History Characters / DoubtAcademy

* FauxAffablyEvil: He's a [[PungeonMaster pun-loving]], [[EverythingsBetterWithPlushies plush]] teddy bear running a DeadlyGame.

With [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters so many students]] registered in each class, the records have been sorted through for easier reading.

* SchrodingersGun: Her nature is ''slightly'' different depending on the game: in ''Black'', she's just a virus that somehow gained sentience, which is why she's completely opposed both to Monobear's mutual killing game and locking up the students in the park.] But in ''White'', she used to be human, but the Collective turned her into their agent; as a result, she fully supports locking up the students as the Collective wishes, but is opposed to the mutual killing game that Monobear starts up.

!!Appearing in Multiple Games

[[folder:Monobear and Usami/Monomi]]

* BearsAreBadNews: [[UpToEleven If you thought he wasn't already cruel enough in canon...]]
* BreakThemByTalking: Many of his speeches are all about trying to sow discord, distrust and despair among the students.

* CurbStompBattle: Whenever pulling a HostileShowTakeover on Usami's territory, he gives her one of these.

* ExactWords: LOVES this concept. Whether it's rendering a reward from a successful motive effectively useless, twisting the students' words around on them, or using {{Jedi Truth}}s to continue claiming that he "never ever lies," expect a lot of this from him.
** And there's at least one case where he seems to have outright broken a promise completely, although to be fair it was somebody else's promise rather than Monobear's own, but don't read the following spoiler unless you want an entire game spoiled: [[spoiler:in Doubt Academy White, in return for being the Mastermind, Katsuya was promised by Doctrina Artifice that after the mutual killing game was over, Katsuya would be allowed to return back to headquarters and go home. But Monobear overrides DA's promise and decides that it would serve DA's purposes even better if Katsuya was executed. Understandably, Katsuya is royally freaked out upon hearing this.]]

* KillerTeddyBear: ''To the extreme''.

* [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red Eye Take Warning]]: It'd be strange if Monobear ''didn't'' have his trademark red eye.
* [[spoiler:TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized]]:
** In ''White'', Monobear is [[spoiler:a member of Doctrina Artifice, a group fighting against The Collective. In order to expose The Collective's true nature to the world, he helps arrange the mutual killing game, and gleefully kills his partner as part of this]].
** In ''Alpha'' and ''Omega'', he appears to be [[spoiler:under the control of the Masterminds, who are working on their own to destroy both groups and anyone else they deem corrupt, supposedly to lead society back into a pure state (although one Mastermind seems all too happy with the violence and injustice the game caused)]].
* RuleOfThree: Big on this. Unlike the original games, he expects would-be graduates to kill three students without being caught. They also have three chances to try and pinpoint the Mastermind... but if they use up all three, that's his victory!

** In ''Black'': The survivors are told they can [[spoiler:save the data of their dead friends, keeping them 'alive' on hard drives... but doing so also means preserving The Collective's research]]. Alternately, they can [[spoiler:destroy The Collective's research along with their dead friends]].
** In ''White'': The survivors also get the option to [[spoiler:save their dead friends as data, preserving vital evidence against The Collective that can help bring them down... However, doing so also means supporting Doctrina Artifice, the revolutionary group that started the mutual killing game in the first place]]. Or they could [[spoiler:destroy the evidence, screwing over Doctrina Artifice... but this also means deleting the last traces of their dead friends and protecting The Collective, who brought them to Bright Side as test subjects]].
* SchrodingersGun: In ''White'' and ''Black'', Monobear serves a very ''slightly'' different, entire-game-spoilering role: in ''Black'', [[spoiler:Monobear is an agent of the Collective, and his goals are the Collective's goals]]. In ''White'', however, [[spoiler:he's part of Doctrina Artifice, an organization whose goal is to ''destroy'' the Collective.]]
* SeriesMascot[=/=]VillainBasedFranchise: Simply put, there's no Dangan Ronpa without its killer stuffed animal host.
* ShipperOnDeck: In Alpha, with how he words some of his answers to investigators, it would appear that he ships [[Main/HandsomeLech Yuu Sagara]] and [[Main/TroubledButCute Emiko Shiromura]].
* SlasherSmile: On his darker side.
* TheSociopath: Arguably even more so than he already was, no less.
* TimedMission: Only gives the students a certain amount of time to investigate before ushering them all into the courtroom. Trials also have a (real-time) deadline; if somebody fails to cast a vote before time runs out, he counts that as a vote for themselves. Also, [[spoiler:the endgame is a timed mission, since in both games, Monobear gives the survivors only 15 minutes to retrieve their stuff and/or their dead friends' data before Monobear ''[[TrashTheSet blows up the place]]''. In both games, all of the survivors successfully escape in time.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: In Alpha and Omega. For one thing, in both games he ''personally'' shoves or throws (depending on the game) [[spoiler:Saki and Eikichi]] to their deaths when they stand up to him. Then in Alpha, he repeatedly impersonates the first victim's corpse, and this was after he ''kicked'' said corpse repeatedly. Then he impersonates the ''second'' victim's corpse as well, although without the prior kicking this time.

* VillainsNeverLie: If nothing else, Monobear is pretty honest...even when he [[ExactWords twists his words]] to better suit his needs.

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* [[spoiler:AdaptationalVillainy: In Tora.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Her life gets much, much worse once Monobear shows up.

* CurbStompBattle: Winds up on the wrong side of this when Monobear shows up.
* [[spoiler:HatesBeingTouched: In ''Alpha'', she refuses an attempt by one of the students to comfort her after being deposed by Monobear, out of fear that it will cause him to harm them.]]
* [[spoiler:KillTheCutie]]: [[spoiler:In ''Rot/Rubble'', both Monomis are thrown into the aftermath of the mod characters' execution, as both Monobears get sick of their outrage over the twin students' deaths.]]
* MagicalGirl: ''Magical Miracleland'' is even based around her character.

* NotHelpingYourCase: Whether it's by refusing to explain her side of the story, or, in ''White''[='=]s case, bluntly telling the students long before Monobear ever shows up that they'll never get to leave the resort, she '''really''' doesn't do herself any favors.
** Slightly mitigated in Alpha and Omega, where she openly tries to defend the students from Monobear and gets ''beaten up'' for her trouble. Throughout the rest of the game, it's showed that Monobear will stop her if she tries to give out too much information about the current murder cases or the setting of the game, or if [[spoiler:she tries to let the dead contact the living without doing the trials set up in the Isolation Ward]], thus explaining why she ''has'' to be vague and unhelpful at times.

* SchrodingersGun: Her nature is ''slightly'' different depending on the game: in ''Black'', [[spoiler:she's just a virus that somehow gained sentience, which is why she's completely opposed both to Monobear's mutual killing game and locking up the students in the park.]] But in ''White'', [[spoiler:she used to be human, but the Collective turned her into their agent; as a result, she fully supports locking up the students as the Collective wishes, but is opposed to the mutual killing game that Monobear starts up]].
* [[spoiler:TransformingMecha]]: In ''Alpha'' and ''Omega''. [[spoiler:She is forcibly changed from a Robot Girl into her rabbit form when Monobear appears; Word Of God compares them both to Transformers.]]
* [[spoiler:WasOnceAMan]]: In ''White''. [[spoiler:After The Collective finished experimenting on her, she looked the way she does now.]]
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* BearsAreBadNews

* DissonantSerenity
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor

* HangingJudge
* KillerTeddyBear

* [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red Eye Take Warning]]

* SeriesMascot[=/=]VillainBasedFranchise

* TheSociopath
* TimedMission: Only gives the students a certain amount of time to investigate before ushering them all into the courtroom. Trials also have a (real-time) deadline; if somebody fails to cast a vote before time runs out, he counts that as a vote for themselves. Also, [[spoiler:the endgame is a timed mission, since in both games, Monobear gives the survivors only 15 minutes to retrieve their stuff and/or their dead friends' data before Monobear ''blows up the place''. In both games, all of the survivors successfully escape in time.]]

* TortureTechnician
* VillainsNeverLie

!!!Appears in every game except ''Doubt Academy 1'', ''Doubt Academy 5: Mizu'', ''Doubt Academy 5: Kaze'', and ''Doubt Academy 6: Parelthon''

!!!Appears in ''Doubt Academy Black'' & ''Doubt Academy White''

* ''[[Characters/DoubtAcademyParelthonRoster Sixth Roster: Parelthon]]''

* ''[[Characters/DoubtAcademyParelthonRoster Seventh Roster: Parelthon]]''

* HandsomeDevil: In ''Alpha'' and ''Omega'', like Usami, he initially appeared to the groups in a human form. For most of the viewers ''and'' players, their immediately reaction was [[EvilIsSexy "Oh no, he's hot"]]. Very quickly subverted, however, when he changes back into his familiar bear form within minutes of his introduction, stating he prefers it better.

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!!Spoiler Characters / Groups

'''All spoilers untagged from this point on.'''

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!!Kyoji Yasuda

Introduced in [=DA1=]. The current headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy, he assisted with the Developmental Analysis Program, or DA Project. As of ''Black/White'', he has become a member of The Collective, and after the ending of those games, he escaped to Arcadia with the students of ''Alpha/Omega'' in tow. Yasuda tends to work with many of the Masterminds of the games, although whether or not they remain loyal to him is another question.

* TheBadGuyWins: In the first game. He's more than pleased with the results of the DA Project, and mentions in passing the idea of ''future'' projects along the same lines...
* BigOlEyebrows
* CrossPoppingVeins: A pair of these appear hidden in his hair several times, first when he berates the survivors for signing the liability waivers without thinking about what kind of projects ''require'' them.
* DissonantSerenity: He's almost always smiling.
* {{Expy}}: Basically a human Monobear. Justified In-Universe by how Monobear was based on ''him''.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's all smiles while explaining the horrors he helped create, or when directly threatening the students to stop their plans.
* ForScience: The entire reason behind the Developmental Analysis was just to gather and measure results on how students with such hopeful talents could adapt to being placed in the ultimate "stressful situation".
* KarmaHoudini: Erases the survivors' memories of the second phase of the DA Project and makes it appear that the Central Wing was hit by a terrorist bombing, using that to excuse all the deaths. This lets him get away with the DA Project, and sets up for further horrors down the road, such as the testing in the second games that quickly goes awry. After the chaotic ending of the second game, he's sent away to a Collective shelter with yet ''another'' class of students. He's imprisoned before he can carry out any testing on them, but he's freed from his jail during the ending; it's unclear what his standing with the Collective is after that, however.
* TheManBehindTheMan: For the first game. As the Headmaster, he helped set up the DA Project, and tellingly shares many of Monobear's mannerisms. While Monobear was a fully autonomous AI, Yasuda could take control at any time.
* PetTheDog: Following the first game, he paints his erasure of the four survivors' memories as this -- he's giving them a chance to live without remembering the horrors they endured. In reality, however, it's all part of his plot to get away with his crimes scott-free.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: In the first game, he looks like a ManOfWealthAndTaste in his black suit with its crisp red tie and the neatly folded red hankerchief in his breast pocket.
* TheSocialDarwinist
* UhOhEyes: Has solid black irises that perfectly blend in with his pupils.
* WalkingSpoiler

!!The Collective

Introduced in [=DA2=]. A secret, shadowy organization that has been running society from behind the scenes. Claim to be working towards a peaceful future without any conflict... at any cost.

* BiggerBad: As of ''Black'' and ''White''.
* BrainUpload / BodyBackupDrive: One of the things they research, which comes up in the second and third games. In both cases, the former accounts for the continued existence of the dead students, while the latter is offered to the survivors in the ending as a possible way to bring back the dead.
** The Augmentation Chips in ''Black/White'' were supposed to record patient data (which includes memories, personality, and appearance) to a Backup System Grid, but the [=BSG=] had the unintended side-effect of giving the data sapience in the event that the patient died. During the ending, it was teased that this data could be inserted into bodies to effectively revive that person; it nearly happened with ''Black'''s Mastermind during the escape, but another student killed her clone's body instead of awakening it. The students of both games escape with the data, although it's not known if they ever find appropriate bodies.
** The ankle bracelets in ''Alpha/Omega/Epsilon'' were an intentional way to preserve that data and put it into a cloned body, with the sapient data staying safe in Elysium. An alternative is inserting the data into a humanoid robot, something that ''Alpha'''s Mastermind is forced to use; he then mentions that there are numerous other robot bodies in Gaia and suggests that others upload their data into them, although no one accepts his advice. Several students instead stay in Gaia for three months to clone human bodies for the deceased, allowing the whole class to walk out alive.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Were researching this in ''Black''.
* OutGambitted: Both Black and White survivors chose to preserve their dead friends' data, the evidence against the Collective, and the Collective's research. The Collective was expecting Black to do this and is actually okay with it, since they feel their research is worth it. But the White game was run by rebel organization Doctrina Artifice...and since White chose ''not'' to screw DA over by destroying the evidence, Doctrina Artifice was able to broadcast the Collective's misdeeds to the world.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The sixty students in ''Black/White'' were signed over to them for their own experiments. {{Invoked}} by the Doctrina Artifice when they revealed these experiments to the world. Later, it's suspected that they planned to do this to the students of ''Alpha/Omega'', who were reliant on the Collective for shelter and safety after the fallout from Doctrina Artifice's broadcast.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Effectively their motto.
* VisionaryVillain
* WalkingSpoiler
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Supposedly out to guide the world to a peaceful new age by controlling it through whatever means necessary.

!!Doctrina Artifice

Introduced in [=DA2=]. A resistance group working to expose The Collective's crimes against humanity... and perfectly willing to commit horrible crimes in the process.

* TheBadGuyWins: Sort of, depending on your definition of "bad". It turns out that the Doubt Academy Black and White games were a power struggle between the Collective, which is currently running the world, and Doctrina Artifice, a just as nasty rebel organization hoping to bring the Collective down. Since both games' survivors chose to save their friends' data as well as the evidence of what the Collective did, Doctrina Artifice wins the power struggle since it gets to broadcast this evidence to the world to bring the Collective down.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Part of the climax of ''Black/White''. Hijacking the airwaves, they broadcast images from the two mutual killing games, blaming all the deaths on The Collective.
* FacelessGoons: The member who appears in the broadcast at the end of ''Black/White'' is wearing a Monobear mask.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: They kicked off the Game of Mutual Killing in Bright Side Spa, framing it as solely the Collective's doing and executing their spy to add just one more death. And as noble as their goals may have otherwise been, after [=DA3=] it's clear that their broadcast has caused nationwide if not global panic, turning Japan into a land with no stable government, with the citizens distrustful of everyone around them, regardless of their affiliations.
* WalkingSpoiler
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Out to ensure The Collective is exposed and falls at ''any'' cost.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In ''White'', after their Mastermind Mole is exposed, they proceed to execute him. The Monobear who breaks this news to the mastermind gloats that his death will be another symbol of The Collective's crimes against humanity.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters

!!The A-Team

Introduced in [=DA3=]. A group of old friends, consisting of Takeshi Nara (a Collective researcher), Etsuo Yamaguchi, Ataru Kato, and Mahiru Ueda. Takeshi survives the Masterminds' takeover of Arcadia and leaves a distress message to his friends before being imprisoned; it doesn't pay off until the Game of Mutual Killing ends, however.

* EyesAlwaysShut: Mahiru, whose eyes are almost always closed aside from a few scenes: First, in the large image introducing Takeshi's friends. After that, they open when she speaks of particularly grave subjects, or when she's ''demanding'' that her friends stop fighting and arguing.
* FunWithAcronyms: The initials of their first names make up the word "team".
* MulticoloredHair: Etsuo and Ataru
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Etsuo, who has the same first name as Etsuo Takahashi from ''Black''. However, that student was known almost exclusively by his nickname King. Later, the surname Yamaguchi appears again with ''Rot'''s Keita Yamaguchi, while Ataru's surname Kato appears with Noriaki Kato (aka T△K△).
* SoleSurvivor: Takeshi was working with five other researchers, but they were killed during the Masterminds' coup; it's implied the only reason he was spared was because Gorou got to him before Yuuto did. This also means that Takeshi is the only person alive who knows how to operate the cloning technology, and thus he must turn down his friends' offer of help if the dead students are to be saved.
* ReluctantMadScientist: Takeshi genuinely wants to help people with the technology he was working on, especially the projects that could help those terminally ill or mortally wounded have another chance at life. He was absolutely disgusted once he realized that the Collective was putting high schoolers in danger, getting most of them killed, and readily turns against his former employers when given the opportunity. For what it's worth, it's not stated if anything he worked on was directly used to make anyone suffer.
* {{Tsundere}}: Ataru. An e-mail pieced together in the Isolation Ward shows them yelling at Takeshi and making threats on his life, and in person they're harsh to both Takeshi and the students. However, this anger stems from a concern over people's safety, and after the timeskip they offer their aid to any students who don't have a home to go to.
* WalkingSpoiler
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Mahiru's hair is a greenish-blue.

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!!Spoiler Characters

* [[spoiler:HandsomeDevil: In ''Alpha'' and ''Omega'', like Usami, he initially appeared to the groups in a human form. For most of the viewers, their immediately reaction was [[EvilIsSexy 'Oh no, he's hot!]]. Very quickly subverted, however, when he changes back into his familiar bear form within minutes of his introduction, stating he prefers it better.]]

* [[spoiler:TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized]]: In ''White'', Monobear is [[spoiler:a member of Doctrina Artifice, a group fighting against The Collective. In order to expose The Collective's true nature to the world, he helps arrange the mutual killing game, and gleefully kills his partner as part of this]].

** In ''White'': The survivors also get the option to [[spoiler:save their dead friends as data, preserving vital evidence against The Collective that can help bring them down... However, doing so also means supporting Doctrina Artifica, the revolutionary group that started the mutual killing game in the first place]]. Or they could [[spoiler:destroy the evidence, screwing over Doctrina Artifica... but this also means deleting the last traces of their dead friends and protecting The Collective, who brought them to Bright Side as test subjects]].
* SchrodingersGun: In ''White'' and ''Black'', Monobear serves a very ''slightly'' different, entire-game-spoilering role: in ''Black'', [[spoiler:Monobear is an agent of the Collective, and his goals are the Collective's goals]]. In ''White'', however, [[spoiler:he's part of Doctrina Artifica, an organization whose goal is to ''destroy'' the Collective.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: In Alpha and Omega. For one thing, in both games he ''personally'' shoves or throws (depending on the game) [[spoiler:Saki and Eikichi]] to their deaths when they stand up to him. Then in Alpha, he repeatedly impersonates the first victim's corpse, and this was after he ''kicked'' said corpse repeatedly.
** Then he impersonates the ''second'' victim's corpse as well, although without the prior kicking this time.

** Slightly mitigated in Alpha and Omega, where she openly tries to defend the students from Monobear and gets ''beaten up'' for her trouble.

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!![[spoiler:Kyouji Yasuda]]
Introduced in [=DA1=]. [[spoiler:The current headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy. Assisted with the Developmental Analysis Program, or DA Project. As of ''Black/White'', he has become a member of The Collective.]]

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler:He's more than pleased with the results of the DA Project, and mentions in passing the idea of ''future'' projects along the same lines...]]
* [[spoiler:BigOlEyebrows]]
* [[spoiler:CrossPoppingVeins]]: [[spoiler:A pair of these appear hidden in his hair several times, first when he berates the survivors for signing the liability waivers without thinking about what kind of projects ''require'' them.]]
* [[spoiler:DissonantSerenity]]: [[spoiler:He's almost always smiling.]]
* [[spoiler:{{Expy}}]]: [[spoiler:Basically a human Monobear. Justified In-Universe by how Monobear was based on ''him''.]]
* [[spoiler:FauxAffablyEvil]]: [[spoiler:He's all smiles while explaining the horrors he helped create.]]
* [[spoiler:ForScience]]: [[spoiler:The entire reason behind Doubt Academy was just to gather and measure results on how students with such hopeful talents could adapt to being placed in the ultimate "stressful situation".]]
* [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini]]: [[spoiler:Erases the survivors' memories of the second phase of the DA Project and makes it appear that the Central Wing was hit by a terrorist bombing, using that to excuse all the deaths. This lets him get away with the DA Project, and sets up for further horrors down the road.]]
* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]: [[spoiler:For the first game. As the Headmaster, he helped set up the DA Project, and tellingly shares many of Monobear's mannerisms. While Monobear was a fully autonomous AI, Yasuda could take control at any time.]]
* [[spoiler:PetTheDog]]: [[spoiler:Following the first game, he paints his erasure of the four survivors' memories as this -- he's giving them a chance to live without remembering the horrors they endured. In reality, however, it's all part of his plot to get away with his crimes scott-free.]]
* [[spoiler:RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver]]: [[spoiler:In the first game, he looks like a ManOfWealthAndTaste in his black suit with its crisp red tie and the neatly folded red hankerchief in his breast pocket.]]
* [[spoiler:TheSocialDarwinist]]
* [[spoiler:UhOhEyes]]: [[spoiler:Has solid black irises that perfectly blend in with his pupils.]]

!![[spoiler:The Collective]]
Introduced in [=DA2=]. [[spoiler:A secret, shadowy organization that has been running society from behind the scenes. Claim to be working towards a peaceful future without any conflict... at any cost.]]

* [[spoiler:BiggerBad]]: As of ''Black'' and ''White''.
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceBrainwashing]]: [[spoiler:Were researching this in ''Black''.]]
* [[spoiler:OutGambitted]]: [[spoiler:Both Black and White survivors chose to preserve their dead friends' data, the evidence against the Collective, and the Collective's research. The Collective was expecting Black to do this and is actually okay with it, since they feel their research is worth it. But the White game was run by rebel organization Doctrina Artifica...and since White chose ''not'' to screw DA over by destroying the evidence, Doctrina Artifica was able to broadcast the Collective's misdeeds to the world.]]
* [[spoiler:PoweredByAForsakenChild]]: [[spoiler:The sixty students in ''Black/White'' were signed over to them for their own experiments. {{Invoked}} by the Doctrina Artifica when they revealed these experiments to the world.]]
* [[spoiler:UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans]]: [[spoiler:Effectively their motto.]]
* [[spoiler:VisionaryVillain]]

* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist]]: [[spoiler:Supposedly out to guide the world to a peaceful new age by controlling it through whatever means necessary.]]

!![[spoiler:Doctrina Artifica]]
Introduced in [=DA2=]. [[spoiler:A resistance group working to expose The Collective's crimes against humanity... and perfectly willing to commit horrible crimes in the process.]]

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler:Sort of, depending on your definition of "bad". It turns out that the Doubt Academy Black and White games were a power struggle between the Collective, which is currently running the world, and Doctrina Artifica, a just as nasty rebel organization hoping to bring the Collective down. Since both games' survivors chose to save their friends' data as well as the evidence of what the Collective did, Doctrina Artifica wins the power struggle since it gets to broadcast this evidence to the world to bring the Collective down.]]
* [[spoiler:DoNotAdjustYourSet]]: Part of the climax of ''Black/White''. [[spoiler:Hijacking the airwaves, they broadcast images from the two mutual killing games, blaming all the deaths on The Collective.]]
* [[spoiler:FacelessGoons]]: [[spoiler:The member who appears in the broadcast at the end of ''Black/White'' is wearing a Monobear mask.]]
* [[spoiler:TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized]]

* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist]]: [[spoiler:Out to ensure The Collective is exposed and falls at ''any'' cost.]]
* [[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness]]: In ''White'', [[spoiler:after their Mastermind Mole is exposed, they proceed to execute him. The Monobear who breaks this news to the mastermind gloats that his death will be another symbol of The Collective's crimes against humanity]].
* [[spoiler:YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters]]

!![[spoiler:The A-Team]]
Introduced in [=DA3=]. [[spoiler:A group of old friends, consisting of Takeshi Nara (a Collective researcher), Etsuo Yamaguchi, Ataru Kato, and Mahiru Ueda (unaffiliated with any major group). Takeshi survives the Masterminds' takeover of Arcadia and leaves a distress message to his friends before being imprisoned; it doesn't pay off until the Game of Mutual Killing ends, however.]]

* [[spoiler:EyesAlwaysShut]]: [[spoiler:Mahiru, whose eyes are almost always closed aside from a few scenes: First, in the large image introducing Takeshi's friends. After that, they open when she speaks of particularly grave subjects, or when she's ''demanding'' that her friends stop fighting and arguing.]]
* [[spoiler:FunWithAcronyms]]: [[spoiler:The initials of their first names make up the word "team".]]
* [[spoiler:MulticoloredHair]]: [[spoiler:Etsuo and Ataru]]
* [[spoiler:OneSteveLimit]]: [[spoiler:Averted with Etsuo, who has the same first name as Etsuo Takahashi from ''Black''. However, that student was known almost exclusively by his nickname King. Later, the surname Yamaguchi appears again with ''Rot'''s Keita Yamaguchi, while Ataru's surname Kato appears with Noriaki Kato (aka T△K△).]]
* [[spoiler:Tsundere]]: [[spoiler:Ataru. An e-mail pieced together in the Isolation Ward shows them yelling at Takeshi and making threats on his life, and in person they're harsh to both Takeshi and the students. However, this anger stems from a concern over people's safety, and after the timeskip they offer their aid to any students who don't have a home to go to.]]

* [[spoiler:YouGottaHaveBlueHair]]: [[spoiler:Mahiru's hair is a greenish-blue.]]

[[spoiler:The current headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy. Assisted with the Developmental Analysis Program, or DA Project. As of ''Black/White'', he has become a member of The Collective.]]

[[spoiler:A secret, shadowy organization that has been running society from behind the scenes. Claim to be working towards a peaceful future without any conflict... at any cost.]]

[[spoiler:A resistance group working to expose The Collective's crimes against humanity... and perfectly willing to commit horrible crimes in the process.]]

** [[spoiler:Then he impersonates the ''second'' victim's corpse as well, although without the prior kicking this time.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: In Alpha and Omega. For one thing, in both games he ''personally'' shoves or throws (depending on the game) [[spoiler:Saki and Eikichi]] to their deaths when they stand up to him. Then in Alpha, he repeatedly impersonates the first victim's corpse, and this was after he ''kicked'' said corpse repeatedly.

* TookALevelInJerkass: In Alpha and Omega. Yes, this is a CompleteMonster we were dealing with from the start, and yes, in Alpha and Omega he acts even ''worse''. For one thing, in both games he ''personally'' shoves or throws (depending on the game) [[spoiler:Saki and Eikichi]] to their deaths when they stand up to him. Then in Alpha, he repeatedly impersonates the first victim's corpse, and this was after he ''kicked'' said corpse repeatedly.

* ShipperOnDeck: In Alpha, with how he words some of his answers to investigators, it would appear that he ships Yuu Sagara and Emiko Shiromura.