History Roleplay / Trustfell

* AlchemyIsMagic: Extremely important to the metaplot. [[spoiler:The first round took place in [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist manga Amestris]] and alchemy was how the Students were captured. The second round had ''FMA 2003'' characters crucial to the backstory and its final trial derailed with the Kingmakers wondering what Kimbley's notes were for and what turning lead into gold had to do with any of it anyway. The third round has an FMA character from the start, who kept complaining about this trope.]]

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Round 1 is associated with black and gold, Round 2 with purple and white, and Round 3 with blue, as per their signature icons.

** [[Franchise/FullMetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist]] tends to come up quite a bit- especially series villian Zolf J. Kimbley, who [[spoiler: played the role of the Conductor in Round 1, was mentioned in Round 2 and 3's backstories, and even became a member of Round 4's cast.]]

* ReoccurringElement:

** [[Franchise/FullMetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist]] tends to come up quite a bit- especially series villian Zolf J. Kimbley, who [[spoiler: played the role of the Conductor in Round 1, was mentioned in Round 2 and 3's backstory's, and even became a member of Round 4's cast.]]

Aside from its understated "less wacky, more classy" tone, Trustfell sets itself apart by being run and populated with murdergame veterans along with newbies (the format is borrowed from Roleplay/DanganRoleplay with permission from its creators), setting up expectations of the genre and its players, mod team, and premise, and often twisting or subverting them. This makes it into a game where anything can happen, often things that players might never have thought of or automatically ruled out, and there's always something new to see. And, of course, the story takes itself in its own directions.

Six rounds in total have been announced; originally it was to be only one, and the first community was gifted to the players after the round, so every round since has been on a different community. Round one is [[http://trustfell.dreamwidth.org/ here]], round two moved over [[http://trusthell.dreamwidth.org/ here]], round three [[https://trustfelled.dreamwidth.org/ here]], and round four [[http://trustwellness.dreamwidth.org/ here]].

Six rounds in total have been announced; originally it was to be only one, and the first community was gifted to the players after the round, so every round since has been on a different community. Round one is [[http://trustfell.dreamwidth.org/ here]], round two moved over [[http://trusthell.dreamwidth.org/ here]], and round three [[https://trustfelled.dreamwidth.org/ here]].

* CallARabbitASmeerp: Call a captive a Participant, Survivor, or Competitor and call a mastermind a Conductor, Kingmaker, or Adjudicator, depending on the round.

* Roleplay/Trustfell3TrustFallWithAVengeance

[[folder:General]]

[[folder:Trustfell (Round 1)]]
* AccidentalKidnapping: [[spoiler:The captives were pulled through a gate by mistake.]]
* AccidentalMisnaming: Forgetting [[spoiler:Mustang's recently revealed]] name, Elise refers to him as "Mr... Horse?" The name catches on with the others as well, especially in narrative text.
** Dio also has to stop himself from saying "Erina" instead of "Elise."
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Upon learning that they weren't the first class,]] some students theorize that alternate versions of themselves were also captured somewhere. Rakka [[WhatMeasureIsANonUnique has a breakdown over it]].
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The party goes off with Rick's portal gun in search of their homes.]]
* AntagonistInMourning: [[spoiler:The Conductor is ''furious'' when Ashley is killed. It doesn't make him sympathetic, though; his "mourning process" involves executing her killer in a torturous, sadistic manner that calls back to her deepest trauma and lasts for minutes on end.]]
* BiggerBad: The Conductor's "God." [[spoiler:The characters aren't sure what to do in the end, knowing he's still out there.]]
* BilingualBackfire: Of a sort. Asuka sends the Conductor a note in German to see if he can read it. He correctly guesses her intentions and replies in flawless German.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The students are alive and, with enough trial and error using Rick's portal gun, they can find their ways home... but they're very traumatized, their attempt at mercy went poorly, and Father is still out there, with hints given during the final trial that he's going to want revenge once he hears what they've done.]]
* BizarreTasteInFood: One way to tell [[spoiler:that it's Envy and not Dio in the kitchen at night]] is that his idea of a midnight snack is a disaster cobbled together from random items from the fridge.
* BloodBath: Pre-emptively banned by [[ObviousRulePatch Rule 17,]] just in case anybody wanted to try.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Does not actually occur, but Bakugou calls the Conductor a siscon a couple of times.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The survivors, [[spoiler:barring Susan and Sol, vote to spare the Conductor for this reason. [[TheFarmerAndTheViper It doesn't work out.]]]]
* CastFromLifespan: [[spoiler:Kimblee posits that this likely happened to those who didn't have superpowers to lose.]]
* ChristmasMiracle: It's Christmas morning when, suddenly, [[spoiler:the sunroom unlocks and the dead are finally able to send their letters to the living]].
* CluckingFunny: The chickens. Initially one of Tabby's many requests intended to annoy the Conductor, the petition is actually granted, and one week's motive quadruples their number. The comic relief comes from both their origin and how most of the students struggle to learn to take care of them.
* [[invoked]] CrossoverShip: Inevitable with panfandom roleplay. Jean/Weiss and Blue/Yuuri are confirmed canon and a few others are left ambiguous in the end.
* CouldntFindAPen: The sixth case features many messages in both chicken and human blood.
* CrossingTheBurntBridge: [[spoiler:Asuka and Ashley in the dead world]], very slowly and initially just out of necessity. They start to contemplate what went on between them [[spoiler:when Asuka tells Ashley how she was sadistically executed for Ashley's murder]] and eventually repair their relationship [[spoiler:when Ashley gets wasted at the bar and Asuka listens to her and helps her back to her room]].
* CryLaughing: Some of the characters in the end, particularly [[spoiler:Undyne when she revives]].
* CueTheSun: After weeks of no natural light, [[spoiler:the survivors finally find a sunroom on the top floor.]]
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:Kimblee likes to keep track of his.]]
* DisappointedByTheMotive: The culprit (and the victim) of Case 7 get a lot of this, with a number of the survivors shocked that [[spoiler:Cabanela would let Sukuyo coerce him into her illogical plan and that her idea of redeeming herself involved trying to get them all killed.]]
** Also Bakugou in the sixth trial, when [[spoiler:Rick confesses and kills himself]].
-->"[[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth They]] died for ''that''...!?"
* EarthAllAlong: Though really more on an OOC level. After all, [[spoiler:none of the characters could fourth-wall ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.]]
* EatingTheEnemy: [[spoiler:The survivors at least consider giving the Conductor's body to Kaneki.]]
* EdibleThemeNaming: Elise continues hers for her livestock by naming one of the chickens Magenbrot.
* TheEndOrIsIt: The captives in the end [[spoiler:have defeated the Conductor and just want to go home, but the BiggerBad could well strike again with someone else.]]
-->'''Susan:''' We've done everything we could, I think. He was right -- [[spoiler:we really ''can't'' just storm up and kill God.]] Maybe some of us could take care of it later, but [[BroughtDownToNormal the way]] [[ShellshockedVeteran we are now?]] All we can do is go home and try to recover.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Actually averted for the guy who may as well be the TropeNamer. Everyone uses his actual name.
* EyepatchOfPower: Three of them. [[spoiler:And they're all dead by the end of week three.]]
* EyeScream: Used in the third case when [[spoiler:Ashley, fighting back against Asuka, goes for her eye with scissors. Twisted in that it was the eye Asuka had already lost.]]
* FaceMonsterTurn: [[spoiler:The backstory of the shadow creature.]]
* {{Fainting}}: Blue once she finds the gory second crime scene.
* FanDisservice: Rick insists on every excuse to strip in public. Eventually, the Conductor is disgusted enough to start making rules to stop him!
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: [[spoiler:Mercy was not the correct choice. Invoked by Kimblee in response, just before he tries to kill the survivors.]]
--> [[spoiler:"You would spare someone who's never done anything for you – I told you that I received you as a ''mistake''. Why do you think that your survival matters enough to me to send you all back where you came from – why do you think I would bother, when this entire setup was designed to kill you from the start?]]
--> [[spoiler:I've told you so many times that no one matters to me – that my own family didn't matter to me. My country, my colleagues, people I was in close contact with, ''all of them died'' because I couldn't be bothered to save them, and yet...? And yet you think that I would willingly give up my personal source of power for you?]]
--> [[spoiler:And ''you're willing to abandon everything you've wanted from the start, because you think you've found a better deal?'']]
--> [[spoiler:For all this talk of trusting your friends, you certainly don't trust them enough to get all of you out of this situation without relying on a person who cares nothing for you and wants to see you dead."]]
* FlamingSword: Susan famously uses one [[spoiler:to land the final blow on Kimblee.]]
* FoodEnd: Well... [[spoiler:for [[ImAHumanitarian Kaneki]], [[ZombieApocalypse it was]]...]]
* ForgedMessage: There are two: [[spoiler:one from Cabanela (actually Dio) and one from Mordecai (actually Rick). Sukuyo's looked suspicious, but she actually did write it.]]
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The "Teen Asshole Squad," [[spoiler:composed of the survivor pool's teenagers aside from Blue, who belongs to [[TheMole another]] CastHerd]]. Bakugou is sanguine, Sol is choleric, Weiss is melancholic, and Jean is phlegmatic.
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Cabanela is the victim of one in case five, where a note in his handwriting was used to lure out the victim, who was also found with holding one of his regains. It turns out the latter was a coincidence.]]
* FullNameBasis: Mordecai to most everyone, and Rick to Dio just to annoy him.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Subverted and played straight [[spoiler:when all the deceased characters are revived via the [[VideoGame/FableII resurrection phials]] that come with this penalty.]]
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Reaver and Youko privately joke about this. [[spoiler:It becomes extremely relevant during the first trial.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Hibiki was found like this.]]
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Inverted and discussed. Ashley tells Dio that she hasn't told anyone about finding his journal. Dio replies that she shouldn't have told him that because, if he were going to kill her over the contents, he'd be more likely to if he knew the secret would die with her.
* HavingABlast: The stolen superpower of two students, one of whom [[ThrowDownTheBomblet eventually starts compensating]]. [[spoiler:The Conductor has the same ability]].
* HeroicBSOD:
** Logan goes unresponsive at [[spoiler:Reaver's execution]], where he fears what will happen to his home.
** Half the remaining game when [[spoiler:Logan is killed by the shadow monster - and they're there to witness it the second time.]]
* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: A few characters start to question Elise in the sixth trial when she suddenly drops the topic she was going after. [[spoiler:She's actually just trying not to mention the ghosts in front of the Conductor, since she'd been telling him that the seances were silly and ineffectual and the other students would surely pipe in saying they were real.]]
* HurricaneOfPuns: On the ghosts' end, spectating the final trial [[GotMeDoingIt devolved into this]] for several hundred comments.
* IDidntMeanToKillHim: [[spoiler:Tabby only meant to kill one person; she wanted Mordecai as a witness so she could be sent to the execution pit, but the wound she gave him was accidentally fatal.]]
* InUniverseCatharsis: ''So many characters'' [[spoiler:beat up on or otherwise desecrated Kimblee's corpse]].
* KickTheMoralityPet: [[spoiler:Asuka does this ''deliberately'', enacting a plot to kill her closest friend to break her bonds because she's afraid of what having them will do to her. When she's caught, most of the school turns on her, and she spends a lot of time and development in deadland working through what she's done.]]
* KilledOffForReal: An unnamed chicken [[spoiler:and the Conductor.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:The freed captives toss all the things they no longer want to deal with, including many of their personal files, onto Kimblee's funeral pyre]] in the end.
* TheKingslayer: [[spoiler:The shadow's treated as a bigger threat after killing Logan.]]
* LastMinuteHookup: All the pairings this round are either this or MaybeEverAfter.
* LivingShadow: The Conductor's "associate." [[spoiler:It -- or, rather, ''he'' -- wasn't always that way.]]
* LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:When Dio's execution beheads him, his still-living head starts attacking, screaming, and hopping around by its thrashing blood vessels.]]
* MaliciousMisnaming: [[spoiler:Those who call Kimblee "Kimberly."]]
* MaybeEverAfter: Some pairings, like Morty/Sol or Bakugou/Rakka, are left up in the air as to their future.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:What the ghosts' killing Mustang boils down to, though they don't know it at the time.]]
* MistakenForServant: In the opening log, Elise thinks the other captives are her servants.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Three of them, actually.]]
* MurderTropes
** Victim 1: NeckSnap
** Culprit 1: OffWithHisHead
** Victim 2: DuelToTheDeath
** Culprit 2: HumanPincushion
** Victim 3: BoomHeadshot
** Culprit 3: NeckSnap, ColdBloodedTorture
** Victim 4: PerfectPoison
** Culprit 4: LastStand, CleanCut
** Victim 5-A: InTheBack
** Victim 5-B: NeckSnap
** Culprit 5: OffWithHisHead, EatenAlive
** Retaliation 1: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** Victim 6-A: DropTheHammer
** Victim 6-B: DropTheHammer, DyingClue
** Victim 6-C: TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn, MolotovCocktail
** Victim 6-D: AbsurdlySharpBlade
** Culprit 6-A: BetterToDieThanBeKilled
** Culprit 6-B: ChainLightning, StuffBlowingUp
** Victim 7: TamperingWithFoodAndDrink, NeverSuicide
** Culprit 7: RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts
** Retaliation 2: DoNotGoGentle
** Conductor: BackstabBackfire, CombinationAttack
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Youko, you really shouldn't have [[spoiler:asked the Conductor about the ghosts.]]
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted when Blue asks the Conductor for a communal supply of tampons.
* NowOrNeverKiss: [[spoiler:Weiss gives one to Jean]] just before the final investigation.
* ObviousRulePatch: The Conductor adds more and more rules to the list to cut the captives off whenever they start to actually pose a threat to him, may well accidentally blow the place up, or are just getting annoying.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sol and Bakugou realize that there's something wrong at the seventh trial when [[spoiler:Cabanela, who'd always refrained from judging the killers, calls this one "[[YouMonster a real monster]]."]]
* OriginalGeneration: Lisbeth and the chickens, [[spoiler:but ''not'' the Conductor.]]
* OpenSaysMe: A rule is made against this when the locked doors appear. [[spoiler:Dio kicks down a couple of doors in the epilogue.]]
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Part of a lot of characters' canons [[spoiler:and the way they got to Anime Germany.]]
* PeekABooCorpse: Blue runs into body after body when she thinks she might be safe this week.
* PinchMe: Undyne pinches herself to prove that [[spoiler:she and the other dead really did revive]] and she's not dreaming it up.
* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: The Conductor is a smarmy, self-serving self-described gentleman, and even the sweet and polite members of the survivor pool become worn out, [[NotSoAboveItAll start acting improperly]], and more often than not end up screaming, ignoring him, and/or dropping F-bombs in public.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Stated by name as Logan regrets his life choices.
* PrecisionFStrike: Sukuyo calling [[spoiler:Morty's]] murderer an SOB when she's usually so sweet and polite.
* ProfaneLastWords: [[spoiler:Did we really expect anything else from Rick?]]
* RagnarokProofing: [[spoiler:Graceside survived the apocalypse outside its doors.]] Foreshadowed in case 6, where it's noted that the place seems to be built to withstand a bombing.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:By arranging her own murder, Sukuyo tries to invoke this.]]
* ResurrectiveImmortality: [[spoiler:Logan]] displays this when the shadow counterattacks, [[spoiler:but only once. It turns out to ''not'' be an ability of his, but an effect of a potion]].
* RewatchBonus: In week one, [[spoiler:Logan is paranoid that ghosts are responsible for leaving coins for the students in their bedrooms while they sleep.]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} That's exactly what it was]].
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Sol discovers what she calls a "stalker room," wallpapered with photos of [[spoiler:the Participants, especially the ones Envy impersonated or considered impersonating.]]
* RulesLawyer: Weiss tries to be one. The Conductor won't have any of it.
* SecurityCling: Some of the younger students cling onto Logan out of worry when [[spoiler:he shows up in the dead realm]].
* [[invoked]] ShipToShipCombat: When Ashley and Asuka are reading the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' series. Ashley ships canon and Asuka ships Harmony. They even get into a screaming match over it [[spoiler:in the middle of the final trial]]!
* ShoeSlap: Sol gets so worked up that she chucks both of her shoes at Cabanela from across the room.
* SmoochOfVictory: Blue and Yuuri, [[spoiler:after the latter is revived post-Final Trial.]]
* TeamPet: A whole flock of chickens, including Hibiki's favourite, fluffy mascot Dorika.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler:The real reason Kimblee knows so much about his captives.]]
* TwoDunIt: The Conductor tells Rick that it's possible for two culprits to win by getting away with the same murder. [[spoiler:Rick then plans to convince Morty to kill someone with him. However, Morty is killed before he can.]]
* TrickBomb: Tabby starts making flashbangs, which she and others use [[spoiler:to fight the shadow monster]]. They quickly get banned from the courtroom.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: After running into corpse after corpse, Blue's reactions go from screaming to hiding behind other people to eventually just calling out "hey, there's another dead guy!"
* ValentinesDayEpisode: Because mixed-up memories and being in a murdercan make it hard to tell the date (not to mention her canon's season-based calendar), Elise declares that it must be Valentine's Day on ''December'' 14th. She proceeds to give chocolate cookies to the entire remaining male cast, including the Conductor![[labelnote:*]]She left a plate of them on the mailbox.[[/labelnote]]
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:The Shadow/Mustang, who was human before being experimented on.]]
* WeakenedByTheLight: Not just Dio; [[spoiler:the shadow monster too, and not just to sunlight.]]
* WelcomeBackTraitor: [[spoiler:To Blue and Elise after the mole reveal. After the Conductor had betrayed them for protecting the ghosts, the other captives found it practical, plus Blue had intended to play the Conductor from the start and Elise had already had a change of heart and quit.]]
* WhamEpisode: The final trial, by far, when everybody finds out just where they are and who's behind it all.
* WhamLine: The Conductor's in the seventh trial. [[spoiler:"Did you really think I would be stupid enough to rely on the word of one person?"]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: It's stated outright that chickens don't have souls, but Pokémon do.
* WhatMeasureIsANonUnique: Rakka wonders this when her fellow captives throw around the theory that they might not be the only versions of themselves out there or even the only ones to come to Graceside, [[spoiler:which is never proven either way]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Many of the killers are adults, and their victims defenceless children. It reaches such a noticeable degree that Bakugou starts to comment on it.
* WrongNameOutburst:
** During the sixth trial Youko and Bakugou briefly squabble, leading to this exchange:
--> "'''NO STEAK FOR A MONTH, KATSUKI.'''"
--> "I CAN MAKE MY OWN STEAK NOW ANYWAY, MOM!!"
** After [[spoiler:being revived]], Rakka tearfully calls Susan "Mom."
* YouMonster: Hibiki says this to [[spoiler:Asuka, with the backing of most and the judgment of others, for killing her own friend]]. Cabanela admonishes her for it, but later says it himself, [[spoiler:about himself]].
* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: [[spoiler:Kimblee admits that he actually doesn't ''know'' why everyone was BroughtDownToNormal and the "fee paid to the Gate" theory is only a theory, with this being his secondary hypothesis.]]
* YourSoulIsMine: Thanks to the [[{{VideoGames/Undertale}} backgrounds of]] [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure several of]] [[{{Manga/Tactics}} the deceased]], their WildMassGuessing lead them to this conclusion. [[spoiler:They were wrong, and [[AccidentalKidnapping the truth]] [[ForTheEvulz was much]] [[ItAmusedMe simpler.]]]]
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[[folder:Trustfell 2: Trust Harder]]
* AchillesInHisTent: During her HeroicBSOD [[spoiler:after Mettaton reveals that he was working for the Kingmaker and is executed, Sigrun goes into hiding and admits that she doesn't want to be the leader anymore. Cherryblod brings her around.]]
* [[invoked]] ActingForTwo: Black puts on a one-person play.
* AdultFear: The fourth case had a lot of this, and it showed in the characters' reactions, particularly Cherryblod's ([[spoiler:father of a rape victim]]), Stan's, and Bruce's (both [[spoiler:familiar with what abuse and isolation compounding mental illness can do to a person]]).
* AlternateSelf: Very present this round. Were any Round 1 characters reapped (none were), they would have had to have been straight from canon and not from R1. Canonmates of the R1 characters also all seem to be from alternate versions of their world: Mettaton's from a different route from Undyne's, Cabanela's leaving home at the end of the first round would have derailed Lynne, Shirazu's canonmates were from separate timelines anyway, and Speedwagon is from earlier than Dio's canonpoint, causing another divergence.
* AnachronismStew: The kitchen is high-tech but the laundry room is archaic. A few weeks' worth of complaints to the Kingmaker later, the captives get a new, modern laundry room.
* AnimalMotifs: Everyone gets one of these, thanks to Black and Shirazu's stuffed animal zoo. Originally it was restricted to just the dead (it was being used to memorialize them and as some post-trial stress relief, on Black's end), but it has since been extended to the living to make asking about people's favorite animals less depressing. Animals generally fit the character somehow as according to them, their players, or other characters.
* ArcSymbol: The swirl logo on the mod account and community icons. [[spoiler:It's Glory's idle pen-brush movement that they use to indicate that they're still there to talk to (albeit unintentionally because all pen-brush swirls pretty much look the same), and also meant to resemble Ryuunosuke's Command Seals.]]
* AssShove: Not done literally, but Sigrun uses it as a metaphor for putting the Kingmaker on trial.
* AtomicFBomb: Tarrlok's reaction to his third memory regain.
* AwkwardKiss: Sigrun curiously licks Mettaton's face.
* AwfulTruth: Some of the secrets from the secret incentive were this to characters who didn't know either their own (like Mouri's) or their close CR's (like Cherryblod's).
* BalladOfX: Some of the titles of Sigrun's compositions.
* BathroomStallGraffiti: Yousuke uses this to pass along secret messages late in the game.
* BeAllMySinsRemembered: Part of the reason for [[spoiler:Yato's ZeroApprovalGambit, as well as Mettaton's reminding the people close to him not to get attached]].
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Ryuunosuke admits in the mastermind trial that he liked Sigrun because, even if his game was horrible to her, she treated him like a person.]]
* BigShutUp: Norman finally asserts himself by yelling this at Caren when [[spoiler:he's supporting Team Kill and she's defending Team Spare in the final trial.]]
* BirdsOfAFeather: Zagi and Kamui, who bond over their love of fighting each other and wrecking the place.
* BreakingBadNewsGently: [[spoiler:Some of the ghosts try to tell Cherryblod about Mettaton's fate this way. One of them ruins it with a blunt "He's not here."]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Yato calls Shirazu's title a death flag.
* CallBack: 2-3 is set up similarly to 1-1, featuring [[spoiler:a fake hanging]]. There's also a reference to the FlamingSword finale in the sword's new item description.
** Speedwagon describes Dio as a danger who really shouldn't be in a murder vault, "even if we had any real angels."
** Stan comes up with Blue's same idea that their captor wears sweater vests.
** "There are so few of you now" from the Week 7 log calls back to round one's use of the phrase in the seventh investigation and the final trial.
** When Black explains that his real name is something normal, he asks what kind of world would have ColourfulThemeNaming. Hmm, how about Blue's or Weiss's?
* CarnivoreConfusion: Cherryblod and the King give a lot of the humans this.
* CentralTheme: What, if anything, is ''really'' unforgivable? Can people change for the better, or just for the worse? How do we break the cycle of people who've been hurt lashing out at others?
* ChaosArchitecture: It seems that the Survivors aren't just unlocking floors that were already there. The Kingmaker, or maybe [[GeniusLoci the Vault itself]], seems to be ''creating'' the new floors and changing them at will.
* ChildlessDystopia: The Vault is all adults, unlike the previous round and other murdergames; even the trauma exemption only ended up letting in 17-year-olds. According to the round's initial announcement, this is a plot point.
* CloneArmy: Mion thinks the Kingmaker has a bunch of clones of the Survivors lying around.
* ClothingDamage: Not used for fanservice, but mild clothing damage is used as evidence in the third case.
* CollectionSidequest: Searching for the key cards.
* CollectiveIdentity: [[spoiler:The Kingmaker is two people.]]
* ConfessToALesserCrime: When word gets out that he had a "wild youth," Cherryblod tells Kogorou that he used to do graffiti and shoplifting. By this point, the readers already know that he's actually an ex-mob enforcer. [[spoiler:He later comes clean to the whole group.]]
* CreepyTwins: This round has five characters who are twins. [[spoiler:Two are killers, two are moles, and one's from a horror canon.]]
* CycleOfRevenge: A major part of this round's backstory. [[spoiler:While murder games were developed to punish evildoers, the torture of the situation got so bad that the winners would regularly take over to run a new game with innocent captives to take their pain out on someone else. Sparing the Kingmakers helps to break the cycle.]]
* DespairSpeech: Sigrun's breakdown at the sixth trial.
* DroppingTheBombshell: Everyone assuming that the wrong person drew the "Dickbutt Kingmaker" until Cherryblod reveals that it was Bruce.
* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Yousuke's envelope in the secrets motive contains these, since he's already come out with all the important stuff.
* EverybodysDeadDave: According to the Kingmaker, the characters' worlds have been completely destroyed. [[UnreliableExpositor Time will tell if this is actually the case.]] [[spoiler:It's a lie after all.]]
* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:Week 8 had a trial for ''attempted'' murder.]]
* EverythingIsOnline: During the seventh trial, Aiden ends up explaining that his world works this way. Reactions range from awed to horrified.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Yousuke is going over what they saw in the second trial with Bruce, he stops and realizes that his theory might mean that the motive was a fake to begin with.
* FirstNameBasis: Black lets Yousuke call him by his real name "on special occasions."
* FlatWhat: [[spoiler:Glory]] gives a flat "wow" when Sigrun tells them about the events of the fourth trial.
* FramesOfReference: Compare Black's big glasses, emphasizing his [[TsurimeEyes soft eye shape]] and showing that he's not so heartless after all, to Colress's clinical NerdGlasses.
* FreakOut: [[spoiler:Detective Mouri]] is never the same after learning that [[spoiler:his fame and success were born from a lie]]. It actually fosters positive CharacterDevelopment, though, where he learns to work with and care about the other captives instead of just take over everything and jump to self-serving conclusions.
* FriendshipTrinket: Aqua makes her close friends wayfinders.
* GoThroughMe: Cherryblod says this to anyone who might want to harm the people he's taken in as his own. [[spoiler:This protectiveness is what moves him from Team Kill to the head of Team Spare when Mettaton turns out to be one of their captors.]]
* GrandRomanticGesture: Sigrun plans an elaborate date for Mettaton, including everything from reminders of home to a manufactured starry sky and a handmade Mettaton sculpture. [[spoiler:She breaks down describing it all in the sixth trial when Mettaton admits what he's done.]]
* HairTriggerExplosive: The seventh murder involved a chemical bomb that was extremely easy to set off.
* HandGagging: Sigrun, to stop Cherryblod's MirthlessLaughter.
* HeroicSacrifice: The third culprit tries to frame their victim [[NeverSuicide for this]] because the motive was "kill someone or I'll kill one of you at random."
* HesBack: After Cherryblod talks Sigrun out of her HeroicBSOD after [[spoiler:losing Mettaton]], she makes a triumphant recovery and returns to leading the group.
* HesDeadJim: As always, but actually subverted in [[spoiler:Case 8: '''Gabriel is dead!''' No, he's not. They still have to investigate, though!]]
* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: A big part of why Black won't just outright confess his love is that he sees his friendship with Yousuke as this and is afraid of the rug being pulled out from under him.
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Black and Yousuke mutually back away from what could have been a RelationshipUpgrade at the case 5 afterparty, both citing this to themselves.
* IHaveYourWife: The week seven incentive. [[spoiler:Characters receive photographic evidence that their loved ones are in their ''own'' killing game.]]
* ILied: The mole wasn't really [[spoiler:telling the Kingmaker to [[TakeMeInstead take him as a sacrifice]] in the third week]], but conspiring with the Kingmaker. [[spoiler:Well, he wasn't actually doing ''that'' either...]]
* ImmoralRealityShow: The theory that comes up in-character in every murder game makes a reappearance here. [[spoiler:This time, it's proven right.]]
* ImNotDoingThatAgain: Mouri does this when he fails at sewing and ends up covered in bandages. Bruce tries to bring him around and he amends this to "okay, if we both survive, then I'll try again."
* ImprobableHairstyle: The maintenance variation is averted. Colress's hair goes limp without gel and Yousuke's roots start to come in without bleach.
* {{Irony}}: Case 5 rests for a while on the idea that the way the murder happened might be impossible and would be difficult to prove if it did happen. [[spoiler:You know, [[NotProven how Misa's parents' killers walked free]]. What's more, the person who breaks the case apart is the one Misa considered "pure evil" and had contemplated killing instead.]]
* ItNeverGetsAnyEasier: Cherryblod and Speedwagon both say this about executing the killers.
* ItsAllMyFault: Though he won't let himself admit it until his last weeks, [[spoiler:Mettaton blames himself for the events of the more violent routes of his canon.]]
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:Learning that he's half of the Kingmaker, Sigrun finds that it's her duty as atoning leader to kill Mettaton. When the group chooses mercy, though, she decides that she might have to kill her boyfriend and his partner ''someday,'' but it doesn't have to be now.]]
* KingmakerScenario: What did you expect? The Kingmaker, actually called that, can't or won't become "King" himself [[spoiler:because they already are]], but he's more than willing to give one captive an edge over the others and wants to ensure a winner.
* LazyBum: Sigrun thinks "Occupation: Self-employed" on Speedwagon's profile is a nice euphemism for this.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: During [[spoiler:a seance Stan holds for the others to contact the ghosts, one of the dead insinuates that Zagi and Kamui have this relationship]].
* LoveHurts: Remember, everyone, if you're falling for someone, one of you will end up dead, revealed to be working for the Kingmaker, or both!
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Sigrun reflects on herself in week seven and concludes that "we all do dumb things for the people we love." [[spoiler:Glory agrees, regretting (one of the people who make her up) having killed because the person they loved died.]]
* LudicrousMeleeAccuracy: Subverted in the third case, where it turns out that the victim had actually been knocked out ''before'' the OneHitKill.
* MarryThemAll: Cherryblod is confused as to why Speedwagon's culture doesn't do this.
* MarshmallowHell: Poor Black wakes up this way [[spoiler:when Sigrun has him under her watch 24/7.]]
* MasqueradeBall: Misa and Aqua hold one.
* MauveShirt: Despite his... not being a very nice person, many of the other characters had gotten attached to the first victim.
* MaybeEverAfter: Yousuke and Black end up admitting their feelings, but realize that they're both too damaged from the game and what went on between them, so they aren't officially an item, just... maybe someday.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Inverted hard. The RNG kills off most of the women in the first few weeks.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Deleting Archer in the end, since his body is gone and he's lost his will to live anyway.]]
* MermaidProblem: Misa and Cherryblod discuss how the latter once drunkenly asked mermaids how they reproduced. For her part, Caren isn't telling.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Sigrun has this gem:
-->"Adventure is the spice of life. And the main dish. And the dessert. And everything else, actually, it's good!"
* MirthlessLaughter: Late in the game, Cherryblod collapses in worn-out, broken laughter when he gets a rapping fish ornament out of the prize machine.
* MistakenForRomance: Mouri has to go for the BrainBleach when he assumes that Bruce and the King are an item.
* TheMole: This round has more of a "saboteur" type instead of the previous round's "informant" type, [[spoiler:supposedly. It actually had two informants, with a third who turned down the offer, and Mettaton wasn't really a "killswitch," he was half of the Kingmaker.]]
* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: Mettaton invokes this in a passive-aggressive fashion in Week 3, labeling a sign-out sheet by saying that one of the deceased would have made them do it anyway.
* MurderTropes
** Victim 1: DuelToTheDeath, VampiricDraining
** Culprit 1: EyeScream, OffWithHisHead
** Victim 2: DropTheHammer
** Culprit 2: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** Victim 3: NeverSuicide, TapOnTheHead
** Culprit 3: DualWielding, PummelingTheCorpse
** Retaliation 1: NoBodyLeftBehind, OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank
** Victim 4: HumanPincushion
** Culprit 4: ImpromptuTracheotomy
** Retaliation 2: SuicideByCop
** Victim 5-A: StaircaseTumble
** Victim 5-B: LeaveNoWitnesses
** Culprit 5: PeoplePuppets, BoomHeadshot
** Victim 6: KickThemWhileTheyAreDown
** Culprit 6: KickThemWhileTheyAreDown, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** Victim 7: FieryCoverUp, HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
** Culprit 7: DoNotGoGentle, MacrossMissileMassacre
* NewParentNomenclatureProblem: Yousuke usually calls Cherryblod by his name, but starts slipping into "Dad" more later on.
* NoodleIncident: Cherryblod once fought in a dress.
* NothingPersonal: [[spoiler:Aiden]] tells his victim this when they wake up in deadland. It isn't taken well. [[spoiler:Misa also]] does the same thing, but the victim in that case is okay with it.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Despite their embarrassment and Sigrun's teasing, Yousuke and Black really didn't do anything more than hold hands when they were in Black's bed after case five.
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: The title was a joke (one of many, along with things like "Trustfell 2: Fall Further" and "Trustfell: Return to [[spoiler:Anime Germany]]") that amused the mods enough to make it canon.
* OhCrap: Yousuke's reaction in the eighth investigation [[spoiler:when his father and boyfriend are the last to turn up. Both are alive, though.]]
* OppositesAttract: Black's an overprotective cynic afraid of making friends and Yousuke's already learned ThePowerOfFriendship, hope, and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy letting go]]; Sigrun's a caring, responsible leader who takes each death hard and Mettaton tries to only look out for himself because it's easier not to care.
* ThePerfectCrime: Case 5 was almost one, with the murder being committed [[spoiler:with a Death Note, something that not only very few characters even knew existed, but also another example of Trustfell subverting murdergame conventions that the players take for granted. It was solved by what looked to be another wacky tangent when Cherryblod's "crack theory" was proven ''right''.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: What started their round in the first place, when [[spoiler:Hans kills Silver and Alphys, kicking off Mettaton and Ryuunosuke's separate killing sprees. Neither have anything to go home to, so they decide to do a game of their own.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: What ends up ''saving'' their round at the final trial. Cherryblod asks to spare [[spoiler:Mettaton]] and Sigrun ends up taking his side. [[spoiler:Mettaton asks that whatever they do, they do for Ryuunosuke too, and so ''both'' of the Kingmakers end up being spared.]]
* PissTakeRap: The rapping fish ornament that ends up in the prize machine. Cherryblod's own attempt to rap isn't much better.
* PornStash: While nobody actually finds one, Taichi sees Yousuke searching the storage room and thinks he's found the Kingmaker's stash.
* PrecisionFStrike: Cherryblod doesn't usually use obscenities, but he's aimed a choice few at the Kingmaker for rubbing it in that his loved ones are supposedly dead [[spoiler:and for the whole Mettaton situation]].
* ProductionThrowback: There have always been a few to Roleplay/DanganRoleplay, but this time, it's actually a final investigation clue: while it's definitely still an EasterEgg and the game is still an AlternateUniverse, [[spoiler:[[Manga/PokemonSpecial Silver]] being [[LightNovel/FateZero Ryuunosuke's]] OnlyFriend]] was a big hint to the Kingmaker's identity [[spoiler:(half of it)]].
* PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: [[spoiler:Archer, Ryuunosuke, and Mettaton all have this motivation for killing their fellow survivors and starting a new murder game.]]
* PsychoStrings: Norman's MTB uses the TropeNamer.
* RevenantZombie: The executions appear to employ these, with a copy of the victim, having their powers and weapons back, coming to kill the culprit. [[spoiler:After Pearl, whose real remains are right there in the courtroom at the time, appears as one too, the living start to suspect that they're fakes.]]
* {{Robosexual}}: Mettaton and Sigrun. They work surprisingly well together, to the point where YourUniverseOrMine comes up and Sigrun decides that her roboyfriend is coming back with her. [[spoiler:Sadly, Sigrun decides to break up with Mettaton, albeit reluctantly, when he's revealed to be the Kingmaker's "kill switch" at the end of the sixth trial. They fall into old habits and get back together once they're in the real world though, and he as well as Ryuunosuke are being taken back to her world to be kept an eye on by her and Cherryblod.]]
* SadisticChoice: The second incentive, which comes down to "kill someone or I will."
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Faced with [[RealityEnsues the trouble that would surely follow if he brought a huge amount of money home]], Yousuke asks Cherryblod if he knows someone from his mob days who would help him launder it. The answer's no.
* SeashellBra: Caren wears a simple one as a mermaid. A significantly fancier bejeweled one [[spoiler:is her dead renewable regain]], and though it's designed as outerwear (the undersea equivalent of a PimpedOutDress), Sigrun starts wearing it as underwear.
* SerenadeYourLover: Used tragically in Week 6. [[spoiler:Sigrun works on writing Mettaton a song for the big special date she has planned, but Mettaton is ordered to kill the same week, reveals his treachery to the group, and dies before she can perform it for him.]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Not only have there been more murder games, they've grown into a full-blown ''industry,'' mostly in the form of a virtual ImmoralRealityShow... but hey, "Observant?" That means Round 1 was involved!]]
* ShamingTheMob: Yousuke remembers being talked down in the third week and then does it himself when some of the others, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Cherryblod]] in particular, start to gang up on the culprit.
* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Another leading theory for what exactly is carrying out the executions and looking like the victims. [[spoiler:This one's more accurate, though it's just a projection.]]
* SmokingGun: Case 5's introduction of [[spoiler:Misa's Death Note]] shows exactly how and by whom the murders were committed and that such a scenario was possible in the first place.
* SoulJar: [[spoiler:Both the victim and culprit of Case 2 have theirs broken.]]
* SpottingTheThread: Mettaton uses [[Film/LegallyBlonde fashion knowledge]] to corner [[spoiler:Misa, who would have known very well not to bleach a black dress]].
* SpySpeak: Sigrun and Colress talk about radio waves when they actually mean ghosts.
* TalkingInBed: Just about every romantic or found-family relationship has a few moments like this, like Black/Yousuke, Sigrun/Mettaton, and Cherryblod + his sons.
* TemptingFate: Sigrun tells Stan not to do this when he starts to theorize that the Kingmaker might kill someone himself if no one else does.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Black accidentally tells his not-boyfriend to strip [[spoiler:at the first meeting with Glory]].
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Sigrun first declares this on the Kingmaker [[spoiler:after Mettaton's trial]], albeit with killing. Played more straight during the Kingmaker's trial itself [[spoiler:after learning who ''both'' masterminds were, and saying that no one could kill Mettaton before her. Technically, this is true, since she's the only one who knows how to.]]
* ThereIsAnother: The Survivors are told that they're the last from their worlds. Late in the game, there's a hostage motive that indicates that some of their loved ones also survived [[spoiler:and were placed in another murder game]], if you believe the Kingmaker's words.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Stan does ''not'' want to take the obviously nonhuman Survivors anywhere near his own world.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Misa's attitude towards all the murderers, and she'll say as much, not caring if they've changed or have regrets.
* TooSoon: An in-universe example when Sigrun makes a joke about week two's murder in week seven.
* TryNotToDie: Cherryblod tells Yousuke he's not allowed to. Yousuke replies that he can't promise that in a murder vault, but asks that if he does die, that Cherryblod keep going.
* {{Understatement}}: Taichi upon pulling a blood-covered blade out of the incinerator. "Well, this isn't good."
* UndesirablePrize: The "mystery prize" for the speed-dating game Yato sets up is a common prize machine drop. Sigrun is disappointed and wants something else.
* UnreliableExpositor: The fourth culprit, when found out, gives two versions of the murder and the events around it: [[spoiler:Norman's and Norma's.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Yousuke goes to use the washroom in the seventh investigation and completely misses that Cherryblod's investigating in there, not just using the facilities, and that the body announcement's gone off.
* UrineTrouble: The subject of a couple jokes on Yousuke's part, where he fears he might scare someone into wetting their pants accidentally.
* WasItAllALie: The closest people to [[spoiler:Mettaton, when he reveals himself as the "kill switch,"]] ask this of him. He tries to say yes, but finds that [[BecomingTheMask he's grown a few feelings]].
* WhamEpisode: A few late in the game.
** The office unlocking, and how it doesn't match the rest of the Vault at all... but looks just like the office from Graceside. [[spoiler:Kimblee himself is mentioned under his "Observant" title later on.]]
** The hostage motive [[spoiler:suggesting that the Survivors' loved ones are not only alive, but are stuck in their own murder game.]]
** "YOU ARE ALL SLATED TO DIE."
** Case 8 was a great big stack of game-changing revelations. [[spoiler:EverybodyLives, but Black had been plotting to kill to escape, he was working for the Kingmaker, so was Stan until recently, Colress had been approached to be a mole but turned it down, and there might still be ''another'' one based on Black's theory about things not adding up. Which turns out to be true, but it's none of the Survivors...]]
** The revelation of Glory's and the Kingmaker's identities.
* WorldHalfFull: [[spoiler:Glory describes their home world this way.]]
-->"The world wasn't good. But it was full of good people. They made the best of things."
* WrongNameOutburst: Black calls Sigrun "Mom" once when she embarrasses him.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Aqua tells Bruce this, stunning him into silence. Black tells the others this often, too, and is just as shocked when Yousuke uses it on ''him''.
* YouAreNotAlone: A major theme, with culprits and victims realizing too late that they could have turned to others and those still living starting to wonder if it's worth reaching out and being honest with one another.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Sigrun starts thinking Caren wouldn't be such a killjoy if she could get a date, especially after Black outs her. [[spoiler:In the postgame, she plots to get Caren a girlfriend, quickly roping others into the plan and driving Caren herself up the wall.]]
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:In lieu of a Week 8 incentive, the Survivors get a set of messages warning them that the Kingmaker wants to kill them all.]]
* ZeroApprovalGambit: The third culprit, when cornered and found out, decides to go [[LaughingMad full-out]] [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred villain-act]] out of remorse and desperation.
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[[folder:Trustfell 3: Trust Fall With a Vengeance]]
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When most of the Competitors are horrified at Ferid making a tasteless pun about one of the murders, Walter, who can't stand Ferid normally, is snickering at his podium.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: The app restrictions this time allow only human or human-passing captives.
* ArcSymbol: A haloed water droplet. [[spoiler:It seems to symbolize that the Competitors were all DeadAllAlong.]]
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Chitoge's brief return combines this with BackFromTheDead.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Chitoge manages to return to the living during Week 6. Sadly, she is forced to go back to the afterlife when Juri finds out, but not without some letters to the dead from the living.]]
* BalancingDeathsBooks: [[spoiler:When Chitoge revives and Juri finds out, some of the others offer to be sent to their deaths in her place. Juri kills Chitoge again anyway.]]
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Ferid, he of no sense of too much information, publicly comments that he thinks so.
* BittersweetEnding: Even though the [[OffTheChart Platinum]] [[GoldenEnding Ending]] eked out a happier ending than planned for everyone, [[spoiler:they're still all dead and won't return to their normal lives, and despite everyone's hope, it's not guaranteed that they'll be reincarnated into the same world or meet each other again]].
* BoyMeetsGhoul: [[spoiler:Angel gets together with Chitoge after the latter dies, thanks to a Ouija board and Chitoge's less-than-a-day-long resurrection. Some of the other characters are {{squick}}ed out.]]
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: When Katniss tries to explain the exercise.
-->"Some people get their kicks hunting. Baking bread. Making weapons. Forcing people to murder each other."
* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: Mack and Brady, an OfficialCouple in the round, feud in week three and make up during the trial that week.
* CallBack: 3-7 has one to 2-4, [[spoiler:invoking the Norman Clause again]].
-->'''Juri:''' Keep in mind that we vote by title for a reason. [[spoiler:The title is assigned to the body, not whoever happens to be piloting it around at the moment.]]
** Just like Elise in R1, Jean is told that Juri thinks he's on a MissionFromGod, responds with "''Which'' god?", and has to have monotheism explained to her.
** The final investigation calls out Sigrun for licking the murder weapon in 2-2.
** "There are so few of you now" makes another return.
* TheCameo: Remember [[spoiler:Kimblee? His stuff cameos and it's hinted that Ginti sent him to the Void after Susan stabbed him in the face.]]
* CelebrityParadox: Chitoge fourth-walls previous rounds' canons.
* CentralTheme: Even the worst of people have the right to be judged fairly outside of a rigged system.
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Downplayed. Most of the round's characters are strange or unstable in some way, from finding the Adjudicator attractive to having NoSocialSkills, to possessing ControlFreak tendencies, or just being Aligula.
* CreepyDoll: [[spoiler:Juri keeps "dolls," unliving replicas of the Competitors' bodies, and apparently likes to set up creepy scenes with them. It turns out that they can come to life with "memories shoved into them," too...]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The Competitors. The game was an exercise to judge the souls of the dead.]]
* DiscoveringYourOwnDeadBody: [[spoiler:It's bad enough when Jean finds duplicate bodies of other competitors, living and dead, stored in a series of cabinets. Then, in the last one...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''It's you, Jean.''']]
* DontGoInTheWoods: This round's setting is a remote lodge.
* DoubleSubversion: With the mastermind's identity. [[spoiler:With the setup being that the Adjudicator would actually appear in person from the beginning, this round seemed to subvert the previous two rounds' revelations that the masterminds were existing characters from real franchises. Nope. Juri was just a disguise. Do we say "''Anime/DeathParade'' confirmed" now?]]
* EverybodyLives: One week had no murders due to overlapping with Otakon.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Juri exchanges himself with a doll and has the Competitors investigate his "death" in the final investigation.]]
* FantasticRacism: In the endgame trial, Juri says that he hates humans.
* FlatWhat: Isaac's response when Ferid [[ILoveYouVampireSon flirtatiously offers to turn him]].
* ForcedIntoEvil: Juri says that someone who ordered or forced another to kill is considered the real culprit, but someone who just suggested it isn't. [[Roleplay/DanganRoleplay Maybe he read another murdergame's 3-5?]]
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Juri tries to frame Inigo for his "[[FakingTheDead murder]]".]] The other Competitors don't buy it.
* GetOut: Juri [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristically]] demands this of the Competitors [[spoiler:after Archie manages to injure him during the third execution]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:While she doesn't actually die, Fern throws herself in front of Katniss when Walter tries to stab her.]]
* HumanResources: One of the victims of case 6 had her blood drained and used as paint.
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Ginti ends up taking Ferid and Aligula on as temporary assistants.]]
* ItAmusedMe: The reason [[JerkAss Ferid]] does anything, apparently, including [[spoiler:killing Angel and Yuri]].
* IronicEcho: In the third trial, the culprit [[spoiler:stabbed Juri and spat in his face, giving some hope to the survivors.]] A week later, [[spoiler:Walter showed his true colors by stabbing Fern and spitting in Katniss's face.]]
* LoveHurts: Romance seems to be cursed in this round, with one or both parties always dying even if the feelings were unrequited.
* MistakenForPregnant: One of the many, many red herrings the fourth culprit lays out about one of the victims.
* MurderTropes
** Executions & Retaliations: VampiricDraining
** Victim 1: TheCanKickedHim, KillingInSelfDefense
** Victim 2: TapOnTheHead
** Victim 3: KillingInSelfDefense, ImprovisedWeapon
** Victim 4-A: PerfectPoison
** Victim 4-B: KnifeNut
** Victim 5-A: MutualKill
** Victim 5-B: MutualKill
** Victim 6-A: GuttedLikeAFish, VampiricDraining
** Victim 6-B: SlashedThroat, DyingForSymbolism
** Victim 6-C: NeckSnap
** Victim 6-D: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** Victim 7: DeathByIrony, HollywoodDrowning
** Victim 8?: PerfectPoison
* MyGreatestSecondChance: Two of the Competitors are known for being some of the first major characters to die in their canons. [[spoiler:For Sayaka, she's the first body again, but Robert makes survivor pool.]]
* OddballInTheSeries: While we still learn a little about [[BiggerBad Murder]][[FanNickname vaults, Inc.]], [[spoiler:this round doesn't involve one of their games. Instead, Arbiters who judge the souls of the dead were inspired by a victim of one of the games, who came through to be judged, and it's implied (and later [[WordOfGod confirmed]]) that the first round's BigBad was also judged by Ginti.]]
* OhMyGods: Mozu says it verbatim and the Pokémon cast invokes legendaries.
* PoisonIsEvil: Very much so with [[spoiler:Walter]], but [[spoiler:Chitoge and Archie]] are treated more sympathetically for poisoning the Adjudicator instead of a fellow Competitor.
* RageQuit: What to do when there's no right answer to the last trial, and not voting is already off the table? [[spoiler:Cilan realizes that [[RulesLawyer this trial skipped the "Majority Rules" clause]]. They hang the jury in hopes of stopping the game.]]
* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler:In the ending, many of the couples are banking on this. The [[StarCrossedLovers alternative]] would be too sad to fit the mood.]]
* RustproofBlood: The blood in case 6 took a strangely long time to start browning [[spoiler:when used as paint]].
* SkewedPriorities: A small number of the characters, meeting the Adjudicator for the first time, comment on how hot he is. A number of the other competitors are not amused.
* StealthPun: [[spoiler:[[Creator/WaltDisney Walter White killed the Disney Channel characters]].]]
* TakeAThirdOption: Chitoge says it's what she always does when she's trapped.
* TalkingYourWayOut: Endgame, for every single character. [[spoiler:Out of being sent to the Void, that is.]]
* TeasingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Ferid tells Aligula that a clue she found, written in German, is propositioning the recipient; it is not. Earlier, Aligula herself tries to explain JapaneseHonorifics and flat-out starts making stuff up.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Mack and Brady are found dead on the same day.]]
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: [[spoiler:Subverted. Having nasty-tasting blood didn't save Angel; Ferid just stopped drinking and used the rest as paint.]]
* TrailOfBlood: One is seen in the sixth investigation.
* TwistEnding: Not only is [[spoiler:everybody DeadToBeginWith]], the mastermind trial takes a different form. [[spoiler:Rather than the mastermind himself being on trial, the ''Competitors'' are, and the effort is not to figure out whether to spare or kill Juri, but whether to accept their own judgments or try to ScrewDestiny to save themselves.]]
* WeWantOurJerkBack: [[spoiler:When Juri fakes his death. Everyone takes it back when he turns out to be alive, though.]]
* WhosOnFirst: Ferid tries this routine with Isaac. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint It goes as well as you'd think.]]
* YouCanKeepHer: Robert's response to the motive threatening to replace the Competitors with their loved ones.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Green is an oddly popular hair color for this round. Cilan, Jean, Nephenee, and Terumi all have green hair. As well as Fern, who is ''entirely'' green. Actually commented on; Katniss initially thinks the unnatural-in-real-life colours are some Capitol trend.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: [[spoiler:Walter]] says as much in his MTB, asserting that he won't be convicted and the evidence against him is flawed.
* YourMom: Robert makes this kind of comment to try and rile up Archie [[spoiler:when they're accusing him of the third murder]].
* YourSoulIsMine: Appears to be Juri's motive, considering his VampiricDraining habit, but given that deadland still exists, it's no surprise to learn that things are more complicated than that.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Green is an oddly popular hair color for this round. Cilan, Jean, Nephenee, and Terumi all have green hair. As well as Fern, who is ''entirely'' green.

** Round 3 is built on subverting murdergame conventions from the start, like seeing the mastermind in the flesh from day one.

* CallARabbitASmeerp: Call a captive a Student, Survivor, or Competitor and call a mastermind a Conductor, Kingmaker, or Adjudicator, depending on the round.

* TheNeedless: The ghosts.

* AlchemyIsMagic: Extremely important to the metaplot. [[spoiler:The first round took place in [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist manga Amestris]] and alchemy was how the Students were captured. The second round had ''FMA 2003'' characters crucial to the backstory and its final trial derailed with the Kingmakers wondering what Kimbley's notes were for and what turning lead into gold had to do with any of it anyway. The third round has an FMA character from the start, but hasn't yet shown any alchemy-related elements in its metaplot.]]

* NoHoldsBarredContest: The trials. The characters are free to solve them using whatever it takes. [[JustifiedTrope After all, if they don't uncover the murderer everyone but the culprit will be executed.]]

* ResurrectedRomance: If a survivor pool earns an ending that revives the dead, some pairings will consist of a survivor and one of the revived, like [[spoiler:Blue/Yuuri did]].

* SinisterSurveillance: Both masterminds conduct this, and none of the characters are ever entirely sure ''how''.

** Round 1's Bakugou was the impulsive teenager who seemed to be the hero like you'd expect, but he's a DecoyProtagonist. The one who takes charge at the end and embodies the message of the round, sweeping all the protag votes at the last minute, is Susan, who's TheMedic, a GrumpyBear, and a grown adult.

Round one is [[http://trustfell.dreamwidth.org/ here]], round two moved over [[http://trusthell.dreamwidth.org/ here]], and round three is currently located over [[https://trustfelled.dreamwidth.org/ here]].

* YourSoulIsMine: Appears to be Juri's motive, considering his VampiricDraining habit, but given that deadland still exists and he mentioned another "he" in charge there, it may be more complicated than that.

* DiscoveringYourOwnDeadBody: [[spoiler:It's bad enough when Jean finds duplicate bodies of other competitors, living and dead. Then, in the last one...]]

* BittersweetEnding: Even though the [[OffTheCharts Platinum]] [[GoldenEnding Ending]] eked out a happier ending than planned for everyone, [[spoiler:they're still all dead and won't return to their normal lives, and despite everyone's hope, it's not guaranteed that they'll be reincarnated into the same world or meet each other again]].

* PunBasedTitle: "Trustfell" is a pun on "trust falls" (the team-building exercise) and "fell" in its context as a DeadlyEuphemism. The second round adds another layer of pun by moving to a new community, "trusthell."

** Round 2 is not a direct sequel to Round 1 and none of the latter's characters received a PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo. [[spoiler:One clue in the final investigation indicates that it's actually a ''prequel.'']]

* AccompliceByInaction: Juri says that someone who ordered or forced another to kill is considered the real culprit, but someone who just suggested it isn't. [[Roleplay/DanganRoleplay Maybe he read another murdergame's 3-5?]]

* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler:In the endgame trial, Juri says that he hates humans, explaining this round's restriction (only human or human-passing).]]

* MyGreatestSecondChance: Two of the Competitors are known for being some of the first major characters to die in their canons. [[spoiler:For Sayaka, she's the first body again, but Robert still has a chance of being SparedByTheAdaptation.]]

* DoubleSubversion: With the mastermind's identity. [[spoiler:With the setup being that the Adjudicator would actually appear in person from the beginning, this round seemed to subvert the previous two rounds' revelations that the masterminds were existing characters from real franchises. Nope. Juri was just a host body. Do we say "''Anime/DeathParade'' confirmed" now?]]

* ILoveTheDead: [[spoiler:Angel gets together with Chitoge after the latter dies, thanks to a Ouija board and Chitoge's less-than-a-day-long resurrection. Some of the other characters are {{squick}}ed out.]]