Line #154 Roleplay/AirlockedRoundTwo


1	->"Families argue. You can bicker and fight and be so mad you wanna throttle 'em. But you never stop loving them."
2	-->--'''Queenie'''
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4	Tropes from round two of ''Roleplay/{{Airlocked}}'' and its intermission. Please note that the ending twist to Round One is treated as a LateArrivalSpoiler on this page, as the remainder of the series cannot be discussed without it; similarly, the intermission section will necessarily spoil Round Two proper.
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10	* AccidentalMisnaming: Kip can't remember Bolton's name when he talks about the last season.
11	* AchillesInHisTent: Heart when [[spoiler:he remembers more and more of his friends dying]], Choromatsu when [[spoiler:he's contemplating killing himself]], and Clarith when [[spoiler:her plan appears to have failed and gotten Queenie executed]].
12	* ActionDressRip: Roland suggests that Yuuri do this when she can't walk in her formal gown. She declines, her mind going immediately to [[ComedicUnderwearExposure the rip fraying too high upward]].
13	* AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted. While [[spoiler:Rhys's Jack AI]] is an opportunistic narcissist who would sell out the entire mansion, that's exactly what he was built to be. Not to mention that [[spoiler:P.A.L. isn't an AI at all, despite being presented as one. The real PAL]] seems to be a straight example, though.
14	* AllTheGoodMenAreGay: Kip pouts that Choromatsu is "a cute little guy. All the straight ones are. Tragic."
15	* AmusingInjuries: The result of playing around with the "death orbs" and Church's slippery dance floor antics.
16	* AngelDevilShipping: Both the in-universe fans and Lee herself see the Mai/Lee relationship as this. Mai sees it [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre differently]], which CharacterDevelopment proves right when Lee slowly stops trying to be "evil."
17	* AnywhereButTheirLips: Kip goes around kissing the winners in congratulations after the bowling game, and while Church gets a kiss on the lips, most of the others get off easy.
18	* TheArtifact: Kip claims that the murder game mechanic in the rules is this and that the program is really just a social experiment and an InNameOnly SpinOff of ''Airlocked!'' We know, of course, that this is untrue.
19	* AscendedMeme:
20	** [[spoiler:Jack, after having taken over Rhys's body,]] calls a number of characters by their fan-given nicknames.
21	** Junpei's [[spoiler:robot arm having a vibrate function]] was an OOC joke that quickly became game canon.
22	** A KinkMeme story talked about an in-universe TrollFic where one AssPull was that C.E.C.E. was human. Not only is an organic character named Cece one of the new [=NPCs=], but [[spoiler:a similar reveal happens at the end of the round with C.E.C.E.'s Round 2 counterpart, P.A.L.]]
23	* TheBet: Thanks to one of these, Choromatsu ends up promising to wear his official merchandise lingerie the next time it comes out of the dumbwaiter. [[spoiler:Just when he thought he was safe, it comes out during the very last roll of the game.]]
24	* BigWhat: Junpei when [[spoiler:he finds out that Queenie isn't dead and her execution was staged]].
25	* BoldlyComing: Four different Champions bang Kip during the round. He would have preferred more.
26	* BoringInsult: Church calls P.A.L.'s withholding information "boring" because he knows all their captors want is a good show.
27	* BootstrappedTheme: "Stand By Me," which started as a fourth-wall-leaning joke, indisputably became this [[spoiler:following the final trial, in which the remaining Champions chorused it together in the face of their uncertain fates.]]
28	* BoyfriendBlockingDad: [[spoiler:Jack, possessing Rhys, considers Rhys's relationship with Angel to be "taking advantage" of her and says the case in which he used his daughter's boyfriend's body would have ended a lot worse (but "more awesome" for Jack himself) had they gone any further.]]
29	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Takumi describes the group as "demons and drunks and drunk demons."
30	* BreakingTheFourthWall: While this doesn't happen to the actual out-of-universe audience, it's done to the ''in-''universe audience, since the game acknowledges and outright tells the Champions that they're on an ImmoralRealityShow (even mentioning ''Airlocked!'' by name).
31	* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: What the Junpei/Yuuri ship is at first glance. Then you see that they're [[HiddenDepths more than that]], with devious, silly, and fiercely loyal natures in common.
32	* ButtMonkey: [[spoiler:The Jack AI]] is this in deadland, due to being a self-centred CardCarryingVillain.
33	* CallAHitPointASmeerp: Trials are now "rose ceremonies."
34	* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Angel gets to do this to Roomba Jack in deadland.]]
35	* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Ardyn is well-spoken and charismatic even when he doesn't actually want to be liked, and Church, who serves under him, is a crude hothead.
36	* CentralTheme: Sometimes, you can keep on doing the right thing and you keep getting hurt. That doesn't mean you should give up trying to be a good person.
37	* CerebusRetcon: From the characters' point of view, anyway. The pregnancy test gag from Round 1 returns, but Roland takes it as a sign of [[AliensMadeThemDoIt things to come]] and is incensed.
38	* ChastityCouple: Nari and Cece, in great contrast with nearly everybody else in the mansion.
39	* ChekhovsGag:
40	** [[spoiler:The pregnancy test gag comes back in week one. It doesn't do anything to the plot until week eight, where Nari urges Queenie to use her PIP to clear up her pregnancy scare.]]
41	** During their first real interaction in week one, Choromatsu has to explain to Takumi that the toilet pipes aren't big enough for them, or anyone, to pass through and therefore not a valid means of escape. The entire scene is PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:During week six, it turns out that the toilet is how Kip (later disguised as Takumi with a hardlight projector) got in and out of the bathroom to save Choromatsu's life during his suicide attempt.]]
42	* ColdBloodedTorture: P.A.L. is more than happy to do this in some of the executions; the third comes to mind in its absolute excess. [[spoiler:He makes a change in the fourth when he won't [[PummelingTheCorpse execute a dead person]], though, and starts to do nice things from then on...]]
43	* CompanionCube: Rii regains hers [[spoiler:before remembering that she was deluding herself into thinking it was her sister. She becomes suspicious of it and worried about why she was putting everyone in danger for a teddy bear.]]
44	* CoveredInGunge: When Church slathers the dance floor in lube, he and everyone he drags into sliding around the dance studio gets coated in it.
45	* DareToBeBadass: [[spoiler:When Clarith takes the choice of saving Queenie out of the Champions' hands and puts it into P.A.L.'s, she does it for this reason, to challenge P.A.L. to do the right thing and stand up to his employers. The others resent her for taking that risk and what they see as negating their own choice, but it gets better when they discover that P.A.L. listened.]]
46	* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:P.A.L. does this for Queenie at her "execution." Everyone else just thinks there's NoBodyLeftBehind, but when Queenie [[IChooseToStay decides to return to the Champions]] rather than run off with him, he lets her go and kicks off endgame.]]
47	* DifficultySpike: [[invoked]] Done intentionally for the third case, as the first two were solved in two hours each, a huge contrast with Round 1's going in circles with theories.
48	* TheDogBitesBack: How P.A.L. paints his taking over the show from Kip. [[spoiler:Since they're the same person, he frames it as this in reverse when Kip tries to take the show back from P.A.L., Kip now being the dog.]]
49	* DoomedByCanon: Since the same player can't have more than one character make the survivor pool in rounds 1-3, there was never any chance of [[spoiler:Finn, Mai, or Takumi]] surviving.
50	* DraggedIntoDrag: Averted; the drag show motive is voluntary. Some do get pushed or encouraged when they're too shy, though.
51	* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Price, properly introduced in Round 3, wrote Kip's psychiatric evaluation.]]
52	* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: [[spoiler:Kip wanted to take over all his Champions' worlds, or at least the Earths, to get back into his people's good graces. However, his bosses' betrayal and the Champions' acceptance make him side with them.]]
53	* EveryoneIsBi: With the clear exception of Clarith, who only likes women, nearly everyone likes multiple genders.
54	* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:Week five, where the investigation reveals a [[InterruptedSuicide preventable death]] that is successfully stopped.]]
55	* ExactWords: The culprit of the second trial claims not to have ''crushed'' the victim to death after poisoning him. Nari points out that of course she didn't: he ''choked'' to death.
56	* ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName: The one ''Airlocked!'' episode we see named [[spoiler:in Kip's interrupted Spetflix marathon]] implies that the show has these. However, the later IC wiki mostly has Western-style episode titles, with the one named in R2 grandfathered in.
57	* ExplainExplainOhCrap:
58	** Queenie reflects on her own world at the second TruthTellingSession and stops in the middle of her musing to gasp, "I think [[spoiler:my sister's boss is an imposter!]]"
59	** Lee starts out defending [[spoiler:Jack for his ForYourOwnGood justification for keeping Angel isolated and forcing her to kill and betray at his will]], then realizes halfway through that that's what her own handlers did to ''her'' for the sake of their conspiracy. She stops thinking he's so great after that.
60	* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Kip really wasn't vapourized by P.A.L..]]
61	* FightClubbing: Nishitani starts up something like this for fun. Most of the others are annoyed, but some go with it.
62	* FireForgedFriends: Most of the group becomes this quickly, to the glee of their sympathetic Overseers and irritating P.A.L., who wants them dead by one another's hands.
63	* FirstGirlWins: If you check the timestamps, Ardyn is the first person Church tagged on the intro log. The two of them become an OfficialCouple.
64	* FlowerMotifs: Roses are heavily featured in the round and were also key to the marketing as seen in the Round 1 intermission.
65	* {{Foil}}:
66	** While Clarith is a NervousWreck and Mai an EmotionlessGirl, they look like {{Palette Swap}}s (with white and black hair, respectively, and the same hair ribbon), they've both had to take care of ill mothers and deal with everyone being against them back home, hesitated to open up to the [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth kind and pure]] souls who started hanging around with them anyway, and have massive issues with hating themselves.
67	** Ardyn and Arianna are also this to each other. Both are purple-haired royals who followed a set duty BecauseDestinySaysSo [[spoiler:until it screwed them over]], but Arianna remains a loving optimist, while the part of Ardyn that wishes he were still like that diminishes every week.
68	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
69	** In week two, Cece says that it's only been her, Kip, and PAL until the Champions arrived. [[spoiler:PAL, not P.A.L.. Unbeknownst to the players, they're separate entities and the latter is Kip's alter ego.]]
70	** Kip gives Ardyn a kiss on the hand and bows, apparently because of the latter's regal demeanor. [[spoiler:It's actually because he's the tallest Champion in the mansion, designating him leader to an Irken like Kip.]]
71	* FunWithFlushing: When Takumi tests out all the unfamiliar technology, he takes up a four-person bathroom to flush the toilet over and over.
72	* GenderEqualEnsemble: The cast consists of 10 men and 10 women, which means no coed roommate assignments (though one of the shared bathrooms has men in one of the connected bedrooms and women in the other).
73	* GodOfEvil: How Ardyn describes the being he's a Champion of.
74	* GoingCommando: Junpei tries to figure out if Mai is doing this when she reveals that the underwear he got from the regains was hers. She informs him that people generally own more than one set of underwear.
75	* HaremSeeker: The FAQ for this season and the fact that it's loosely inspired by ''Series/TheBachelor'' imply that this round's Overseer is one of these, trying to find true love among the captives. Kip claims that he isn't, but that might at least partially be because of the in-universe excuse that the network couldn't get the rights to actually revive ''The Bachelor.''
76	* HideousHangoverCure: Nishitani gives Junpei some nasty-smelling tea to help with his hangover in Week 2.
77	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: [[spoiler:An AI copy of Angel's ArchnemesisDad possesses her boyfriend and all three of them die]] on Father's Day weekend.
78	* HospitalHottie: Apparently, Junpei has a thing for people dressing up in nurse outfits.
79	* HostileShowTakeover: PAL pulls one of these in-universe when he wrests control of the show from Kip and Cece to run things himself.
80	* HotterAndSexier: While any R18 content has to fade to black or be taken off the community, with the romantic focus of the in-universe game and all the innuendo and teasing thrown around, this round beats out even ''[[Roleplay/Trustfell3TrustFallWithAVengeance Trustfell R3]]'' for rounds you really might not want to read at work.
81	* ICallHimMisterHappy: Junpei thinks this practice is hilarious. Church, not so much.
82	* IconOfRebellion: Orange ribbons, after [[spoiler:Roland's death, and joined by red after Kip's]]. Poppies also appear in the dance studio as a CallBack to Round 1, where ''they'' were the IconOfRebellion.
83	* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: An oddly heartwarming(?) variation in [[spoiler:Nishitani's dead letters]], where Nishitani essentially tells Church and Ardyn, "I know you two somehow ended up in love for [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim whatever reason]], but you'd better not go monogamous, because Queenie needs Church more."
84	* IKissYourHand: Church does this to the ring on Ardyn's hand. And they wonder why people ship it.
85	* TheILoveYouStigma: Yuuri and Junpei deliberately avoid talking about their feelings as "love" for way too long. Ardyn/Church and Nari/Cece also hesitate until very late in the game.
86	* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Kip's thoughts when he sees Arianna in the deer costume and is hit with CutenessProximity.
87	* INeedAFreakingDrink: Roland says this when Nishitani calms him down from his [[PowerGlows episode]] in the first week's meeting.
88	* InterfaceScrew: [[spoiler:Rhys's profile is edited to include Handsome Jack as the Champion Hacker when Case 4 reveals he's still in his head.]]
89	* InVinoVeritas: [[spoiler:Natsuhi]] shuts down Junpei's excuse that he was blackout drunk for the Panty Claus incident by saying "a drunk man doesn't lie."
90	* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: Yuuri says this verbatim when [[spoiler:she finally remembers her sister]].
91	* ItsAllAboutMe: The round's unity-and-friendship overtones are built in large part by the worst antagonists being people with this attitude, like P.A.L., Kip in the first two weeks, [[spoiler:Lee post-reveal, and the Jack AI]], who won't shut up about themselves or think for one second that they've ever done anything wrong.
92	* KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand: When [[spoiler:Ardyn remembers becoming as evil as his profile implies and isn't sure who he is anymore]], Church dares him to kill him to escape right then and there if he's really that irredeemable. It almost breaks into an IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight, [[spoiler:but Ardyn realizes he'd have nothing to gain and breaks down, asking for help]].
93	* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Clarith drapes over and kisses Arianna after getting ridiculously drunk.
94	* LadyAndKnight: The shippers among the Champions see Ardyn and Church as an all-male version of this; Queenie sets them up on a date because of it. [[ShipTease They're right]].
95	* LastGirlWins: If you check the timestamps, aside from the [=NPCs=] and a few people who hit up the log late, Takumi is the last person Finn tagged on the intro log. The two of them become an OfficialCouple.
96	* LeastCommonSkinTone: Clarith is confused when she meets Finn because Musical Fantasy Eurasia has a conspicuous lack of black characters.
97	* LoveRedeems: A major theme in this round is love in all forms making people better than they were, from helping with unhealthy coping mechanisms to extending forgiveness to enemies or teaching those who were considered corrupted and betrayed ([[spoiler:and we don't just mean Ardyn]]) to love again.
98	* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Cece is disgusted when Kip wants someone to use the bar for this. He and Nishitani do it anyway, and later, Church suggests it only to get shot down by Ardyn [[spoiler:(at least for the location itself, anyway)]].
99	* MaliciousMisnaming: [[spoiler:What Kip calling Bolton "Bongo" really was.]]
100	* MarshmallowHell: [[spoiler:Queenie smooshes Kip's true form into her chest at the mastermind reveal.]]
101	* MeaningfulRename: During the final week, a few Champions decide to take new last names from their found family, becoming [[spoiler: Nari Nishitani, Ardyn Tenmyouji, and Arianna Wakasa]].
102	* MoodWhiplash: The drag show "motive" is a riot, with stage fright, silly costumes, and lots of {{Fanservice}}. Then [[spoiler:P.A.L. crashes the party, kills Kip, vapourizes Junpei's arm, and leaves the Champions with a reminder that they can't ''really'' live peacefully together or the network will make them suffer until something snaps.]]
103	* NoArcInArchery: Averted in case three. [[spoiler:Even [[ImprobableAimingSkills Takumi]] can't hit the right target in the middle of a close-quarters battle on a trampoline floor.]]
104	* NonHumanLoverReveal: Cece shows her true appearance (and finally reveals what kind of alien she is) to Nari in private before anyone else finds out.
105	* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: [[spoiler:The reason that Ardyn and Church start a rebellion in the middle of the trial for Nishitani's murder. It at first doesn't seem to work, but the next day, the "executed" Queenie turns up alive.]]
106	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted during Week 4 when it's implied that some of the women aren't in the best of states (the malnourished, bodily messed-up Angel gets off free).
107	* NoTellMotel: [[spoiler:Deadland is temporarily moved from Mason's Harbour to a low-budget love hotel on a tropical island.]]
108	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Junpei at the third investigation, where he appears to be dead and we're told that he is, but he proves to be only unconscious when he loses the Starscourge.]]
109	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Inverted, It's stressed that [[http://theairlock.dreamwidth.org/12350.html?thread=10700350#cmt10700350 this exchange]] isn't actually visible to the characters, even though we got to see it. [[spoiler:However, we find out later that it never actually happened and was just there to fool the players.]]
110	* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Kip tries to do this when he turns off his hardlight projector and enters the mastermind trial in his true form. In true ''Airlocked'' fashion, though, it backfires to comedic effect: the Champions he's come to face all start calling him small and cute.]]
111	* PeopleZoo: [[spoiler:Tolresch and Bur were rescued by the network from one of these so they could be trapped in indentured servitude as unpaid interns.]]
112	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: A delirious dying [[spoiler:Choromatsu says this when he's being saved by what he thinks is Takumi.]]
113	* PortmanteauCoupleName: Kip spends a bored afternoon making some of these up InUniverse. Some of them are groanworthy puns.
114	* PowersAsPrograms: The first motive de-nerfs powers (save for {{Story Breaker Power}}s like Queenie's mind-reading) and the third does the same, only it also swaps them around (including giving some dead people's powers to the living). [[spoiler:However, as the Champions discover, just because Mary got Roland's demon form doesn't mean she got his cannibalism-inducing curse...]]
115	* PowerPerversionPotential: Church ''immediately'' suggests this when he and Junpei accidentally [[spoiler:discover the ''vibrate function'' on the latter's robot arm.]]
116	* PrecisionFStrike: Yuuri calls [[spoiler:Handsome Jack]] a bastard during the fourth trial's MTB, when she usually wouldn't use that kind of language. Arianna and Queenie also get to drop rare F-bombs late in the game.
117	* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: [[spoiler:After interacting on the meme comm and observing the show from the sidelines for the whole round, the crew of the ''Temerity'' finally shows up in the last log.]]
118	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Kip makes it clear on the first day that, while affectionate physical contact is encouraged, sexual assault is a one-way ticket to being ThrownOutTheAirlock without a trial.
119	* RealityTVShowMansion: This round's space station is one of these.
120	* RedOniBlueOni: Ardyn is the blue to his brash, emotional vassals-in-name-only, though don't tell Church he's a red anything.
121	* RememberedICouldFly: Very late in the game, [[spoiler:Ardyn realizes that just because he doesn't have any swords to use as a FlashStep conductor, that doesn't mean a pen won't do in a pinch.]]
122	* RewatchBonus: P.A.L.'s character development and [[spoiler:apparent HeelFaceTurn]] make a lot more sense after you read the final investigation. [[spoiler:In particular, his getting more sadistic with the third execution (because he was attached to the victim killed by the one being executed), only to start a HeelFaceTurn the next week after he's thanked for the first time in his P.A.L. persona (because he craves approval so badly), and faking Queenie's death and asking her to run away with him when he hadn't seemed interested in her before (played off at first by Queenie being a CharmPerson, but even if ''P.A.L.'' hadn't been close to Queenie, ''Kip'' sure was).]]
123	* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Referenced in the description for the tattoo parlour, implying that someone will at one point be inked with a spelling mistake.
124	-->"Go forth, and have No Regerts!"
125	* SacredFirstKiss: Why Choromatsu faints when Queenie playfully kisses him during King's Game. Not that he's complaining, though...
126	* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Kip, who ended Round 1 as an ObliviouslyEvil HateSink, [[spoiler:ends up standing up to P.A.L. to protect the Champions and their happiness when he was assigned to make them kill each other. P.A.L. kills him for it]]. Then, [[spoiler:while that turns out to be all staged, he really ''does'' stand up to the network to save Choromatsu]].
127	* SexyWhateverOutfit: When the living's formalwear is replaced by Halloween costumes, Church gets a "sexy Big Bad Wolf" costume. Arianna gets to be a sexy deer, Clarith is Snow White with some of the skirt turned see-through, and Cece and Kip show up in matching lion-tamer and sexy-lion costumes. (Kip is the sexy lion.)
128	* SharpDressedMan: ''All'' the men before their formalwear is replaced by dumb Halloween costumes.
129	* SleepingWithTheBoss: Defied by Cece, who turns down all of Kip's flirting because she reports to him (not that she'd want him anyway, and Round 5 spoilers complicate the issue). At least four different Champions ''do'' take him up on it, though they see him as an AuthorityInNameOnly.
130	* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Subverted. Queenie has a scare very late in the round and starts imagining raising Nishitani's child now that he's gone, but the PIP's pregnancy test comes up negative.]] The son of the Empress of Earth also qualifies.
131	* StatusEffects: One sabotage consists of these, including Slow, Cold, and Zombie.
132	* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Junpei acknowledges that he and his canon love interest are this, "sometimes together, maybe better apart." Soon after, he finally admits that what he feels for Yuuri is love too.]]
133	* StealthPun: Arianna's CR chart classifies Mai as a Ronin, most likely due to her sword. In modern Japan, "ronin" is slang for a high school graduate who hasn't been accepted to a university yet, which, the profiles reveal, Mai also is.
134	* StressVomit: Kip looks like he's about to do this when they find the first body, but he manages to keep it down.
135	* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Though he turns out to be NotQuiteDead once powers are returned to their rightful owners, Junpei is attacked and presumed dead by Takumi's demons in Week 4, and the dusting of light particles on the floor found near him indicate that he killed it before he was taken out. (The same "ghost glitter" was found near Michaela's body in Case 1, but the demon had taken ''itself'' out by knocking the table over onto itself.)]]
136	* TarotTroubles: Queenie gives unintentionally accurate tarot readings during a party that reflect their paths and character development.
137	* TattooAsCharacterType: Nishitani has an intricate back tattoo to show his powerful position in the yakuza. Lee tattoos conspiracy symbols on herself due to her connection with the Illuminati [[spoiler:and foreshadowing how she plans to use everyone to get out]]. Rhys has a large tattoo with a nipple window to show that he tries to look cool but isn't. [[spoiler:Halfway through the round, many of the Champions get sentimental tattoos to show their unity.]]
138	* TeenPregnancy: Turns out to be a BerserkButton for Roland, who transforms in a fit of anger when he learns about the PIP's pregnancy test function and immediately thinks of the younger Champions (even though all of them are legal, some are still 18-19).
139	* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler:The Champions deduce that Kip's mastermind trial is this because he has nowhere to go and believes that his betrayal will make them turn on him too.]]
140	* TheirFirstTime: Yuuri and Junpei have the luck to do this the night before a physically and mentally traumatizing WhamEpisode. [[spoiler:Nari gets Arianna to blush when she asks about her and Clarith the day after they get married, too.]]
141	* ThemedAliases: Junpei and Church give most of their friends code names of Marvel characters for fun.
142	* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler:Queenie and Ardyn each got one of their items/abilities back that were nerfed for the round, much like Xander with Siegfried, in the ending arc after all they've been through.]]
143	* TinyGuyHugeGirl: [[spoiler:Kip's real form is tiny compared to most anybody, and Queenie wants to get back together even knowing what he really looks like.]]
144	* ToBeLawfulOrGood: In the week seven trial, [[spoiler:Clarith splits the vote while everyone else is abstaining. She intends it to allow P.A.L. to complete [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming the transformation she acknowledges in him]], and though it seems to ''really'' backfire on her, it turns out to have worked.]]
145	* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Nari asks for these so she can cook memorial meals for the sympathetic dead.
146	* TrashTheSet: [[spoiler:In the end, the survivor pool sets the Fantasy Sweet on fire and escapes before it combusts.]]
147	* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler:Kip Larimer and P.A.L. are the same person, an exiled [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Irken]] just named Kip who became dependent upon affection instead of repulsed by it.]]
148	* VillainTakesAnInterest: P.A.L. says that [[IneffectualLoner Nari]] would make a good Overseer.
149	* WasItAllALie: Choromatsu [[spoiler:corners Roland and snaps at him when he realizes that Roland, who had comforted him in the shock of finding Takumi, was the killer.]]
150	* WhamEpisode:
151	** While it was teased by the mods for a while, it's still a shock for Kip to reveal that [[spoiler:they aren't in a virtual reality after all]]. Later, he adds some backstory for Season One: [[spoiler:Bolton killed one of their Overseers]].
152	** Then there's the fourth motive, which starts with a fun event and ends with [[spoiler:P.A.L. killing Kip, destroying Junpei's arm and replacing it with a robot arm, and making it clear that [[YouCantThwartStageOne choosing to live in happy harmony when the game's only halfway done will not be tolerated]].]]
153	** The fifth investigation. [[spoiler:For the first time in the game, a death is ''prevented'', meaning no victim and no trial.]]
154	** The first day of the final week. [[spoiler:Queenie is alive!]]
155	** Naturally, the finale too. It had a formal mastermind trial, [[spoiler:revealing that Kip and P.A.L. were the same person all along, a set of "good" and "bad" personae for a conflicted man who wanted to conquer their homes to make his people love him again and ended up BecomingTheMask.]]
156	* WhatMeasureIsANonUnique: Addressed when Junpei develops a theory that everyone's a clone.
157	* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Nishitani complains that being kidnapped for a show is ridiculous because the group isn't even entertaining.
158	* WrongNameOutburst: Junpei accidentally calls Ardyn "Dad" once.
159	* YouNeedToGetLaid: Nishitani says this of the prudish, awkward Nari and, later, of Ardyn. Neither is impressed.
160	* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler:Lee's entire approach to deadland is trying to make people hate her so much that they find a way to escape just to be rid of her. Since it obviously doesn't end up leading to an escape, she starts to doubt herself.]]
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163	[[folder:Round 2 Intermission]]
164	* BadassInDistress: Most of the captured characters, both dead hostages and living members of the first group into the Q&A, are the most combat- or strategy-capable characters.
165	* BadNewsInAGoodWay: The Doctor says with practised cheer, "But they were definitely waiting for us, so some good news. We were right that it was a trap."
166	* DingDongDitchDistraction: Junpei attempts this [[spoiler:during the rescue log for the living. Yl'lb is floored by the audacity of the plan and goes to cause a better distraction himself.]]
167	* HilaritySues: Yl'lb tells the Doctor and Yurika to try and get a lawyer to get back at the network instead of sneak around gathering intel. Naturally, they know that's not going to work.
168	* ImNotDoingThatAgain: Togami when helping people through a window gets his jacket dirty.
169	* MinimalistCast: Jane is the only player character who meets Yl'lb at the ''Temerity''. This happened because most of the Champions who stayed behind did so because [[RealLifeWritesThePlot their players were busy]].
170	* MoodWhiplash: Expected another fun BreatherEpisode, did you? Deadland goes from silly shopping to investigating disappearances, while the living story goes from ParlorGames to trying to get intel at a Q&A set up to lure them out.
171	* MutualMasquerade: At first, the Champions and Yl'lb each think the other is cluelessly working for the enemy. Because they don't know they've ''all'' been used and discarded by [=InterGal=] 7's conspiracy, [[PoorCommunicationKills the conversation breaks down quickly]].
172	* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:Thanks to crossed wires when they were trying to figure out what was going on stealthily, Yl'lb and the Champions each believe the other is helping [=InterGal=] 7 hold their loved ones hostage and taunting them about it.]]
173	* QuirkyHousehold: [[spoiler:Yl'lb Ein's mansion becomes this once the Champions move in.]]
174	* ShoppingMontage: We finally get to see a trip to Mason's Harbour Costco. Later, the living hit up a space version of the West Edmonton Mall.
175	* {{Understatement}}: After [[spoiler:waking up in a cell after a recon mission goes poorly]]...
176	-->'''Yurika:''' ...We may have made a few mistakes.
177	* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:Yl'lb reflects that E.P. used to be kind and helpful to everyone on the network, but then backstabbed him and used fine print in his contract to kidnap Wilhelmina.]]
178	* YouKnowImBlackRight: Jane makes a fearful comment about [=AIs=] and Heart just gives her a look.
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