History Roleplay / MonoEscape

* TakeAThirdOption: Daiya, Nagito, and Mechamaru choose to go off on their own rather than join the Future Foundation or Free The Future. Santa tries to join them but is reminded that the Future Foundation needs a Botanist much more then they do.

* FireForgedFriends: Despite having wanted Hajime dead for his role in Fuyuhiko's death, Natsumi ultimately partners up with him for most of the game and the two part on peaceful terms.

* NotSoHarmless: While most of the Monokubs don't show it, Monodam and Monotaro show themselves to be deadly when Monodam slices an angry Kanon to pieces with enough speed to give Juzo pause an

* SitcomArchNemesis: Monosuke can't seem to stop bombarding Sato with petty jabs, earning her ire

* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: After being held captive since season 5, Chisa ends up as a casualty of the game

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Juzo begins to hold a serious grudge with Shuichi and Ruruka after Yukizome's death, barely being restrained from killing them.

A long-running Side-Game on [[Roleplay/ClassTrials r/DanganRoleplay]] which combines various mini-games with escape room sections and features an extensive evolving narrative. In a blending of the VisualNovel/ZeroEscape franchise and Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}, Monokuma abducts nine players and forces them to compete in various challenges and solve unique puzzles in order to escape.

A long-running Side-Game on [[Roleplay/ClassTrials r/DanganRoleplay]] which combines various mini-games with escape room sections and features an extensive evolving narrative. In a blending of the VisualNovel/ZeroEscape franchise and Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}, Monokuma abducts nine players and forces them to compete to escape.

* AnyoneCanDie: Unlike most projects on the site, characters do not resurrect for the next MonoEscape, leaving fewer and fewer Danganronpa characters still alive as the seasons have gone by.

* BigGood: Kyosuke Munakata acts as this for much of the series, being the most proactive force fighting against Ultimate Despair behind the scenes and leaving the Future Foundation to form a group dedicated to stopping the MonoEscape games known as Free The Future.

* DwindlingParty: Each game start off with nine or ten players and slowly kills off the cast, with some seasons killing off a player after each challenge.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: At Junko's behest, [[Literature/DanganronpaZero Yasuke Matsuda]] inflicted this on brainwashed members of Ultimate Despair to make them forget about their lives after getting involved with Hope's Peak Academy to prepare them to be contestants in the Escape Games. It gets subverted more in later seasons after his death as more and more participants are entered into the games with their memories intact.

* SequelHook: The fourth season ends on several. Including: Nagisa's abduction by the vengeful Yakuza, the appearance of AI Junko, the confirmation that there's a traitor in Future Foundation, Hiroko telling her Branch that she knows where the next [=MonoEscape=] will be held, Masaru declaring his intent to rescue Nagisa and assemble the Warriors of Hope, and Ryoko going on the run and being recruited by Hajime and Komaru for a mission to atone for their sins.

* SeriesFauxnale: Junko is erased, Tengan is arrested, Ultimate Despair collapse, and many potential MonoEscape captives are freed by Free The Future. The Warriors of Hope also successfully rescue Nagisa while most of the Mono Escape Survivors decide to retire from fighting Ultimate Despair. However, Chisa Yukizome is still missing and Monaca remains at large after forming a partnership with Ryoma Mitarai.

* DownerBeginning: The Season begins with a prologue where Byakuya, Ibuki, and Kaede investigate the site of the season's MonoEscape, identifying eight victims.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In the epilogue, the brainwashed Sato decides to do this with herself and Shuichi, editing the next season of MonoEscape to make herself look like the true mastermind and him look like her accomplice.

* FinalBoss: MiayaBot takes up this role as the final challenge pits the survivors in a fight against her.

A long-running Side-Game on [[Roleplay/ClassTrials r/DanganRoleplay]] which combines various mini-games with escape room sections and features an extensive evolving narrative. In a blending of the VisualNovel/ZeroEscape franchise and VisualNovel/Danganronpa, Monokuma abducts nine players and forces them to compete to escape.

** Kazuo Tengan acts as an willing traitor to his own organization, albeit one with his own agenda.

* HonorBeforeReason: Sakura spends much of the final challenge targeting the dead Taichi to remove him from the competition, leaving her unprepared with the alliance of Ibuki, Nagito, and Daiya quickly eliminate her once she's done.

* SadisticChoice: The game features many as it imitates the Decision Game from VideoGame/ZeroTimeDilemma.

* The BusCameBack: Ibuki, Nagito, and Chihiro all return from previous seasons as contestants. Hiroko also shows up after the game ends to recruit players into Free The Future.

* FakingTheAmnesia: Ibuki acts as though she believes her name to be Ayaka, even with Chihiro recognizing her. In the end, she turns out to still have her memories, having replaced Sayaka's bandmate Ayaka in the game to act as the Future Foundation's spy in the game.

* PreviousPlayerCameo: Teruteru, Haiji, and Toko show up as dead bodies being used in the games.

* TokenEvilPlayer: Monaca finds herself as a player after being betrayed by Tengan.

* BigGood: Kyosuke Munakata acts as this for much of the series, being the most proactive force fighting against Ultimate Despair behind the scenes.

* NoFourthWall: In the first two seasons, whenever a challenge requires players to use out of character information, Monokuma activates a Morphogenetic Field that allows the cast to break the fourth wall. This ability was phased out after season 2 as the games became more narrative focused.

** DualBossFight

* ArcVillain: Mukuro Ikusaba turns out to be the main antagonist of Season 3, having been planted in the game as a traitor with the goal of killing them all.

** Mukuro is also significantly more malevolent than usual.

** Generally, the contestants in the Escape game react to the first death with horror after realizing that their lives are truly in danger.
** Hiroko Hagakure, however, keeps this attitude up after three murder scenes, only abandoning it when Mukuro comes in, shoots Nagito in the leg, and abducts him after taunting them all
* AnyoneCanDie: And, unlike most projects on the site, characters do not resurrect for the next MonoEscape, leaving fewer and fewer Danganronpa characters still alive as the seasons have gone by.

* TheAtoner: Hajime, Komaru, and Ryoko all end up becoming this after escaping their games.
* AxeCrazy: Mukuro
* TheBadGuyWins: Monokuma comes out of the first two seasons with the tragic ending he wanted and without any sign of repercussion.
* BittersweetEnding: Season 3 ends as one as Mukuro is defeated and over half the cast is able to escape, but at the cost of Sayaka's life.
* BrattyHalfPint: Nagisa
* TheBusCameBack: The Epilogue for Season 4 brings back every surviving character to set up future plot lines and reveal how they've been doing.
* CallBack: In the second game, Hajime, Komaru, and Nagisa search a room that includes several references to the previous escape game, with traces of gunk hinted to be the exploded remains of six former contestants, a videotape showing off Makoto's death in the last game, and even Hiyoko's Kimono and Corpse being found.
* CrossOver: A Zero-Escape based game featuring the cast of Danganronpa.
* DeadlyGame: Every round ends with one eliminee.
* DeathFakedForYou: Five of the contestants who were eliminated throughout the second game awaken in a chamber after being seemingly executed in incinerators after losing their challenges. This doesn't last for long as the others end up sacrificing them to escape in the end.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Saying it's her duty to protect him, Peko tries her hardest to save Fuyuhiko from incineration. Her gambit fails.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Akane refuses to remain behind after losing her challenge and rushes through the door regardless. She's promptly killed by
** her bracelet. This ends up getting her killed quicker, as she would've been apart of the final challenge had she not violated the rules and stayed put.
** Likewise, Fuyuhiko refuses to abandon Peko and leaps back into the room with her rather than continue on without her.
** Kyoko uses her final moments to take photographs of the scene of her impending murder in order to help the others investigate it.

* DownerEnding:
** The first Escape Game ended on one. After a final game of Russian Roulette kills that kills off Hiyoko and Celeste, Ibuki discovers that the three of them had been free to leave after Aoi's HeroicSacrifice.
** The second game ultimately ends on this note too, as the three remaining contestants ultimately decide to save themselves by sacrificing the other five survivors.
* TheDragon: Monaca fills this role, having provided Junko with the resources to construct these games, hosting the fourth season in her absence and being one of the only members of her inner circle to remain alive.
* DrivenToSuicide: Knowing that Peko is about to be executed, Fuyuhiko throws himself into the chamber with her to share in her punishment.
* DwindlingParty:
** Each of Monokuma's challenges end with the loser being forced to remain behind.
** Season 4 mostly averts this by making it possible for challenges to end without anybody being eliminated. By the end though, they still suffer massive casualties
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony Maki]] makes an appearance before her game was even released running a Future Foundation orphanage that the Warriors of Hope, and Nagito, were sent to after escaping their games.

** This continues into the Second Game. Monokuma never states that the eliminated contestants were going to be killed if they lost. In the end, five of the eliminated contestants wake up in the final chamber and are used as part of Monokuma's final challenge.
** Monokuma also claims that, if nobody is murdered after a round of the Third Game's challenges, it's because the killer was the one who lost. As it turns out, the killer ended up faking their death after losing the first challenge.
%% * FaceDeathWithDignity: Most of the characters end up going out this way, as Monokuma tends to give them the opportunity to say farewells before their executions.
* FakingTheDead: After losing a challenge, Mukuro is forced to fake her death by dressing up Celeste as her and mutilating the body with a fire axe.
* FinalBoss:
** Mukuro ends up being one, as the final challenge ends up being an RPG battle against her.
** MiayaBot takes up this role in the next season.
* TheHeart: Teruteru of all people becomes this in Season 4 with his support of keeping everyone alive and his penchant for group hugs
* HeroicBSOD:
** Ibuki goes through a serious one after learning that Hiyoko and Celeste's deaths were pointless.
** Komaru goes through one after it becomes clear that there's no way out of Monokuma's SadisticChoice between sacrificing the finalists of the Escape Game or sacrificing the Captured Eliminees. It leads her to be the first to decide to sacrifice them.
** Ryoko suffers a prolonged one after she learns that she's actually Junko and cuts open a comatose Soshun Marasume without knowing that he was still alive.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Aoi chooses to blow herself up rather than sacrifice the remaining survivors.
** When one of the challenges comes down to him or Peko to be eliminated, Fuyuhiko attempts to pull one by refusing to continue playing so that she'll survive. Tragically, it fails when she still loses despite his attempt to throw the game.
** Averted in the finale of the second game, as Komaru, Nagisa, and Hajime ultimately choose not to perform one for the other survivors, condemning five of them to incineration.
** Sayaka performs one to take out Mukuro while she was on the verge of killing Hiroko.
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Through sheer luck, every single Warrior of Hope has managed to survive their escape games.
* KickTheDog:
** Nagisa never seems to miss a chance to mock the latest eliminee during his Escape Game.
** The Ultimate Imposter gets a noticeable one when he steals points from Jataro in a challenge, leaving the child struggling to get enough points to survive the challenge.
* KilledOffForReal: Unusually for the subreddit, characters who die in these escape games are not resurrected for future installments.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** Peko awakens in the Second Escape Game to find herself unable to remember her past or even Fuyuhiko. She recovers just before her elimination from the game.
** It's later revealed through documents that [[Literature/DanganronpaZero Yasuke Matsuda]] inflicted this on all of the contestants in the escape game.
** Averted by Haiji, Miaya, and Yasuke in Season 4, all of whom possess all of their memories.

* MultipleEndings:
** In Zero Escape Tradition, it's revealed that Monokuma had three possibilities for how the first game could've ended. Unfortunately, they choose the [[DownerEnding third]].
*** The winner of the final challenge could've sacrificed the remaining three to survive.
*** The three remaining survivors refuse to play Russian Roulette and thus manage to escape together.
*** After a game of Russian Roulette, the final survivor escapes after learning that the Russian Roulette challenge was completely unnecessary.
** The Second Game also ends up having 3 possible endings. Again, they choose the [[DownerEnding Third]]
*** The finalists sacrifice themselves to save their captive friends who lost the previous challenge.
*** The finalists agree to sacrifice themselves, only for one or two to betray the other(s) and sacrifice both the captives and the other finalists.
*** The finalists sacrifice the captive contestants in order to escape.
** The Third Game ends up providing the opportunity for any combination of 0-6 survivors leaving after the final challenge.

* NoFourthWall: Whenever a challenge requires players to use out of character information, Monokuma activates a Morphogenetic Field that allows the cast to break the fourth wall.
* NonStandardGameOver: Although none of the players discover this in game, Monokuma intended on killing the contestants participating in the Escape Game challenge if they entered the wrong password too many times.
* ParentalSubstitute: Hiroko becomes one for Sayaka.
* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo:
** A few show up in Season 2's Escape Game. The contestants end up finding Hiyoko's kimono, her body, a videotape of Makoto's death scene, and a fridge with containers that are implied to contain the giblets of the six contestants who exploded in Season One.
** Likewise, Season 3 has them come across Akane's corpse and Season 4 brings in Mukuro's.
* PyrrhicVictory: Each season leaves at least one survivor, but only after several horrific deaths.
* SadisticChoice:
** After solving the final riddle, Aoi is given the choice of either blowing up her fellow contestants and getting to leave or blowing herself up.
** Likewise, the final challenge of the second escape game is for Hajime, Komaru, and Nagisa to decide whether to sacrifice themselves or the contestants who had previously been eliminated from the game. Monokuma even references the first example as his inspiration for the challenge.
** Mononokuma also does this during the final challenge of the third game. He tells the contestants facing off in an RPG battle with Mukuro that they may add to their HP by sacrificing the captive Nagito and Masaru. In the end, nobody takes him up on this.
** Mukuro sets up her own by giving Sayaka a knife and offering to let her murder Mukuro and put an early end to the challenge. She gives Sayaka the choice of either murdering her with her own hands or letting Mukuro kill Hiroko Hagakure in the challenge.
* SanitySlippage: Haiji Towa starts off as a relatively cooperative and reasonable ally of the other contestants. After discovering his father's dead body and that Ryoko is a mind-wiped Junko, he goes completely mad, to the point where he tries to get everyone killed to take Ryoko out and even threatens to molest Kotoko.
* SequelHook: The fourth season ends on several. Including: Nagisa's abduction by the vengeful Yakuza, the appearance of AI Junko, the confirmation that there's a traitor in Future Foundation, Hiroko telling her Branch that she knows where the next [=MonoEscape=] will be held, Masaru declaring his intent to rescue Nagisa and assemble the Warriors of Hope, and Ryoko going on the run and being recruited by Hajime and Komaru for a mission to atone for their sins.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: The first Escape Game ends this way. The final three contestants, Ibuki, Celeste, and Hiyoko are told to play a game of Russian Roulette. They do so, only for the survivor to discover that their bracelets had been deactivated and that the exit wasn't locked, rendering these final deaths pointless.
* ShipTease:
** Ibuki/Celeste are strangely shipped together in the first season. It ends poorly.
** Fuyuhiko/Peko end up competing in the second season and are quickly shipped together. It ends poorly.
* SoleSurvivor: Ibuki Mioda is the only survivor of the First Escape Game.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Several characters who died in the backstory of the series such as Yasuke Matsuda and Natsumi Kuzuryuu are revealed to still be alive well into the tragedy.
* TakeTheThirdOption:
** When Monokuma reveals that the three finalists in the second game must choose between sacrificing themselves or sacrificing the other contestants, the trio desperately search for a way out for all of them. Averted when Monokuma insists that he'll activate their bracelets and kill them even if they managed to find that way out.
** Sayaka is given the choice of letting Mukuro kill Hiroko in the final RPG-Based Battle or of killing Mukuro with her own two hands. She chooses to self-destruct in-game, draining her HP to zero and wiping out Mukuro's remaining HP in the process.
* TakeUpMySword:
** At Gundham's request, Komaru becomes the new Master of the Four Dark Devas.
** Mahiru also gives Sayaka her camera while preparing for her death after losing the challenge. Sayaka herself gives the camera to Hiroko after her heroic sacrifice.
* TakingYouWithMe: The final challenge of the Third Game provides players with the option of self-destructing and inflicting an attack that does as much damage as their total HP. Sayaka ends up using this mechanic to defeat Mukuro.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Mukuro begins to feel this way about Sayaka and goads her into trying to murder her.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Celeste and Nagisa take up these roles in their respective Seasons as the most ruthless members of their groups. Especially Nagisa.
* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: Monaca points out in Season 4 that, due to how the rules worked, it was perfectly possible for every contestant to escape together had they co-operated.
* WhamEpisode: Season 4 starts off with a different tone, with only one death in the first 4 episodes. Then, suddenly the fifth episode ends with a whopping 4 eliminations, the sixth episode reveals Ryoko to be a mind-wiped Junko and drives Haiji insane while dividing the team, and the final episode reveals that Monaca was hosting this game and ends with only three survivors.

A long-running Side-Game on [[Roleplay/ClassTrials r/DanganRoleplay]] which combines various mini-games with escape room sections and features an extensive evolving narrative. In a blending of the VisualNovel/ZeroEscape franchise and VisualNovel/Danganronpa, Monokuma abducts nine students and forces them to compete to escape.

A long-running Side-Game on [[Roleplay/ClassTrials r/DanganRoleplay]] which combines various mini-games with escape room sections and features an extensive evolving narrative. In a blending of the VisualNovel/ZeroEscape franchise and Danganronpa, Monokuma abducts nine students and forces them to compete to escape.

A long-running Side-Game on [[Roleplay/ClassTrials]] which combines various mini-games with escape room sections and features an extensive evolving narrative. In a blending of the VisualNovel/ZeroEscape franchise and Danganronpa, Monokuma abducts nine students and forces them to compete to escape.