History Main / AlwaysInClassOne

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII'': the protagonists are members of Squad '''[[InvertedTrope G]]''', which is the class where slackers, misfits and undesirables get dumped. Overcoming the problems, lack of teamwork, and defeatism that landed them in said class is a major part of the first two thirds of the game.

* VideoGame/TheSims4'': When you play with the Highschool Years DLC, your teenage sims will always attend Class 1 when in Copperdale Highschool.

* With only two hero classes that year, it was a 50-50 shot, but the main cast of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' ended up being entirely contained in class 1-A.[[note]]Though really, it's more that ''[[TheHero Midoriya]]'' had a 50-50 shot of ending up in 1-A. Since he's the protagonist, the rest of the main cast only ''became'' part of the main cast on account of being his classmates.[[/note]] InUniverse, 1-A is considerably more renowned than 1-B due to being at the center of several incidents. Monoma of 1-B resents them for it and consistently tries to stoke up a rivalry between the classes, but usually no one takes him up on it. There are nine other first-year classes at U.A., but since those are [[HufflepuffHouse the non-hero classes]], there's a grand total of ''two'' characters in them who are even [[NominalImportance important enough to have names]]. And one of those characters has the primary goal of transferring into either of the two hero classes. On the flip side, the fact that Class 1-A plays a central role in the main story means the class is more prone to villain attacks, like what happened in the USJ and Training Camp arcs, leading to the class being resented by most of the student body until their performance during the Cultural Festival arc.

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* With only two hero classes that year, it was a 50-50 shot, but the main cast of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' ended up being entirely contained in class 1-A.[[note]]Though really, it's more that ''[[TheHero Midoriya]]'' had a 50-50 shot of ending up in 1-A. Since he's the protagonist, the rest of the main cast only ''became'' part of the main cast on account of being his classmates.[[/note]] InUniverse, 1-A is considerably more renowned than 1-B due to being at the center of several incidents. Monoma of 1-B resents them for it and consistently tries to stoke up a rivalry between the classes, but usually no one takes him up on it. There are nine other first-year classes at U.A., but since those are [[HufflepuffHouse the non-hero classes]], there's a grand total of ''two'' characters in them who are even [[NominalImportance important enough to have names]]. And one of those characters has the primary goal of transferring into either of the two hero classes.
** Interestingly, this comes to bite Class 1-A ''because'' they play a central role in the main story. They are attacked by villains in the USJ and Traning Camp arcs, and are resented by most of the student body until their performance during the Cultural Festival arc.

** The flashbacks to the characters' first year show that Akihisa was in class D and Mizuki in class C, averting this trope.f

* ''LightNovel/NakaimoMyLittleSisterIsAmongThem'' places the majority of the cast in 2-A.

* Eita and Masuzu of ''LightNovel/{{Oreshura}}'' are shown to be in class 1-1. Chiwa isn't in the class, however.

* Prior to his death, the protagonist of ''LightNovel/DogAndScissors'' was in 2-A.

* ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'':
** {{Inverted}} with all the main characters being in Class F and Class A being the antagonists (they are arranged by their test scores). The other four classes in between are almost entirely inconsequential and only their {{Class Representative}}s get any screentime.
** The flashbacks to the characters' first year show that Akihisa was in class D and Mizuki in class C, averting this trope.

* Sen Yarizui of ''LightNovel/BenTo'' is in class 2-1. Of course, this was revealed at complete random with no meaning in the slightest.

* Eita and Masuzu of ''LightNovel/{{Oreshura}}'' are shown to be in class 1-1. Chiwa isn't in the class, however.

* ''Literature/AestheticaOfARogueHero'' has the two main protagonists in class B-1.

* ''LightNovel/NakaimoMyLittleSisterIsAmongThem'' places the majority of the cast in 2-A.
* ''Literature/OniAi'' uses 2-A for the main character.

* The protagonist of ''Literature/InvadersOfTheRokujyouma'' starts off in class 1-A, and then all of the invaders transfer into his class in the second episode.

* Prior to his death, the protagonist of ''LightNovel/DogAndScissors'' was in 2-A.

* The protagonist of ''LightNovel/GonnaBeTheTwinTail'' is in class 1-A.

* Except for Rin, Kanzashi and Tatenashi, the main cast of ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' are all students or teachers in Class 1-1.

* Averted in ''Literature/{{Hyouka}}''. All four of the main characters are in different classes: Eru in 1-A, Houtarou in 1-B, and Satoshi in 1-D (Mayaka's first year class is never stated, but since she doesn't have Omichi-sensei for math, who teaches classes A-D, she can't be in the same class with any of the other three). It even becomes a plot point in one episode.

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* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': As Miss Brooks is the protagonist, and her actual teaching is rarely in focus, it should be largely irrelevant who's in what class. Nevertheless, student characters Walter Denton, Harriet Conklin and Stretch Snodgrass are almost always stated to be in the same class of Miss Brooks'. This, in a school with multiple English teachers. Notably subverted in the episode "Faculty Cheerleader", when Mr. Conklin assigns the three to different classes to punish Walter.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Front", there's a class called "Remedial Science 1-A".

* ''LightNovel/OniAi'' uses 2-A for the main character.

* ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'':

* ''LightNovel/AestheticaOfARogueHero'' has the two main protagonists in class B-1.

* The protagonist of ''LightNovel/InvadersOfTheRokujyouma'' starts off in class 1-A, and then all of the invaders transfer into his class in the second episode.

* ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'' {{Zig Zag|gged Trope}}s this: While Komi, Tadano (and [[ChildhoodFriend Najimi]]) are in Class 1 for all three years, every other character-- even important supporting characters like Yamai, Katai, Ase, and Rumiko-- gets shuffled into a different class. It turns out to be an InvokedTrope in their third year, as the teachers put all the students who had trouble getting along with other people in class 3-1.

** They're nothing if not [[WeirdnessMagnet Weirdness Magnets]].

* Subverted in ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'', where one of the most important classes in the series is Class 77-B. While Class 77-A does exist, they are relatively minor in comparison to Class 77-B, with only a few students from that class being known and those same students mostly being independent from one another when it comes to their actions in the overarching story.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. While several named characters are in Class 2-A, more than in any other class in Homurahara Academy, only one of them -- Rin Tohsaka, the {{Deuteragonist}} -- is a main character. Ayako Mitsuzuri is a secondary character that disappear early in every route, and Kane Himuro, Kaede Makidera and Yukika Saegusa are barely more than minor characters. Shirou Emiya -- the protagonist and FirstPerson narrator of almost the entirely of the visual novel -- attends Class 2-C and Sakura Matou -- main character of the ''Heaven's Feel'' route -- is in Class 1-B.

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* With only two hero classes that year, it was a 50-50 shot, but the main cast of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' ended up being entirely contained in class 1-A.[[note]]Though really, it's more that ''[[TheHero Midoriya]]'' had a 50-50 shot of ending up in 1-A. Since he's the protagonist, the rest of the main cast only ''became'' part of the main cast on account of being his classmates.[[/note]] InUniverse, 1-A is considerably more renowned than 1-B due to being at the center of several incidents. Monoma of 1-B resents them for it and consistently tries to stoke up a rivalry between the classes, but usually no one takes him up on it. There are nine other first-year classes at U.A., but since those are [[HufflepuffHouse the non-hero classes]], there's a grand total of ''two'' characters in them who are even [[NominalImportance important enough to have names]].

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' has the entire main cast placed into Class 2-1 by the beginning of season 2 in both the anime and manga. Lampshaded by Mizore when she wonders if it was the headmaster that made sure that everyone was placed in the same class.