History Characters / Milgram

* TeenPregnancy: She's only 18, but her First Trial music video heavily implies at some point she was impregnated… Potentially even resulting in her getting an abortion.

* FlamingSword: Wields flaming blades during the RPG sections of Bring It On.

* DumbBlonde: Her hair is more of a light brown, but the some of the art makes her look like one. Either way, the only thing that’s ever on her mind is love.

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:In ''The Purge March'', it is revealed that she lived with someone who was willing to [[ElectricTorture attack her with a stun gun]] because she tied a tourniquet around an injured cat's leg. She is also shown [[WaterTorture drenched in water]] earlier in the song, heavily implied to be waterboarding.]]

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: While the other prisoners are teenagers or adults, Amane is the youngest prisoner, at 12 years old.

-->'''Amane:''' ''I don't need it anymore\\

It's my turn to tear you apart''

* SplitPersonalityTakeover: {{Discussed|Trope}}. In "Neoplasm", Johns claims that Mikoto is trying to "disappear", and claims that a Guilty verdict will make Mikoto go dormant from stress, while an Innocent verdict will make John eventually "disappear" instead. [[WildMassGuessing This statement is questioned by the fandom]] as potentially John lying to try and sway an Innocent vote, thinking that Es wants him gone.

'''Gender''': Male\\

Prisoner 008. She hates being looked down on because of her age and completely devoted to be a "good girl".

* WouldntHurtAChild: Implied; in Season 2, she attacks all of the prisoners voted guilty (Futa, Mahiru, and Mikoto), except Amane. The strong implications that she targeted child abusers during her vigilante days and her victim most likely being one as well also helps in that regard.

* BloodBath: During [=MeMe=] he is shown [[FanDisservice shirtless]] while lying in a bathtub full of blood.

* TheEveryman: At the beginning appears as the most ordinary out of all the prisoners, being a regular guy who graduated university and works as a company employee. {{Subverted}} as of his first MV, which reveals him to have been the cause of death of one or more people, as well as him having [[SplitPersonality Dissociative Identity Disorder]].

* TheGenericGuy: Mikoto doesn't particularly stand out from the rest of the prisoners, and is even described as being normal and having a normal build. At least, until we start learning more about him...

* ShirtlessScene: There exist three in "[=MeMe=]", although it’s ambiguous wether it’s Mikoto or his Alter in those scenes.

* SecondPersonAttack: Mikoto's first MV ends with John punching the camera, implying the viewer.

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

* MrFanservice: There are several bathing or showering scenes in his first MV, which has made the fanbase firmly associate him with fanservice, although some of the scenes are [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous]] on the identity of whoever is fronting, and most are heavily implied to feature his [[SplitPersonality alter]] instead. The first ShirtlessScene in [=MeMe=] also gives the viewer a glimpse of both his back and his underwear. Some of it veers into FanDisservice territory, though, as we see him or his [[SplitPersonality alter]] washing off the victim's blood.

* 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]], 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]].

* ShirtlessScene: There exist three in "[=MeMe=]", all of which heavily imply to be featuring him instead of Mikoto, mostly by a switch happening at the end.
** The first one happens shortly after we first see footage of the murder. He takes off the t-shirt he was wearing since he got blood on it, with the camera showing us his whole backside.
** Then we have the ShowerOfAngst scene, described below.
** Finally, we get to see him sitting in a bathtub filled with blood right before the final chorus.
* ShowerOfAngst: Starts out eerie, with him taking a shower to wash off blood while nonchalantly brushing his teeth.

[[SplitPersonality Alter]] of prisoner 009, Mikoto Kayano. John has a strong desire to protect Mikoto at all costs, often fronting when Mikoto is put under heavy stress. He’s stoic and defensive, yet surprisingly a good conversationist and cooperative even if the validity of some of his statements is questionable. Sometimes acts violent and aggressive when first appearing, but tends to calm down when things don’t appear as threatening. He appears in [=“MeMe”=], “Double”, and the corresponding voice dramas “John Doe” and “Neoplasm”.

* ClusterFBomb: Has a lot of these when he appears in “John Doe”.

** In [=“MeMe”=] the normally blue mindscape occasionally switches to a deep red to indicate his presence.
** In “Double” in the scene where a distorted collage of Mikoto is standing in a crowd of mannequins, red is used to likely represent John’s “soul” and the blue, Mikoto’s “soul”. John is also associated appearing with black windows in the train, and Mikoto with white windows.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: John’s name is foreshadowed in the title for Mikoto’s first voice drama “John Doe”. His name is officially given in “Neoplasm”.

* InventedIndividual: In “Neoplasm” John says he believes he came into existence to relieve the stress that Mikoto experiences, and that he is the person Mikoto wishes he could be.

* MeaningfulName: The name Es gave to him is John. Es says it came from [[MrSmith John Doe,]] the term given to unidentified bodies. This makes sense, as in a way John can be considered somewhat as an unidentified body for being Mikoto’s alter, and lacking a stable identity and previously, name.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Inflicts this upon Es in “John Doe” after they made Mikoto have a panic attack, which caused John to come out and beat up Es. Ended up being stopped by Kotoko, [[BigDamnHeroes who came in to save Es]] and proceeded to pull another no-holds-barred beatdown on John.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: In the voice dramas, every time John comes out he always resorts to saying mean things and threatening Es. Although in “Neoplasm”, he calms down when Es is being nice to him, and we eventually learn that John is only being a monster to protect Mikoto and [[HiddenHeartOfGold is actually kind at heart.]]
* OffingTheAnnoyance: In the second voice drama, John claims to have killed many people for being an annoyance to him. The truthfulness of this statement is put into question, as [=“MeMe”=] implies the murder to be premeditated.

* RottenRockAndRoll: Both "[=MeMe=]" and "Double" have some of the heaviest guitars of any ''MILGRAM'' song, emphasizing the image of a "monster" John is [[ObfuscatingInsanity trying to create]] for Es and the audience.

* ShirtlessScene: There exist three in [=MeMe=], all of which heavily imply to be featuring him instead of Mikoto, mostly by a switch happening at the end.

* SirSwearsALot: He swears a lot in when he first appears in “John Doe” [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown while beating up Es.]] Interestingly enough he doesn’t swear at all when he becomes more docile in “Neoplasm”.

* SplitPersonalityTakeover: {{Discussed|Trope}}. In “Neoplasm”, Johns claims that Mikoto is trying to disappear, and claims that a Guilty verdict will make Mikoto disappear from stress, and an Innocent verdict will make John disappear. [[WildMassGuessing This statement is questioned by the fandom]] as potentially John lying to try and sway an Innocent vote, thinking that Es wants him gone.

* TarotMotifs: Often associated with The Fool card in [=“MeMe”=].
* TheStoic: Is almost always expressionless when he appears in “Double”. His vocal tone is also much more flat than Mikoto’s.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: In “John Doe”, the first thing he does when he came out was to attack Es. During the [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beatdown]] he says a lot of stuff to threaten Es and even asks if they’d prefer getting beaten more.
** In “Neoplasm”, when John first appears, he instantly resorts to calling Es a brat and saying that they haven’t had a beating yet. When Es reacts calmly to the situation, John acts more composed and it’s eventually revealed he’s been acting as a monster in order to protect Mikoto by driving people away from him.
-->'''John:''' ”If I had stayed a monster... maybe that would've been better.”

Notedly, 3-coding isn't as common in Mikoto's Trial 2 music video as it is in the first one.

** There are three separate colors of flowers on Mikoto's birthday cake art, two of them being of the same kind.

** There are three separate colored types of flowers on Mikoto's birthday cake art, two of them being of the same kind.

* TheNicknamer: He tends to refer to fellow prisoners with shortened versions of their first names.

* MrFanservice: There are several bathing or showering scenes in his first MV, which has made the fanbase firmly associate him with fanservice, although most of the scenes are [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous]] on the identity of whoever is fronting, and some are heavily implied to feature his [[SplitPersonality alter]] instead. The first ShirtlessScene in [=MeMe=] also gives the viewer a glimpse of both his back and his underwear. Some of it veers into FanDisservice territory, though, as we see him or his [[SplitPersonality alter]] washing off the victim's blood.

* MrFanservice: There are several bathing or showering scenes in his first MV, which has made the fanbase firmly associate him with fanservice, although most of the scenes are ambiguous on the identity of whoever is fronting, and some are heavily implied to feature his [[SplitPersonality alter]] instead. The first ShirtlessScene in [=MeMe=] also gives the viewer a glimpse of both his back and his underwear. Some of it veers into FanDisservice territory, though, as we see him or his [[SplitPersonality alter]] washing off the victim's blood.

* ShirtlessScene: ''Three'' in [=MeMe=].
** The first one happens shortly after we first see Mikoto's murder. He takes off the t-shirt he was wearing since he got blood on it, with the camera showing us his whole backside.
** Then we have the ShowerOfAngst scene, described below.
** Finally, we get to see Mikoto sitting in a bathtub filled with blood right before the final chorus.
* ShowerOfAngst: It starts out creepy, with Mikoto taking a shower to wash off blood while nonchalantly brushing his teeth.

* SplitPersonality: Officially confirmed to have Dissociative Identity Disorder by Jackalope as of the start of the Second Trial.

* MrFanservice: Throughout [=MeMe=], he gets several scenes of him bathing, and his first ShirtlessScene gives us a glimpse of both his back and his underwear. Some of it veers into FanDisservice territory, though, as we see him washing off his victim's blood.

* HellIsThatNoise: As he often fronts at night, prisoner 009's cell in MILGRAM is noted to have many loud and unusual noises, which are assumed to be him trying to relieve stress.