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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
- The end of Chapter 3. After learning about it from Kyoko, Makoto finds a secret room in the boys' restroom. Before he can take a good look around, a mysterious masked man attacks him from behind, knocking him unconscious. When Makoto wakes up, he finds that the room has been cleaned out. Then, when he staggers to the gymnasium, he finds Sakura fighting Monokuma, and they have a conversation implying Sakura is The Mole.
- Chapter 4's one of the biggest wham episodes. Monokuma reveals Sakura's identity as the mole right off the bat... and then Sakura is killed... and there's a bloody message with Toko's name just like with Leon! ...no wait, that was Yasuhiro framing Toko, he killed the ogre, he even confesses! ...no wait, actually his strike didn't kill Sakura, Toko and Genocide Jill confess to it... no wait, Aoi framed everyone, she confesses to the murder! ...no wait, it was actually a suicide! And Monokuma gave Aoi a fake suicide note! Nice going, Aoi... no wait, everyone decides not to punish Aoi and they're all against Monokuma now! Looks like Monokuma can't execute anyone... no wait, Alter Ego, NOOOOOO!!! And then, at the very end of the chapter? Kyoko suddenly reveals the name of the sixteenth student!
- Chapter 6 in its entirety is a Wham Episode. Monokuma agrees to do a re-trial of Mukuro's murder, but the students now have to solve every mystery in the school. One of the sixteen students is the mastermind. Kyoko discovers her father's remains as well as hints that he really did care about her. Furthermore, all of the students had attended Hope's Peak before, but had their memories erased. The biggest part? Mukuro Ikusaba was disguising herself as Junko, and the real Junko was the Big Bad all along.
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
- The ending of Chapter 5 sets up everything to come in the final chapter. On the final day of the countdown, after the Trial, Hajime and the survivors discover the password to the locked ruins — 11037 — while the dead students comment on matters but nobody reacts to them. Once everyone enters the ruins, the world around him begins glitching out as the facade crumbles to reveal what it really is.
- Chapter 6 turns the whole setting on its head.
- The "school trip" is a simulation designed to rehabilitate the cast, who turn out to be the Remnants of Despair that have been causing havoc in the outside world in Junko's name.
- The cameras aren't just monitoring the students; they've been broadcasting this killing game to the Future Foundation, all so that AI Junko can lure her former classmates into a trap.
- Hajime Hinata was erased to create Izuru Kamukura, the perpetrator behind the Tragedy of Hope's Peak that was the catalyst to the Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event In Human History. This revelation pushes him into a Heroic BSoD and leaves him completely paralyzed.
- The survivors' only way out is a huge Sadistic Choice — Graduate, and they keep their memories of the island, but unleash AI Junko into the world through their comatose classmates' bodies and trap the Future Foundation members in the simulation; Repeat, and their struggles were All for Nothing as they remain in the simulation, also subject to the whims of AI Junko; Shutdown, and they escape while destroying AI Junko, but revert to their former selves as the Remnants of Despair in a world that wants them dead. The surviving students can't make their decision and are trapped in a stalemate.
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
- History repeats itself. The trailer, the ads, the demo and Spike Chunsoft itself lied to everyone once again. Kaede dies in Chapter 1. Shuichi is the actual protagonist.
- Chapter 5 is host to a lot of shocking events.
- The remaining students conquer the Death Road of Despair and prepare to escape the school...only to find out the outside world had been rendered completely uninhabitable, rendering their attempts to escape All for Nothing. Kokichi (falsely) reveals himself as the mastermind of the killing game, and revels as the survivors sink into despair.
- Another Flashback Light unveils an unexpected connection to the previous two games — the students all attended Hope's Peak Academy, and Kokichi is a Remnant of Despair.
- Kokichi, whom everyone had believed was the mastermind, was the victim of this case — crushed to death by a hydraulic press, as part of his plan to end the killing game. Kaito reveals that Kokichi had told him that he'd lied about being the mastermind, that he had wanted to end the game this whole time, and that he had suspicions about whether what they knew about the outside world was true or not.
- Kaito Momota is the blackened, having been blackmailed by Kokichi into carrying out his plan to end the killing game. Maki declares her love for him, and Kaito dies from his illness before he can be killed by the execution.
- Chapter 6:
- Kaede didn't kill Rantaro — she was framed by the mastermind. The mastermind in question is Tsumugi.
- Pretty much all the reveals up to this point were a lie. Hope's Peak Academy, the Remnants of Despair, and basically the first two games are all In-Universe fiction. The Gofer Project, the cast's memories, talents and personalities were all fake (and even THAT may be somewhat of a lie). And to top it all? All the students are participants in a Danganronpa reality show based off the video game series, currently in its 53rd installment (counting the ones that were actually games/animes/etc.).
Spin-offs
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
- The end of Chapter 3. Jack prevents Kotoko's execution. Soon after, Nagisa shows up and deactivates Komaru's bracelet begging her to leave the city. Then, the location shifts to Monaca, who along with Kurokuma reveals her plan isn't to create paradise, but to create a second Junko Enoshima.
- The epilogue, of all places, has a plot-changing reveal when it turns out that Shirokuma and Kurokuma were Alter Ego Junko this whole time.
Danganronpa Kirigiri
- The end of Volume 3. After solving one of Ryuuzouji's cases, Samidare goes to Kirigiri's place to find out why she disappeared for two weeks, only find in the backyard a rotting corpse wearing Fuhito's clothes. She's subsequently attacked by a mysterious woman in an apron, only to be saved by Jin Kirigiri. While she's being driven back, Samidare comes to the conclusion that Fuhito has been Dead All Along and impersonated by Shinsen all this time.
Killer Killer
- Chapter 3, when the manga reveals itself to be a Danganronpa Spin-Off.
- Chapter 8: Asano learns that Hijirihara is Killer Killer, the perpetrator of the Giboura Massacre is revealed to be Mukuro Ikusaba and the Eight Branch is attacked by someone who seems to be the deceased Ikusaba.
- Oh boy, Chapter 9. There isn't just one Mukuro attacking the eight branch, there's an entire army of them! Oh, and Asano is stabbed by Fujigawa, who's crying his eyes out while doing it.
- Chapter 11: Fujigawa reveals himself as the Killer Killer in a livestream, and claims he has set bombs all over the country, set to go off in 24 hours. The only way to stop them is to kill Asano, who has the disarming device in a necklace she's forced to wear. She can't remove it herself, or else it will detonate without disarming the bombs.
