natural. Max calls people from such worlds "anime types."
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Suspicions rise that the Benefactors are trying to tell Margulis and [=McBurn=] something by giving them increasingly embarrassing and inappropriate gifts. Though it is interesting that the condoms were handed out [=OOCly=] before the dodgeball match. Maybe the mods knew something even the players did not?
* YourDoorWasOpen: Thomasin walks in on Xander during his HeroicBSOD when he's left the door ajar by accident.
* YourMindMakesItReal: When Togami brings up his VR theory, the others, particularly the Doctor, caution that the dead still probably died thanks to this. [[spoiler:When the VR theory proves ''true,'' however, it's shown that the dead were pulled into another simulation and still live.]]
* YouWontFeelAThing: Said during the sixth murder, [[spoiler:since Xander was forced into it, doesn't want to kill Bolton, and actually does know how to kill someone in one strike and keep them from feeling any pain.]]
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Jamie may be emotionally compromised by cosplayers of his boyfriend and best friend, but he still stifles a laugh at them staging a fight where they beat up a cosplay Xander.
* AliensStealCattle: Joked to be the reason that the alien coffee shop can still serve a normal latte.
* AStormIsComing: The dead side's quest involves a looming hurricane, which hits the beach by the time the living side's quest takes place.
* CaperRationalization: The survivor pool needs to hunt down clues to try to save their friends, and [[spoiler:they're on thin ice being kidnapped to this galaxy with no ID and with anyone who might want to help them thinking they're not even real -- hard to justify the risk of pirating a premium subscription to see their dead friends, nor the morality of paying the network for one. Not to mention that entering the contest could give them more information, especially given the "secret host."]] Since there's no way their enemies would accept them as they are, the crew has to find a way to sneak in and get the prize and any information they can track down under their noses.
* ComfortingComforter: Jamie gets a blanket draped on him when he flops down onto the bed in their Treasure Planet hotel room.
* [[invoked]] FakeNationality: Jane affects a cringeworthy Belgian accent with broken English for the entire convention, at least around civilians.
* FanConvention: One takes up almost the entire Vegas Quadrant Strip, and the living side's quest is to search for clues inside it, particularly in the ''Airlocked!''-heavy Treasure Planet.
* PaperThinDisguise: Most of the Champions' attempts to blend in get mistaken for imperfect cosplay of themselves anyway.
* ShockingVoiceIdentityReveal: Averted when the "Temerity" barista simply thinks Xander received voice training to sound just like the "character."
* TheUnpronounceable: A lobsterlike alien toddler's name is [INCOHERENT SCREECHING].
* VivaLasVegas: While the end of Round 1 trailed off on the ''Temerity'' heading off towards the Vegas Quadrant, this plot covers what happens when they get there.
* WorldOfPun: Practically everything in the Vegas Quadrant is a space pun on the real location.
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: Xander loses a cosplay contest to a Xander cosplayer with better props.
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