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*During the power swap motive, Ardyn loses [[spoiler: the [[HatePlague Starscourge]] and turns human, becoming the AllLovingHero he originally was. The tearjerking part is that [[ForegoneConclusion he knows it can't last]] and he'll turn back into a CompleteMonster. ]]
-->'''Ardyn:''' [[spoiler: No matter what I may become--or already have--swear to me that you'll remember I was once this Ardyn before you now. That I wanted the best for every last one of you, and would sooner die than see a single one of you hurt.]]
-->'''Ardyn:''' [[spoiler: No matter what I may become--or already have--swear to me that you'll remember I was once this Ardyn before you now. That I wanted the best for every last one of you, and would sooner die than see a single one of you hurt.]]
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* The fact that most of the murders were sympathetic and usually unintentional, the Champions become GenreSavvy enough to try to prevent them to the point that rules had to be put down to keep that from becoming a GameBreaker, and the cast has endgame-level solidarity and hope ''halfway through the game'' -- and they keep on dying anyway.
* Related, in any other game, [[spoiler:Lee, who killed intentionally out of paranoia]], would be treated as a garden variety culprit, and here, she's a HateSink for going against group unity. Given that she's a minor villain and a pawn back home with much less agency than she thinks she has, it's got to be hard on her.
* Related, in any other game, [[spoiler:Lee, who killed intentionally out of paranoia]], would be treated as a garden variety culprit, and here, she's a HateSink for going against group unity. Given that she's a minor villain and a pawn back home with much less agency than she thinks she has, it's got to be hard on her.
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* Yuuri remembering [[spoiler:her sister]] and [[http://theairlock.dreamwidth.org/14323.html?thread=11808243#cmt11808243 breaking down to Junpei]] about it.
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* The third culprit recognizes what he's done and wants to confess before anything happens, but he holds back and tries to cover up the murder anyway -- because he also knows, and he's ''right'', that P.A.L. is a CompleteMonster who "hates being bored" and finds the trials entertaining.
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* The third culprit recognizes what he's done and wants to confess before anything happens, but he holds back and tries to cover up the murder anyway -- because he also knows, and he's ''right'', that P.A.L. is a CompleteMonster who "hates being bored" and finds the trials entertaining.
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* The reactions to [[spoiler:Junpei turning up "dead" in week four, though he turns out to be NotQuiteDead.]]
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* Choromatsu [[spoiler:calling Takumi by the same kind of insulting nicknames his brothers get, saying Takumi was like another brother, and plaintively asking Cece if he can see him in the morgue]] after the third trial.
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* The third culprit recognizes what he's done and wants to confess before anything happens, but he holds back and tries to cover up the murder anyway -- because he also knows, and he's ''right'', that P.A.L. is a CompleteMonster who "hates being bored" and finds the trials entertaining.
-->"Do you think, if someone came to the others and confessed, that P.A.L. might just kill another person because it got 'bored?'"
-->"Do you think, if someone came to the others and confessed, that P.A.L. might just kill another person because it got 'bored?'"
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* Knowing what happened in Round 1, Yuuri's response to Clarith's "killing for love" theory in the second trial is even more painful than it would be without that context.
-->''It's not the same, not at all, but... she suddenly finds herself thinking of Kurumi. Kurumi on the rooftop covered in blood again. Kurumi looking their former classmates in the eye every single time she brings the blade of the shovel down on them. All to keep the people she loved safe and alive for another day.''
-->''It's not the same, not at all, but... she suddenly finds herself thinking of Kurumi. Kurumi on the rooftop covered in blood again. Kurumi looking their former classmates in the eye every single time she brings the blade of the shovel down on them. All to keep the people she loved safe and alive for another day.''
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* Yuuri and Junpei hugging and letting out their feelings in the garden after the first trial.
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** [[spoiler:Clarith at first trying to murder Mai with her own two hands only to promise Mai she'd live and even refusing to look away from Mai's execution out of respect because she understood Mai.]]
** [[spoiler:Everyone trying futilely to save Mai since she wasn't even aware of her guilt and was guilty only on a technicality.]]
** [[spoiler:Mikaela having died collecting a flower that likely reminded her of Clarith's hair.]]
** [[spoiler:Church demanding the bodies be buried and refusing to let up on that.]]
** [[spoiler:Everyone trying futilely to save Mai since she wasn't even aware of her guilt and was guilty only on a technicality.]]
** [[spoiler:Mikaela having died collecting a flower that likely reminded her of Clarith's hair.]]
** [[spoiler:Church demanding the bodies be buried and refusing to let up on that.]]
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* Clarith revealing her backstory to the others and wondering why they're all so nice to her when the people at home treat her like garbage.
* Everything about the first case. [[spoiler:The culprit didn't even want to kill the victim and ''didn't know she had'', or that the creatures that had been attacking were actually made of her own issues and targeting the things and people she loved.]]
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* Clarith revealing her backstory to the others and wondering why they're all so nice to her when the people at home treat her like garbage.
* Everything about the first case. [[spoiler:The culprit didn't even want to kill the victim and ''didn't know she had'', or that the creatures that had been attacking were actually made of her own issues and targeting the things and people she loved.]]
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* Bolton hinting at his [[{{Gayngst}} backstory]] mid-way through the round.
-->"I was about (Thomasin's) age the first time that I heard someone say people like me were going to burn in Hell. It...scared me. But it didn't change me."
-->"I was about (Thomasin's) age the first time that I heard someone say people like me were going to burn in Hell. It...scared me. But it didn't change me."
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** [[spoiler:Jamie's breakdown when he finds her body first]], which was only shown after the round ended.
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* Everyone knew that Case 6 was going to suck, being the penultimate case before endgame, but no one was quite ready for how much.
** Togami being so shocked to discover the body of [[spoiler:Bolton, who had made him and Jane sit down and eat dinner just a few hours before]] that he just slumps against the wall and passes out.
** Jane's reaction to the body discovery and determination to investigate the scene.
** Everything about the investigation of [[spoiler:Bolton's room]]. Making it even worse is that the one who did most of the investigating was Xander [[spoiler:who was the one who murdered Bolton.]] The revelation at the trial that [[spoiler:Xander was a mole working for the mysterious "EP"]] makes his reaction to Bolton's DealWithTheDevil all the more painful.
** Togami being so shocked to discover the body of [[spoiler:Bolton, who had made him and Jane sit down and eat dinner just a few hours before]] that he just slumps against the wall and passes out.
** Jane's reaction to the body discovery and determination to investigate the scene.
** Everything about the investigation of [[spoiler:Bolton's room]]. Making it even worse is that the one who did most of the investigating was Xander [[spoiler:who was the one who murdered Bolton.]] The revelation at the trial that [[spoiler:Xander was a mole working for the mysterious "EP"]] makes his reaction to Bolton's DealWithTheDevil all the more painful.
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* Xander and Lightning's kiss [[spoiler: after she's confessed and before the vote starts.]]
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* The fifth trial, with multiple layers of participants steeling themselves to [[KillTheOnesYouLove kill their loved ones]] to spare them from execution.
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* The fifth trial, with multiple layers of participants steeling themselves to [[KillTheOnesYouLove kill their loved ones]] to spare them from execution.execution and try and help people. Especially the murder log, with [[spoiler:Ricky's realization of utter betrayal and Kurumi's attempt to explain just breaking down into apologies while she's choking the life out of her girlfriend to spare her friends, Lightning walking in on them and failing to save Ricky, then Lightning's decision to assist Kurumi's suicide and be executed in her place]].
* Togami [[PetTheDog being nice for about two seconds]] to his SitcomArchNemesis Jane, whom he tells not to lose hope. The sad part comes when Jane lashes out at him, taking his speech as patronizing instead of an honest sign of CharacterDevelopment.
* Togami [[PetTheDog being nice for about two seconds]] to his SitcomArchNemesis Jane, whom he tells not to lose hope. The sad part comes when Jane lashes out at him, taking his speech as patronizing instead of an honest sign of CharacterDevelopment.
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* The fifth trial, with multiple layers of participants steeling themselves to [[KillTheOnesYouLove kill their loved ones]] to spare them from execution.
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* Jane trying (and ultimately failing) to use the Lifey Thing on [[spoiler:Ricky.]]
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* How case 4 went down. The fact that [[spoiler: Shadow attacked Rukia and her actions were in self-defense. However, he did die and the rules state that whoever is responsible is the culprit and if they do not evade detection they are executed.]]
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* Rukia telling Yurika not to [[DyingAlone die alone]].
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** Not to mention that, along with all the feelings going around, how the culprit was caught is almost a KarmicDeath; he was cornered by [[spoiler:an extremely devout religious person (Thomasin), an elemental magic user who was adept with fire (Lightning), and a human with nanotech implants (Yurika)]], all things the victim was known for. Add to this the fact that the victim died of the wound to the neck and the culprit inflicted the same wound upon himself.
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** Not to mention that, along with all the feelings going around, how the culprit was caught is almost a KarmicDeath; he was cornered by [[spoiler:an extremely devout religious person (Thomasin), an elemental magic user who was adept with fire (Lightning), and a human with nanotech implants (Yurika)]], all things the victim was known for. Add to this [[spoiler: the fact that the victim died of the wound to the neck and the culprit inflicted the same wound upon himself.]]
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** Not to mention that, along with all the feelings going around, how the culprit was caught is almost a KarmicDeath; he was cornered by [[spoiler:an extremely devout religious person (Thomasin), an elemental magic user who was adept with fire (Lightning), and a human with nanotech implants (Yurika)]], all things the victim was known for.
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** Not to mention that, along with all the feelings going around, how the culprit was caught is almost a KarmicDeath; he was cornered by [[spoiler:an extremely devout religious person (Thomasin), an elemental magic user who was adept with fire (Lightning), and a human with nanotech implants (Yurika)]], all things the victim was known for. Add to this the fact that the victim died of the wound to the neck and the culprit inflicted the same wound upon himself.
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** Not to mention that, along with all the feelings going around, how the culprit was caught is almost a KarmicDeath; he was cornered by [[spoiler:an extremely devout religious person (Thomasin), an elemental magic user who was adept with fire (Lightning), and a human with nanotech implants (Yurika)]], all things the victim was known for.
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* What about case 3 isn't?
** [[spoiler: The murder was actually assisted suicide.]]
** [[spoiler: Margulis and [=McBurn=] very much seemed to care about each other, yet [=McBurn=] killed him.]]
** [[spoiler: Then it was found out that [=McBurn=] agreed to this crazy stunt because he was put in a position where he felt escape or death were the only choices he had left.]]
** [[spoiler: So much confusion in this case that led to so much distrust being sown. That's going to take the living some time to deal with.]]
** [[spoiler: [=McBurn=] in the end was undone because he actually started feeling and outed himself because he started losing control of himself.]]
** [[spoiler: The case ending with a second suicide when [=McBurn=] slit his own throat.]]
** [[spoiler: The murder was actually assisted suicide.]]
** [[spoiler: Margulis and [=McBurn=] very much seemed to care about each other, yet [=McBurn=] killed him.]]
** [[spoiler: Then it was found out that [=McBurn=] agreed to this crazy stunt because he was put in a position where he felt escape or death were the only choices he had left.]]
** [[spoiler: So much confusion in this case that led to so much distrust being sown. That's going to take the living some time to deal with.]]
** [[spoiler: [=McBurn=] in the end was undone because he actually started feeling and outed himself because he started losing control of himself.]]
** [[spoiler: The case ending with a second suicide when [=McBurn=] slit his own throat.]]
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* Seth's coping methods when dealing with the deaths of [[spoiler:the Griffin and Toby]] are [[NightmareFuel kind of nightmarish]], but at the same time it's tragic how this is the only way he can express those emotions. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that he just ''can't'' feel, but until you realize that, it's still sad.]]
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* Seth's coping methods when dealing with the deaths of [[spoiler:the Griffin and Toby]] are [[NightmareFuel kind of nightmarish]], but at the same time it's tragic how this is the only way he can express those emotions.
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* The Griffin's desperate (and ultimately futile) attempt to [[spoiler: save his "brother" Toby from his execution and getting killed in the process.]]
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* When Kurumi is lashing out and blaming Ricky as a convenient target, Ricky can't even step up to defend herself, and she starts to believe that it ''was'' all her fault.
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* [[spoiler: Chitanda's]] death in Week 1. Especially when the investigation discovers the letters to home and paper cranes in [[spoiler: her]] room.
