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* MurderTropes
** '''Victim 1:''' BitterAlmonds, DyingClue, TheCanKickedHim
** '''Culprit 1:''' DeathFromAbove, (averted) SoftGlass
** '''Victim 2:''' StaircaseTumble, TapOnTheHead
** '''Culprit 2:''' HighVoltageDeath
** '''Victim 3:''' BungledSuicide, NeverSuicide
** '''Culprit 3:''' ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** '''Victim 4-A:''' NeckSnap
** '''Victim 4-B:''' TheKillerBecomesTheKilled, MakeItLookLikeAnAccident, VigilanteExecution
** '''Culprit 4:''' ExitPursuedByABear, FaceDeathWithDignity
** '''Victim 5:''' AccidentalMurder, YourHeadASplode
** '''Culprit 5:''' TiedUpOnThePhone (Twisted. [[spoiler:He's hung with a microphone cord instead.]])
** '''Punishment:''' BoomHeadshot, [[spoiler:NeverFoundTheBody]]
** '''Victim 6:''' (failed) MurderSuicide
** '''Culprit 6:''' KillItWithFire
** '''Victim 7-A:''' DeathByFallingOver
** '''Victim 7-B:''' PunchedAcrossTheRoom
** '''Culprit 7:''' TimeDelayedDeath
** '''Culprit 8:''' DeathByAmbulance
** '''Victim 9-A:''' AlmostDeadGuy, DeathTrap
** '''Victim 9-B:''' (averted) AnnoyingArrows, NonFatalExplosions
** '''Mastermind:''' OffWithHisHead
** '''Victim 1:''' BitterAlmonds, DyingClue, TheCanKickedHim
** '''Culprit 1:''' DeathFromAbove, (averted) SoftGlass
** '''Victim 2:''' StaircaseTumble, TapOnTheHead
** '''Culprit 2:''' HighVoltageDeath
** '''Victim 3:''' BungledSuicide, NeverSuicide
** '''Culprit 3:''' ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** '''Victim 4-A:''' NeckSnap
** '''Victim 4-B:''' TheKillerBecomesTheKilled, MakeItLookLikeAnAccident, VigilanteExecution
** '''Culprit 4:''' ExitPursuedByABear, FaceDeathWithDignity
** '''Victim 5:''' AccidentalMurder, YourHeadASplode
** '''Culprit 5:''' TiedUpOnThePhone (Twisted. [[spoiler:He's hung with a microphone cord instead.]])
** '''Punishment:''' BoomHeadshot, [[spoiler:NeverFoundTheBody]]
** '''Victim 6:''' (failed) MurderSuicide
** '''Culprit 6:''' KillItWithFire
** '''Victim 7-A:''' DeathByFallingOver
** '''Victim 7-B:''' PunchedAcrossTheRoom
** '''Culprit 7:''' TimeDelayedDeath
** '''Culprit 8:''' DeathByAmbulance
** '''Victim 9-A:''' AlmostDeadGuy, DeathTrap
** '''Victim 9-B:''' (averted) AnnoyingArrows, NonFatalExplosions
** '''Mastermind:''' OffWithHisHead
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** '''Victim 8:''' DropTheHammer
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* MemeticHandGesture: Hands on either side of one's head to represent Xerneas' antlers, as Sycamore does when telling Schuldig that it would be difficult to play Head It with a deer. It even becomes a memetic hand gesture InUniverse.
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* {{Fainting}}: Sycamore when [[spoiler:he sees Lysandre fake his death]].
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--->"Where's the threshold for what it takes to be a decent person? One good thing? Five good things? One more than any of us did?"
--->'''-Schuldig'''
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* IconOfRebellion: When the students discover [[spoiler:the DR1 case files]] and remember Monobear's profile, they wonder if IdiotHair became one of these because someone with it might have foiled a murderschool plot in the past.
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* IconOfRebellion: When the students discover [[spoiler:the DR1 [=DR1=] case files]] and remember Monobear's profile, they wonder if IdiotHair became one of these because someone with it might have foiled a murderschool plot in the past.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Repeatedly explored and painfully twisted and subverted. [[spoiler:Homura]] starts out as her innocent former self, starts to see evidence and regain memories of her [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope eventual alignment]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters and fate]], and is eventually DrivenToSuicide to keep herself from becoming that person; over time in the afterlife, she develops and eventually turns good again, so death equals redemption. [[spoiler:Lysandre]] turns against Monobear and undergoes a HeroicSacrifice for it, only to [[spoiler:actually be the mastermind, having faked his death]]. [[spoiler:Adachi]] tries to rebel after developing deep relationships with other cast members and remembering the "it's not too late for you" moment from canon, but [[HeelFaceDoorSlam things go horribly wrong for him]]. [[spoiler:Kirei]] spends his entire time in-game examining his conscience and wondering if he can become a good person, but eventually decides that it's impossible for him to be anything other than evil and kills two people before dying -- in this case, ''failed'' redemption equals death. Of three remaining villains, one is full-time wearing the protag pants now, one is awkwardly wondering [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove what this thing called "positive emotion" is]], and one [[GenreSavvy took a look at the others]] and decided that there's no point in deciding not to be a horrible person.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Repeatedly explored and painfully twisted and subverted. [[spoiler:Homura]] starts out as her innocent former self, starts to see evidence and regain memories of her [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope eventual alignment]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters and fate]], and is eventually DrivenToSuicide to keep herself from becoming that person; over time in the afterlife, she develops and eventually turns good again, so death equals redemption. [[spoiler:Lysandre]] turns against Monobear and undergoes a HeroicSacrifice for it, only to [[spoiler:actually be the mastermind, having faked his death]]. [[spoiler:Adachi]] tries to rebel after developing deep relationships with other cast members and remembering the "it's not too late for you" moment from canon, but [[HeelFaceDoorSlam things go horribly wrong for him]]. [[spoiler:Kirei]] spends his entire time in-game examining his conscience and wondering if he can become a good person, but eventually decides that it's impossible for him to be anything other than evil and kills two people before dying -- in this case, ''failed'' redemption equals death. Of three remaining villains, one is full-time wearing the protag pants now, one is awkwardly wondering [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove what this thing called "positive emotion" is]], and one [[GenreSavvy took a look at the others]] others and decided that there's no point in deciding not to be a horrible person.
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* ChunkySalsaRule: [[spoiler:So much so that even the mods used the phrase to describe the mess where Hanbei's head used to be.]] And then Cynthia slipped and fell in it...
* DyingClue: [[spoiler:"Kotozute" for Inaba.]]
* {{Fainting}}: Sycamore when [[spoiler:he sees Lysandre fake his death]].
* FakingTheDead: Inaba, when going through her theories at the sixth afterparty, suspects that, if the mole wasn't just recruited after [[spoiler:Lysandre's "death"]], they must actually be a student who faked their own death. [[spoiler:While her theories are wrong, somebody ''has'' faked their death: Lysandre himself.]]
* FakingTheDead: Inaba, when going through her theories at the sixth afterparty, suspects that, if the mole wasn't just recruited after [[spoiler:Lysandre's "death"]], they must actually be a student who faked their own death. [[spoiler:While her theories are wrong, somebody ''has'' faked their death: Lysandre himself.]]
* GeometricMagic: Archer doodles alchemical arrays on his notes. Kirei, whose world also uses magic circles, is extremely interested.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Seems to be the case when [[spoiler:Naomi asks this of Simon after he confides in her about the crown]]. However, [[spoiler:Naomi isn't the one plotting to kill him that week, and the question was out of genuine concern.]]
* IconOfRebellion: When the students discover [[spoiler:the DR1 case files]] and remember Monobear's profile, they wonder if IdiotHair became one of these because someone with it might have foiled a murderschool plot in the past.
* IconOfRebellion: When the students discover [[spoiler:the DR1 case files]] and remember Monobear's profile, they wonder if IdiotHair became one of these because someone with it might have foiled a murderschool plot in the past.
* JustGotOutOfJail: [[spoiler:Adachi and Cammy, not that either remembers.]]
* LongingLook: Anna notices the way that Naomi and Walker look at each other and deduces that they must be in love before either of them will admit it.
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* PowerCrystal: Among Cecil's regains are supplies for a bloodstone array he uses for protection spells. Not that it prevents any murders.
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* RejectedApology: While Simon largely forgave Beat for the chair incident, and Betty and he had managed a tense understanding, Sonico (and through her, Adachi) refuse to have anything to do with Beat for almost the entire rest of the game. Considering he keeps yelling or fleeing every time he tries to apologize, her stance is understandable. [[spoiler:Sonico relaxes only slightly when Beat salvages Inaba's things so Monobear can't get his hands on them, and fully changes her mind about Beat after her boyfriend tries to frame him for murder.]]
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* SnowMeansCold: Cynthia mentions that she doesn't like cold days with no snow because cold without snow defeats the purpose.
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* SoProudOfYou: Archer awkwardly admits this to Cynthia late in the game.
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* TheTalk: Naomi's clinical sex ed lecture for the more sheltered students.
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Adachi during his trial.]] ''Big time''.
--->"Just hate me, okay!? Hate me for the murderer I am! That's easier on everyone!"
--->"Just hate me, okay!? Hate me for the murderer I am! That's easier on everyone!"
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* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler:Lysandre being the mastermind and having succeeded in blowing up his own country. This is even an Awful Truth to himself; he wiped his own memories in part so that the bonds he formed with Hope's Army would be genuine and he would suffer like he concludes he deserves.]]
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* MookHorrorShow: [[spoiler:Some of the students go into dissonant shock when they realize that, as Hope's Army, they likely killed the Flare admins.]]
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* ConnectedAllAlong: [[spoiler:Twenty-eight of the thirty students comprised Hope's Army before their memories were blocked.]] There's also the InternalReveal that [[Roleplay/DanganRoleplayRoundOne Lysandre and Archer knew each other]].
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* UnderdressedForTheOccasion: Everyone gets to attend a(n interrupted) wedding in the same outfits they've been wearing every other day.
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* DidYouJustHaveSex: Tsukiyama (who's trying not to look as embarrassed as he is) and Ryuunosuke (who's just entertained) seem to get this at the start of every other trial when everyone's asking for alibis. [[spoiler:At the last one, the answer's yes.]]
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* AdventureDuo: Naomi (serious) and Anna (silly).
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Betty's motivation for trying to commit MurderSuicide with Simon.]]
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* RevealingSkill: When the survivors are starting to piece together the Mastermind's identity, Schuldig tests this theory by [[spoiler:throwing yarn at Monobear. The bear headbutts it back perfectly,]] proving the hypothesis: [[spoiler:Lysandre is the Mastermind because his AI Monobear knows how to play Head-It.]]
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* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Betty tried to commit murder-suicide to mercy-kill Simon but failed. Even so, they ended up in the afterlife together soon enough and reconciled.]]
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* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Lysandre and Schuldig, to hear the latter say it.
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--->"Where's the threshold for what it takes to be a decent person? One good thing? Five good things? One more than any of us did?"
--->'''-Schuldig'''
Tropes from the second canon round of Roleplay/DanganRoleplay.
!This round provides examples of:
* AllForNothing: The poor person who was pushed to murder by the DarkSecret motive had their secret revealed when they were convicted. Another who killed to get back home in hopes of preventing even more death [[spoiler:turned out to have actually come willingly and left his world in good hands, learned only with the Hope's Army reveal]]. Then there's [[spoiler:Simon and Betty]], whose case never would have happened if they'd had all their memories and the would-be culprit had known the truth, and the mole, who signed on to protect [[spoiler:a secret that, pre-memory suppression, everyone already knew]].
* AscendedFridgeHorror: What happens when everyone is sent back home after going through the horrors of murder school and their home has gone without them for months? Especially when some of those people were dangers to society to begin with? Answer: [[spoiler:There really is a Ginger Genocide.]]
* AscendedMeme: The game references some memes related to the characters, like Adachi talking to cabbages. The most glorious of all is in the ending, where [[spoiler:Madison returns from Round 1. "Surprise, bitch" indeed.]]
* BefriendingTheEnemy: Schuldig, followed by a few of the others once he starts to succeed, does this with Henri. It works.
* BillionsOfButtons: The announcement console Archer discovers (and plays with), plus a similar one [[spoiler:for fabricating motive videos]].
* BitterAlmonds: Monobear "thoughtfully" stocked the pantry with an enormous bag of them. [[spoiler:So far there have been at least two incidents of attempted cyanide poisoning, one of them actually successful.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Thirty people are alive and the dead are resurrected... but Kalos still has a lot of rebuilding to do and a lot of people can't go home again -- or are too changed by their time at murderschool to feel like they'd fit in even if they can.]]
* BoringReturnJourney: [[spoiler:After the survivor pool finds the god of life and asks it to revive their classmates, the next log follows a TimeSkip to after everyone's either gone home or settled down elsewhere.]]
* CentralTheme: "You can change, no matter what you've done or who you are" and "Friends, strangers, and enemies, everyone needs someone to learn to understand them."
* AChatWithSatan: Almost everyone in the survivor pool has a couple with the "ghosts" and with one another, leading up to self-examination on both sides in the Graduation Exam.
* ChekhovsClassroom: After the broken translator motive, Cammy starts offering German lessons to the students. [[spoiler:Henri can't speak German and Schuldig's speaking it fluently exposes that the ghosts weren't real. Since all the other students were going to the lessons, Henri is outed as the fake.]]
* ChekhovsGag: Dan's decision to stuff silverware down his pants becomes a RunningGag throughout the round. [[spoiler: Its also the first clue that he's responsible for Naomi's death when the silverware is melted into a blade.]]
* ChekhovsHobby: Cecil has a very unusual hobby involving rituals. [[spoiler: This knowledge helps to prove his innocence during the third trial.]]
* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: Occasionally done to Anna, especially if Naomi's there to judge.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:In turning a blind eye to the events of Round One until too late and then taking Lysandre at his word when he said he was okay, it can be said that the Future Foundation did this. Lysandre himself clearly thinks they should take responsibility, and he sets Round 2 up to make them suffer.]]
* CreepyBasement: The final investigation takes place in one, which is also (in part) a TortureCellar.
* DarkSecret: The motive for week 2.
* DenouementEpisode: Technically, there were ''three'' epilogue logs.
* DidYouJustHaveSex: Tsukiyama (who's trying not to look as embarrassed as he is) and Ryuunosuke (who's just entertained) seem to get this at the start of every other trial when everyone's asking for alibis. [[spoiler:At the last one, the answer's yes.]]
* DoomsdayDevice: [[spoiler:The hollow centre of the school is the firing path for the Ultimate Weapon, which itself is still right in the core of the bunker.]]
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: [[spoiler:It's revealed that the entire game was recorded and sent as a video feed to the Future Foundation.]] As well, the fact that the mastermind ''didn't'' do this [[spoiler:to warn civilians of his country's impending destruction when he'd previously hijacked everyone's Holo-Casters the last time he tried]] factors into the final trial.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Both players and characters were put through the wringer and a happy ending was ''not'' assured.
-->'''One of the players, after the epilogue:''' [[spoiler:YOU FUCKERS TRIED SO HARD TO MAKE PERMADEATH STICK]] AND ''WE EARNED THIS''
* EarthAllAlong: [[spoiler:This wasn't Hope's Peak's reserve campus in the DR world. This was a reconstruction in the post-apocalyptic Kalos.]]
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The mastermind's lair in [[spoiler:the nonuple-sub-basement... and it later turns out that the whole school is one.]]
* EliteArmy: The WalkingSpoiler that is [[spoiler:Hope's Army: twenty-eight people sent on missions to save the multiverse.]]
* EveryoneComesBackFantasyPartyEnding: A much more tense and solemn version: In the Graduation Exam, illusions of the dead appear [[spoiler:as holograms at their podiums, while the real things are watching the proceedings as ghosts.]]
* EvilIsNotWellLit: The Final Courtroom, at least until [[MatchlightDangerRevelation the lights go on]].
* EvilRedhead: "Genocidal Ginger Bad End" was a popular joke for this round because three of the four red-haired students were antagonists who almost or actually had very high kill counts. [[spoiler:Including the Mastermind.]]
* FastForwardToReunion: The TimeSkip in the end to the party, [[spoiler:which not only acts as a goodbye between those who stay with the Future Foundation and those who leave but also reunites everyone with their loved ones from home]].
* FieryCoverup: The incinerator is put to good use in Week 7 to conceal evidence.
* FissionMailed: Week 9 had a fake bad end: [[spoiler:Henri cheats and the class is sentenced to a mass execution, which the mastermind puts a stop to.]]
* ForcedIntoEvil: Subverted. Some of the final party believe this of [[spoiler:Lysandre when evidence comes to light that he was the Mastermind.]] ''He wasn't.'' He was doing it completely of his own will and even overthrew the one who was trying to use him.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Reading over the logs again now that the round is over changes a lot. There's a good deal of planned foreshadowing, like one character freaking out over a motive that is later revealed to have pushed them to become the mole, but what's particularly impressive is all the ''unintentional'' foreshadowing from the players.
** After [[MushroomSamba being drugged by Tran]], Betty notes not to accept food or drink from strangers. [[spoiler:Tran himself should have listened to that advice. Three days later, he was targeted for murder just because he was the most likely to accept free food that had been poisoned.]]
** Inaba discusses the idea of making a computer game and Sonico suggests that she make one character a ghost. [[spoiler:Inaba is later one of the "ghosts" Henri has his holo-bots impersonate.]]
** Dan, more than most, reacts with immediate revulsion and denial after being given the first motive. [[spoiler:While he's not the first murderer, this motive actually kickstarted the slow burn that led to his breakdown throughout the game, culminating in his committing the ''last'' murder.]]
** Early on, Anna and Naomi remark that maybe you just can't learn to understand some people. The whole round ends up exploring the idea that you can and should.
** Adachi muses that maybe the group's been trapped there on the whim of a bizarre god. [[spoiler:He's only half wrong. They were trapped by someone who captured and used a death god to lure them out.]]
** Schuldig comments wryly to both Lysandre and Sycamore that he wants to go to Kalos, find the legendary Xerneas, and see if it will play Head It. [[spoiler:They were in Kalos all along, the survivors ''do'' find Xerneas, and... Schuldig throws yarn at it and teaches it how to play. And just like Sycamore said, it gets the yarn stuck in its antlers.]]
** [[spoiler:Adachi]] was the murderer the week that the dead were amusing themselves with [[spoiler:the King's Game]], popularized by his canon.
** Tobias muses that those who survive will either be "legitimate, calculating masterminds or bleeding hearts." Though all went through CharacterDevelopment and learned either to understand and care for others or to survive in a harsh world, the survivor pool can still be boiled down to those two categories.
* GagHaircut: Beat's self-done haircut late in the game looks like it'll be this. However, it quickly turns serious, becoming a symbol of [[spoiler:his bond with Naomi, who fixed it before falling victim to the MentorOccupationalHazard,]] and his ascent to the protag slot.
* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Averted with [[spoiler:Xerneas. Still, c'mon, Arceus, you're supposed to be ''stopping'' temporal anomalies from screwing up your world... then again, it wouldn't be the first time he left it to someone else.]]
* GoodIsNotDumb: Characters who started out innocent (Sonico, Anna) and BookDumb (Beat) ended up making it out by seriously focusing on solving cases and puzzles with clues that would have flown over their heads earlier in the round.
* HallOfMirrors: [[spoiler:Miriam Tristesse's execution after the first trial.]]
* HappyEndingOverride: Following from Round 1's SequelHook. [[spoiler:The Future Foundation's oversight let Junko escape in Lysandre's head, the "your world's been destroyed" motive turned out to be fake in the end of R1 but in R2 Lysandre made his own come true, and the Foundation's own people get dropped into murderschool. At least now Junko's DeaderThanDead?]]
* IDidntMeanToKillHim: Case 8's killer had been ordered to kill ''somebody'', but the victim wasn't exactly who they'd have chosen if they'd been lucid about it.
* InstantIllness: The third motive, "Monkey Fever."
** TemporaryBlindness: The fever induced this in approximately 1/6 of the afflicted. As the name Monkey Fever [[MonkeyMoralityPose might imply]], there were two other strains that caused deafness and muteness at their most severe.
* InsomniaEpisode: The fifth motive resulted in this for about over half the cast, when the gates between floors were sealed. Of course, the rule about "no sleeping outside the dorms" was still in full effect, meaning that only a few characters were technically allowed to sleep. Some off of that floor got away with sneaking in some [=ZZZs=] in the infirmary, but Naomi couldn't because she had to watch over them.
* InterfaceSpoiler: Used very effectively for foreshadowing up to the ninth trial. [[spoiler:The Electronic Student Handbook displays profiles for all thirty students plus Monobear, which was brought up [=ICly=] in the beginning of the game as well as when the information room was opened. Nobody thought much of it, since Usami/Monomi had her own profile last round. During the ninth trial, Monobear refuted any claims that he had tampered with the crime scenes, framed Cynthia, or killed Dan without cause, because he couldn't do those things as the headmaster. That is, until (as Beat discovered) it came to light that he ''could'' do those things... ''as the thirty-first student''.]]
* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: Inverted. The floors unlocked go down, [[spoiler:and the journey to the final destination is down even further.]]
* KilledOffForReal: One of the first official announcements about this round was that it was going to avert the EverybodyLives twist ending of the last round. [[spoiler:There was still an option of character revival, but it was exclusively reserved for the "Golden Ending", which had high IC and OOC requirements. Even when those were ''actually met'', tragedy still hung over the group when they realized that, even though they'd tried to save him, the Mastermind wouldn't be coming back... ''yet'', anyway. And ''that'' had to be earned with a lot of hard work, too.]]
* KillItWithFire: After the first trial and execution, Lysandre decided to start people on burning Monobear in effigy.
* KindaBusyHere: Phoneless variant: during Simon and Betty's wedding, [[spoiler:Beat and Dan crash the proceedings to announce the murder of Sanae Hanekoma.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Part of the premise this go around. Like in the original game, everyone has memories that were taken from them by Monobear. The difference is, they know about the memory wipe from the beginning and regain a memory after each successful trial, often completely out of order. It's not quite as precise as you'd think; Monobear admits in the opening log that Kirei wasn't meant to lose a whole decade of his life.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: For [=DR1=], [=SDR2=], and all represented canons, particularly ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''.
* ManEatingPlant: Audrey, who lives in the greenhouse.
* MarshmallowHell: When Beat, Naomi, and Walker come upon [[spoiler:Inaba's body, Beat breaks down crying and Naomi offers him a hug... while she's still holding [[LosingYourHead her decapitated zombie boyfriend's head]].]] Walker gets shifted in the awkward group hug to get a face full of boob.
* TheMarvelousDeer: Lysandre and Sycamore teach the other students about the legends of Xerneas, the god of life, which is a deer. [[spoiler:This turns out to be [[ChekhovsClassroom relevant]], and the deer itself appears and gives everyone their Golden Ending.]]
* MatchlightDangerRevelation: In the Mastermind Trial, [[spoiler:the final courtroom is dark but the lights later turn on to reveal the Ultimate Weapon]].
* MemeticHandGesture: Hands on either side of one's head to represent Xerneas' antlers, as Sycamore does when telling Schuldig that it would be difficult to play Head It with a deer. It even becomes a memetic hand gesture InUniverse.
* MoleInCharge: It looks like this [[spoiler:when Lysandre, the group's leader, is "killed" as a rebelling mole. The truth is even worse: [[AmnesiacDissonance Amnesiac]] ''Mastermind'' in Charge.]]
* MortalWoundReveal: When [[spoiler:Kirei shows that Inaba stabbed him in the "heart" with a pitchfork, with shadows leaking out as he finally drops dead.]]
* MurderTropes
** '''Victim 1:''' BitterAlmonds, DyingClue, TheCanKickedHim
** '''Culprit 1:''' DeathFromAbove, (averted) SoftGlass
** '''Victim 2:''' StaircaseTumble, TapOnTheHead
** '''Culprit 2:''' HighVoltageDeath
** '''Victim 3:''' BungledSuicide, NeverSuicide
** '''Culprit 3:''' ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** '''Victim 4-A:''' NeckSnap
** '''Victim 4-B:''' TheKillerBecomesTheKilled, MakeItLookLikeAnAccident, VigilanteExecution
** '''Culprit 4:''' ExitPursuedByABear, FaceDeathWithDignity
** '''Victim 5:''' AccidentalMurder, YourHeadASplode
** '''Culprit 5:''' TiedUpOnThePhone (Twisted. [[spoiler:He's hung with a microphone cord instead.]])
** '''Punishment:''' BoomHeadshot, [[spoiler:NeverFoundTheBody]]
** '''Victim 6:''' (failed) MurderSuicide
** '''Culprit 6:''' KillItWithFire
** '''Victim 7-A:''' DeathByFallingOver
** '''Victim 7-B:''' PunchedAcrossTheRoom
** '''Culprit 7:''' TimeDelayedDeath
** '''Victim 8:''' DropTheHammer
** '''Culprit 8:''' DeathByAmbulance
** '''Victim 9-A:''' AlmostDeadGuy, DeathTrap
** '''Victim 9-B:''' (averted) AnnoyingArrows, NonFatalExplosions
** '''Mastermind:''' OffWithHisHead
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: ''[[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Cecil.]]''
** After Week 8, [[LiteralChangeOfHeart Kirei.]]
* TheNotLoveInterest: On top of flirting with everyone he meets, Schuldig is Kirei's "fake-ass unofficial off-the-record in-spirit boyfriend".
* ObjectCeilingCling: Anna's pancake. She flipped it too high and it stuck on the kitchen ceiling, decomposing there for weeks.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: When [[spoiler:Betty]] turns up dead, [[spoiler:Simon]], whose memory and grasp on reality have been slowly eroding, goes on a "date" with the corpse. Essentially, he's pulling this on ''himself''.
* OhCrap: Often the last expression on a culprit's face when they're being executed.
* OnceIsNotEnough: Poor [[spoiler:Inaba didn't anticipate that stabbing Kirei with a pitchfork in self-defence wouldn't kill him right away.]]
* OpenSaysMe: Immediately before discovering [[spoiler: Vinh Tran's]] body, [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Kirei]] solves the problem of a locked door by punching it.
* PhlebotinumBreakdown: The motive for the 8th Week involves the game's TranslatorMicrobes shorting out. [[spoiler:This doesn't seem to have been something [[GoneHorriblyRight Monobear had actually intended...]]]]
* ProductPlacement: The Kit Kat people should really be paying the mods. (Or maybe not, since the characters end up getting sick of the omnipresent candy.)
* RageAgainstTheReflection: [[spoiler: The case 1 victim, Vinh Tran, punched and broke a mirror shortly before dying.]]
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Deconstructed with [[spoiler:Hope's Army. EliteArmy or not, many of them are pencil-pushers, civilians, minors, loyal to another organization before the Future Foundation, criminals under probation, or just ObviouslyEvil, and the superiors they're reporting to are a bunch of traumatized teenagers whose best-of-the-best talents lie far away from world-saving. Naturally, they fall for an obvious trap, fail their mission, and end up so wrung out from the torture and the Bunker Life of Mutual Killing that followed that many of them quit after they're recovered so they can go live normal lives.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Repeatedly explored and painfully twisted and subverted. [[spoiler:Homura]] starts out as her innocent former self, starts to see evidence and regain memories of her [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope eventual alignment]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters and fate]], and is eventually DrivenToSuicide to keep herself from becoming that person; over time in the afterlife, she develops and eventually turns good again, so death equals redemption. [[spoiler:Lysandre]] turns against Monobear and undergoes a HeroicSacrifice for it, only to [[spoiler:actually be the mastermind, having faked his death]]. [[spoiler:Adachi]] tries to rebel after developing deep relationships with other cast members and remembering the "it's not too late for you" moment from canon, but [[HeelFaceDoorSlam things go horribly wrong for him]]. [[spoiler:Kirei]] spends his entire time in-game examining his conscience and wondering if he can become a good person, but eventually decides that it's impossible for him to be anything other than evil and kills two people before dying -- in this case, ''failed'' redemption equals death. Of three remaining villains, one is full-time wearing the protag pants now, one is awkwardly wondering [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove what this thing called "positive emotion" is]], and one [[GenreSavvy took a look at the others]] and decided that there's no point in deciding not to be a horrible person.
* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: Subverted when everybody thought {...} had died taking a hit meant for Beat. Unable to kill an innocent, Monobear "fixes him up", rendering him a talking head.
* {{Room 101}}: The mysterious rooms on the seventh floor [[spoiler:and the actual torture chamber on the eighth]] are pretty ominous and some horrible things definitely went on down there.
* SayingTooMuch: [[spoiler:Adachi exposes himself as Walker's killer when he accidentally names the real murder weapon.]]
* SendInTheSearchTeam: [[spoiler:The Round 2 class, save two, were actually Hope's Army, members of the Future Foundation sent in to retrieve a rogue Lysandre. This did not go well. In the first epilogue, they meet their ''own'' search party.]]
* SignatureItemClue: It was pretty obvious that case 8 was a FrameUp, but who did the framing was harder to figure out... until you noticed that [[spoiler:Adachi was missing his tie and the paper crane left at the scene was his]].
* SomethingWeForgot: In the end, [[spoiler:a freshly-revived Lysandre makes arrangements with the Future Foundation to not let Audrey, who'd been left behind, starve to death in the bunker. Ice King's crown, however, is discussed and deemed too dangerous ''not'' to just leave down there.]]
* TheStinger: After the "end" log tagged "final log", one more log went up to wrap up the story [[spoiler:and confirm that the characters did indeed find the god they were looking for]].
* StoryBreakerPower: Beat accuses the Week 9 culprit of being the real-life equivalent of a GameBreaker when [[spoiler:Adachi summons Magatsu Izanagi]]. He's actually ''not'' this, as he's nerfed like anyone else and can't or won't attack.
* SympatheticMurderer: Almost everybody, even if this round had far fewer altruistic or self-defence murders than the last. Even [[spoiler:Jay and Ike]] had their reasons, as badly as they're condemned for what they saw as the only solution.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Walker jumps in front of Beat to shield him from an explosion. This renders him a talking head until his death.]]
* TerrifyingRescuer: [[spoiler:Inverted. "BLACK SUIT! PUNCH 'IM!"]]
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Dan, when he tries to deal with both his confusing emotions and Beat's broken English during the "no translator" motive. "Dan mad! Dan mad mad mad mad!"
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The group reaction to [[spoiler:Adachi breaking down and summoning his Persona]].
* TwoTeacherSchool: Joked about with Monobear's side role as the "janitor" (cleaning up bodies).
* UniformityException: In the final investigation, all but two students [[spoiler:have Future Foundation uniforms waiting for them]]. This turns out to show that the ones left out [[spoiler:were a civilian and the enemy]].
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: A minor one happens in case 1: Adachi thought [[spoiler: the victim, Vinh Tran]] was a girl and questioned why their body was found in [[spoiler: the men's restroom]]. People were quick to correct him, leaving him rather shocked.
* TheVillainSucksSong: Adachi sings insulting {{Filk Song}}s about Monobear when he tries to either feed Audrey or get evidence out of her and not get eaten in the process.
* WasItAllALie: Discussed - Sonico briefly wonders this following [[spoiler:Adachi's trial and execution]]. While talking to Beat, she concludes that it ''wasn't'', but says somewhat bitterly that she almost wishes that were the case, if only to make it easier to come to terms with.
* WhamEpisode: The final trial, ''dear god''. [[spoiler: What do you mean, Lysandre is the mastermind!?]]
* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: Done painfully with [[spoiler:Dan and subverted in the end. In the trial, the characters, even the ones who actually liked Dan, discover his HiddenDepths and regret how they treated him, even though he was a total jerk to them. When they all feel pity and remorse for seeing him as the kind of person anyone would want to get rid of, it turns out that ''none'' of them killed him.]]
* WhoWritesThisCrap: Observing that motives and murders always happen on the same day, Schuldig jokes that maybe they're living in a cheap TV show. Kirei replies that the writing staff must be incompetent.
* WistfulAmnesia: The heart remembering what the mind forgets is a common occurrence here. Near the beginning, for example, Lysandre feels a need to put Cecil's protective charm on not just Sycamore's door but that of his forgotten awkward ex, Archer. [[spoiler:The Hope's Army reveal showed that a lot of the game's unlikely CR, like [[IntergenerationalFriendship Archer-Cynthia]], [[UnholyMatrimony Schuldig]]''/''[[TheNotLoveInterest Kirei]], and [[NoAccountingForTaste Sonico/Adachi]], had also been close in the past... and Betty and Dan had still hated each other.]]
* WritingIndentationClue: Beat finds some on a whiteboard that indicate [[spoiler:the testing period of the memory-wiping drug.]]
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Many of those left alive at the end end up somewhere else, [[spoiler:whether settling in Kalos or returning to the Future Foundation,]] either because something's become of their home, they're supposed to be dead there, or just because their time in murderschool changed them too much to let them go back to normal.
--->'''-Schuldig'''
Tropes from the second canon round of Roleplay/DanganRoleplay.
!This round provides examples of:
* AllForNothing: The poor person who was pushed to murder by the DarkSecret motive had their secret revealed when they were convicted. Another who killed to get back home in hopes of preventing even more death [[spoiler:turned out to have actually come willingly and left his world in good hands, learned only with the Hope's Army reveal]]. Then there's [[spoiler:Simon and Betty]], whose case never would have happened if they'd had all their memories and the would-be culprit had known the truth, and the mole, who signed on to protect [[spoiler:a secret that, pre-memory suppression, everyone already knew]].
* AscendedFridgeHorror: What happens when everyone is sent back home after going through the horrors of murder school and their home has gone without them for months? Especially when some of those people were dangers to society to begin with? Answer: [[spoiler:There really is a Ginger Genocide.]]
* AscendedMeme: The game references some memes related to the characters, like Adachi talking to cabbages. The most glorious of all is in the ending, where [[spoiler:Madison returns from Round 1. "Surprise, bitch" indeed.]]
* BefriendingTheEnemy: Schuldig, followed by a few of the others once he starts to succeed, does this with Henri. It works.
* BillionsOfButtons: The announcement console Archer discovers (and plays with), plus a similar one [[spoiler:for fabricating motive videos]].
* BitterAlmonds: Monobear "thoughtfully" stocked the pantry with an enormous bag of them. [[spoiler:So far there have been at least two incidents of attempted cyanide poisoning, one of them actually successful.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Thirty people are alive and the dead are resurrected... but Kalos still has a lot of rebuilding to do and a lot of people can't go home again -- or are too changed by their time at murderschool to feel like they'd fit in even if they can.]]
* BoringReturnJourney: [[spoiler:After the survivor pool finds the god of life and asks it to revive their classmates, the next log follows a TimeSkip to after everyone's either gone home or settled down elsewhere.]]
* CentralTheme: "You can change, no matter what you've done or who you are" and "Friends, strangers, and enemies, everyone needs someone to learn to understand them."
* AChatWithSatan: Almost everyone in the survivor pool has a couple with the "ghosts" and with one another, leading up to self-examination on both sides in the Graduation Exam.
* ChekhovsClassroom: After the broken translator motive, Cammy starts offering German lessons to the students. [[spoiler:Henri can't speak German and Schuldig's speaking it fluently exposes that the ghosts weren't real. Since all the other students were going to the lessons, Henri is outed as the fake.]]
* ChekhovsGag: Dan's decision to stuff silverware down his pants becomes a RunningGag throughout the round. [[spoiler: Its also the first clue that he's responsible for Naomi's death when the silverware is melted into a blade.]]
* ChekhovsHobby: Cecil has a very unusual hobby involving rituals. [[spoiler: This knowledge helps to prove his innocence during the third trial.]]
* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: Occasionally done to Anna, especially if Naomi's there to judge.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:In turning a blind eye to the events of Round One until too late and then taking Lysandre at his word when he said he was okay, it can be said that the Future Foundation did this. Lysandre himself clearly thinks they should take responsibility, and he sets Round 2 up to make them suffer.]]
* CreepyBasement: The final investigation takes place in one, which is also (in part) a TortureCellar.
* DarkSecret: The motive for week 2.
* DenouementEpisode: Technically, there were ''three'' epilogue logs.
* DidYouJustHaveSex: Tsukiyama (who's trying not to look as embarrassed as he is) and Ryuunosuke (who's just entertained) seem to get this at the start of every other trial when everyone's asking for alibis. [[spoiler:At the last one, the answer's yes.]]
* DoomsdayDevice: [[spoiler:The hollow centre of the school is the firing path for the Ultimate Weapon, which itself is still right in the core of the bunker.]]
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: [[spoiler:It's revealed that the entire game was recorded and sent as a video feed to the Future Foundation.]] As well, the fact that the mastermind ''didn't'' do this [[spoiler:to warn civilians of his country's impending destruction when he'd previously hijacked everyone's Holo-Casters the last time he tried]] factors into the final trial.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Both players and characters were put through the wringer and a happy ending was ''not'' assured.
-->'''One of the players, after the epilogue:''' [[spoiler:YOU FUCKERS TRIED SO HARD TO MAKE PERMADEATH STICK]] AND ''WE EARNED THIS''
* EarthAllAlong: [[spoiler:This wasn't Hope's Peak's reserve campus in the DR world. This was a reconstruction in the post-apocalyptic Kalos.]]
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The mastermind's lair in [[spoiler:the nonuple-sub-basement... and it later turns out that the whole school is one.]]
* EliteArmy: The WalkingSpoiler that is [[spoiler:Hope's Army: twenty-eight people sent on missions to save the multiverse.]]
* EveryoneComesBackFantasyPartyEnding: A much more tense and solemn version: In the Graduation Exam, illusions of the dead appear [[spoiler:as holograms at their podiums, while the real things are watching the proceedings as ghosts.]]
* EvilIsNotWellLit: The Final Courtroom, at least until [[MatchlightDangerRevelation the lights go on]].
* EvilRedhead: "Genocidal Ginger Bad End" was a popular joke for this round because three of the four red-haired students were antagonists who almost or actually had very high kill counts. [[spoiler:Including the Mastermind.]]
* FastForwardToReunion: The TimeSkip in the end to the party, [[spoiler:which not only acts as a goodbye between those who stay with the Future Foundation and those who leave but also reunites everyone with their loved ones from home]].
* FieryCoverup: The incinerator is put to good use in Week 7 to conceal evidence.
* FissionMailed: Week 9 had a fake bad end: [[spoiler:Henri cheats and the class is sentenced to a mass execution, which the mastermind puts a stop to.]]
* ForcedIntoEvil: Subverted. Some of the final party believe this of [[spoiler:Lysandre when evidence comes to light that he was the Mastermind.]] ''He wasn't.'' He was doing it completely of his own will and even overthrew the one who was trying to use him.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Reading over the logs again now that the round is over changes a lot. There's a good deal of planned foreshadowing, like one character freaking out over a motive that is later revealed to have pushed them to become the mole, but what's particularly impressive is all the ''unintentional'' foreshadowing from the players.
** After [[MushroomSamba being drugged by Tran]], Betty notes not to accept food or drink from strangers. [[spoiler:Tran himself should have listened to that advice. Three days later, he was targeted for murder just because he was the most likely to accept free food that had been poisoned.]]
** Inaba discusses the idea of making a computer game and Sonico suggests that she make one character a ghost. [[spoiler:Inaba is later one of the "ghosts" Henri has his holo-bots impersonate.]]
** Dan, more than most, reacts with immediate revulsion and denial after being given the first motive. [[spoiler:While he's not the first murderer, this motive actually kickstarted the slow burn that led to his breakdown throughout the game, culminating in his committing the ''last'' murder.]]
** Early on, Anna and Naomi remark that maybe you just can't learn to understand some people. The whole round ends up exploring the idea that you can and should.
** Adachi muses that maybe the group's been trapped there on the whim of a bizarre god. [[spoiler:He's only half wrong. They were trapped by someone who captured and used a death god to lure them out.]]
** Schuldig comments wryly to both Lysandre and Sycamore that he wants to go to Kalos, find the legendary Xerneas, and see if it will play Head It. [[spoiler:They were in Kalos all along, the survivors ''do'' find Xerneas, and... Schuldig throws yarn at it and teaches it how to play. And just like Sycamore said, it gets the yarn stuck in its antlers.]]
** [[spoiler:Adachi]] was the murderer the week that the dead were amusing themselves with [[spoiler:the King's Game]], popularized by his canon.
** Tobias muses that those who survive will either be "legitimate, calculating masterminds or bleeding hearts." Though all went through CharacterDevelopment and learned either to understand and care for others or to survive in a harsh world, the survivor pool can still be boiled down to those two categories.
* GagHaircut: Beat's self-done haircut late in the game looks like it'll be this. However, it quickly turns serious, becoming a symbol of [[spoiler:his bond with Naomi, who fixed it before falling victim to the MentorOccupationalHazard,]] and his ascent to the protag slot.
* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Averted with [[spoiler:Xerneas. Still, c'mon, Arceus, you're supposed to be ''stopping'' temporal anomalies from screwing up your world... then again, it wouldn't be the first time he left it to someone else.]]
* GoodIsNotDumb: Characters who started out innocent (Sonico, Anna) and BookDumb (Beat) ended up making it out by seriously focusing on solving cases and puzzles with clues that would have flown over their heads earlier in the round.
* HallOfMirrors: [[spoiler:Miriam Tristesse's execution after the first trial.]]
* HappyEndingOverride: Following from Round 1's SequelHook. [[spoiler:The Future Foundation's oversight let Junko escape in Lysandre's head, the "your world's been destroyed" motive turned out to be fake in the end of R1 but in R2 Lysandre made his own come true, and the Foundation's own people get dropped into murderschool. At least now Junko's DeaderThanDead?]]
* IDidntMeanToKillHim: Case 8's killer had been ordered to kill ''somebody'', but the victim wasn't exactly who they'd have chosen if they'd been lucid about it.
* InstantIllness: The third motive, "Monkey Fever."
** TemporaryBlindness: The fever induced this in approximately 1/6 of the afflicted. As the name Monkey Fever [[MonkeyMoralityPose might imply]], there were two other strains that caused deafness and muteness at their most severe.
* InsomniaEpisode: The fifth motive resulted in this for about over half the cast, when the gates between floors were sealed. Of course, the rule about "no sleeping outside the dorms" was still in full effect, meaning that only a few characters were technically allowed to sleep. Some off of that floor got away with sneaking in some [=ZZZs=] in the infirmary, but Naomi couldn't because she had to watch over them.
* InterfaceSpoiler: Used very effectively for foreshadowing up to the ninth trial. [[spoiler:The Electronic Student Handbook displays profiles for all thirty students plus Monobear, which was brought up [=ICly=] in the beginning of the game as well as when the information room was opened. Nobody thought much of it, since Usami/Monomi had her own profile last round. During the ninth trial, Monobear refuted any claims that he had tampered with the crime scenes, framed Cynthia, or killed Dan without cause, because he couldn't do those things as the headmaster. That is, until (as Beat discovered) it came to light that he ''could'' do those things... ''as the thirty-first student''.]]
* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: Inverted. The floors unlocked go down, [[spoiler:and the journey to the final destination is down even further.]]
* KilledOffForReal: One of the first official announcements about this round was that it was going to avert the EverybodyLives twist ending of the last round. [[spoiler:There was still an option of character revival, but it was exclusively reserved for the "Golden Ending", which had high IC and OOC requirements. Even when those were ''actually met'', tragedy still hung over the group when they realized that, even though they'd tried to save him, the Mastermind wouldn't be coming back... ''yet'', anyway. And ''that'' had to be earned with a lot of hard work, too.]]
* KillItWithFire: After the first trial and execution, Lysandre decided to start people on burning Monobear in effigy.
* KindaBusyHere: Phoneless variant: during Simon and Betty's wedding, [[spoiler:Beat and Dan crash the proceedings to announce the murder of Sanae Hanekoma.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Part of the premise this go around. Like in the original game, everyone has memories that were taken from them by Monobear. The difference is, they know about the memory wipe from the beginning and regain a memory after each successful trial, often completely out of order. It's not quite as precise as you'd think; Monobear admits in the opening log that Kirei wasn't meant to lose a whole decade of his life.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: For [=DR1=], [=SDR2=], and all represented canons, particularly ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''.
* ManEatingPlant: Audrey, who lives in the greenhouse.
* MarshmallowHell: When Beat, Naomi, and Walker come upon [[spoiler:Inaba's body, Beat breaks down crying and Naomi offers him a hug... while she's still holding [[LosingYourHead her decapitated zombie boyfriend's head]].]] Walker gets shifted in the awkward group hug to get a face full of boob.
* TheMarvelousDeer: Lysandre and Sycamore teach the other students about the legends of Xerneas, the god of life, which is a deer. [[spoiler:This turns out to be [[ChekhovsClassroom relevant]], and the deer itself appears and gives everyone their Golden Ending.]]
* MatchlightDangerRevelation: In the Mastermind Trial, [[spoiler:the final courtroom is dark but the lights later turn on to reveal the Ultimate Weapon]].
* MemeticHandGesture: Hands on either side of one's head to represent Xerneas' antlers, as Sycamore does when telling Schuldig that it would be difficult to play Head It with a deer. It even becomes a memetic hand gesture InUniverse.
* MoleInCharge: It looks like this [[spoiler:when Lysandre, the group's leader, is "killed" as a rebelling mole. The truth is even worse: [[AmnesiacDissonance Amnesiac]] ''Mastermind'' in Charge.]]
* MortalWoundReveal: When [[spoiler:Kirei shows that Inaba stabbed him in the "heart" with a pitchfork, with shadows leaking out as he finally drops dead.]]
* MurderTropes
** '''Victim 1:''' BitterAlmonds, DyingClue, TheCanKickedHim
** '''Culprit 1:''' DeathFromAbove, (averted) SoftGlass
** '''Victim 2:''' StaircaseTumble, TapOnTheHead
** '''Culprit 2:''' HighVoltageDeath
** '''Victim 3:''' BungledSuicide, NeverSuicide
** '''Culprit 3:''' ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** '''Victim 4-A:''' NeckSnap
** '''Victim 4-B:''' TheKillerBecomesTheKilled, MakeItLookLikeAnAccident, VigilanteExecution
** '''Culprit 4:''' ExitPursuedByABear, FaceDeathWithDignity
** '''Victim 5:''' AccidentalMurder, YourHeadASplode
** '''Culprit 5:''' TiedUpOnThePhone (Twisted. [[spoiler:He's hung with a microphone cord instead.]])
** '''Punishment:''' BoomHeadshot, [[spoiler:NeverFoundTheBody]]
** '''Victim 6:''' (failed) MurderSuicide
** '''Culprit 6:''' KillItWithFire
** '''Victim 7-A:''' DeathByFallingOver
** '''Victim 7-B:''' PunchedAcrossTheRoom
** '''Culprit 7:''' TimeDelayedDeath
** '''Victim 8:''' DropTheHammer
** '''Culprit 8:''' DeathByAmbulance
** '''Victim 9-A:''' AlmostDeadGuy, DeathTrap
** '''Victim 9-B:''' (averted) AnnoyingArrows, NonFatalExplosions
** '''Mastermind:''' OffWithHisHead
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: ''[[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Cecil.]]''
** After Week 8, [[LiteralChangeOfHeart Kirei.]]
* TheNotLoveInterest: On top of flirting with everyone he meets, Schuldig is Kirei's "fake-ass unofficial off-the-record in-spirit boyfriend".
* ObjectCeilingCling: Anna's pancake. She flipped it too high and it stuck on the kitchen ceiling, decomposing there for weeks.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: When [[spoiler:Betty]] turns up dead, [[spoiler:Simon]], whose memory and grasp on reality have been slowly eroding, goes on a "date" with the corpse. Essentially, he's pulling this on ''himself''.
* OhCrap: Often the last expression on a culprit's face when they're being executed.
* OnceIsNotEnough: Poor [[spoiler:Inaba didn't anticipate that stabbing Kirei with a pitchfork in self-defence wouldn't kill him right away.]]
* OpenSaysMe: Immediately before discovering [[spoiler: Vinh Tran's]] body, [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Kirei]] solves the problem of a locked door by punching it.
* PhlebotinumBreakdown: The motive for the 8th Week involves the game's TranslatorMicrobes shorting out. [[spoiler:This doesn't seem to have been something [[GoneHorriblyRight Monobear had actually intended...]]]]
* ProductPlacement: The Kit Kat people should really be paying the mods. (Or maybe not, since the characters end up getting sick of the omnipresent candy.)
* RageAgainstTheReflection: [[spoiler: The case 1 victim, Vinh Tran, punched and broke a mirror shortly before dying.]]
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Deconstructed with [[spoiler:Hope's Army. EliteArmy or not, many of them are pencil-pushers, civilians, minors, loyal to another organization before the Future Foundation, criminals under probation, or just ObviouslyEvil, and the superiors they're reporting to are a bunch of traumatized teenagers whose best-of-the-best talents lie far away from world-saving. Naturally, they fall for an obvious trap, fail their mission, and end up so wrung out from the torture and the Bunker Life of Mutual Killing that followed that many of them quit after they're recovered so they can go live normal lives.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Repeatedly explored and painfully twisted and subverted. [[spoiler:Homura]] starts out as her innocent former self, starts to see evidence and regain memories of her [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope eventual alignment]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters and fate]], and is eventually DrivenToSuicide to keep herself from becoming that person; over time in the afterlife, she develops and eventually turns good again, so death equals redemption. [[spoiler:Lysandre]] turns against Monobear and undergoes a HeroicSacrifice for it, only to [[spoiler:actually be the mastermind, having faked his death]]. [[spoiler:Adachi]] tries to rebel after developing deep relationships with other cast members and remembering the "it's not too late for you" moment from canon, but [[HeelFaceDoorSlam things go horribly wrong for him]]. [[spoiler:Kirei]] spends his entire time in-game examining his conscience and wondering if he can become a good person, but eventually decides that it's impossible for him to be anything other than evil and kills two people before dying -- in this case, ''failed'' redemption equals death. Of three remaining villains, one is full-time wearing the protag pants now, one is awkwardly wondering [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove what this thing called "positive emotion" is]], and one [[GenreSavvy took a look at the others]] and decided that there's no point in deciding not to be a horrible person.
* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: Subverted when everybody thought {...} had died taking a hit meant for Beat. Unable to kill an innocent, Monobear "fixes him up", rendering him a talking head.
* {{Room 101}}: The mysterious rooms on the seventh floor [[spoiler:and the actual torture chamber on the eighth]] are pretty ominous and some horrible things definitely went on down there.
* SayingTooMuch: [[spoiler:Adachi exposes himself as Walker's killer when he accidentally names the real murder weapon.]]
* SendInTheSearchTeam: [[spoiler:The Round 2 class, save two, were actually Hope's Army, members of the Future Foundation sent in to retrieve a rogue Lysandre. This did not go well. In the first epilogue, they meet their ''own'' search party.]]
* SignatureItemClue: It was pretty obvious that case 8 was a FrameUp, but who did the framing was harder to figure out... until you noticed that [[spoiler:Adachi was missing his tie and the paper crane left at the scene was his]].
* SomethingWeForgot: In the end, [[spoiler:a freshly-revived Lysandre makes arrangements with the Future Foundation to not let Audrey, who'd been left behind, starve to death in the bunker. Ice King's crown, however, is discussed and deemed too dangerous ''not'' to just leave down there.]]
* TheStinger: After the "end" log tagged "final log", one more log went up to wrap up the story [[spoiler:and confirm that the characters did indeed find the god they were looking for]].
* StoryBreakerPower: Beat accuses the Week 9 culprit of being the real-life equivalent of a GameBreaker when [[spoiler:Adachi summons Magatsu Izanagi]]. He's actually ''not'' this, as he's nerfed like anyone else and can't or won't attack.
* SympatheticMurderer: Almost everybody, even if this round had far fewer altruistic or self-defence murders than the last. Even [[spoiler:Jay and Ike]] had their reasons, as badly as they're condemned for what they saw as the only solution.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Walker jumps in front of Beat to shield him from an explosion. This renders him a talking head until his death.]]
* TerrifyingRescuer: [[spoiler:Inverted. "BLACK SUIT! PUNCH 'IM!"]]
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Dan, when he tries to deal with both his confusing emotions and Beat's broken English during the "no translator" motive. "Dan mad! Dan mad mad mad mad!"
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The group reaction to [[spoiler:Adachi breaking down and summoning his Persona]].
* TwoTeacherSchool: Joked about with Monobear's side role as the "janitor" (cleaning up bodies).
* UniformityException: In the final investigation, all but two students [[spoiler:have Future Foundation uniforms waiting for them]]. This turns out to show that the ones left out [[spoiler:were a civilian and the enemy]].
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: A minor one happens in case 1: Adachi thought [[spoiler: the victim, Vinh Tran]] was a girl and questioned why their body was found in [[spoiler: the men's restroom]]. People were quick to correct him, leaving him rather shocked.
* TheVillainSucksSong: Adachi sings insulting {{Filk Song}}s about Monobear when he tries to either feed Audrey or get evidence out of her and not get eaten in the process.
* WasItAllALie: Discussed - Sonico briefly wonders this following [[spoiler:Adachi's trial and execution]]. While talking to Beat, she concludes that it ''wasn't'', but says somewhat bitterly that she almost wishes that were the case, if only to make it easier to come to terms with.
* WhamEpisode: The final trial, ''dear god''. [[spoiler: What do you mean, Lysandre is the mastermind!?]]
* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: Done painfully with [[spoiler:Dan and subverted in the end. In the trial, the characters, even the ones who actually liked Dan, discover his HiddenDepths and regret how they treated him, even though he was a total jerk to them. When they all feel pity and remorse for seeing him as the kind of person anyone would want to get rid of, it turns out that ''none'' of them killed him.]]
* WhoWritesThisCrap: Observing that motives and murders always happen on the same day, Schuldig jokes that maybe they're living in a cheap TV show. Kirei replies that the writing staff must be incompetent.
* WistfulAmnesia: The heart remembering what the mind forgets is a common occurrence here. Near the beginning, for example, Lysandre feels a need to put Cecil's protective charm on not just Sycamore's door but that of his forgotten awkward ex, Archer. [[spoiler:The Hope's Army reveal showed that a lot of the game's unlikely CR, like [[IntergenerationalFriendship Archer-Cynthia]], [[UnholyMatrimony Schuldig]]''/''[[TheNotLoveInterest Kirei]], and [[NoAccountingForTaste Sonico/Adachi]], had also been close in the past... and Betty and Dan had still hated each other.]]
* WritingIndentationClue: Beat finds some on a whiteboard that indicate [[spoiler:the testing period of the memory-wiping drug.]]
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Many of those left alive at the end end up somewhere else, [[spoiler:whether settling in Kalos or returning to the Future Foundation,]] either because something's become of their home, they're supposed to be dead there, or just because their time in murderschool changed them too much to let them go back to normal.
