History Roleplay / Airlocked

* OneWordTitle: Also a VerbedTitle.

** The story itself heavily borrows elements from ''VisualNovel/NewDanganronpaV3''. However, it's played in far less of a FanHater way, [[spoiler:as in-universe fans are led to believe that the murder show is fictional and the fandom is portrayed lovingly instead of with revulsion]].

* BadDreams: Of both the memory regain and normal varieties, given how bad their situation is.

* 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}}''.
* TheBear: Referenced with the "Bearies" item.

[[/index]]

* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: Even a SympatheticMurderer has to be executed, after all. [[spoiler:Though Xander gets out of it and, while Queenie seemed to be killed, her execution was faked.]]

* EarthIsTheCentreOfTheUniverse: Zig-zagged. None of the action has taken place on Earth [[spoiler:until the epilogue]], although Deadland usually takes an Earthlike form and spends two seasons and most of a third mimicking a specific Earth place. However, most of the Champions are from various Earths and the enemies do consider Earth a valuable target. [[spoiler:Target demographic, that is. After this universe's Earth was liberated from [[Music/NinjaSexParty a thousand-year spell]] a few years before the story, alien companies found it a very lucrative market, so [=InterGal=] 7 stuffed their shows with humans and human-passing aliens and covered topics that Earth people could relate to.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The password for the applications for each round foreshadows something about the round.
** Round 1: "Rob Boss," a reference to Creator/BobRoss. This refers both to Jamie's talent of painting landscapes and the fact that most [=NPCs=] in the game are in part based on their [[ComicBookFantasyCasting PBs]] with similar names.
** Round 2: "Lucky Flannel," referring to how Kip, a character partially based on LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}, would be added to the main cast.
** Round 3: "Cool Motive," a reference to ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' ("cool motive, still murder"). The theme of this round is people who have killed before, even if some of them are {{Sympathetic Murderer}}s.
** Round 4: "Airlocked: Reach," a reference to ''VideoGame/HaloReach'', [[spoiler:another {{prequel}} where the protagonists are DoomedByCanon.]]
** Round 5: "Still Murder," the other half of the Round 3 reference. [[spoiler:This symbolizes that the BigBad is a TragicVillain, but that this doesn't excuse what she's done.]]

* IndestructibleEdible: Army rations, which were established in the first round and still occasionally pop up.

* MetaTwist: Unlike other mystery-style murdergames, ''Airlocked'' doesn't tend to have traditional mastermind trials. Round 1 had the Final Examination instead, where one NPC acted as a "mastermind" but only quizzed the characters on what they'd discovered and the twist at the end of the round. Rounds 2 and 3 ''did'' have mastermind trials, but they still weren't quite as expected by veterans, [[spoiler:having the evidence show that the masterminds were backstabbed by the BigBad and largely just working much like the Examination; of these, only the R3 game-runner dies]]. Round 4 ''couldn't'' have a traditional final trial due to its premise as [[spoiler:a round where most of what would have been the survivor pool died trying to rebel and they never even made it to the end]]. Round 5, however, does have a traditional mastermind trial, [[spoiler:as well as the widely beloved common type of golden end where the player characters and most [=NPCs=] come BackFromTheDead, complete with meeting each other's loved ones and gaining some method of still being able to see each other again]].

* AndYourRewardIsEdible: Some of the prizes the Benefactors give out, which is a good reprieve from rations.

* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: It's brought up in both R3 and R4 deadland that you really shouldn't take a bear home as a pet. It's only okay here because Bear-san is virtual and orphaned and any risk in feeding him would only matter if the dead weren't in a deserted town.

* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: Even a SympatheticMurderer has to be executed, after all. [[spoiler:Though Xander gets out of it, and while Queenie seemed to be killed, her execution was faked.]]

* EarthIsTheCentreOfTheUniverse: Zig-zagged. None of the action so far has taken place on Earth, although Deadland usually takes an Earthlike form and spends two seasons and most of a third mimicking a specific Earth place. However, most of the Champions are from various Earths and the enemies do consider Earth a valuable target. [[spoiler:Target demographic, that is. After this universe's Earth was liberated from [[Music/NinjaSexParty a thousand-year spell]] a few years before the story, alien companies found it a very lucrative market, so [=InterGal=] 7 stuffed their shows with humans and human-passing aliens and covered topics that Earth people could relate to.]]
* FamedInStory: [[spoiler:The Champions, since their ordeals are broadcast to countless aliens. The Overseers, too; Jamie, Bolton, and Xander were once Champions, Kip is a TV host cast AsHimself and Rox is also an established [=InterGal=] personality., Blaze is a notorious pirate, and PAL was also shown in the previous seasons. The only Overseer this doesn't apply to is Price, which hints at the Round 5 revelation that his round really ''was'' supposed to be unrelated to ''Airlocked!'' and was changed on the fly.]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: Deliberately averted by the regain system: players of upcoming victims and culprits can and do submit threads, and are subsequently awarded items that their characters won't live to see. Some players have also noticed that a culprit or victim will get an especially good regain on Thursday that they won't live to see, though this is a far from perfect method.

* PlentyOfBlondes: Three [=NPCs=] are blonde women.

* RecurringElement: Each round has a group of strangers kidnapped, imprisoned, and assigned Champion titles, while under the watch of two contrasting [=NPCs=] who themselves report to fickle, unfathomable masterminds. ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' characters who regain plush chocobos, previous rounds' characters being terrified to see their canonmates in the current round, and silly references to fandom trends are all also constants.

* RunningGag: People from SF canons mistaking [[spoiler:Seth's deadland form (once he gets the mannequin body)]] for a robot because that's what they're used to. Finn, Angel, and Akande all have.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: [[spoiler:''Airlocked!'', the ImmoralRealityShow they're on,]] has half a billion viewers and is the most popular show around... in ''seven galaxies'', all highly populated. This is fixed in later rounds with the numbers left vague.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Meta example. According to the mods, the players [[spoilers:overshot the requirements for a GoldenEnding by a wide margin]].

* AllOrNothing: Win the trials or face a mass execution. As well, any deaths in Rounds 1-4 stick after the round is over; 5, the last one, determines if the players get a GoldenEnding for the entire series.

* BadassInDistress: Most of the Champions can ''normally'' take care of themselves, but they still get kidnapped 1-3 times each by the network.

* BodyHorror: The PIP devices are fused onto the Champions' bodies and rooted throughout. [[spoiler:#3 tries to remove hers, and she's fried to death with her PIP cables exposed.]]

* DeadlyGame: Though this time it's just called an experiment, it still fits the idea of a game.

* FamedInStory: [[spoiler:The Champions, since their ordeals are broadcast to countless aliens. The Overseers, too; Jamie, Bolton, and Xander were once Champions, Kip is a TV host cast AsHimself, and Blaze is a notorious pirate. The only Overseers this doesn't apply to are Price and Rox, and the latter's still an established [=InterGal=] personality.]]

* FutureFoodIsArtificial: The space food and military food all over the stations qualify. Averted by Round 2's real food.

* {{Holodeck}}: The setting of Round 1, the Round 1 mock trial, and every test drive so far has one so advanced that the Champions can program in locations they know from memory.

* IndestructibleEdible: Outside of mealtime, the only food in the kitchen is army rations.

* LimitedWardrobe: Champions wake with only their SpaceClothes (and, in Round 2, a set of formalwear), 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.

* MetaTwist: Unlike other mystery-style murdergames, ''Airlocked'' doesn't tend to have traditional mastermind trials. Round 1 had the Final Examination instead, where one NPC acted as a "mastermind" but only quizzed the characters on what they'd discovered and the twist at the end of the round. Rounds 2 and 3 ''did'' have mastermind trials, but they still weren't quite as expected by veterans, [[spoiler:having the evidence show that the masterminds were backstabbed by the BigBad and largely just working much like the Examination; of these, only the R3 game-runner dies]]. Round 4 ''couldn't'' have a traditional final trial due to its premise as [[spoiler:a round where most of what would have been the survivor pool died trying to rebel and they never even made it to the end]].

* RousseauWasRight: A theme across rounds is that people are inherently good, no matter how terrible they've been either to you or to people back home. Every single NPC so far save for the BiggerBad and Rox has had a redemption arc showing that they'd been played and learning to grow attached to the Champions, and even unsympathetic culprits get their day.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: [[spoiler:''Airlocked!'', the ImmoralRealityShow they're on,]] has half a billion viewers and is the most popular show around... in ''seven galaxies'', all highly populated. This is fixed in later rounds with the number left vague.

** The story itself heavily borrows elements from ''VisualNovel/NewDanganronpaV3''. However, it's played in far less of a FanHater way, [[spoiler:as fans are led to believe that the murder show is fictional and the fandom is portrayed lovingly instead of with revulsion]].

Airlocked is a five-season series-- [[LateArrivalSpoiler er]], five-part murdergame in the same weekly format of ''Roleplay/{{Trustfell}}'' or ''Roleplay/DanganRoleplay'', but with an extraterrestrial twist. This one is set in space!

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 ran from October 13th through November 24th.

* AllOrNothing: Win the trials or face a mass execution. As well, any deaths in Rounds 1-3 and likely 4 will stick after the round is over; 5, the last one, determines if the players get a GoldenEnding for the entire series.

* ArtificialGravity: Except for a single zero-g room on the station, this is enforced.

* EarthIsTheCentreOfTheUniverse: Zig-zagged. None of the action so far has taken place on Earth, although Deadland usually takes an Earthlike form and spends two seasons and most of a third mimicking a specific Earth place. However, most of the Champions are from various Earths and the enemies do consider Earth a valuable target. [[spoiler:Target demographic, that is. After this universe's Earth was liberated from [[Music/NinjaSexParty a thousand-year spell]] a few years before the story, alien companies found it a very lucrative market, so [=InterGal=]] 7 stuffed their shows with humans and human-passing aliens and covered topics that Earth people could relate to.]]
* FamedInStory: [[spoiler:The Champions, since their ordeals are broadcast to countless aliens. The Overseers, too; Jamie and Bolton were once Champions, Kip is a TV host cast AsHimself, and Blaze is a notorious pirate.]]

* RousseauWasRight: A theme across rounds is that people are inherently good, no matter how terrible they've been either to you or to people back home. Every single NPC so far save for the BiggerBad has had a redemption arc showing that they'd been played and learning to grow attached to the Champions, and even unsympathetic culprits get their day.

** The story itself heavily borrows elements from ''VisualNovel/NewDanganronpaV3'', whether they were intentional or not. However, it's played in far less of a FanHater way, [[spoiler:as fans are led to believe that the murder show is fictional and the fandom is portrayed lovingly instead of with revulsion]].

* BackForTheFinale: Round 5 is set to be composed of returning survivors.
** BackForTheDead: ...most of whom will inevitably die over the course of the round.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The survivor groups meet up with each other randomly in public after weeks of fruitless searching. Twice. This is constantly lampshaded and the Champions start to wonder if their [=PIPs=] attract one another. It's slightly justified in the second instance, though, as the Round 3 group had been deliberately searching for the civilian who was (unbeknownst to them) harbouring the other survivors.

** The story itself heavily borrows elements from [[spoiler: VisualNovel/NewDanganronpaV3]] whether they were intentional or not.

** The story itself heavily borrows elements from [[spoiler: NewDanganronpaV3]] whether they were intentional or not.