Roleplay / Class Trials Season 1

Tropes from the First Season (Class Trials 1-10) of the r/DanganRoleplay subreddit.

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Class Trial 1

Komaru Naegi is found dead in the Trash Room, with evidence having been planted that implicates everybody except Hajime Hinata.

Tropes for the First Class Trial

• Early-Installment Weirdness: As it was the very first attempt at a Reddit Class Trial, it lacks much of the structure and narrative that later trials would possess and was a much more casual form of roleplay.
• Frame-Up: Every single student had some form of evidence framing them for the crime, with the exception of Hajime, whose very lack of a frame-up was a frame-up in itself.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: How Nagito was discovered as the killer; Byakuya had never told anyone his pillow was monogrammed, a fact only the killer could have known.
  • Nagito later admits that he intentionally invoked this trope several times, having also let slip knowing the price of the gun and the location of Genocide Jack's misplaced scissors without anybody calling attention to it.
• Swiss-Cheese Security: Nagito is able to access everybody's personal belongings after discovering that the dorm rooms in Hope's Peak Academy apparently don't have locks.
• Threat Backfire: After discovering various murder plans that Nagito had written and threatening to tell everybody, Komaru finds herself on the wrong side of this when Nagito finds himself inspired to make her his victim.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Nagito admits that his various frame-ups were mostly improvised after killing Komaru on a whim, even outright comparing it to Speed Chess.

Class Trial 2

Teruteru is found dead in a locked Rec Room by Kazuichi, Mahiru, and Hiyoko. However, the Body Discovery Announcement doesn't play until more students arrived to break through.

Tropes for the Second Class Trial

• Accidental Murder: Kazuichi was only attempting to confront Teruteru over his intentions with Sonia. He ended up accidentally throwing the latter into a glass shelf when attacked.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Kazuichi.
• Locked Room Mystery: Kazuichi improvises one after accidentally killing Teruteru

Class Trial 3

Sayaka, Gundham, and Three of the Four Dark Devas are all found dead in the Hotel Pool, with their deaths matching a film made by Monokuma.

Tropes for the Third Class Trial

• Anti-Villain: Kyoko killed Sayaka for murdering Gundham. She ends up confessing in the end.
• Call-Back: Nagito is still not a fan of Monokuma's filmmaking ability, even having made sure to avoid watching the film that the murders match.
• Face Death with Dignity: Kyoko
• Frame-Up: The gun that shot Sayaka is planted in Nagito's room.
• Jack the Ripoff: The deaths of Gundham's Four Dark Deva, Gundham, and Sayaka all resemble death in a film that only Makoto, Kyoko, Mahiru, Hiyoko, Sonia, and Gundham had seen. Sayaka's killer later reveals that this was unintentional, as most of them were killed by Sayaka.
• Odd Friendship: The shy, timid Chihiro and the loud, boisterous Nekomaru quickly bond, with Nekomaru promising to help Chihiro train.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Nagito insists that he couldn't be the killer on the basis that he never saw the movie. As it turns out, the killer didn't intentionally imitate the film.
• Ship Tease: Makoto/Kyoko and Gundham/Sonia are implied to have been on a movie date on the night of the murder. Both pairings end poorly.
• Spotting the Thread: Subverted. Kyoko calls out Nagito for giving two different times for when he went to bed. In the end, it turns out that Kyoko was the killer and that Nagito legitimately wasn't sure of when he went to sleep.
• Stylistic Suck: Monokuma's film, "Ultra Despair Hamsters", is ultimately

Class Trial 4

Makoto Naegi and Toko Fukawa are both found in a bloody crime scene on the second floor of Hope's Peak Academy.

Tropes for the Fourth Class Trial

• Dying Declaration of Hate: After being outed as the killer, Ibuki gleefully reveals that Togami's theory was wrong while declaring that she was reverted back into Ultimate Despair.
• Frame-Up: It's implied that Ibuki was likely trying to frame Togami, although due to Nagito's interference and Togami's discovery of the second body, it never really comes to that.
• Jack the Ripoff: Ibuki kills Toko and rearranges the scene to resemble a Genocide Jack killing.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Togami comes up with an elaborate explanation for how Toko and Makoto were killed where Toko plotted to kill Ibuki, killed Makoto when he stumbled upon her plan, and then was killed by Ibuki when she happened upon the scene. Everybody is promptly convinced to vote for her in response. Although Ibuki does turn out to be the culprit, it turns out that Togami's entire story was indeed wrong.
• Series Continuity Error: The blood in this trial's evidence is portrayed as being red, instead of pink like it has traditionally been in the Danganronpa series.
• Ship Tease: Twogami and Ibuki are teased heavily. Ends poorly.
• Spotting the Thread: When Togami realizes that Makoto must've picked up Ibuki's Lost Wallet, he declares that it must've held the letter that lured him to the scene, implying that Ibuki must've been lying about not knowing about it. It's subverted, however when it turns out that the letter wasn't in the wallet and that Ibuki simply asked him to follow her to the library.
• The Reveal: Ibuki converted back into Ultimate Despair.

Class Trial 5

After having been captured and imprisoned, Junko Enoshima is found stabbed to death in the Trash Room.

This trial went on to become a full series. It has its own page at Class Trials CT 5

Class Trial 6

Nagito Komaeda is found riddled with bullets in front of the Ruins, leaving behind diary entries that reveal that he has promised three classmates that he would let them murder him and frame another.

Tropes for the Sixth Class Trial

• Anti-Villain: Mukuro kills Nagito in order to stop him from antagonizing Makoto. She ultimately confesses to her crime to prevent the class from being executed for getting it wrong.
• Blatant Lies: Towards the end of the trial, a desperate Kazuichi attempts to pin the blame on Sonia when it looks like he'll take the fall for Nagito's murder by accusing her of having told him to fix the truck for her.
• Butt-Monkey: Kazuichi cements himself as this, as two people plotted to frame him for a murder and he nearly takes the blame for Nagito's murder as well.
• Car Fu: Nagito is killed by getting hit with a truck.
• The Dog Bites Back: When he's about to take the fall for Nagito's murder, a desperate Kazuichi decides to blame Sonia, who had planned to frame him for murder beforehand, for the crime, falsely insisting that she told him to fix the truck that killed Nagito.
• Driven to Suicide: Mukuro kills herself rather than face Monokuma's punishment time.
• Face Death with Dignity: Mukuro
• Frame-Up: Kazuichi is an unfortunate victim of this.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Mukuro chooses to confess rather than sacrifice Makoto.
• Karma Houdini: Sonia and Gundham were plotting with Nagito to murder him and frame Kazuichi. Neither one is punished for this.
• Manipulative Bastard: Even in death, Nagito manages to pull this off.
• Near-Villain Victory: The class was about to vote for Sonia or Kazuichi before Mukuro finally confessed.
• No Kill like Overkill: Monomi is subjected to every single execution from the games and the past five trials.
• Ship Tease: Plenty between Mukuro and Makoto; ends poorly. Plenty between Peko and Fuyuhiko as well, thanks to Monomi; ends better.
• Shout-Out: The titles of the Trial Parts are references to the Eeveelutions from the Pokemon series.
• Spotting the Thread: Subverted. Kazuichi is almost found guilty when it's determined that he was the only one who could've known that the truck was fixed. As it turns out, the real killer only uncovered this by accident in the heat of the moment.

Class Trial 7

Kazuichi Soda and Nekomaru Nidai are found dead in the Factory of the Fifth Island, with Kazuichi's body having been locked in with an unconscious Celestia Ludenberg.

Tropes for the Seventh Class Trial

• Butt-Monkey: Hifumi is made fun of by Celeste for nearly the entire trial. Ironically, it's Hifumi who brings up the possibility that Kazuichi wasn't actually dead when first discovered.
• Disney Death: Nagito and Taka both drink tea to test whether it's been poisoned or not. They proceed to collapse and don't wake up until the next part of the trial, where they reveal that the tea was simply drugged.
• Face Death with Dignity: Peko accepts her conviction with class.
• Frame-Up: Celeste is locked up alone with Kazuichi's seemingly dead body with the intent of framing her as the killer.
• Last Request: Subverted. Sakura offers to take a last message to Fuyuhiko, but Peko refuses.
• Locked Room Mystery: Kazuichi's body was propped up against the warehouse door, creating a locked room mystery. Although, since Celeste was locked in with Kazuichi, it pointed to her being the killer.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: Although Kazuichi and Nekomaru are both killed, Nekomaru is noticeably missed more.
• Ship Tease: Mukuro's crush on Makoto is outed by Monokuma and reciprocated. As a bonus, neither one dies this time.
  • Peko/Taka is also teased to a slight extent. Ends Poorly.
• The Reveal: When the body discovery failed to ring after Kazuichi was found, it wasn't because one of the three discoverers was the killer. It was because Kazuichi wasn't dead yet.
• Spotting the Thread: Nagito points out that Peko is the only one who could've smuggled certain items that were used in the murder out of the abandoned lodge.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: Celeste challenges Nagito to a game of Russian Roulette. The boy proceeds to whip out his own revolver, pull the trigger on himself, and then, after surviving, realizes that he accidentally left 5 bullets inside. This does not diminish Celeste's confidence.

Class Trial 8

Hiyoko is found bloodied in the Amusement Park, having been struck by a Roller Coaster. Without her legs.

Tropes for the Eighth Class Trial

• Dead Man Writing: Twogami leaves a letter for Ibuki after his execution where he urges her to move on.
• Dying Declaration of Hate: Twogami performs one prior to his execution.
• Easily Forgiven: Ibuki and Kazuichi are rather affected by Twogami's death, even after it's revealed that he was threatening Hiyoko for quite a while, was slowly poisoning her, and chose to murder her and feed the flesh off of her legs to everybody.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Even Nagito is disgusted by Twogami's crimes, reasoning that feeding everybody Hiyoko's flesh could only have been done out of pure sadism.
• Evil Is Petty: Twogami torments Hiyoko for quite some time, poisons her, drives her mad, kills her with a roller coaster, and feeds her flesh to the students. His reason for doing so? People didn't respect his leadership enough!
• Gut Feeling: Despite not actually eating the burgers, Sayaka still felt queasy after breakfast.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Twogami kills Hiyoko and feeds her flesh to the others in the shape of burgers.
• No Kill Like Over Kill: Hiyoko is struck with a Roller Coaster.
• Odd Friendship: Gundham and Sayaka of all people. Sayaka uses her notorious line about being a psychic, and Gundham actually believes her. Sayaka humours Gundham as well, and the two form an unlikely bond.
• Running Gag: Trebuchet, from a word found written on the crime scene image that was completely unrelated to the case at all.
• Skewed Priorities: Nagito is more concerned that everybody ate Mercury poisoned meat rather than the fact that the meat was flesh from Hiyoko's Legs.
• Ship Tease: Twogami and Ibuki are teased again. Still ends Poorly.
• Shout-Out: The titles of the Trial Parts are named after Owl City songs.
• Troll: Nagito accuses Kazuichi of the murder, even performing a climax interference. Immediately after being called out, he admits that Kazuichi's alibi is airtight and that he came up with that theory for a laugh.

Class Trial 9

After failing to show up for a dinner party, Fuyuhiko is found stashed in a cooler within the Beach House and surrounded by evidence implicating Hagakure. However, when Nagito reveals that he planted evidence at the scene, the students are left questioning why the Body Discovery Announcement played after a fourth person found the body.

Tropes for the Ninth Class Trial

• Acquitted Too Late: Hajime finally realizes what Nagito's trick to manipulate the Body Discovery Announcement was. Immediately after the Vote was declared and Monokuma puts an end to further discussion.
• Anti-Villain: Hagakure is genuinely regretful of having killed Fuyuhiko, having only done so in a panic.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Hagakure wins the trial, despite being the murderer.
• Better as Friends: Sayaka seems to realize this about Makoto and herself halfway through the trial, and so she allows Mukuro the "victory."
• Break the Cutie: Peko tries keeping herself together after the death of Fuyuhiko, but eventually cracks. Also Despair Event Horizon
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Monomi is portrayed as this. Ultimately, it's revealed that Monokuma tricked her into using marijuana.
• Cruel Mercy: Monokuma chooses not to execute Monomi with the others and condemns her to live on with the knowledge that her students died on her watch
• Darkhorse Victory: Perpetually incompetent Yasuhiro Hagakure ends up being the very first player on the subreddit to successfully commit murder and get away with it.
• Death by Irony: Fuyuhiko is killed with a baseball bat.
• Despair Event Horizon: Peko reaches this after learning that the Time of Death was so early.
• Downer Ending: The first trial in which the class gets the wrong culprit.
• "Everybody Dies" Ending
• Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle: During an intermission, Monokuma offers the students a hint if they can solve a variant of this puzzle that involves Monokuma, Monomi, and a Ball of Moss. The others quickly give the traditional answer, only for Monokuma to declare that it could be done in one trip by feeding the Moss to Monomi, feeding Monomi to Monokuma, and sending him off on the boat alone.
• Frame-Up: Subverted. Nagito is discovered to have planted evidence implicating Hagakure. However, he did so in order to ensure that the evidence which Hagakure actually did end up leaving behind would be written off as Nagito's handiwork. He also did so before the murder actually occurred.
• Framing the Guilty Party: Done by Nagito with the intent of taking the blame for any evidence pointing at the killer.
• Karma Houdini: Hagakure of all people ends up being Fuyuhiko's murderer and wins the trial.
• Love Triangle: Sayaka and Mukuro both "fight" for an oblivious Makoto's affection.
• Manipulative Bastard: Nagito is in rare form, having messed with a crime scene before the murder actually happened.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": When Monokuma reveals that the time of Death was set while both suspects had alibis.
• Red Herring: The body discovery announcement leads everybody to believe that only Makoto or Hajime could've committed the crime.
• Rogue Protagonist: Teased when the Body Discovery Announcement implicates Hajime and Makoto. Subverted in the end, as both prove to be innocent
• Sanity Slippage: Peko goes through a severe case of this. She ends up adopting the Sparkling Justice persona for real and only gets worse from there.
• Ship Tease: Sayaka/Makoto, Sayaka/Leon, and Mukuro/Makoto are all heavily teased. Peko is implied to have slept with Fuyuhiko prior to his murder. All of them end poorly.
• Shout-Out: Monokuma bases the titles of the Trial Parts on movies in the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit franchises. After he runs out of Peter Jackson movies, he switches to referencing Leprechaun sequels.
• The Reveal:
  • Fuyuhiko died while both Makoto and Hajime were together.
  • Nagito never discovered the body. He interfered with the crime scene before the murder actually took place.
• Sole Survivor: Hagakure
• Unwitting Pawn: Fuyuhiko and Hagakure are both lured to the beach house with letters from Nagito indicating that their life is in danger. This leads to Hagakure bludgeoning an armed Fuyuhiko to death in a panic.

Class Trial 10

On the day after a breakfast party, Sonia Nevermind is found murdered in her room. The mystery is deepened when a sickly Aoi Asahina is found dead during a Trial Intermission.

Tropes for the Tenth Class Trial

• Accidental Murder: Chihiro, of all people, is the killer, having unknowingly poisoned Sonia and Hina while preparing Milk Tea.
• Anyone Can Die: In addition to Sonia's murder, Hina dies mid-trial, Fuyuhiko is executed for attacking Monokuma, and Chihiro is executed as the killer.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Kazuichi's sole contribution to this trial is coming up with ridiculous imaginary scenarios of who was responsible for Sonia's death, accusing Gundham, Byakuya, Teruteru, Makoto, and Nagito, with the latter two having not even been in the school when the murders occurred.
• Convenient Replacement Character: Makoto is brought into the trial after Hina's found dead, despite having not actually been at Hope's Peak Academy when it all went down.
• The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: Mikan makes an attempt to lie about the cause of death to mislead the investigation and implicate herself.
• Dead Man Writing: Just in case everyone loses the trial and dies, Fuyuhiko writes a letter

to try to tell Peko how he feels, though he only manages a "Thank you."

• Designated Villain: Chihiro ends up being revealed as the Blackened, having unknowingly poisoned Sonia and Hina. When his role is revealed, he insists on being voted as the culprit.
• Fearless Fool: Fuyuhiko. First, he stabs himself in the stomach to apologize to Leon and Kazuichi, and then he attacks Monokuma, knowing full well it will get him killed.
• Foreshadowing: Mikan makes an awful lot of references to a case where Chiaki was executed for unknowingly committing a murder. As it turns out, the killer in this case also had no idea that they killed anyone.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • After realizing that he was the killer, Chihiro pleads for everybody to vote for him.
  • Gundham, Mondo, and Mukuro all offer themselves up in place of Fuyuhiko when he is about to be executed. Subverted when Monokuma refuses.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: Mikan "slips up" by saying that she saw Sonia in her dress, when she died in her pyjamas. Of course, since Mikan was actively trying to get herself accused, this was probably planned.
• Imaginary Love Triangle: Fuyuhiko when Ibuki convinces him that Mukuro is head over heels in love with Makoto. As it turns out, Makoto has no feelings for Mukuro.
• Imagine Spot: Kazuichi comes up with several ridiculous stories with several random participants as the killers. Eventually, an annoyed Byakuya comes up with his own that implicates Kazuichi.
• Karma Houdini: Mikan is revealed to have orchestrated both murders, but faces no punishment because Chihiro was technically the one who put the poison in the victims' drinks.
• Loophole Abuse: Mikan technically isn't the killer since despite putting the poison in the sugar, it was Chihiro who served the poison to everyone else.
• Love at First Sight: Fuyuhiko seems to fall in love with Mukuro the moment he meets her, even though his other romantic interest is just on another island!
• Love Makes You Dumb: Kazuichi's love for Sonia causes him to jump to conclusions about the murderer that have no basis or evidence to support them.
• Love Triangle: Fuyuhiko falls in love with Mukuro while Peko's on another island, and he's not sure who he wants to be with.
• Manipulative Bastard: Mikan acts as the true antagonist of the cast, having succumbed to her Ultimate Despair persona. Despite this, she is not the killer.
• My God, What Have I Done?: First Chiaki, when she realizes the killer was the one who put in the sugar, her very own father. Later, Chihiro, quite depressingly, realizes that he was the unwitting killer.
• Never Suicide: Byakuya suggests that Hina might've killed Sonia in a sickness induced-stupor and then committed suicide out of remorse. He's proven wrong.
• Sanity Slippage: Teruteru does not cope with his accusations well at all.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Fuyuhiko seems suicidal when he attacks Monokuma after an innocent Chihiro is made out to be the blackened. By the time he realizes he doesn't want to die, it's too late and only results in him being executed and Chihiro is still killed.
• Series Continuity Error: Monokuma admits to having forgotten that the water in Hope's Peak Academy is supposed to be shut off at night.
• Ship Tease: Fuyuhiko develops a crush on Mukuro. It ends poorly.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Kazuichi shows a higher opinion of his deductive skills and attractiveness to women than he deserves.
• Stylistic Suck: Kazuichi's "Theories"
• The Reveal: Mikan regained her memories again.
• True Companions: Gundham, Mondo and Mukuro all try to convince Monokuma to let them risk their lives in order to save Fuyuhiko from execution. It doesn't work.
• Too Good to Be True: Subverted. When Mikan admits she killed Sonia and Aoi, nobody believes her. But as it turns out, she was telling the truth, but just left out a few key details that made her not the blackened.
• Undignified Death: Death by thallium is both repulsively smelly and painful, and both victims were completely alone without any form of help in their final moments.
• Yandere: Mikan after The Reveal.