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The Dooronpa Trilogy is a series of three interconnected Danganronpa RPs run by Discord user door-kun, each with 16 players (save the final one, with 17 characters.)

The Casts, as follows -

    Dooronpa: Return to Despair Academy 

    Dooronpa 2: Monocrow's Despairing Park 

    Dooronpa 3: The Castle of Doom 

The roleplay, among its players, is known for kickstarting the Danganronpa roleplay trend in the group. Furthermore, the roleplays all take place within one connected universe, which is shared with Moonronpa: Neo Bunker Game. Dooronpa Otherworld, and Dooronpa Rise From The Ashes while technically not part of the series, were created after the trilogy was completed, by the same mod team.

As a general note, all spoilers have been left unmarked. You Have Been Warned.

  • Accidental Murder: Ranma in 3-2.
  • Back from the Dead: Tanya in Chapter 1-3, as a result of Melia's Heroic Sacrifice... or so it seems.
  • Batman Gambit: Light/Kira learns that Kaiba is the mastermind before the end of the first trial in season two- he almost immediately devises a plan to kill the smug bastard without actually getting his own hands dirty. Knowing that Maya is one of the only people on his very small good side, he suggests she check up on him. While he is on the top floor of a tower. With open windows. Sure enough, Seto lets slip that he's the one who created the Despairing Park killing game; sure enough, Maya gives him the retribution he "deserved," in Kira's eyes; and sure enough, he ended up covering Maya's tracks since he knew she'd be too guilty to do it himself.
  • Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Averted with Gumshoe in Return to Despair Academy, despite Afton's best efforts - played straight with Joseph, Yu, and King Shark, who all perish.
  • Big Bad: William Afton. In both the first and third entries, he's responsible for both killing games, as well as much of what happens to the poor souls he traps. For the second entry, the Big Bad is Tsumugi Shirogane.
  • Big Damn Heroes: During the Darkest Hour of season 3, Sans calls in back up from the Kisaragi foundation, Undyne in particular. Naturally, during the finale, she, Gumshoe and Nikei crash the party and aid in stopping Porky and William's diabolical scheme.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Zinnia is the closest thing Dooronpa is getting to Nagito Komaeda, believing herself a hero and all of humanity the villains- not helping matters is her tendency to brush others off for this reason even when they just want to help them. It says something when her crush, Hana, is among the people she constantly says she's willing to let die to achieve her goals.
  • Break the Cutie: The entire Killing Game in the third entry of Doorronpa revolved around this in the same vein as a certain other killing game. Specifically, William Afton's AI plotted to take Hana's body by breaking her mental state and plunging her into despair, making her an empty shell for him to take.
  • Butt-Monkey: Ranma in Door 3. For starter, William tends to mess with him usually in ways regarding his curse. Soon afterwards, he's one of the five participants put on the "Trolley Motive," which was halted in par by Jack's intervention. Ranma proceeds to also be thrown in the castle's dungeons for the night as punishment, which according to Monocrow was better than what William could've done. The second motive gave everyone different variations and opposites of deadly sins. Ranma's was lust, which was annoying to him due to his normally prudish attitude. Afterwards, when Zinnia ordered her Pokémon to run amuck, Ranma had his arm bitten by Zinnia's Salamence. To top everything off, Ranma ends up being Chapter 2's Blackened, when he ended up killing Mary when she attacked him. To keep him from just admitting it, William made a deal with him that if he keeps quiet and play along, he'll remove his curse. In the end, Ranma can't do it and barely makes any attempt to deny their claims, and is soon executed right afterwards. To further rub salt in his wounds, he ends up stuck in his girl form in the afterlife as a result of dying in that form. Needless to say his time in the castle was not pleasant
  • Complete Monster: William Afton one-ups his canon counterpart in every way. 11 count child serial killer, Afton also had a bastard son - Nikei Yomiuri, who he abandoned and abused, Afton found out about the powers of gifts and the money that could be gained in his quest for immortality - founding Team Danganronpa on this, he sponsored 4 killing games, personally masterminded 2, personally murdered Max, and made an entire killing game to steal the body of Hana Song so he could continue his agenda. As well, he put his son in one of those games, and has no care for anyone beyond himself. Truly the worst monster in the trilogy and its background, Afton lives up to being this trilogy's equivalent of Junko Enoshima.
  • Decoy Protagonist: The second season looks like it's going to focus on Dimitri, but by the time the Chapter 2 investigation has begun, he's in no shape- or state of mind- to lead a class trial. Linhardt is the real protagonist of the season.
  • Destination Defenestration: How Kaiba dies in 2-2.
  • Dwindling Party: It's Danganronpa, so of course.
  • Exact Words: Monocrow only said the Necronomicon would bring back one of the dead. He never said the participants would be able to choose.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: During the hallucination motive in Door 2, Tohru Adachi manifested in Yu Narukami's face in order to preach his usual Misanthrope Supreme beliefs... in such a way that the player roleplaying as him was having the time of his life while tormenting Narukami with the supposed deaths of Nananko, Dojima, and his friends. Amusingly, he became a cast member in Door 3, being played by the same user who used him in Narukami's hallucination.
  • Fallen Hero: Early into Season 2, Dimitri, who's all but stated to be The Hero, is tortured by Monocrow, resulting in his Sanity Slippage happening earlier than in his canon. This forces Linhardt to step up to the plate.
  • Fanon Discontinuity: Depending who you ask, the only seasons that everyone agrees happened are Return to Despair Academy and Castle of Doom. Moonronpa: Neo Bunker Game is considered canon and plays into Nikei appearing in the season 3 finale but is not technically a Dooronpa incarnation, and Monocrow's Despairing Park is divisive among the group due to its shaky finale and the controversy regarding the stand-in mastermind.
  • The Gadfly: Dear lord, Zinnia. She seems to love nothing more than to absolutely ruin everyone's day just by vibing, even those making an effort to care about her like Hana and Toph.
  • Gender Bender: Just like in his original series, Ranma's curse invokes this whenever he comes into contact with water. Given his beliefs and raising, he tends to get annoyed and embarrassed whenever someone, typically William, makes fun of him.
  • Grand Theft Me: AI!William's true goal with the Castle of Doom killing game. He'd intended to use it to break Hana so thoroughly that she'd be little more than an empty vessel for his mind to take over.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Porky Minch, the person who aided Team Danganronpa and Afton in their goals through the use of his Time Travel abilities.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Adachi's arc in Dooronpa 3 - he turns into a genuinly good person throughout his arc.
  • Heroic BSoD: Doubled in 3-6, where William reveals a few plot twists that leave both Hana and Abigail in tatters, and if not for their fellow survivors (as well as the intervention of the Kisaragi Foundation, he may have actually succeeded with his evil plan.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Melia, living on borrowed time as is, sacrifices herself so one of the dead can return. It was supposed to be Charles, but...
    • Chapter 3-3's motive is the Forbidden Action motive from Danganronpa 3. When Constance, whose action is "using her magic," sees Toph brutally savaged and at death's door due to an attack from a berserking King Shark, she agrees that they'll go together so King Shark will not be executed for being the blackened, using her ice magic to finish her friend off. Unfortunately, William is not amused and changes the rules specifically to execute Nanaue, rendering the whole thing a Senseless Sacrifice.
  • Hostile Show Takeover: Invoked. Maya defenestrating Seto in 2-2 led to Team Danganronpa having to manage the killing game personally.
  • I Ate WHAT?!: The majority of the third group is disgusted to find out that the "Kabuya Cocktail" is made from human blood. Partially subverted by Zinnia and Toph, who continue to drink it anyway, though the latter lampshades the situation.
  • Irony: Maya is known for constantly being a murder suspect in her games, though never in the first case. When 2-2 rolls around and she is, in fact, the culprit, literally no one suspects her despite her best attempts to prove her own guilt without outright saying it, as per the rules.
  • Lovable Sex Maniac: Colette thinks she's this trope. In reality, most of the others just find her disturbing.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Kira, if 2-2 is anything to go by.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
    • Meta trope. Many of the players were dissatisfied with Killer's portrayal of Seto Kaiba, especially those who were Yu-Gi-Oh! fans like Glitch. Though Kate was a heavy step in the wrong direction to the point her player is nearly forbidden from re-entering the circle (among other reasons), Kaiba is even worse about it because he was originally intended to be Season 2's mastermind. Ironically, when the group considered writing him out of the RP altogether, however, Glitch ended up being the one to defend Seto's presence in the canon- partially for selfish reasons, but partially because the Not So Stoic moments he had with Glitch's character in that same arc, Maya, endeared him to the iteration.
  • Spanner in the Works:
    • Why Gumshoe is attempted to be taken out by the Mastermind in 1-4 - he's the only one who poses a serious threat in Afton's eyes thanks to his job as a police officer. However, by doing this, Gumshoe only becomes a bigger threat.
    • Light turns out to be the Spanner in 2-2; Magnificent Bastard he is, he quickly finds out who the mastermind, and stages a plan for one of his "friends" to murder said mastermind. This nearly ends the season early- if not for Tsumugi's Hostile Show Takeover, he'd have ended the killing game right there.
    • Sans in Season 3 - Alter Ego!Afton had no idea Sans was working with the Kisaragi Foundation, and Sans faking his death in Chapter 5 screws with Afton even more. Sans is even the one to murder Afton in the finale.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: Tsumugi Shirogane is once again a mastermind, but unlike in her home game, she's not killed off by the end of her trial.
  • Taking the Bullet: Melting's gambit in 1-2, as Max otherwise would be Camo's blackened, but he bashed Camo's head in before Camo bled out from the wounds inflicted by Max's laser, making Melting the blackened instead.
  • Thanatos Gambit: Ronnie's gambit in Chapter 5 - namely, via causin executed for the "murder" of Sans that never happened, (He didn't know about the virtual world causing death IRL), he was able to give Sans enough time to contact the Kisaragi Foundation for backup to save the remaining group.
  • Token Good Teammate: Ronnie for TEMPUS - Afton is a Complete Monster, Cleo killed two people just to get out because of Afton's orders, and Mary tried to kill Ranma. Ronnie betrayed TEMPUS in Chapter 5 and worked with Sans to end the killing game.
  • Token Religious Teammate: One in each game, all hailing from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Linhardt downplays the trope, but Marianne and Constance play it straight.
  • The Other Darrin: Played with. Due to Undyne's player having scheduling conflicts, Charles' player offered to help carry her following his death. The difference is subtle but noticeable: Daisy's Undyne is a little more reckless and energetic, while Glitch's is somewhat more grounded and calm.
  • Uncertain Doom: Sans' ultimate fate is unknown, both in-universe and out- the RP's founder and his player, Door-Kun, ultimately refuses to elaborate, mentioning that whether Sans lived or died is up to interpretation.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Both Charles and Mishima fall into this, though significantly moreso in Charles' case due to the short time Season 1 was played over.
  • Wham Episode: Chapter 2-2 is this in spades. Between Dimitri's Sanity Slippage and subsequent Face–Heel Turn, Light's villainous reveal, Maya being the murderer and the victim, Kaiba, having been the mastermind of the whole thing, forcing Team Danganronpa to take the killing game into their own hands, this chapter has a little something for everyone.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: The cast reacted this way when it was initially revealed in 3-2 that Ranma killed Mary. Subverted when they hear what actually transpired.

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