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* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: Shuichi is caught lying about the cause of death in his autopsy, although he tries to pass it off as an amateur mistake.
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* OnceDoneNeverFogotten: Leon is caught getting romantic with a mop while practicing his seduction techniques, which Natsumi proves to always be quick to remind him of.

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* OnceDoneNeverFogotten: OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Leon is caught getting romantic with a mop while practicing his seduction techniques, which Natsumi proves to always be quick to remind him of.

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* ItAmusedMe: While Byakuya did have a motive to set up Chihiro's death, he decides to complicate the mystery by moving Chihiro's body into Hagakure's death trap for his own amusement. He also lets the trial go on despite knowing the full truth behind the case.
* NeverLiveItDown: Leon is caught getting romantic with a mop.

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* ItAmusedMe: While Byakuya did have a motive reason to set up Chihiro's death, he decides to complicate the mystery by moving Chihiro's body into Hagakure's death trap for his own amusement. He also lets the trial go on despite knowing the full truth behind the case.
* NeverLiveItDown: OnceDoneNeverFogotten: Leon is caught getting romantic with a mop.mop while practicing his seduction techniques, which Natsumi proves to always be quick to remind him of.



* GoodBadBugs: Mahiru makes use of an exploit which allows her to cast spells that she doesn't know by recording another player casting them.

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* GoodBadBugs: An in-universe example. Mahiru makes use of an exploit which allows her to cast spells that she doesn't know by recording another player casting them.



* HesJustHiding: Teruteru desperately insists that Chisa is still alive somewhere, even after Hiyoko confesses to the murder.



* ImplausibleDeniability: Teruteru continues to refuse to believe that the game is real up until the very end of the trial, even deciding not to vote for a culprit.

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* ImplausibleDeniability: Teruteru continues to refuse to believe that the game is real up or that Chisa is really dead until the very end of the trial, even deciding not to vote for a culprit.
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* NeverLiveItDown: Leon is caught getting romantic with a mop.










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Sixteen Ultimate Students awaken in the halls of a strange school known as the Academy for Gifted Juveniles, only to find themselves tossed into a twisted game of Hope and Despair.

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An Ibuki from another World who fell into Despair is brought back to life and proceeds to transform the participants of a Killing Game into clones of herself. It isn't long before one of the new Ibukis is found hanging in the Music Venue. Not only must they find out who the killer is, but the participants now must solve the mystery of who the victim among them even is. This trial featured several sequels and now has its own page at Roleplay/ClassTrialsET5

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An Ibuki from another World who fell into Despair is brought back to life and proceeds to transform the participants of a Killing Game into clones of herself. It isn't long before one of the new Ibukis is found hanging in the Music Venue. Not only must they find out who the killer is, but the participants now must solve the mystery of who the victim among them even is. is.

This trial featured several sequels and now has its own page at Roleplay/ClassTrialsET5
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* ThisIsUnforgiveable: Although most of the group forgives Mukuro, Hina's best friend, Sakura, pointedly refuses to.

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* ThisIsUnforgiveable: ThisIsUnforgivable: Although most of the group forgives Mukuro, Hina's best friend, Sakura, pointedly refuses to.

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* TurnTheOtherCheek: After confessing, Mondo requests to the group that they forgive Mukuro, feeling that she deserves to be given a chance to be everybody's friends.

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* RejectedApology: Leon refuses to forgive Sayaka after she confesses that she lured him out with the intent to kill him and then couldn't go through with it.
* ThisIsUnforgiveable: Although most of the group forgives Mukuro, Hina's best friend, Sakura, pointedly refuses to.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: After confessing, Mondo requests to the group that they forgive Mukuro, feeling that she deserves to be given a chance to be everybody's friends.friend.



* AbhorrentAdmirer: Natsumi picks one up in Leon, who obviously isn't ugly but nevertheless annoys her with his advances.



* SanitySlippage: The hallucinations mess with Chiaki's grasp on reality, driving her to commit murder.

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* SanitySlippage: CannotTellFictionFromReality: The hallucinations mess with shatter Chiaki's grasp on reality, leaving her convinced that the world is just a videogame.
* DrivenToMadness: Chiaki
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite his role in Chihiro's suicide, Byakuya is still disgusted by Monokuma
driving Chiaki insane.
* MaskOfSanity: Chiaki manages to feign sanity until being forced to confess.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In
her delusional state, Chiaki was aiming to commit murder.cause a mass execution in hopes of restarting the supposed game and bringing back their dead friends.

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* DespairEventHorizon: Mukuro passes it after finding Junko's body
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Mukuro starts off as this after her true identity is revealed prior to the trial.
* MaskOfSanity: Nagito maintains one throughout the trial, never quite letting his full Hope obsession be exposed.
* MurderByMistake: Mondo meant to kill Mukuro, only to unwittingly kill Hina in a struggle when she came upon him with a murder weapon.
* NotHisSled: Junko's body is found prior to the first trial, implying a new Mastermind.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: After confessing, Mondo requests to the group that they forgive Mukuro, feeling that she deserves to be given a chance to be everybody's friends.




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* DeathTrap: Hagakure sets one up to try and kill Natsumi, although Byakuya ends up using it on Chihiro's corpse.
* DrivenToSuicide: Chihiro
* FailedASpotCheck: Hagakure unwittingly allows Byakuya to see him setting up his fire trap, allowing Byakuya to make use of it.
* ItAmusedMe: While Byakuya did have a motive to set up Chihiro's death, he decides to complicate the mystery by moving Chihiro's body into Hagakure's death trap for his own amusement. He also lets the trial go on despite knowing the full truth behind the case.


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* NoSympathyForGrudgeHolders: Despite his insistence that Chihiro was an accomplice to the mastermind and thus a threat, nobody is willing to forgive Byakuya for manipulating him into committing suicide.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Upon revealing the truth behind Chihiro's actions, Byakuya tells the others to decide whether they want him to share the Secret that he was blackmailing Chihiro over or let Chihiro keep his secret as he'd wished. They choose to be told the truth.

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* AssholeVictim: Sayaka proves to be one, having tried to murder Natsumi in a plot unrelated to Mukuro or Junko's.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Mukuro tortures Peko to the brink of death on Junko's orders.
* HijackedByGanon: After her role in Peko's torture is revealed, Junko replaces Monokuma as the Trial's Host.
* KarmaHoudini: Mukuro and Junko face no repercussions for what they did to Peko.
* MercyKill: Fuyuhiko performs one for Peko after finding her tortured and mutilated body.



* PlotIrrelevantVillain: Sayaka's attempt to murder Natsumi proves to be very disconnected from the grander case involving Peko's torture and murder.



* TelevisedTorture: Mukuro films Peko's torture and it is ultimately played for the class.
* TogetherInDeath: Fuyuhiko and Natsumi.



Imprisoned within an MMORPG and fighting to escape, the Players are recovering from a long day of adventuring at a local village inn when Shuichi Saihara is suddenly killed in an explosion.

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Imprisoned within an MMORPG and fighting to escape, escape before the game's Free Trial period comes to an end, the Players are recovering from a long day of adventuring at in a local village inn when Shuichi Saihara is suddenly killed in an explosion.


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* DespairEventHorizon: Mahiru's motive for committing murder, having realized that their progress was too slow to have any chance of reaching the end.
* GoodBadBugs: Mahiru makes use of an exploit which allows her to cast spells that she doesn't know by recording another player casting them.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: Dying in the game world causes one to die in the real world.
* RPGMechanicsVerse: The gimmick of the trial.
* SingleAttemptGame: As to be expected of a game designed by Monokuma.
* SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity: Prior to the trial, Monokuma has everybody's Health and Mana restored to full in order to prevent the ManaMeter from pointing at a culprit


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* UnwinnableByDesign: After Mahiru is found guilty, Monokuma admits that there was a level cap in play that would've made completing the game impossible.
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* ForceField: Shuichi uses one to temporarily hide the body in the airport baggage.

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* ForceField: Shuichi uses one to temporarily hide the body in the airport baggage.airport's baggage carousel.

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* BatterUp: Fuyuhiko's murder weapon.
* CastFromStamina: Shuichi ends up being implicated by his exhaustion after secretly using so many of his powers.



* ForceField: Shuichi uses one to temporarily hide the body in the airport baggage.
* GadgeteerGenius: Students who inherited the Third Hero's "Powers" become this, lacking any psychic abilities but becoming gifted mechanics and inventors.
* MeteorSummoningAttack: One of the abilities hypothesized as a potential murder method was one.



* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: Sonia follows in Shuichi's footsteps with the same plea

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* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: Sonia follows in Shuichi's footsteps with the same pleaplea.



* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The four players decide to go along with Sonia's request fit these roles nicely, with Aoi being the optimistic and trusting Sanguine, Koichi being the brash and cynical Choleric, Nagito being the mood-swinging loner Melancholic, and Korekiyo being the calm and logical Phlegmatic
* InUniverseCatharsis: Keebo admits that accidentally shooting Nagito with a block of ice was very cathartic.



* AssholeVictim: Nagito turns out to be an accomplice to Kokichi's murder



* DiscOneFinalBoss: An in-universe example. Sakura turns out to be the Mastermind, but ends up being executed after the very first trial.
* FakeMemories: Sakura reveals that the entire cast possesses fake personalities as a callback to VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony.
* NotHimself: Sakura




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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After successfully killing Kokichi, Sakura murders Nagito to silence him.

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* ContinuityNod: Despite the ending of V3 being considered CanonDiscontinuity on the subreddit, Himiko still notes her displeasure with Sakura's claim that they are all fictional personas with FakeMemories
--> '''Himiko''': Nyeeh... I think I've heard this twist before and I really didn't like it the first time!

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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Monokuma decides to execute Ryoma's cat as well as Ryoma.

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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: In addition to having temporarily turned the pets into abominations, Monokuma decides to execute Ryoma's cat as well as Ryoma.Ryoma.
* BigDamnHeroes: After spending much of the trial OutOfFocus, Kirumi received a new player who almost immediately identified the method of Gundham's murder for everybody.
* BodyHorror: Monokuma transforms various pets into abominations.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In addition to their mutations, the pets are given a strand of Despair Disease that effectively turns them into living weapons.
* ChestBurster: Gundham's death turns out to have been caused by Toko's Stinkbug bursting out of his stomach.
* ForceFeeding: Ryoma feeds Toko's stinkbug to an unconscious Gundham.
* ImprobablyFemaleCast: With 11 female characters and only 5 men, Kokichi spends the trial accusing women of being the killer out of sheer probability.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Ryoma's cat turns out to be his, as Monokuma's abuse of it is enough to drive him to commit murder.
* RightHandCat: Kokichi tries to call dibs on Ryoma's cat prior to execution to fulfill this trope.

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* AccidentalMurder: Hiyoko turns out to have accidently caused Chisa's death by getting her struck by a cow in the barn.




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* HesJustHiding: Teruteru desperately insists that Chisa is still alive somewhere, even after Hiyoko confesses to the murder.
* HonorBeforeReason: Fuyuhiko attacks Monokuma in an attempt to save Hiyoko from execution.
* ImplausibleDeniability: Teruteru continues to refuse to believe that the game is real up until the very end of the trial, even deciding not to vote for a culprit.
* LeftHanging: The trial ends with Hiyoko having yet to be executed and Fuyuhiko having attacked Monokuma.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: The first victim winds up being the cast's teacher, Chisa Yukizome
* SacrificialLion: Chisa acts as one, participating in Pre-Trial threads with her students before being announced as the victim.


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* DividedWeFall: The motive pits the three classes against eachother to some extent, with the killer's classmates exempt from execution.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: The use of accomplices was forbidden in the rules to prevent students from be able to directly conspire with their classmates for a murder.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Despite being safe from execution and having a chance to restore their classmates to life, two of Hina's fellow Danganronpa 1 survivors still vote for her guilt.

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* OrderedToDie: Byakuya blackmails Chihiro into committing suicide to cover up a dark secret.




* SanitySlippage: The hallucinations mess with Chiaki's grasp on reality, driving her to commit murder.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ibuki leads an effort to tie the vote, unwittingly dooming both Kuzuryuu siblings to die.
* TakeAThirdOption: When Monokuma provides an opportunity for the class to vote for only one blackened to die, Ibuki leads an effort to tie the vote.



* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The Danganronpa cast find themselves in an MMORPG setting of Monokuma's design.



* DarkSecret: Shuichi discovers one that convinces him that a mass execution is required, although he decides against sharing what it is.
* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: Shuichi tries to convince the class to vote incorrectly on purpose, although he isn't able to get quite enough votes.
* SureWhyNot: Nagito's immediate response to Shuichi's plea to throw the trial.




* DarkSecret: Sonia claims to have learned of the reason behind Shuichi's crime and decided that he was right all along about the need for the Killing Game to end with a mass execution. Like Shuichi, she refuses to share this secret though.
* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: Sonia follows in Shuichi's footsteps with the same plea
* TheExtremistWasRight: Sonia claims that the horrible truth that Shuichi discovered was indeed worth killing everybody over.



* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Monokuma decides to execute Ryoma's cat as well as Ryoma.




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* BackFromTheDead: Monokuma offers a chance to resurrect the fallen friends of whichever survivor commits murder.
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* ContinuityReboots: Acts as one for the first game, as none of the players know of any other Class Trials.

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* ContinuityReboots: ContinuityReboot: Acts as one for the first game, as none of the players know of any other Class Trials.



* ContinuityReboots: Acts as one for the second game, featuring the entire cast in a killing game without any knowledge of the games.

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* ContinuityReboots: ContinuityReboot: Acts as one for the second game, featuring the entire cast in a killing game without any knowledge of the games.



* ContinuityReboots: Acts as one for the third game, as none of the players know of any other Class Trials.

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* ContinuityReboots: ContinuityReboot: Acts as one for the third game, as none of the players know of any other Class Trials.

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This trial has received two sequels.

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Seventeen High School Students meet for the very first time in the halls of Hope's Peak Academy. They soon find themselves facing a deadly Killing Game, with the Ultimate Swimmer, Aoi Asahina, ending up as the very first victim after the students receive videos depicting their loved ones in trouble. This trial has received two sequels.



* ContinuityReboots: Acts as one for the first game, as none of the players know of any other Class Trials.



Chihiro Fujisaki is found dead after Monokuma threatens to reveal the darkest secrets of the survivors.



Hallucinations overtake the students of Hope's Peak Academy until Makoto Naegi's body is found dead in the suit of Justice Robo.




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Tensions flare on Jabberwock Island as obnoxious sounds are played every hour. An otherwise petty Monokuma motive soon gives way to a shockingly brutal case when Peko and Sayaka are found murdered.




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Imprisoned within an MMORPG and fighting to escape, the Players are recovering from a long day of adventuring at a local village inn when Shuichi Saihara is suddenly killed in an explosion.



This trial has received a sequel.

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While imprisoned on Jabberwock Island, the participants of this latest Killing Game find themselves gaining new Psychic Abilities passed on from Four Great Heroes. The newly empowered students are only just discovering their new powers when Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu is found murdered. This trial has received a sequel.



* WholePlotReference: The trial, and ensuing sequel, are clear references to Videogame/Earthbound



Having assigned her cult to paint the whole island blue, Angie Yonaga is found dead in the Diner.



This trial featured several sequels and now has its own page at Roleplay/ClassTrialsET5

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An Ibuki from another World who fell into Despair is brought back to life and proceeds to transform the participants of a Killing Game into clones of herself. It isn't long before one of the new Ibukis is found hanging in the Music Venue. Not only must they find out who the killer is, but the participants now must solve the mystery of who the victim among them even is. This trial featured several sequels and now has its own page at Roleplay/ClassTrialsET5


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Kokichi and Nagito are found dead in the halls of the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles.


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* RequiredPartyMember: The gimmick of this trial revolved around letting Participants choose another player's character for them.


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Monokuma summons the pets of the participants of his latest Killing Game, mutating them into abominations until Gundham Tanaka is found dead.


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The newly introduced students of the 77th Class attend a School trip with their teacher, until a fiend calling himself Monokuma forces them into a Killing Game. Despite trying to keep her students safe, their teacher Chisa Yukizome ends up being the victim.


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* ContinuityReboots: Acts as one for the second game, featuring the entire cast in a killing game without any knowledge of the games.


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The survivors of the three Killing Games find themselves gathered together for yet another Trial in the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles. With a one-week deadline to commit murder before they all time, the survivors try to avoid turning on each other until Makoto Naegi is suddenly murdered.


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* ContinuityReboots: Acts as one for the third game, as none of the players know of any other Class Trials.
* ScheduleSlip: Has been on hold since 2020.
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Tropes from the First Experiment Trial Season (Experimenta Trials 1-10) of the [[Roleplay/ClassTrials r/DanganRoleplay]] subreddit.

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!!Experimental Trial 1

This trial has received two sequels.

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!!Experimental Trial 4

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!!Class Trial 5

This trial featured several sequels and now has its own page at Roleplay/ClassTrialsET5

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