Line #34 WebAnimation/Penguinronpa


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3	Penguinronpa is a {{Web Animation}} made by Creator/{{tofudemaru}} set in the universe of ''VideoGame/{{Club Penguin}}'' set after the game was shut down. It takes stylistic elements, music, themes, and the premise of ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}''.
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6	14 penguins with special talents and [[TokenNonhuman a crab named Klutzy]] are alone on the island after everyone else has apparently been teleported away to somewhere else. They are told by their extremely powerful cyborg captor, formerly the polar bear named Herbert, that the only way off is to kill one of the other inhabitants and get away with it.
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8	The series can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUHyBSvTk-iDf-ot2CiVayZGJVqwW8NQ2 here]] or on Instagram [[https://www.instagram.com/penguinronpa/ here]].
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11	!!This series provides examples of:
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13	* TheAce: Every penguin left on the island has an Ultimate Talent.
14	* ADayInTheLimelight: In Chapter 4, Agent suffers a HeroicBSOD at the start of the murder investigation, leaving Dot to take over as POV character.
15	* AfterTheEnd: Implied.
16	* AnyoneCanDie: It doesn't matter how important you were in the original Club Penguin, you can still die. Case in point, the first victim is [[spoiler:Aunt Arctic]] and their killer is [[spoiler:Sensei]]. By the time of Chapter Six, only [[spoiler: Agent, Dot, Rookie, Jet Pack Guy, and Amy are left.]]
17	* ArcWords: Inherits many from ''Danganronpa'', such as "Hope", "despair", "talent", "killing", "traitor", and "Ultimate".
18	* AudienceSurrogate: Sam and Amy, being non Agents, tend to be the ones asking about anything Spy related.
19	* BigBad: Monobert [[spoiler: AKA the new body of the Ultimate Protobot.]]
20	* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Before Monobert could execute Agent via flamethrower, the Elite Puffles arrive and give him a good old CurbStompBattle.]]
21	* BigShutUp: Monobert delivers one to [[spoiler:Agent, as he's getting ready to execute them for trying to break into the locked PSA HQ.]]
22	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Rookie comments it feels like they've been in the killing game for three years instead of three weeks, which is how long it's been since the story started.
23	* CharacterDeath: Each Chapter so far has had both at least one victim and at least one executed killer.
24	** Chapter One [[spoiler: features Aunt Arctic and Sensei biting the dust.]]
25	** Chapter Two [[spoiler: is where the deaths of Rockhopper and Puffle Handler Paige occur.]]
26	** Chapter Three [[spoiler: has Franky, Cadence, and Rory all die.]]
27	** Chapter Four [[spoiler: involves the death of Klutzy.]]
28	** Chapter Five [[spoiler: includes the deaths of Herbert, Gary and Shadow Guy.]]
29	* CastOfSnowflakes: All the characters are very visually distinct.
30	* ComplexityAddiction: As with Danganronpa, the killers' plots tend to be quite elaborate.
31	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: What else would you expect from a Danganronpa fanseries? The murders and the punishments are both gruesome.
32	** [[spoiler:Sensei is punished by [[DeadlyGame fatally losing a game of Card Jitsu]].]]
33	** In a rare case of a victim suffering this, [[spoiler:Rockhopper is killed in an explosion caused by a remote-controlled jet pack crashing into an ice rink while he's wearing it. His body remains mostly intact, despite being [[PGExplosives right where the explosion went off]].]]
34	** [[spoiler:Paige is punished via exploding robotic puffles.]]
35	** [[spoiler:Rory is punished by being assaulted with jackhammers before being run over by a train.]]
36	** Another victim example. [[spoiler:Klutzy is frozen to death and it's made worse by the fact ''he did it to himself''.]]
37	** [[spoiler:Shadow Guy is quite literally ''deleted from existence''.]]
38	* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Herbert's transformation into Monobert has also seen him go from a gruff antisocial loner with a MoralityPet who wants to evict the penguins and build a tropical paradise, to a sadistic murderous psychopath who won't even spare his former sidekick Klutzy. [[spoiler: That's not really the case, though...]]
39	* DarkerAndEdgier: Well, this is what happens when you combine a very dark visual novel like Danganronpa with a very child friendly game like Club Penguin, though it portrays the light-hearted nature of the latter series in between grisly murders, at least early on.
40	* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: The Ultimates' only hope of escape given to them is through murder.
41	* DeadlyGame: All executions so far are deadly versions of the minigames in the original Club Penguin.
42	* {{Deuteragonist}}: Dot the Disguise Gal, who serves as the primary assistant throughout the trials, being the Kirigiri to Agent's Naegi.
43	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In Chapter 4, Klutzy kills himself [[HeroicSuicide to exploit an error in Monobert's code]].]]
44	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone refers to Agent as Agent. Justified, as [[spoiler:Agent doesn't remember what their true name is.]]
45	* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: A great deal of the cast have at least a passing familiarity with each other.
46	* TheExecutioner: Monobert is an example of a psychopath executioner.
47	* FacelessMasses: The citizens in visions.
48	* FiveStagesOfGrief: [[spoiler: Agent goes through this following Klutzy's suicide. First, they're in Denial when Dot points out the possibility of Klutzy's death being a suicide. They enter Anger after Herbert's message and tries to enter the HQ against their usual common sense. When they experience the VR training missions with Sam and Amy, they enters Bargaining thinking the VR world would let them meet Klutzy again. This plan ultimately fails since the Real Klutzy and Virtual Klutzy are different crabs, and Agent immediately enters Depression. Once Amy and Sam snap Agent out of it, they make it to Acceptance and leave the VR mission.]]
49	* FlashbackCut: Frequently during trials.
50	* ForcedSleep: In Chapter 2, the penguins find a mysterious piano that causes anyone who listens to it fall asleep. [[spoiler:This is used by Paige to kill Rockhopper]].
51	* HeroicBSOD:
52	** Agent falls into it [[spoiler: after Klutzy becomes the victim of Chapter 4.]]
53	** In chapter 6, [[spoiler: Amy barely speaks after what Sam was killed last Chapter.]]
54	* HumansAreBastards: Penguins, rather. Generally averted, the murderers almost all have a far more sympathetic motive than just their selfish motivations.
55	* HumbleHero: Agent.
56	* IdiotBall: Most of the penguins tend to revert to their idyllic way of life when given the opportunity, abandoning caution in the process.
57	* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Klutzy]] gets frozen to death.
58	* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Klutzy]] bites it on Chapter 4.
59	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The cast seem to have forgotten just how they got in this mess.
60	** In Agent's case, [[spoiler:they've forgotten just about everything about themself, including their own name.]]
61	** [[spoiler: It's revealed that everyone's memories were erased from anything that happened after 2010.]]
62	* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Agent does most of the trial's legwork, with a few other key contributors.
63	* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Every Chapter's murders is different, and every punishment is tailored to the perpetrator. [[spoiler:In addition, the names of the executions thus far have been adapted from the names of mini-games from Club Penguin.]]
64	* MeaningfulAppearance: Every one of the Ultimates has an outfit that hints at their abilities and personality. Also, Herbert's tranformation into Monobert.
65	* MoodWhiplash: The tone change between the 'Daily Life' segments and 'Deadly Life' segments is usually drastic.
66	* MythologyGag: When Dot takes over as POV character, she has a traditional [[IdiotHair ahoge]] from bed head, like the original Danganronpa protagonists had in their series.
67	* NameAmnesia: [[spoiler:Agent doesn't remember what their name is, so they go by their title instead.]]
68	* OrgyOfEvidence: Every murder seems to be heralded by a number of changes to the environment.
69	* RecurringElement: Inherits many of these from Danganronpa.
70	* RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts: In Chapter 4, [[spoiler:Klutzy]] is killed in a very roundabout way, in which [[spoiler:he is put in a bucket of water, which is then [[KillItWithIce frozen]] in a machine that the killer activates by putting a life preserver over a button and aiming popcorn at it.]] This is because [[spoiler:he had no other way of killing himself.]]
71	* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Paige, ''big time,'' after she's outed as Chapter 2's culprit. Due to [[ItMakesSenseInContext being put to sleep by a piece of music being played,]] she's subjected to a nightmare about [[ForcedToWatch watching countless Puffles being slaughtered.]] After she explains her motive to save the ''Puffles'' in the "new world", she well and truly loses it, [[LaughingMad descending into crazed laughter]] before she's executed.]]
72	* SchmuckBait: The motives.
73	* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Protobot, the real identity of Monobert, is prone to making these, complete with his eyes being widened to give him a more AxCrazy look.]]
74	* SleptThroughTheApocalypse: The main characters, aside from Klutzy and the traitor, [[spoiler: Shadow Guy]]. By virtue of memory erasure.
75	* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Flips from side to side.
76	* TheSpeechless: Klutzy is a crab and cannot speak. He can't really make any sounds aside from clicking his claws.
77	* SuddenlyObviousFakery: Dot's disguises look just like the real thing when she's wearing them, but they appear to be cheap costumes once removed.
78	* SubvertedKidsShow: Has the trappings of one - Cartoony penguins dying in all sorts of gruesome ways.
79	* SympatheticMurderer: Almost all of them.
80	* TheFunInFuneral: Monobert's reactions to deaths in general.
81	* TookALevelInCynic: Dot becomes less trustful in chapter 3 [[spoiler: due to Paige becoming the last culprit.]]
82	* TwoDunIt: In at least one case. [[spoiler: In Case 3, Cadence had killed Franky, and Rory had walked in and killed her out of panic she would kill him. Meanwhile, in Case 5, Sam and Amy both killed Herbert and Gary via their lightning bolts by combining their powers, with the second hero who added their powers being called the killer for each death.]]
83	* VillainsActHeroesReact: As a murder mystery series, this should come as no surprise.
84	* WhamEpisode: The fourth and fifth chapters, respectively.
85	** Chapter 4 ends with a video message that turns the story up on it's head: [[spoiler: Monobert is not the real Herbert, but just a robot copy. The real Herbert is trapped inside his underground base thanks to the force fields, and has been communicating secretly with Klutzy to help the surviving penguins escape. Monobert is revealed to be programmed to make up information that would make sense, meaning he could be lying about everything, and that he can't respond to things he doesn't expect to happen. So, Klutzy made a plan to do something completely unexpected to send out the video message and something else... [[HeroicSacrifice which is by killing himself.]]]]
86	** Chapter 5 is an even bigger one. [[spoiler: The chapter starts with Monobert being shut off after Agent's failed execution, and then Shadow Guy revealing himself as the traitor to the audience. It also has Sam and Amy become the heroes...and one of their missions is hijacked by the Test Bots, who then stay dormant..Until Herbert's dead body is discovered by Agent, Rookie, Jet Pack Guy, and Dot, and they are reactivated, beginning the killing game once again. However, the Heroes and Gary are missing, which seems normal..until Agent opens the door to the Gadget Room, and Gary's body is discovered, with the Heroes nowhere to be found. After the four vow to solve the mystery and the rest of the investigation occurs, it is revealed through Gary's machine that they were in a virtual world all along, and then as soon as they enter the trial room, they discover that Monobert was actually Protobot the entire time...and then Sam and Amy reveal themselves as Gary and Herbert's killers by accident. As well, Protobot kills the Test Bots due to them serving no more purpose. However, soon afterwards, Agent reveals that Sam was the traitor, and then Sam and Amy insist on voting for themselves so the other does not die, before Agent decides to not vote..and then it is revealed that in a lack of votes, Protobot himself would vote..for the wrong killer, Amy, and everyone besides Sam seemingly is about to be executed..before Sam sacrifices himself and is deleted by Protobot from the game. Soon afterwards, as Protobot is about to kill the rest of the cast, the Test Bots return with their original programming, saving everyone, along with a message from Gary in his modern design, about having returned everyone to the past with a gadget to make a code to restore everything to what it once was, and playing a video of the last party in Club Penguin, showing Agent in their modern design with a vow to protect the island, and then cutting to the Participants Remaining screen.]] [[{{Understatement}} Holy shit.]]
87	* WhamLine:
88	** Chapter 5's opening has one from the traitor.
89	--> '''[[spoiler: Sam:]]''' [[spoiler: ...You wanted a traitor? Then you shouldn't have picked a hero.]]
90	** [[spoiler: Chapter 5 has some serious ones when the heroes enter the EPF hideout. They discover some case files that claim everything that happened after Mission 11 in the original game did... and it's apparently 2017 instead of 2012 like they all remember.]]
91	** At the beginning the Chapter 5 trial, [[spoiler:Protobot]] tells the group that they need to find the killers of both [[spoiler:Gary and Herbert]], only for Sam to drop some surprising news on the group.

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