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* AgeInappropriateArt: Amane's [[CoverVersion cover song]] for the second trial is "Animal". While the cover [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning leans more into the aspect of her dropping her "good girl" image and going feral]], the song is rife with sexual euphemisms that sound unfitting for a child to sing.

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* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Overlapping with RageAgainstTheAuthor: the prisoners perceive their judgements as voices in their minds telling them that they're guilty or innocent/forgiven or not forgiven. Many of the Second Trial songs have the prisoners directly reacting to this, with quite a few being furious at their judgement.

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* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Overlapping with RageAgainstTheAuthor: the prisoners perceive their judgements as voices in their minds telling them that they're guilty or innocent/forgiven or not forgiven. Many of the Second Trial songs and voice dramas have the prisoners directly reacting to this, with quite a few being furious at their judgement.judgement.
--> '''Yuno''': I find those kinds of assumptions preachy and unpleasant! They're worthless! Arbitrarily deciding that I'm pitiable. Arbitrarily making up a backstory for me. Creating a personally idealized version of me. Creating an acceptable version of me.


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* ThemeNaming: Many of the titles of the prisoners' voice dramas have a noticeable theme: Haruka's reference 'the weak', Yuno's refer to 'zero', Futa's reference fire, Mu's are two words with the second being the letter B, Shidou's are the names of a god, Mahiru's reference love, Amane's use religious terms, and Kotoko's are each one word in all-caps.
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* FairytaleMotifs: Kotoko's videos bring to mind ''Little Red Riding Hood'', with Kotoko being compared to both Red Riding Hood and the wolf.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: {{Defied|Trope}} by Es. Although explicitly told that they can run Milgram and judge the prisoners however they want, Es chooses to simply talk with the prisoners rather than using violence or threats.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: {{Defied|Trope}} by Es. Although explicitly told that they can run Milgram and judge the prisoners however they want, Es chooses to simply talk with the prisoners rather than using violence or threats.threats (although they do occasionally slap or kick a prisoner, usually to make a point or shut them up).



* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: This is, in essence, how Milgram works, but not just in a literal sense: the audience is ''theoretically'' meant to vote prisoners guilty or innocent based on their crimes, but because a lot of the facts about the crimes have been withheld, obfuscated, or concealed, the audience is voting based on what they think happened, which is often very different to what later videos show. There's also the fact that many of the audience are voting innocent or guilty based on their own personal feelings about the prisoners, with the actual crimes not coming into it. [[spoiler:For example, Kotoko's second vote has been overwhelmingly 'guilty', but it's not because of the crime, it's the audience's revenge for her attacks on Futa and Mahiru.]]



* MeaningfulEcho: The lyrics of "Deep Cover" include the repetition of "Under" from "Undercover" and similarly reference the other inmates. This combines with the imagery of the video to make it clear that Kotoko wants to be the authority of the prison and thinks she'd be better at it than Es.



** Kotoko with wolves.

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** Kotoko with wolves. "Deep Cover" also has the other prisoners symbolised by chess pieces, each customised to incorporate elements of the prisoner's backstory/personality.



* TautologicalTemplar: Kotoko believes that as a vigilante, it's morally right for her to punish murderers who have been found guilty. The fact that A, she's also considered a murderer, B, she attacked two people who couldn't defend themselves and beat them nearly to death, C, nobody asked, told or ordered her to punish them, she did it entirely of her own volition, and D, the actual authority of the prison rebuked her and told her that she was wrong to do it and it's not what they wanted hasn't changed her viewpoint at all- she's still right, and she should be able and allowed to punish anyone who's guilty without reprieve.



* YouBastard: Despite inviting the audience to become the whole cast's judge and jury, the story just as bluntly condemns the audience for doing so. Futa and Yuno actively hate the audience for their verdicts, the former because he believes that what they're doing is no different from the cyberbullying campaigns he launched and the latter for believing that [[DontYouDarePityMe they only Forgave her because they thought her naive]]. Some of the inmates even ''dare'' the audience to vote a certain way again, half with gratefulness and half with resigned acceptance (such as Shidou, who wants to be Unforgiven but asks to be voted Forgiven because [[TheMedic his medical skills are indispensible]]; or [[spoiler:Mikoto's alter, who wants Mikoto to be voted Forgiven, claiming unlike himself Mikoto had nothing to do with the murder(s)]]).

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* YouBastard: Despite inviting the audience to become the whole cast's judge and jury, the story just as bluntly condemns the audience for doing so. Futa and Yuno actively hate the audience for their verdicts, the former because he believes that what they're doing is no different from the cyberbullying campaigns he launched and the latter for believing that [[DontYouDarePityMe they only Forgave her because they thought her naive]]. Some of the inmates even ''dare'' the audience to vote a certain way again, half with gratefulness and half with resigned acceptance (such as Shidou, who wants to be Unforgiven but asks to be voted Forgiven because [[TheMedic his medical skills are indispensible]]; or [[spoiler:Mikoto's alter, who wants Mikoto to be voted Forgiven, claiming unlike himself because Mikoto had nothing to do with the murder(s)]]).
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* JerkassHasAPoint: In "YONAH", in response to Es admonishing her for attacking the other prisoners, Kotoko points out that A, nearly everyone (including Es) would approve of a murderer being attacked by a vigilante if they didn't know either party, and B, a warden who becomes so attached to the prisoners they're watching over that they're prepared to give them lighter or no sentences/punishments based on things like how much they like them or how long they've known them is a useless warden. Es objects to this, but she's not wrong.
-->'''Kotoko''': You let their sins off just because they're close to you? You're making the punishment less severe just because they get along with you? What's next? Going to give them leniency for their looks? For their personality? For how long have you known them?

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* SanitySlippageSong: "All-knowing and all agony", [[spoiler:which shows Haruka slowly killing more and more animals trying to make his mother love him, eventually snapping and killing a human when she rejects him completely.]]

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* SanitySlippageSong: "All-knowing and all agony", "All-Knowing And All Agony", [[spoiler:which shows Haruka slowly killing more and more animals trying to make his mother love him, eventually snapping and killing a human when she rejects him completely.]]


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* StealthPun: Kotoko's motif in "Harrow" is wolves, and the video shows her to be a vigilante who works by herself. She's a ''lone wolf''.
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* AmenBreak: "The Purge March" includes the amen break drums in the first two of four bars leading up to each chorus.
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** In "Weakness", Haruka's younger self (?) and the young girl also fit, wearing a blue polo shirt and a pink dress respectively.

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** In "Weakness", the boy who presumably is Haruka's younger self (?) and the young girl with him also fit, wearing a blue polo shirt and a pink dress respectively.
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Mikoto does have amnesia related to his DID, rephrased


* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Mikoto doesn't appear to have amnesia like Es does, but claims he genuinely does not remember what sin he committed.

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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Mikoto doesn't appear to have amnesia like Es does, but claims he genuinely Unlike Es, who does not remember what sin anything from their life before MILGRAM, Mikoto only claims to not be able to remember the "sin" he had committed.
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** [[spoiler:Mikoto unleashes one of these on Es in his voice drama, and it does ''not'' sound pretty.]]

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** [[spoiler:Mikoto [[spoiler:Mikoto's [[SplitPersonality alter]] unleashes one of these on Es in his voice drama, "John Doe", and it does ''not'' sound pretty.]]

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