History Roleplay / Trustfell2TrustHarder

%%* MurderTropes
%%** Victim 1: DuelToTheDeath, VampiricDraining
%%** Culprit 1: EyeScream, OffWithHisHead
%%** Culprit 2: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
%%** Victim 3: NeverSuicide, TapOnTheHead
%%** Culprit 3: DualWielding, PummelingTheCorpse
%%** Retaliation 1: NoBodyLeftBehind, OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank
%%** Victim 4: HumanPincushion
%%** Culprit 4: ImpromptuTracheotomy
%%** Retaliation 2: SuicideByCop
%%** Victim 5-A: StaircaseTumble
%%** Victim 5-B: LeaveNoWitnesses
%%** Culprit 5: PeoplePuppets, BoomHeadshot
%%** Victim 6: KickThemWhileTheyAreDown
%%** Culprit 6: KickThemWhileTheyAreDown, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
%%** Victim 7: FieryCoverUp, HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
%%** Culprit 7: DoNotGoGentle, MacrossMissileMassacre

%%** Victim 2: DropTheHammer

* ProductionThrowback: There have always been a few to ''Roleplay/DanganRoleplay'', but this time, it's actually a final investigation clue: while it's definitely still an EasterEgg and the game is still an AlternateUniverse, [[Manga/PokemonAdventures Silver]] being [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke's]] OnlyFriend was a big hint to the Kingmaker's identity (half of it).

* AdultFear: The fourth case had a lot of this, and it showed in the characters' reactions, particularly Cherryblod's (father of a rape victim), Stan's, and Bruce's (both familiar with what abuse and isolation compounding mental illness can do to a person).

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Faced with [[RealityEnsues the trouble that would surely follow if he brought a huge amount of money home]], Yosuke asks Cherryblod if he knows someone from his mob days who would help him launder it. The answer's no.

* TooSoon: An in-universe example when Sigrun makes a joke about week two's murder in week seven.

* AchillesInHisTent: During her HeroicBSOD after [[spoiler:Mettaton reveals that he was working for the Kingmaker and is executed]], Sigrun goes into hiding and admits that she doesn't want to be the leader anymore. Cherryblod brings her around.

* AdultFear: The fourth case had a lot of this, and it showed in the characters' reactions, particularly Cherryblod's [[spoiler:(father of a rape victim)]], Stan's, and Bruce's [[spoiler:(both familiar with what abuse and isolation compounding mental illness can do to a person)]].

* ArcSymbol: The swirl logo on the mod account and community icons. [[spoiler:It's Glory's idle pen-brush movement that they use to indicate that they're still there to talk to (albeit unintentionally because all pen-brush swirls pretty much look the same), and also meant to resemble Ryuunosuke's Command Seals.]]

* BatmanGrabsAGun: Misa crosses her own line by [[spoiler:killing innocents]], Caren by [[spoiler:going for the SoulJar when she fights Pearl]], and both are disgusted by it. This ties into the round's driving question of what's really unforgivable.
* BeAllMySinsRemembered: Part of the reason for [[spoiler:Yato's ZeroApprovalGambit, as well as Mettaton's reminding the people close to him not to get attached.]]
* BecauseYouCanCope: Cherryblod confesses to Sigrun that [[spoiler:he'd have killed to spare Yosuke in his place had a motive like that come up. He says that Yosuke would have been better able to cope with being the only one left alive than Sigrun, who's already been betrayed enough times.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Ryuunosuke admits in the mastermind trial that he liked Sigrun because, even if his game was horrible to her, she treated him like a person.]]
* BigShutUp: Norman finally asserts himself by yelling this at Caren [[spoiler:when he's supporting Team Kill and she's defending Team Spare in the final trial.]]

* BreakingBadNewsGently: [[spoiler:Some of the ghosts try to tell Cherryblod about Mettaton's fate this way. One of them ruins it with a blunt "He's not here."]]

* CollectiveIdentity: [[spoiler:The Kingmaker is two people.]]

* CreepyTwins: This round has five characters who are twins. [[spoiler:Two are killers, two are moles, and one's from a horror canon.]]
* CycleOfRevenge: A major part of this round's backstory. [[spoiler:While murder games were developed to punish evildoers, the torture of the situation got so bad that the winners would regularly take over to run a new game with innocent captives to take their pain out on someone else. Sparing the Kingmakers helps to break the cycle.]]
* DespairSpeech: [[spoiler:Sigrun's breakdown]] at the sixth trial.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:The reason for this exercise's existence -- and the one that begat it -- is that the wrong people were victims and their not-so-moral loved ones killed everyone else and rebooted.]]
* EverybodysDeadDave: According to the Kingmaker, the characters' worlds have been completely destroyed. [[spoiler:[[UnreliableExpositor He's full of it]].]]

* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:Mettaton shows up in slightly different attire at the mastermind reveal.]]

* FirstNameBasis: [[spoiler:Black lets Yosuke call him by his real name "on special occasions."]]
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: In the final trial, [[spoiler:the survivors suddenly pick up on the fact that the Kingmaker is on a FirstNameBasis with Mettaton and ''only'' Mettaton.]] Just then, they have to confront the only reason that might be...

* FreakOut: Detective Mouri is never the same after [[spoiler:learning that his fame and success were born from a lie]]. It actually fosters positive CharacterDevelopment, though, where he learns to work with and care about the other captives instead of just take over everything and jump to self-serving conclusions.

* GivenNameReveal: [[spoiler:Black tells Yosuke his real name in private.]]
* GoThroughMe: Cherryblod says this to anyone who might want to harm the people he's taken in as his own. [[spoiler:This protectiveness is what moves him from Team Kill to the head of Team Spare when Mettaton turns out to be one of their captors.]]
* GrandRomanticGesture: Sigrun plans an elaborate date for Mettaton, including everything from reminders of home to a manufactured starry sky and a handmade Mettaton sculpture. [[spoiler:She breaks down describing it all in the sixth trial when Mettaton admits what he's done.]]

* HanlonsRazor: The Survivors assume that whatever caused the speakers and alarm to act up was dangerous. [[spoiler:The dead were just messing around.]]

* HesBack: After Cherryblod talks Sigrun out of her HeroicBSOD [[spoiler:after losing Mettaton]], she makes a triumphant recovery and returns to leading the group.
* HesDeadJim: As always, but actually subverted in Case 8: [[spoiler:'''Gabriel is dead!''' No, he's not.]] They still have to investigate, though!
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Mettaton, Ryuunosuke, and Archer were all victims of death exercises before being driven to the point of starting their own.]]

* ILied: [[spoiler:The mole wasn't really telling the Kingmaker to [[TakeMeInstead take him as a sacrifice in the third week]], but conspiring with the Kingmaker.]] Well, [[spoiler:he wasn't actually doing ''that'' either...]]

* ImGoingToHellForThis: [[spoiler:Norman and his SplitPersonality (a manifestation of his abusive mother) both say they know he's going to hell for the murder he commits.]]
* ImmoralRealityShow: The theory that comes up in-character in every murder game makes a reappearance here. [[spoiler:This time, it's proven right.]]

* {{Irony}}: Case 5 rests for a while on the idea that the way the murder happened might be impossible and would be difficult to prove if it did happen. [[spoiler:You know, [[NotProven how Misa's parents' killers walked free]]. What's more, the person who breaks the case apart is the one Misa considered "pure evil" and had contemplated killing instead.]]

* ItsAllMyFault: Though he won't let himself admit it until his last weeks, [[spoiler:Mettaton blames himself for the events of the more violent routes of his canon]].
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: It's not exactly fair that [[spoiler:Archer got to live on in deadland and his victims, aside from the Kingmakers, were all deleted]], but he eventually gets his. We find out that [[spoiler:his body is long gone, he's lost his will to live after losing the only person he cared anything about, and the survivors MercyKill him at the end]].
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:Learning that he's half of the Kingmaker, Sigrun finds that it's her duty as atoning leader to kill Mettaton. When the group chooses mercy, though, she decides that she might have to kill her boyfriend and his partner ''someday,'' but it doesn't have to be now.]]

* LikeFatherLikeSon: In Round 1, Giovanni made unlikely alliances with enemies and even tried the same with the mastermind. [[spoiler:In the backstory of this game, his son Silver became the MoralityChain of a serial killer.]]

* LoveHurts: Remember, everyone, if you're falling for someone, [[spoiler:one of you will end up dead, revealed to be working for the Kingmaker, or both!]]
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Sigrun reflects on herself in week seven and concludes that "we all do dumb things for the people we love." [[spoiler:Glory agrees, regretting (one of the people who make her up) having killed because the person they loved died.]]

* MarshmallowHell: Poor Black [[spoiler:wakes up this way when Sigrun has him under her watch 24/7.]]
* MasqueradeBall: Misa and Aqua hold one.

* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Deleting Archer in the end, since his body is gone and he's lost his will to live anyway.]]

* MistakenAge: Stan is very confused at the ages of some of the captives from the round Archer ran. Notably, he mistakes 17-year-old Silver and 18-year-old Mai for small kids! [[spoiler:Granted, if they ''had'' been, their eventual fates wouldn't have been out of character for the Kingmakers, both of whom are considered threats in canon in part because they very much WouldHurtAChild.]]

* TheMole: This round has more of a "saboteur" type instead of the previous round's "informant" type, [[spoiler:supposedly. It actually had two informants, with a third who turned down the offer, and Mettaton wasn't really a "killswitch," he was half of the Kingmaker.]]

* MurderTropes
** Victim 1: DuelToTheDeath, VampiricDraining
** Culprit 1: EyeScream, OffWithHisHead
** Victim 2: DropTheHammer
** Culprit 2: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** Victim 3: NeverSuicide, TapOnTheHead
** Culprit 3: DualWielding, PummelingTheCorpse
** Retaliation 1: NoBodyLeftBehind, OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank
** Victim 4: HumanPincushion
** Culprit 4: ImpromptuTracheotomy
** Retaliation 2: SuicideByCop
** Victim 5-A: StaircaseTumble
** Victim 5-B: LeaveNoWitnesses
** Culprit 5: PeoplePuppets, BoomHeadshot
** Victim 6: KickThemWhileTheyAreDown
** Culprit 6: KickThemWhileTheyAreDown, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** Victim 7: FieryCoverUp, HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
** Culprit 7: DoNotGoGentle, MacrossMissileMassacre

* NothingPersonal: [[spoiler:Aiden tells his victim this when they wake up in deadland. It isn't taken well. Misa also does the same thing, but the victim in that case is okay with it.]]

* OhCrap: Yosuke's reaction in the eighth investigation [[spoiler:when his father and sort-of-boyfriend are the last to turn up. Both are alive, though.]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Sigrun first declares this on the Kingmaker after [[spoiler:Mettaton's trial]], albeit with killing. Played more straight [[spoiler:during the Kingmaker's trial itself after learning who ''both'' masterminds were, and saying that no one could kill Mettaton before her. Technically, this is true, since she's the only one who knows how to.]]

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Caren calls the exercise [[spoiler:the "worst time spent unconscious in a tank hooked up to life support."]] Though she clarifies that this ''has'' happened to her before, it's still weirdly specific.
* PeopleJars: [[spoiler:The Survivors' bodies in the real world are kept in stasis pods.]]
* ThePerfectCrime: Case 5 was almost one, with [[spoiler:the murder being committed with a Death Note, something that not only very few characters even knew existed, but also another example of Trustfell subverting murdergame conventions that the players take for granted. It was solved by what looked to be another wacky tangent when Cherryblod's "crack theory" was proven ''right''.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: [[spoiler:What started their round in the first place, when Hans kills Silver and Alphys, kicking off Mettaton and Ryuunosuke's separate killing sprees. Neither have anything to go home to, so they decide to do a game of their own.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler:What ends up ''saving'' their round at the final trial. Cherryblod asks to spare Mettaton and Sigrun ends up taking his side. Mettaton asks that whatever they do, they do for Ryuunosuke too, and so ''both'' of the Kingmakers end up being spared.]]

* PocketProtector: Defied when [[spoiler:the spear that impales Caren hits her shell necklace first. The necklace holds her SoulJar, which breaks, and the spear proceeds to go through her body.]]

* PrecisionFStrike: Cherryblod doesn't usually use obscenities, but he's aimed a choice few at the Kingmaker for rubbing it in that his loved ones are supposedly dead [[spoiler:and for the whole Mettaton situation]].
* ProductionThrowback: There have always been a few to ''Roleplay/DanganRoleplay'', but this time, it's actually a final investigation clue: [[spoiler:while it's definitely still an EasterEgg and the game is still an AlternateUniverse, [[Manga/PokemonAdventures Silver]] being [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke's]] OnlyFriend was a big hint to the Kingmaker's identity (half of it).]]
* PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: [[spoiler:Archer, Ryuunosuke, and Mettaton all have this motivation for killing their fellow survivors and starting a new murder game.]]
* PsychoStrings: [[spoiler:Norman's MTB uses the TropeNamer.]]
* RevenantZombie: The executions appear to employ these, with a copy of the victim, having their powers and weapons back, coming to kill the culprit. After [[spoiler:Pearl, whose real remains are right there in the courtroom at the time, appears as one too]], the living start to suspect that they're fakes.
* {{Robosexual}}: Mettaton and Sigrun. They work surprisingly well together, to the point where YourUniverseOrMine comes up and Sigrun decides that her roboyfriend is coming back with her. [[spoiler:Sadly, Sigrun decides to break up with Mettaton, albeit reluctantly, when he's revealed to be the Kingmaker's "kill switch" at the end of the sixth trial. They fall into old habits and get back together once they're in the real world, though, and he as well as Ryuunosuke are being taken back to her world to be kept an eye on by her and Cherryblod.]]

* SeashellBra: [[spoiler:Caren wears a simple one as a mermaid. A significantly fancier bejeweled one is her dead renewable regain, and though it's designed as outerwear (the undersea equivalent of a PimpedOutDress), Sigrun starts wearing it as underwear.]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Not only have there been more murder games, they've grown into a full-blown ''industry,'' mostly in the form of a virtual ImmoralRealityShow... but hey, "Observant?" That means Round 1 was involved!]]
* SerenadeYourLover: Used tragically in Week 6. [[spoiler:Sigrun works on writing Mettaton a song for the big special date she has planned, but Mettaton is "ordered to kill" the same week, reveals his treachery to the group, and dies before she can perform it for him.]]
* ShamingTheMob: Yosuke remembers being talked down in the third week and then [[spoiler:does it himself when some of the others, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Cherryblod]] in particular, start to gang up on the culprit]].
* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Another leading theory for what exactly is carrying out the executions and looking like the victims. [[spoiler:This one's more accurate, though it's just a projection.]]

* SmokingGun: Case 5's introduction of [[spoiler:Misa's Death Note]] shows exactly how and by whom the murders were committed and that such a scenario was possible in the first place.
* SoulJar: [[spoiler:Both the victim and culprit of Case 2 have theirs broken.]]
* SpottingTheThread: Mettaton uses [[Film/LegallyBlonde fashion knowledge]] to corner [[spoiler:Misa, who would have known very well not to bleach a black dress.]]

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: The end result of [[spoiler:a CrossoverPunchline to the mastermind's canon [[Roleplay/TrustfellRoundOne actually sticking this time]]. Sigrun [[BorrowedCatchphrase uses "greatest cool"]], confusing the people around her, before anyone knew that Ryuunosuke was half of the Kingmaker.]]

* ThereIsAnother: The Survivors are told that they're the last from their worlds. [[spoiler:Late in the game, there's a hostage motive that indicates that some of their loved ones also survived and were placed in another murder game, if you believe the Kingmaker's words.]]

* UniquenessDecay: Naturally, this being the second round, the Graceside incident isn't the first murder exercise around. [[spoiler:The part that isn't a ForegoneConclusion? There are ''lots'' of them.]]
* UnreliableExpositor: The fourth culprit, when found out, gives two versions of the murder and the events around it: [[spoiler:Norman's and Norma's.]]

* VillainByDefault: [[spoiler:The list of previous victors in the control room's red book describes them as a [[WarHawk warmonger]], a [[SerialKiller serial murderer]], a {{sadist}}, and a [[TheSociopath sociopath]]. Naturally, all four are bad news.]]
* WasItAllALie: [[spoiler:The closest people to Mettaton, when he reveals himself as the "kill switch," ask this of him. He tries to say yes, but finds that [[BecomingTheMask he's grown a few feelings]].]]
* WetTShirtContest: Joked to be the real reason that [[spoiler:Yosuke threw a bucket of water on Caren. Really, it was just panic because she was coming toward him and trying to go for the bucket.]]

** The office unlocking, and how it doesn't match the rest of the Vault at all... [[spoiler:but looks just like the office from Graceside. Kimblee himself is mentioned under his "Observant" title later on.]]
** [[spoiler:The hostage motive suggesting that the Survivors' loved ones are not only alive, but are stuck in their own murder game. While it's falsified, it was big at the time.]]
** Case 8 was a great big stack of game-changing revelations. [[spoiler:EverybodyLives, but Black had been plotting to kill to escape, he was working for the Kingmaker, so was Stan until recently, Colress had been approached to be a mole but turned it down, and there might still be ''another'' one based on Black's theory about things not adding up. Which turns out to be true, but it's none of the Survivors.]]

** [[spoiler:"YOU ARE ALL SLATED TO DIE."]]

* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler:Attempted when Sigrun [[AchillesInHisTent temporarily gives up]] after getting close to too many traitors and defending them before they turn out to be guilty. Cherryblod turns the promotion down and they compromise that it should be a group decision. In the end, the group ''doesn't'' vote to oust Sigrun as leader.]]

* YourDaysAreNumbered: In lieu of a Week 8 incentive, [[spoiler:the Survivors get a set of messages warning them that the Kingmaker wants to kill them all.]]

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* AchillesInHisTent: During her HeroicBSOD after Mettaton reveals that he was working for the Kingmaker and is executed, Sigrun goes into hiding and admits that she doesn't want to be the leader anymore. Cherryblod brings her around.

* AdultFear: The fourth case had a lot of this, and it showed in the characters' reactions, particularly Cherryblod's (father of a rape victim), Stan's, and Bruce's (both familiar with what abuse and isolation compounding mental illness can do to a person).

* ArcSymbol: The swirl logo on the mod account and community icons. It's Glory's idle pen-brush movement that they use to indicate that they're still there to talk to (albeit unintentionally because all pen-brush swirls pretty much look the same), and also meant to resemble Ryuunosuke's Command Seals.

* BatmanGrabsAGun: Misa crosses her own line by killing innocents, Caren by going for the SoulJar when she fights Pearl, and both are disgusted by it. This ties into the round's driving question of what's really unforgivable.
* BeAllMySinsRemembered: Part of the reason for Yato's ZeroApprovalGambit, as well as Mettaton's reminding the people close to him not to get attached.
* BecauseYouCanCope: Cherryblod confesses to Sigrun that he'd have killed to spare Yosuke in his place had a motive like that come up. He says that Yosuke would have been better able to cope with being the only one left alive than Sigrun, who's already been betrayed enough times.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Ryuunosuke admits in the mastermind trial that he liked Sigrun because, even if his game was horrible to her, she treated him like a person.
* BigShutUp: Norman finally asserts himself by yelling this at Caren when he's supporting Team Kill and she's defending Team Spare in the final trial.

* BreakingBadNewsGently: Some of the ghosts try to tell Cherryblod about Mettaton's fate this way. One of them ruins it with a blunt "He's not here."

** "There are so few of you now" from the Week 7 log calls back to round one's use of the phrase in the seventh investigation and the final trial.

%%* CarnivoreConfusion: Cherryblod and the King give a lot of the humans this.

* ChildlessDystopia: The Vault is all adults, unlike the previous round and other murdergames; even the trauma exemption only ended up letting in 17-year-olds. According to the round's initial announcement, this is a plot point.

* CollectiveIdentity: The Kingmaker is two people.

* CreepyTwins: This round has five characters who are twins. Two are killers, two are moles, and one's from a horror canon.
* CycleOfRevenge: A major part of this round's backstory. While murder games were developed to punish evildoers, the torture of the situation got so bad that the winners would regularly take over to run a new game with innocent captives to take their pain out on someone else. Sparing the Kingmakers helps to break the cycle.
%%* DespairSpeech: Sigrun's breakdown at the sixth trial.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The reason for this exercise's existence -- and the one that begat it -- is that the wrong people were victims and their not-so-moral loved ones killed everyone else and rebooted.
* EverybodysDeadDave: According to the Kingmaker, the characters' worlds have been completely destroyed. [[UnreliableExpositor Time will tell if this is actually the case.]] It's a lie after all.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: Mettaton shows up in slightly different attire at the mastermind reveal.

* FirstNameBasis: Black lets Yosuke call him by his real name "on special occasions."
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: In the final trial, the survivors suddenly pick up on the fact that the Kingmaker is on a FirstNameBasis with Mettaton and ''only'' Mettaton. Just then, they have to confront the only reason that might be...

* FreakOut: Detective Mouri is never the same after learning that his fame and success were born from a lie. It actually fosters positive CharacterDevelopment, though, where he learns to work with and care about the other captives instead of just take over everything and jump to self-serving conclusions.

* GivenNameReveal: Black tells Yosuke his real name in private.
* GoThroughMe: Cherryblod says this to anyone who might want to harm the people he's taken in as his own. This protectiveness is what moves him from Team Kill to the head of Team Spare when Mettaton turns out to be one of their captors.
* GrandRomanticGesture: Sigrun plans an elaborate date for Mettaton, including everything from reminders of home to a manufactured starry sky and a handmade Mettaton sculpture. She breaks down describing it all in the sixth trial when Mettaton admits what he's done.

* HanlonsRazor: The Survivors assume that whatever caused the speakers and alarm to act up was dangerous. The dead were just messing around.

* HesBack: After Cherryblod talks Sigrun out of her HeroicBSOD after losing Mettaton, she makes a triumphant recovery and returns to leading the group.
* HesDeadJim: As always, but actually subverted in Case 8: '''Gabriel is dead!''' No, he's not. They still have to investigate, though!
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Mettaton, Ryuunosuke, and Archer were all victims of death exercises before being driven to the point of starting their own.

* ILied: The mole wasn't really telling the Kingmaker to [[TakeMeInstead take him as a sacrifice in the third week]], but conspiring with the Kingmaker. Well, he wasn't actually doing ''that'' either...

* ImGoingToHellForThis: Norman and his SplitPersonality (a manifestation of his abusive mother) both say they know he's going to hell for the murder he commits.
* ImmoralRealityShow: The theory that comes up in-character in every murder game makes a reappearance here. This time, it's proven right.

* {{Irony}}: Case 5 rests for a while on the idea that the way the murder happened might be impossible and would be difficult to prove if it did happen. You know, [[NotProven how Misa's parents' killers walked free. What's more, the person who breaks the case apart is the one Misa considered "pure evil" and had contemplated killing instead.]]

* ItsAllMyFault: Though he won't let himself admit it until his last weeks, Mettaton blames himself for the events of the more violent routes of his canon.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: It's not exactly fair that Archer got to live on in deadland and his victims, aside from the Kingmakers, were all deleted, but he eventually gets his. We find out that his body is long gone, he's lost his will to live after losing the only person he cared anything about, and the Survivors MercyKill him at the end.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: Learning that he's half of the Kingmaker, Sigrun finds that it's her duty as atoning leader to kill Mettaton. When the group chooses mercy, though, she decides that she might have to kill her boyfriend and his partner ''someday,'' but it doesn't have to be now.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: In Round 1, Giovanni made unlikely alliances with enemies and even tried the same with the mastermind. In the backstory of this game, his son Silver became the MoralityChain of a serial killer.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: During a seance Stan holds for the others to contact the ghosts, one of the dead insinuates that Zagi and Kamui have this relationship.
* LoveHurts: Remember, everyone, if you're falling for someone, one of you will end up dead, revealed to be working for the Kingmaker, or both!
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Sigrun reflects on herself in week seven and concludes that "we all do dumb things for the people we love." Glory agrees, regretting (one of the people who make her up) having killed because the person they loved died.

* MarshmallowHell: Poor Black wakes up this way when Sigrun has him under her watch 24/7.
%%* MasqueradeBall: Misa and Aqua hold one.

* MercyKill: Deleting Archer in the end, since his body is gone and he's lost his will to live anyway.

* MistakenAge: Stan is very confused at the ages of some of the captives from the round Archer ran. Notably, he mistakes 17-year-old Silver and 18-year-old Mai for small kids! Granted, if they ''had'' been, their eventual fates wouldn't have been out of character for the Kingmakers, both of whom are considered threats in canon in part because they very much WouldHurtAChild.

* TheMole: This round has more of a "saboteur" type instead of the previous round's "informant" type, supposedly. It actually had two informants, with a third who turned down the offer, and Mettaton wasn't really a "killswitch," he was half of the Kingmaker.

%%* MurderTropes
%%** Victim 1: DuelToTheDeath, VampiricDraining
%%** Culprit 1: EyeScream, OffWithHisHead
%%** Victim 2: DropTheHammer
%%** Culprit 2: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
%%** Victim 3: NeverSuicide, TapOnTheHead
%%** Culprit 3: DualWielding, PummelingTheCorpse
%%** Retaliation 1: NoBodyLeftBehind, OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank
%%** Victim 4: HumanPincushion
%%** Culprit 4: ImpromptuTracheotomy
%%** Retaliation 2: SuicideByCop
%%** Victim 5-A: StaircaseTumble
%%** Victim 5-B: LeaveNoWitnesses
%%** Culprit 5: PeoplePuppets, BoomHeadshot
%%** Victim 6: KickThemWhileTheyAreDown
%%** Culprit 6: KickThemWhileTheyAreDown, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
%%** Victim 7: FieryCoverUp, HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
%%** Culprit 7: DoNotGoGentle, MacrossMissileMassacre

* NothingPersonal: Aiden tells his victim this when they wake up in deadland. It isn't taken well. Misa also does the same thing, but the victim in that case is okay with it.

* OhCrap: Yosuke's reaction in the eighth investigation when his father and boyfriend are the last to turn up. Both are alive, though.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Sigrun first declares this on the Kingmaker after Mettaton's trial, albeit with killing. Played more straight during the Kingmaker's trial itself after learning who ''both'' masterminds were, and saying that no one could kill Mettaton before her. Technically, this is true, since she's the only one who knows how to.

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Caren calls the exercise the "worst time spent unconscious in a tank hooked up to life support." Though she clarifies that this ''has'' happened to her before, it's still weirdly specific.
* PeopleJars: The Survivors' bodies in the real world are kept in stasis pods.
* ThePerfectCrime: Case 5 was almost one, with the murder being committed with a Death Note, something that not only very few characters even knew existed, but also another example of Trustfell subverting murdergame conventions that the players take for granted. It was solved by what looked to be another wacky tangent when Cherryblod's "crack theory" was proven ''right''.
* ThePowerOfHate: What started their round in the first place, when Hans kills Silver and Alphys, kicking off Mettaton and Ryuunosuke's separate killing sprees. Neither have anything to go home to, so they decide to do a game of their own.
* ThePowerOfLove: What ends up ''saving'' their round at the final trial. Cherryblod asks to spare Mettaton and Sigrun ends up taking his side. Mettaton asks that whatever they do, they do for Ryuunosuke too, and so ''both'' of the Kingmakers end up being spared.

* PocketProtector: Defied when the spear that impales Caren hits her shell necklace first. The necklace holds her SoulJar, which breaks, and the spear proceeds to go through her body.

* PrecisionFStrike: Cherryblod doesn't usually use obscenities, but he's aimed a choice few at the Kingmaker for rubbing it in that his loved ones are supposedly dead and for the whole Mettaton situation.
* ProductionThrowback: There have always been a few to ''Roleplay/DanganRoleplay'', but this time, it's actually a final investigation clue: while it's definitely still an EasterEgg and the game is still an AlternateUniverse, [[Manga/PokemonAdventures Silver]] being [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke's]] OnlyFriend was a big hint to the Kingmaker's identity (half of it).
* PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: Archer, Ryuunosuke, and Mettaton all have this motivation for killing their fellow survivors and starting a new murder game.
%%* PsychoStrings: Norman's MTB uses the TropeNamer.
* RevenantZombie: The executions appear to employ these, with a copy of the victim, having their powers and weapons back, coming to kill the culprit. After Pearl, whose real remains are right there in the courtroom at the time, appears as one too, the living start to suspect that they're fakes.
* {{Robosexual}}: Mettaton and Sigrun. They work surprisingly well together, to the point where YourUniverseOrMine comes up and Sigrun decides that her roboyfriend is coming back with her. Sadly, Sigrun decides to break up with Mettaton, albeit reluctantly, when he's revealed to be the Kingmaker's "kill switch" at the end of the sixth trial. They fall into old habits and get back together once they're in the real world though, and he as well as Ryuunosuke are being taken back to her world to be kept an eye on by her and Cherryblod.

* SeashellBra: Caren wears a simple one as a mermaid. A significantly fancier bejeweled one is her dead renewable regain, and though it's designed as outerwear (the undersea equivalent of a PimpedOutDress), Sigrun starts wearing it as underwear.
* SequelHook: Not only have there been more murder games, they've grown into a full-blown ''industry,'' mostly in the form of a virtual ImmoralRealityShow... but hey, "Observant?" That means Round 1 was involved!
* SerenadeYourLover: Used tragically in Week 6. Sigrun works on writing Mettaton a song for the big special date she has planned, but Mettaton is ordered to kill the same week, reveals his treachery to the group, and dies before she can perform it for him.
* ShamingTheMob: Yosuke remembers being talked down in the third week and then does it himself when some of the others, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Cherryblod]] in particular, start to gang up on the culprit.
* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Another leading theory for what exactly is carrying out the executions and looking like the victims. This one's more accurate, though it's just a projection.

* SmokingGun: Case 5's introduction of Misa's Death Note shows exactly how and by whom the murders were committed and that such a scenario was possible in the first place.
* SoulJar: Both the victim and culprit of Case 2 have theirs broken.
* SpottingTheThread: Mettaton uses [[Film/LegallyBlonde fashion knowledge]] to corner Misa, who would have known very well not to bleach a black dress.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: The end result of a CrossoverPunchline to the mastermind's canon [[Roleplay/TrustfellRoundOne actually sticking this time]]. Sigrun [[BorrowedCatchphrase uses "greatest cool", confusing the people around her, before anyone knew that Ryuunosuke was half of the Kingmaker.]]

* ThereIsAnother: The Survivors are told that they're the last from their worlds. Late in the game, there's a hostage motive that indicates that some of their loved ones also survived and were placed in another murder game, if you believe the Kingmaker's words.

* UniquenessDecay: Naturally, this being the second round, the Graceside incident isn't the first murder exercise around. The part that isn't a ForegoneConclusion? There are ''lots'' of them.
* UnreliableExpositor: The fourth culprit, when found out, gives two versions of the murder and the events around it: Norman's and Norma's.

* VillainByDefault: The list of previous victors in the control room's red book describes them as a [[WarHawk warmonger]], a [[SerialKiller serial murderer]], a {{sadist}}, and a [[TheSociopath sociopath]]. Naturally, all four are bad news.
* WasItAllALie: The closest people to Mettaton, when he reveals himself as the "kill switch," ask this of him. He tries to say yes, but finds that [[BecomingTheMask he's grown a few feelings]].
* WetTShirtContest: Joked to be the real reason that Yosuke threw a bucket of water on Caren. Really, it was just panic because she was coming toward him and trying to go for the bucket.

** The office unlocking, and how it doesn't match the rest of the Vault at all... but looks just like the office from Graceside. Kimblee himself is mentioned under his "Observant" title later on.
** The hostage motive suggesting that the Survivors' loved ones are not only alive, but are stuck in their own murder game.
** Case 8 was a great big stack of game-changing revelations. EverybodyLives, but Black had been plotting to kill to escape, he was working for the Kingmaker, so was Stan until recently, Colress had been approached to be a mole but turned it down, and there might still be ''another'' one based on Black's theory about things not adding up. Which turns out to be true, but it's none of the Survivors.

%%** "YOU ARE ALL SLATED TO DIE."

* YouAreInCommandNow: Attempted when Sigrun [[AchillesInHisTent temporarily gives up]] after getting close to too many traitors and defending them before they turn out to be guilty. Cherryblod turns the promotion down and they compromise that it should be a group decision. In the end, the group ''doesn't'' vote to oust Sigrun as leader.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: In lieu of a Week 8 incentive, the Survivors get a set of messages warning them that the Kingmaker wants to kill them all.

-->"It never mattered. I don't think it matters now."
-->-The Kingmaker ([[spoiler:Uryuu Ryuunosuke]])

* AchillesInHisTent: During her HeroicBSOD [[spoiler:after Mettaton reveals that he was working for the Kingmaker and is executed, Sigrun goes into hiding and admits that she doesn't want to be the leader anymore. Cherryblod brings her around.]]
* [[invoked]] ActingForTwo: Black puts on a one-person play.
* AdultFear: The fourth case had a lot of this, and it showed in the characters' reactions, particularly Cherryblod's ([[spoiler:father of a rape victim]]), Stan's, and Bruce's (both [[spoiler:familiar with what abuse and isolation compounding mental illness can do to a person]]).

* ArcSymbol: The swirl logo on the mod account and community icons. [[spoiler:It's Glory's idle pen-brush movement that they use to indicate that they're still there to talk to (albeit unintentionally because all pen-brush swirls pretty much look the same), and also meant to resemble Ryuunosuke's Command Seals.]]

* AwfulTruth: Some of the secrets from the secret incentive were this to characters who didn't know either their own (like Mouri's) or their close CR's (like Cherryblod's).

* BathroomStallGraffiti: Yousuke uses this to pass along secret messages late in the game.
* BatmanGrabsAGun: [[spoiler:Misa crosses her own line by killing innocents, Caren by going for the SoulJar when she fights Pearl, and both are disgusted by it.]] This ties into the round's driving question of what's really unforgivable.
* BeAllMySinsRemembered: Part of the reason for [[spoiler:Yato's ZeroApprovalGambit, as well as Mettaton's reminding the people close to him not to get attached]].
* BecauseYouCanCope: Cherryblod confesses to Sigrun that [[spoiler:he'd have killed to spare Yousuke in his place had a motive like that come up. He says that Yousuke would have been better able to cope with being the only one left alive than Sigrun, who's already been betrayed enough times.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Ryuunosuke admits in the mastermind trial that he liked Sigrun because, even if his game was horrible to her, she treated him like a person.]]
* BigShutUp: Norman finally asserts himself by yelling this at Caren when [[spoiler:he's supporting Team Kill and she's defending Team Spare in the final trial.]]

* BreakingBadNewsGently: [[spoiler:Some of the ghosts try to tell Cherryblod about Mettaton's fate this way. One of them ruins it with a blunt "He's not here."]]

* CallBack: 2-3 is set up similarly to 1-1, featuring [[spoiler:a fake hanging]]. There's also a reference to the FlamingSword finale in the sword's new item description.

* CarnivoreConfusion: Cherryblod and the King give a lot of the humans this.

* CollectiveIdentity: [[spoiler:The Kingmaker is two people.]]
* ConfessToALesserCrime: When word gets out that he had a "wild youth," Cherryblod tells Kogorou that he used to do graffiti and shoplifting. By this point, the readers already know that he's actually an ex-mob enforcer. [[spoiler:He later comes clean to the whole group.]]

* CreepyTwins: This round has five characters who are twins. [[spoiler:Two are killers, two are moles, and one's from a horror canon.]]
* CycleOfRevenge: A major part of this round's backstory. [[spoiler:While murder games were developed to punish evildoers, the torture of the situation got so bad that the winners would regularly take over to run a new game with innocent captives to take their pain out on someone else. Sparing the Kingmakers helps to break the cycle.]]
* DespairSpeech: Sigrun's breakdown at the sixth trial.

* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Yousuke's envelope in the secrets motive contains these, since he's already come out with all the important stuff.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:The reason for this exercise's existence -- and the one that begat it -- is that the wrong people were victims and their not-so-moral loved ones killed everyone else and rebooted.]]
* EverybodysDeadDave: According to the Kingmaker, the characters' worlds have been completely destroyed. [[UnreliableExpositor Time will tell if this is actually the case.]] [[spoiler:It's a lie after all.]]
* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:Week 8 had a trial for ''attempted'' murder.]]

* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:Mettaton shows up in slightly different attire at the mastermind reveal.]]
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Yousuke is going over what they saw in the second trial with Bruce, he stops and realizes that his theory might mean that the motive was a fake to begin with.
* FirstNameBasis: Black lets Yousuke call him by his real name "on special occasions."
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: In the final trial, the survivors suddenly pick up on the fact that [[spoiler:the Kingmaker is on a FirstNameBasis with Mettaton and ''only'' Mettaton]]. Just then, they have to confront the only reason that might be...
* FlatWhat: [[spoiler:Glory]] gives a flat "wow" when Sigrun tells them about the events of the fourth trial.

* FreakOut: [[spoiler:Detective Mouri]] is never the same after learning that [[spoiler:his fame and success were born from a lie]]. It actually fosters positive CharacterDevelopment, though, where he learns to work with and care about the other captives instead of just take over everything and jump to self-serving conclusions.

* GivenNameReveal: Black tells Yousuke his real name in private.
* GoThroughMe: Cherryblod says this to anyone who might want to harm the people he's taken in as his own. [[spoiler:This protectiveness is what moves him from Team Kill to the head of Team Spare when Mettaton turns out to be one of their captors.]]
* GrandRomanticGesture: Sigrun plans an elaborate date for Mettaton, including everything from reminders of home to a manufactured starry sky and a handmade Mettaton sculpture. [[spoiler:She breaks down describing it all in the sixth trial when Mettaton admits what he's done.]]

* HanlonsRazor: The Survivors assume that whatever caused the speakers and alarm to act up was dangerous. [[spoiler:The dead were just messing around.]]

* HesBack: After Cherryblod talks Sigrun out of her HeroicBSOD after [[spoiler:losing Mettaton]], she makes a triumphant recovery and returns to leading the group.
* HesDeadJim: As always, but actually subverted in [[spoiler:Case 8: '''Gabriel is dead!''' No, he's not. They still have to investigate, though!]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Mettaton, Ryuunosuke, and Archer were all victims of death exercises before being driven to the point of starting their own.]]
* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: A big part of why Black won't just outright confess his love is that he sees his friendship with Yousuke as this and is afraid of the rug being pulled out from under him.
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Black and Yousuke mutually back away from what could have been a RelationshipUpgrade at the case 5 afterparty, both citing this to themselves.
* IHaveYourWife: The week seven incentive. [[spoiler:Characters receive photographic evidence that their loved ones are in their ''own'' killing game.]]
* ILied: The mole wasn't really [[spoiler:telling the Kingmaker to [[TakeMeInstead take him as a sacrifice]] in the third week]], but conspiring with the Kingmaker. [[spoiler:Well, he wasn't actually doing ''that'' either...]]
* TheILoveYouStigma: Even to the people Black knows he likes Yousuke, he refuses to admit that it's anything stronger than a passing crush.
* ImGoingToHellForThis: [[spoiler:Norman and his SplitPersonality (a manifestation of his abusive mother)]] both say they know he's going to hell for the murder he commits.
* ImmoralRealityShow: The theory that comes up in-character in every murder game makes a reappearance here. [[spoiler:This time, it's proven right.]]

* ImprobableHairstyle: The maintenance variation is averted. Colress's hair goes limp without gel and Yousuke's roots start to come in without bleach.
* {{Irony}}: Case 5 rests for a while on the idea that the way the murder happened might be impossible and would be difficult to prove if it did happen. [[spoiler:You know, [[NotProven how Misa's parents' killers walked free]]. What's more, the person who breaks the case apart is the one Misa considered "pure evil" and had contemplated killing instead.]]

* ItsAllMyFault: Though he won't let himself admit it until his last weeks, [[spoiler:Mettaton blames himself for the events of the more violent routes of his canon.]]
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: It's not exactly fair that [[spoiler:Archer got to live on in deadland and his victims, aside from the Kingmakers, were all deleted]], but he eventually gets his. [[spoiler:We find out that his body is long gone, he's lost his will to live after losing the only person he cared anything about, and the Survivors MercyKill him at the end.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:Learning that he's half of the Kingmaker, Sigrun finds that it's her duty as atoning leader to kill Mettaton. When the group chooses mercy, though, she decides that she might have to kill her boyfriend and his partner ''someday,'' but it doesn't have to be now.]]
* KingmakerScenario: What did you expect? The Kingmaker, actually called that, can't or won't become "King" himself [[spoiler:because they already are]], but he's more than willing to give one captive an edge over the others and wants to ensure a winner.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: [[spoiler:In Round 1, Giovanni made unlikely alliances with enemies and even tried the same with the mastermind. In the backstory of this game, his son Silver became the MoralityChain of a serial killer.]]
* LoveAtFirstPunch: During [[spoiler:a seance Stan holds for the others to contact the ghosts, one of the dead insinuates that Zagi and Kamui have this relationship]].

* LoveMakesYouDumb: Sigrun reflects on herself in week seven and concludes that "we all do dumb things for the people we love." [[spoiler:Glory agrees, regretting (one of the people who make her up) having killed because the person they loved died.]]

* MarshmallowHell: Poor Black wakes up this way [[spoiler:when Sigrun has him under her watch 24/7.]]
* MasqueradeBall: Misa and Aqua hold one.
* MauveShirt: Despite his... not being a very nice person, many of the other characters had gotten attached to the first victim.
* MaybeEverAfter: Yousuke and Black end up admitting their feelings, but realize that they're both too damaged from the game and what went on between them, so they aren't officially an item, just... maybe someday.

* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Deleting Archer in the end, since his body is gone and he's lost his will to live anyway.]]

* MistakenAge: Stan is very confused at the ages of [[spoiler:some of the captives from the round Archer ran. Notably, he mistakes 17-year-old Silver and 18-year-old Mai for small kids! Granted, if they ''had'' been, their eventual fates wouldn't have been out of character for the Kingmakers, both of whom are considered threats in canon in part because they very much WouldHurtAChild...]]

* TheMole: This round has more of a "saboteur" type instead of the previous round's "informant" type, [[spoiler:supposedly. It actually had two informants, with a third who turned down the offer, and Mettaton wasn't really a "killswitch," he was half of the Kingmaker.]]

* MurderTropes
** Victim 1: DuelToTheDeath, VampiricDraining
** Culprit 1: EyeScream, OffWithHisHead
** Victim 2: DropTheHammer
** Culprit 2: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** Victim 3: NeverSuicide, TapOnTheHead
** Culprit 3: DualWielding, PummelingTheCorpse
** Retaliation 1: NoBodyLeftBehind, OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank
** Victim 4: HumanPincushion
** Culprit 4: ImpromptuTracheotomy
** Retaliation 2: SuicideByCop
** Victim 5-A: StaircaseTumble
** Victim 5-B: LeaveNoWitnesses
** Culprit 5: PeoplePuppets, BoomHeadshot
** Victim 6: KickThemWhileTheyAreDown
** Culprit 6: KickThemWhileTheyAreDown, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** Victim 7: FieryCoverUp, HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
** Culprit 7: DoNotGoGentle, MacrossMissileMassacre
* NewParentNomenclatureProblem: Yousuke usually calls Cherryblod by his name, but starts slipping into "Dad" more later on.
* NonLethalWarfare: Sigrun is excited to start up mock battles and accepts all challengers, even the Pokémon.

* NothingPersonal: [[spoiler:Aiden]] tells his victim this when they wake up in deadland. It isn't taken well. [[spoiler:Misa also]] does the same thing, but the victim in that case is okay with it.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Despite their embarrassment and Sigrun's teasing, Yousuke and Black really didn't do anything more than hold hands when they were in Black's bed after case five.
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: The title was a joke (one of many, along with things like "Trustfell 2: Fall Further" and "Trustfell: Return to [[spoiler:Anime Germany]]") that amused the mods enough to make it canon.
* OhCrap: Yousuke's reaction in the eighth investigation [[spoiler:when his father and boyfriend are the last to turn up. Both are alive, though.]]
* OppositesAttract: Black's an overprotective cynic afraid of making friends and Yousuke's already learned ThePowerOfFriendship, hope, and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy letting go]]; Sigrun's a caring, responsible leader who takes each death hard and Mettaton tries to only look out for himself because it's easier not to care.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Caren calls the exercise the "worst time [[spoiler:spent unconscious in a tank hooked up to life support]]." Though she clarifies that this ''has'' happened to her before, it's still weirdly specific.
* PeopleJars: [[spoiler:The Survivors' bodies in the real world]] are kept in stasis pods.
* ThePerfectCrime: Case 5 was almost one, with the murder being committed [[spoiler:with a Death Note, something that not only very few characters even knew existed, but also another example of Trustfell subverting murdergame conventions that the players take for granted. It was solved by what looked to be another wacky tangent when Cherryblod's "crack theory" was proven ''right''.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: What started their round in the first place, when [[spoiler:Hans kills Silver and Alphys, kicking off Mettaton and Ryuunosuke's separate killing sprees. Neither have anything to go home to, so they decide to do a game of their own.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: What ends up ''saving'' their round at the final trial. Cherryblod asks to spare [[spoiler:Mettaton]] and Sigrun ends up taking his side. [[spoiler:Mettaton asks that whatever they do, they do for Ryuunosuke too, and so ''both'' of the Kingmakers end up being spared.]]

* PocketProtector: Defied when [[spoiler:the spear that impales Caren hits her shell necklace first. The necklace holds her SoulJar, which breaks, and the spear proceeds to go through her body.]]
* PornStash: While nobody actually finds one, Taichi sees Yousuke searching the storage room and jokes that he's found the Kingmaker's stash.
* PrecisionFStrike: Cherryblod doesn't usually use obscenities, but he's aimed a choice few at the Kingmaker for rubbing it in that his loved ones are supposedly dead [[spoiler:and for the whole Mettaton situation]].
* ProductionThrowback: There have always been a few to Roleplay/DanganRoleplay, but this time, it's actually a final investigation clue: while it's definitely still an EasterEgg and the game is still an AlternateUniverse, [[spoiler:[[Manga/PokemonAdventures Silver]] being [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke's]] OnlyFriend]] was a big hint to the Kingmaker's identity [[spoiler:(half of it)]].
* PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: [[spoiler:Archer, Ryuunosuke, and Mettaton all have this motivation for killing their fellow survivors and starting a new murder game.]]
* PsychoStrings: Norman's MTB uses the TropeNamer.
* RevenantZombie: The executions appear to employ these, with a copy of the victim, having their powers and weapons back, coming to kill the culprit. [[spoiler:After Pearl, whose real remains are right there in the courtroom at the time, appears as one too, the living start to suspect that they're fakes.]]
* {{Robosexual}}: Mettaton and Sigrun. They work surprisingly well together, to the point where YourUniverseOrMine comes up and Sigrun decides that her roboyfriend is coming back with her. [[spoiler:Sadly, Sigrun decides to break up with Mettaton, albeit reluctantly, when he's revealed to be the Kingmaker's "kill switch" at the end of the sixth trial. They fall into old habits and get back together once they're in the real world though, and he as well as Ryuunosuke are being taken back to her world to be kept an eye on by her and Cherryblod.]]

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Faced with [[RealityEnsues the trouble that would surely follow if he brought a huge amount of money home]], Yousuke asks Cherryblod if he knows someone from his mob days who would help him launder it. The answer's no.
* SeashellBra: Caren wears a simple one as a mermaid. A significantly fancier bejeweled one [[spoiler:is her dead renewable regain]], and though it's designed as outerwear (the undersea equivalent of a PimpedOutDress), Sigrun starts wearing it as underwear.
* SerenadeYourLover: Used tragically in Week 6. [[spoiler:Sigrun works on writing Mettaton a song for the big special date she has planned, but Mettaton is ordered to kill the same week, reveals his treachery to the group, and dies before she can perform it for him.]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Not only have there been more murder games, they've grown into a full-blown ''industry,'' mostly in the form of a virtual ImmoralRealityShow... but hey, "Observant?" That means Round 1 was involved!]]
* ShamingTheMob: Yousuke remembers being talked down in the third week and then does it himself when some of the others, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Cherryblod]] in particular, start to gang up on the culprit.
* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Another leading theory for what exactly is carrying out the executions and looking like the victims. [[spoiler:This one's more accurate, though it's just a projection.]]

* SmokingGun: Case 5's introduction of [[spoiler:Misa's Death Note]] shows exactly how and by whom the murders were committed and that such a scenario was possible in the first place.
* SoulJar: [[spoiler:Both the victim and culprit of Case 2 have theirs broken.]]
* SpottingTheThread: Mettaton uses [[Film/LegallyBlonde fashion knowledge]] to corner [[spoiler:Misa, who would have known very well not to bleach a black dress]].

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: The end result of a CrossoverPunchline to the mastermind's canon [[Roleplay/TrustfellRoundOne actually sticking this time]]. [[spoiler:Sigrun [[BorrowedCatchphrase uses "greatest cool"]], confusing the people around her, before anyone knew that Ryuunosuke was half of the Kingmaker.]]
* TalkingInBed: Just about every romantic or found-family relationship has a few moments like this, like Black/Yousuke, Sigrun/Mettaton, and Cherryblod + his sons.

* ThatCameOutWrong: Black accidentally tells his not-boyfriend to strip [[spoiler:at the first meeting with Glory]].
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Sigrun first declares this on the Kingmaker [[spoiler:after Mettaton's trial]], albeit with killing. Played more straight during the Kingmaker's trial itself [[spoiler:after learning who ''both'' masterminds were, and saying that no one could kill Mettaton before her. Technically, this is true, since she's the only one who knows how to.]]
* ThereIsAnother: The Survivors are told that they're the last from their worlds. Late in the game, there's a hostage motive that indicates that some of their loved ones also survived [[spoiler:and were placed in another murder game]], if you believe the Kingmaker's words.

* TryNotToDie: Cherryblod tells Yousuke he's not allowed to. Yousuke replies that he can't promise that in a murder vault, but asks that if he does die, that Cherryblod keep going.
* {{Understatement}}: Taichi upon pulling a blood-covered blade out of the incinerator. "Well, this isn't good."

* UniquenessDecay: Naturally, this being the second round, the Graceside incident isn't the first murder exercise around. [[spoiler:The part that isn't a ForegoneConclusion? There are ''lots'' of them.]]
* UnreliableExpositor: The fourth culprit, when found out, gives two versions of the murder and the events around it: [[spoiler:Norman's and Norma's.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Yousuke goes to use the washroom in the seventh investigation and completely misses that Cherryblod's investigating in there, not just using the facilities, and that the body announcement's gone off.
* UrineTrouble: The subject of a couple jokes on Yousuke's part, where he fears he might scare someone into wetting their pants accidentally.

* VillainByDefault: The list of [[spoiler:previous victors in the control room's red book]] describes them as a [[WarHawk warmonger]], a [[SerialKiller serial murderer]], a {{sadist}}, and a [[TheSociopath sociopath]]. Naturally, all four are bad news.
* WasItAllALie: The closest people to [[spoiler:Mettaton, when he reveals himself as the "kill switch,"]] ask this of him. He tries to say yes, but finds that [[BecomingTheMask he's grown a few feelings]].
* WetTShirtContest: Joked to be the real reason that Yousuke threw a bucket of water on [[spoiler:Caren. Really, it was just panic because she was coming toward him and trying to go for the bucket.]]

** The office unlocking, and how it doesn't match the rest of the Vault at all... but looks just like the office from Graceside. [[spoiler:Kimblee himself is mentioned under his "Observant" title later on.]]
** The hostage motive [[spoiler:suggesting that the Survivors' loved ones are not only alive, but are stuck in their own murder game.]]
** "YOU ARE ALL SLATED TO DIE."
** Case 8 was a great big stack of game-changing revelations. [[spoiler:EverybodyLives, but Black had been plotting to kill to escape, he was working for the Kingmaker, so was Stan until recently, Colress had been approached to be a mole but turned it down, and there might still be ''another'' one based on Black's theory about things not adding up. Which turns out to be true, but it's none of the Survivors...]]

* WorldHalfFull: [[spoiler:Glory describes their home world this way.]]

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Aqua tells Bruce this, stunning him into silence. Black tells the others this often, too, and is just as shocked when Yousuke uses it on ''him''.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Attempted when Sigrun [[AchillesInHisTent temporarily gives up]] after [[spoiler:getting close to too many traitors and defending them before they turn out to be guilty. Cherryblod turns the promotion down and they compromise that it should be a group decision. In the end, the group ''doesn't'' vote to oust Sigrun as leader.]]

* YouNeedToGetLaid: Sigrun starts thinking Caren wouldn't be such a killjoy if she could get a date, especially after Black outs her. [[spoiler:In the postgame, she plots to get Caren a girlfriend, quickly roping others into the plan and driving Caren herself up the wall.]]
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:In lieu of a Week 8 incentive, the Survivors get a set of messages warning them that the Kingmaker wants to kill them all.]]
* ZeroApprovalGambit: The third culprit, when cornered and found out, decides to go [[LaughingMad full-out]] [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred villain-act]] out of remorse and desperation.

* ProductionThrowback: There have always been a few to Roleplay/DanganRoleplay, but this time, it's actually a final investigation clue: while it's definitely still an EasterEgg and the game is still an AlternateUniverse, [[spoiler:[[Manga/PokemonSpecial Silver]] being [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke's]] OnlyFriend]] was a big hint to the Kingmaker's identity [[spoiler:(half of it)]].

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Inverted hard. The RNG kills off most of the women in the first few weeks.

* PornStash: While nobody actually finds one, Taichi sees Yousuke searching the storage room and thinks he's found the Kingmaker's stash.