History Characters / Milgram

* AmbiguousGender: Es' gender is redacted from their information and described as 'unknown'. They have a female voice actress, but an androgynous voice that sounds somewhat like a young boy's, and they have been called "Es-kun" by Shidou and "Suu-kun" by Mikoto (-kun is an honorific typically but not always used for boys).

'''Second Trial Judgement''': Undetermined\\

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* TokenGoodTeammate: Out of everyone in the prison and despite having no qualms about being labeled as a murderer, the fandom generally believes her murder(s) which is her abortion(s) to not be a murder at all and believes that she's the most innocent prisoner.

** Her second song combines this with an urbanized {{Fairy Tale Motif|s}}. She wears a [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood red hood]] in her city scenes, and over the corse of the music video slowly morphs into a monsterous werewolf under a blood red moon.

'''Second Trial Judgement''': Undetermined\\

** It's revealed in the Season 2 MV that [[spoiler: she very much enjoys bullying and manipulate other students, but unlike the bullying she received which is much more physical.]] In the voice drama she claims that [[spoiler: she didn't bully anyone as she has never dump water on anybody's head herself. This doesn't mean that her group of "friends" doesn't do that instead of her...]]

* MistakenForCheating: "half" gives off imagery that alludes to cheating (especially taking off his wedding ring), but when [[AudienceSurrogate Es]] directly accuses him of cheating, he says that it didn't go anywhere. According to him, he'd never once strayed from his wife, but his guilt comes from believing his finally coming clean about himself is what led to her death.

* KickChick: In Undercover, she kicks away the camera and her silhouette is depicted kicking her victim to death.

* SecondPersonAttack: She kicks towards the camera in Undercover.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: "Harrow" alludes to one, with Kotoko having flashbacks to a man menacing someone with a hammer, a woman or girl apparently having been killed by that man, and a young girl with black hair (possibly Kotoko herself) having been tied up and gagged by an unknown person.

Her Second Trial song is "Deep Cover" (not yet released).

** Season 2 has her veer in the DarkActionGirl direction after becoming...''"physically antagonistic"'' towards her fellow prisoners, this time hardly in the name of protecting others.

* ForScience: [[spoiler:Claims to have committed some of his {{organ theft}}s for scientific reasons in his second voice drama.]]

* RuleOfThree: 3's are a common motif when it comes to Mikoto, which is typically [[WildMassGuessing speculated by the fans]] to represent the amount of victims or [[SplitPersonality alters]] in his system.
** His prisoner number, 009, is 3*3.
** On his straitjacket, has three rows of belts on the sleeves, as well as a grid of three vertically and horizontally aligned belts at the bottom.
** The character "Mi" (ミ) in his name when written in katakana originates from the character "San" (三), meaning three.
** Has the third blood type.
** His first MV has backgrounds of primarily three colors: [[ChromaticArrangement red, green and blue]]. [[spoiler:This is followed up on in one scene of "Double", where a mannequin head falls down a green-to-red background that features blue and red text.]]
** "[=MeMe=]" features three separate [[TarotMotifs Tarot spreads]].
** There are three separate colors of flowers on Mikoto's birthday cake art, two of them being the same kind of flower.
** The CD cover for "[=MeMe=]" features three skulls in the corner.
** A shot of Mikoto's mindspace in "[=MeMe=]" shows two Tarot cards face up, the Hanged Man and the Fool, as well as a card face down.
** The Tarot card back design in "[=MeMe=]" has three ovals of varying sizes.
** Futa's second MV, "Backdraft", has three red paint strokes covering Mikoto's silhouette, unlike any of the other prisoners, who have one.
** Minor design choices in "[=MeMe=]" that feature a 3 or 2+1 motif, like the amount of seating spots in Mikoto's mindspace or number of lit up banners in the background of the murder scene.
** [[spoiler: A shot of Mikoto running in the train in "Double" is accompanied by three solid-color silhouettes repeating his actions with slight delay.]]
** [[WildMassGuessing Speculated by the fans]] in-universe to be a birthday cake for Mikoto's [[SplitPersonality alter]] John, the congratulatory cake for the MILGRAM project's first birthday held by who is implied to be Mikoto's [[SplitPersonality alter]] in the opening of episode 25 "MINIGRAM's" of the MINIGRAM manga has three sparklers.
Notedly, [[spoiler:3-coding isn't as common]] in Mikoto's Trial 2 music video [[spoiler:as it is in the first one]].

* IWantMyMommy: In one of his Trial 2 interrogation questions, he says he wants to see his MissingMom, using the very attached term "kaa-san" (母さん).