History Roleplay / DoubtAcademy

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: As of the announced roster size for [=DA5=], Doubt Academy will have a total of '''237''' player characters. This doesn't count a handful of major [=NPCs=], or any heavily developed characters mentioned in the backstories of some students.

!!''Doubt Academy Parelthon'' also includes examples of:

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* ParanoiaFuel: [[spoiler: The culprit from the first case is unknown, and now only has to get away with murder ''one'' more time instead of two.]]

* ParanoiaFuel: [[spoiler: The culprit from the first case is unknown, and now only has to get away with murder ''one'' more time instead of two.]]

* RealityEnsues: During the first trial, a bunch of panicked kids were thrown into a courtroom and...wait, this sounds familiar. [[spoiler: It had the exact same outcome, too.]]

* RealityEnsues: During the first trial, a bunch of panicked kids were thrown into a courtroom and told to figure out an (admittedly difficult) case. They work hard to investigate, and all bravely present their theories...[[spoiler: and the entire thing devolves into total chaos by the end]].

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** [[spoiler: Emiko Shiromura was the first such death in Rot, having her head cut off by a descending elevator for no reason other than she came across the murderer about to kill Takumi and attempted to intervene. The trend of horrific deaths only got worse from that point on.]]

** Fast forward many, ''many'' chapters later. [[spoiler:The person who was executed as a result of the mistrial? Turns out he's the Mastermind. Yuuto is technically responsible not just for Ayako's death, but that of every other character that died in ''Alpha'' and ''Epsilon''.]]

** Chapter 7 of both games share similarities with Chapter 7 of ''Epsilon'', although the parallels run deepest with ''Rot''. [[spoiler:One member of an intimate trio ends up dead (the definition of "intimate" varies). In ''Epsilon'' it's Kikuyo + Kosuke + Shun, in ''Rot'' it's Kenshin + Iori + Manolo, and in ''Rubble'' it's Mayumi + Kaito + Nao. All murders involve the culprit trying to shift the blame to another killer who evaded execution.]]

*** Another similarity that is only in ''Rubble'' is that [[spoiler:the murder victim was not actually supposed to die, but she was accidentally poisoned by the actions of another female classmate, which ultimately led to her death.]] Additionally, [[spoiler:the two survivors make it to the final trial, but one of them ends up marked for an endgame execution]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* PoorCommunicationKills: Frequently.

** In extreme cases, the Mastermind could be rerolled if their player has to drop out, but if and ''only'' if absolutely no hints about them have been dropped; if that's already happened, they'll keep their role and the [=GMs=] will write for them during endgame.

** Sometimes, mistrials are intentionally invoked by the students if they can't find a clear suspect in their current trial. If there is still a confirmed or suspected murderer among them, there might be a push to execute that person as a scapegoat so that at the very least they can remove one threat to their safety. ''Black'' managed to pull this off twice.

** Surnames are the most common aversions, sometimes even within the same round: Abe (Kahori and Hirashi); Fujiwara (Shizuka, Wakana, and Naohiro); Hasegawa (Yamato and Yumiko); Itou/Ito [[labelnote:note]]While Romanized differently, the same kanji is used for both characters[[/labelnote]] (Ayako and Minako); Sato (Hisoka and Arisa); Shinobu (Katsuo and Jun); Shiomiya ([[spoiler:Machiko a.k.a [[OneNameOnly Saori]]]] and Shinji); Smith (Emilia and Nicanor); Takahashi (Etsuo a.k.a. King and Hideki a.k.a. Chris Peril); Takeda (Kiyoshi and Yoshiko); Watanabe (Misaki (first game) and Noboru).

*** The real name of a character in ''Rubble'' is revealed to be [[spoiler:Haruna Himura, a.k.a. FATE STRIFERBRINGER]]; they share the same first name as [[spoiler:Haruna Kita]] in ''Rot'.

*** ''Rubble'': Chiyoko Ishihara and Hiyoko Niwatori. [[spoiler:Hiyoko is the prime suspect in Chiyoko's murder, but it's not made 100% clear if she did or didn't do it, as the class mistrials through a suicide vote and subsequent random execution; she's later executed for a different murder in part because of this lingering suspicion, and while Monobear refuses to confirm or deny it, she confesses to Nao over the radio that she did indeed kill Chiyoko.]]

** If a player is leaving the game entirely, their character will be killed off, usually outside of the typical murder-execution pattern. This can have profound effects on the remaining characters, changing their motivations in the process.

* TheScapegoat: Some of the falsely accused wind up as this.

** TranslationPunctuation: When someone does speak in a different language, it's frequently noted with brackets. The type of brackets depends on the writer and, in some cases, which foreign language the character is using.

* [[spoiler:BrainUploading / BodyBackupDrive]]: [[spoiler: The technology seen in [=DA2=] shows up in a more refined form in [=DA3=]; the anklets act much like the Augmentation Chips from the previous game, recording the same information about personality, appearance, and memories, and saving it into Elysium. In the event that someone with an anklet dies, this data can then be inserted into a recreated human body to effectively revive that person…or into a robot to give them a long life in a body that won't easily be destroyed.]]
** During endgame, [[spoiler: Yuuto showcases the latter option and offers the same choice to the rest of the students, although no one even considers it. Several survivors ''do'' opt to clone human bodies for the dead kids, however, and after three months of work all of the dead students are cloned, with their data implanted into their new bodies.]]

** [[spoiler:However, if the past has been any indication, these characters are doomed to be killed at the end of the prologue for pissing off Monobear, helping show that he's very serious about his threats towards the student. It's been explained that this happens to avoid the chance of metagaming, as the [=GMs=] know all the important info of both games, including murderer and mastermind identities. It also helps to give those who die in the first few weeks another person to interact with in the deadblogs.]]

*** ''Rubble'': Chiyoko Ishihara and Hiyoko Niwatori. [[spoiler:Hiyoko is the prime suspect in Chiyoko's murder, but it's not made 100% clear if she did or didn't do it, as the class mistrials through a suicide vote and subsequent random execution. A few trials later, Hiyoko is wrongfully executed for a different death in part because of lingering suspicion (and in part because she ''was'' an accomplice for the later murder), and Monobear refuses to confirm or deny if she killed Chiyoko in order to further taunt everyone.]]

* HistoryRepeats: The fifth cases of both games turn out to be similar to the fifth cases of [=DA3=], especially to ''Omega'': All games had a double murder in the fifth chapter. In regards to ''Omega'', [[spoiler:one of the dead students murdered the other one, and though various interactions (which in ''Omega'' and ''Rot'' involve calling on the tiebreaker vote), the class ends up voting for the deceased culprit]]. Unfortunately for the students of [=DA4=], this is where the similarities end. [[spoiler:While ''Omega's'' Monobear grudgingly allows this to slide and settles for desecrating the dead culprit's corpse instead of executing anybody, in ''Rot'' and ''Rubble'' he berates everyone for trying to use that loophole and randomly selects one student each to be punished, injuring both of them.]]
* HistoryRepeats: Chapter 7 of both games share similarities with Chapter 7 of ''Epsilon'', although the parallels run deepest with ''Rot''. [[spoiler:One member of an intimate trio ends up dead (the definition of "intimate" varies). In ''Epsilon'' it's Kikuyo + Kosuke + Shun, in ''Rot'' it's Kenshin + Iori + Manolo, and in ''Rubble'' it's Mayumi + Kaito + Nao. All murders involve the culprit trying to shift the blame to another killer who evaded execution.]]
** In regards to ''Rot'', [[spoiler:the trio involves two mild-mannered characters and one emotional, hotheaded person. One of the mild characters commits a murder, and the body is further mutilated after death in order to throw people off. The class is able to determine who the killer of this case is through a hearing test, as someone involved with the crime suffers ear damage from firing a gun. After the killer is executed, their remains are thrown right into the hands of the more emotional character.]]
** Another similarity that's only in ''Rubble'' is that [[spoiler:the murder victim was not actually supposed to die, but she was accidentally poisoned by the actions of another female classmate, which ultimately led to her death.]]
* ObviousRulePatch: Compared to previous games, Monobear is not nearly as lenient about students trying to take away the joy of execution from him by voting for a dead person, even when they're technically correct about that person being a culprit. He has claimed (and even demonstrated) that he'll run the randomizer if someone directly causes their own death [[labelnote:Note]]In ''Black'', [[spoiler:Yamato]] was considered to be at fault for his death and thus there was no execution for the fourth case. In ''Epsilon'', Monobear claimed that voting for [[spoiler:Eva or Aome]] in the ninth case would have let them go without an execution.[[/labelnote]], or if there are multiple culprits and the class votes a dead one instead of a living one. [[labelnote:Note]]In ''Omega'', the late [[spoiler:Akira]] had been the murderer of [[spoiler:Shinji]], and when the ''tiebreaker'' managed to tie Monobear just gave up, pointed out that the combined total put [[spoiler:Akira]] in the majority, and decided the class was correct.[[/labelnote]]
* WhamEpisode: Through both the [=GMs'=] plans and the players' coincidentally similar actions, the fifth cases in both games end up following almost the exact same story, and what a story it is. Threatened by a blackout that puts everyone in danger, [[spoiler:one student (Hirashi and Yoshiko) attacks and kills another (Remiel and Naohiro), but is then murdered themselves by a third party that apparently stumbled on the scene. In the trials, the top suspects (Cerys and Sasaki) give confessions, but their friends (Iori and Airi) give such passionate defenses that they manage to get more people to vote for the deceased culprits. It absolutely infuriates Monobear that they'd try to deny him his executions, and he runs the randomizer, selecting the friends of those defenders (Manolo and Chisato). They're dragged off to punishments that leave both permanently injured (amputated hands and lost voice), and their classmates are left to give them urgent medical care.]]

* MiscarriageOfJustice: The [[spoiler:second]] trial becomes one, as the class votes that the victim committed suicide, but it turns out that she was murdered. [[spoiler:Malachi]] is then randomly selected to be executed.

* SacrificialLion: The death of [[spoiler: Yoshiki]] in Chapter 1 is definitely a case of this. The character in question was [[spoiler: suspicious in his actions and reactions to horrifying things, and seemed to generally be a good candidate for a murderer or even mastermind (which, admittedly, he still can end up being). He ends up a victim - the first one!]]

* [[spoiler:DeadPersonConversation]]: At the beginning of the fourth chapters in both games, [[spoiler:a few characters discover that they can contact Monomi and the dead students through the radio. How and why is not publicly known, and neither is the nature of the afterlife, but slowly the information about the radio begins spreading throughout the classes]]

** [[spoiler:However, if these past games are any indication, these characters are doomed to be killed at the end of the prologue for pissing off Monobear, helping show that he's very serious about his threats towards the student. It's been explained that this happens to avoid the chance of metagaming, as the [=GMs=] know all the important info of both games, including murderer and mastermind identities. It also helps to give those who die in the first few weeks another person to interact with in the deadblogs.]]

* HistoryRepeats: The fifth cases of both game turn out to be very similar to the fifth cases of [=DA3=], especially to ''Omega'': All games involved a double murder. In regards to ''Omega'', [[spoiler:one of the dead students murdered the other one, and though various interactions (which in ''Omega'' and ''Rot'' involve calling on the tiebreaker vote), the class ends up voting for the deceased culprit]]. Unfortunately for the students of [=DA4=], this is where the similarities end. [[spoiler:While ''Omega's'' Monobear grudgingly allows this to slide and settles for desecrating the dead culprit's corpse instead of executing anybody, in ''Rot'' and ''Rubble'' he berates everyone for trying to use that loophole and randomly selects one student each to be punished, injuring both of them.]]

* WhamEpisode: Through both the [=GMs'=] plans and the players' coincidentally similar actions, the fifth cases in both games end up following almost the exact same story, and what a story it is. Threatened by a blackout that puts everyone in danger, [[spoiler:one student (Hirashi and Yoshiko) attacks and kills another (Remiel and Naohiro), but is then murdered themselves by a third party that presumably stumbled on the scene. In the trials, the top suspects (Cerys and Sasaki) give confessions, but their friends (Iori and Airi) give such a passionate defense that they manage to get more people to vote for the deceased culprit. It absolutely infuriates Monobear that they'd try to deny him his executions, and he runs the randomizer, selecting the friends of those defenders (Manolo and Chisato). They're dragged off to punishments that horribly maim both of them and then throw them in immediate danger that their classmates have to rescue them from (bleeding out and lost in the woods respectively).]]

* ObviousRulePatch: Compared to previous games, Monobear is not nearly as lenient about students trying to take away the joy of execution from him by voting for a dead person, even when they're technically correct about that person being a culprit. He has claimed (and even demonstrated) that he'll run the randomizer if someone directly causes their own death [[labelnote:Note]]In ''Black'', Yamato was considered to be at fault and thus there was no execution. In ''Epsilon'', Monobear claimed that voting for Eva or Aome in the ninth case would have let them go without an execution.[[/labelnote]], or if there are multiple culprits and the class votes a dead one instead of a living one. [[labelnote:Note]]In ''Omega'', the late Akira had been the murderer of Shinji, and when the ''tiebreaker'' managed to tie Monobear just gave up, pointed out that the combined total put Akira in the majority, and decided the class was correct.[[/labelnote]]

*** ''Alpha'': Yuu Sagara and Yuuto Ikeda. [[spoiler:They are the first two to be executed.]]

* HistoryRepeats: The victim in the second case is played by the same person who played [[spoiler:Emiko in ''Alpha'']]. Both of them died in the chapter immediately after someone dear to them was executed. The biggest parallel comes from the trial, however: [[spoiler:People begin to wonder if P.K. hung herself, the same way people wondered if Emiko did. With no certain suspect, a majority of the class votes for P.K. herself, just as they did for Emiko – and this turns out to be incorrect, resulting in a ''randomized selection'' as to which innocent person will be punished for their mistake. Both characters who are selected (Nanoka in ''Alpha'' and Malachi/Shigeru in ''Rot'') are thrown into an apparent execution that directly interacts with one of the areas in the game, but the scene ends with them meeting UncertainDoom. Unfortunately, the similarities stop here: Nanoka is found alive but with severe injuries, but all that can be found of Shigeru is a massive blood stain with some gore and fabric mixed in.]]

* {GMPC}: From the second round onwards, the [=GMs=] of each game have one character in the opposite game, in order to interact with the other characters. In [=DA2=] this was Gwendolyn Dominatus and Takahiro Hirano, in [=DA3=] it was Saki Shimizu and Eikichi Baker, and in [=DA4=] it was twins Brynja Sindrisdóttir and Bambi Sindrisson.
** [[spoiler:However, these characters are doomed to be killed at the end of the prologue for pissing off Monobear, helping show that he's very serious about his threats towards the student. It's been explained that this happens to avoid the chance of metagaming, as the [=GMs=] know all the important info of both games, including murderer and mastermind identities. It also helps to give those who die in the first few weeks another person to interact with in the deadblogs.]]

* AuthorAvatar: Gwendolyn from Black was played by White's moderator, and Takahiro from White was played by Black's moderator. [[spoiler:So, as a bit of self-deprecation, they're the first to be killed off: in their respective games, both Gwendolyn and Takahiro stand up to Monobear and essentially tell Monobear where to shove it, so Monobear kills them out of rage.]]

* AuthorAvatar: Saki from Alpha is played by Omega's moderator, and Eikichi from Omega is played by Alpha's moderator. [[spoiler:So, as a bit of self-deprecation, they're the first to be killed off: in their respective games, both Saki and Eikichi stand up to Monobear and essentially tell Monobear where to shove it, so Monobear kills them out of rage.]]