History Awesome / DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc

* Sure, Byakuya can be a {{Jerkass}}, but it feels good having him in our side (sorta) helping to solve the crime, like in the third case, where he directly confonted Celes.

* Sakura Ogami gets a post-mortem crowning moment of awesome when it's revealed what her "first shot" against Monokuma was: Sakura broke the lock to an important door Monokuma was guarding so Kyouko Kirigiri could break in and see what was inside.
** [[DyingMomentOfAwesome Her death]] [[ThanatosGambit was pretty awesome too]], since it simultaneously broke Monokuma's game and caused the students to unify, just as she intended.

* Chapter 6. Makoto helping everyone overcome despair and earning the title of Ultimate Hope, and then using that hope to deliver the final blow to the mastermind. The LastEpisodeThemeReprise definitely warrants a mention, too. And on a meta level, Makoto finding the seeds of hope in the words of the mastermind.

* On a meta level, the game got a Western release ''effectively because of a LetsPlay'' - one from Website/SomethingAwful, no less.

* The final Bullet Time Battle deserves special mention. The mastermind, Junko Enoshima, starts flipping between all her personas rapidly as she [[VillainousBreakdown completely breaks down]], simply from the fact that Makoto ''[[{{Determinator}} refuses to give in to despair.]]'' The way she slowly goes from confident threats to screaming [[RapidFireNo "No, no, no, no, NO!"]] and [[EvilCannotComprehendGood "What ARE you!?"]] is incredibly satisfying. Notably, her final statement, while it ''sounds'' like a BadassBoast, is actually delivered in her [[DullSurprise "bored" persona]], implying she's just ''given up.''

'''''Main installments:''''' ''Awesome/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' | ''Awesome/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' | ''Awesome/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'' | ''Awesome/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''\\

--> '''Byakuya:''' Oh come on! How can you know what I don't know?

-->'''Byakuya:''' This is a life-or-death elimination match. The only way to survive...is to win. There can be no doubt that these are the rules of the game. [[WhamLine Which is why...I am bowing out of the game.]]

** Especially when Makoto finally figures out, in chapter 6, who the mastermind behind this whole fiasco is. Made even better in that Makoto's chain of reasoning began because he noticed something as small as ''there being only 9 indicator lights in the morgue instead of 10''!

* Sakura Oogami gets a post-mortem crowning moment of awesome when it's revealed what her "first shot" against Monokuma was: Sakura broke the lock to an important door Monokuma was guarding so Kyouko Kirigiri could break in and see what was inside.

* There are quite a few of these in ''Dangan Ronpa IF'', including Mukuro Ikusaba being able to match fists with '''''Sakura Oogami''''', Mukuro fending off hundreds of Monokuma units, Mondo and Sakura saving Mukuro from said units (including Mondo ''riding the motorcycle used in his execution''), and Mukuro's gambit to get through the Final Graduation Exam.

** The final Non-Stop Debate takes an element reviled in the other trials - Memory Bullets - and uses it to it's best effect: you literally take the "hope" from Makoto's statement and fire it into the other's hesitation, one-by-one inspiring them to move forward again. It's primarily this act that Makoto gains the (now-well-earned) title of "Ultimate Hope".

* The final Bullet Time Battle deserves special mention. The mastermind, Junko Enoshima, starts flipping between all her personas rapidly as she [[VillainousBreakdown completely breaks down]], simply from the fact that Makoto ''[[{{Determinator}} refuses to give in to despair.]]'' The way she slowly goes from confidant threats to screaming [[RapidFireNo "No, no, no, no, NO!"]] and [[EvilCannotComprehendGood "What ARE you!?"]] is incredibly satisfying. Notably, her final statement, while it ''sounds'' like a BadassBoast, is actually delivered in her [[DullSurprise "bored" persona]], implying she's just ''given up.''

* Sayaka having the smarts to leave a dying message and managing to hide it from her killer, all while being in a considerable amount of pain and terror. It turns out to be the main piece of evidence that identifies her killer.