History Roleplay / Trustfell4TrustFallOrDieHard

%%* MurderTropes
%%** '''Executions:''' CastingAShadow, EatenAlive
%%** '''Victim 1:''' ChokeHolds
%%** '''Victim 2:''' DarknessEqualsDeath, NoHoldsBarredBeatdown
%%** '''Retaliation 1:''' HumanPincushion
%%** '''Victim 3:''' LiterallyShatteredLives
%%** '''Retaliation 2:''' InTheBack, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
%%** '''Retaliation 3-A/3-B:''' OneHitKill
%%** '''Victim 4:''' TapOnTheHead, KillItWithFire
%%** '''Victim 5-A:''' StaircaseTumble
%%** '''Victim 5-B:''' InstrumentOfMurder
%%** '''Victim 6-A:''' TamperingWithFoodAndDrink
%%** '''Victim 6-B:''' OffWithHisHead
%%** '''Victim 7:''' DuelToTheDeath

* DoesNotLikeShoes: With two {{Barefoot Cartoon Animal}}s, one character who dislikes shoes, and one who just randomly showed up without them, this is joked to be the "barefooters' round."

* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Averted in case four, where part of the murder was badly done CPR breaking the victim's ribs.

* ImOkay: Judy manages this when she falls into a laundry bucket.
%%* IncompatibleOrientation: Gold hints that he's fallen for Vanille.

* InfernalRetaliation: Gold seems to think that he's dealing with Pride. He goes into the pit to be executed and sets the shadow on fire. Sadly, [[NoSell that doesn't work, and Gold is killed by the shadow while it's in flames.]]

* IWantMyJetPack: Upon learning that Phi hails from a world that's TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, Elda starts haranguing her with questions about robots and flying cars.
* IWasJustPassingThrough: The normally unfriendly Wordsmith refuses to say he was trying to save or protect Hanyuu by tipping Elda off to a possible suicide attempt. He says he doesn't care that much, but would like it if she won.

* MakeAWish: The Week 5 incentive offers a wish for something the characters want but can't get on their own.

* NothingPersonal: The first three culprits chose their victims without having any particular grudge. Kyrie targeted Adelina because her name was first on the profiles, Alani went after Christo because it would be easy to kill a stranger as opposed to a friend, and Kira had wanted to murder Lusamine, but Chiyuki was more convenient and he was running out of time.

* OneLastSmoke: Like in Round 1's finale, most of the dead are on Team Kill even as the living are converted one by one to Team Spare. Some of them greet what they see as inevitable doom by breaking out the alcohol.
-->'''Varric:''' If we do die, I want to die drunk.

* PoisonIsCorrosive: Gold calls Kageshirou "a Poison-type" when he's trying to compare it to a Pokémon, and as Estelle discovers, trying to pet it makes it eat away at her glove.

%%* RedOniBlueOni: Killia and Christo. Watanuki, naturally, calls them that by name.

* SoHappyTogether: We knew something awful was bound to happen when Kimbley offered to listen to Kira and started to make people ship it, if only because [[UnholyMatrimony just look at them]]. Indeed, it's immediately followed by Kira's betrayal.

* TwoDunIt: Silver and Gold killed Kimbley together, but it turns out that Gold hit the killing blow and thus is the only one credited and the only one executed.

* WallMaster: The shadow creature can escape the pit and CeilingCling to drop down on an unsuspecting victim.
* WaxingLyrical: Kira notes the musical ShoutOut in his profile. He's not amused.

* FlowerInHerHair: Along with Alani's flowers, there are also the flower crowns the Apprentices weave at the seventh afterparty.

* PoliceAreUseless: Silver mentions that this is true in his canon. In-game, the ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' cast can't prevent the murders for gameplay reasons.

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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Happens twice, when the receiving character is about to be executed: Mikazuki to Killia, Lusamine to Gangrel.

%%* BetterAsFriends: Angela says her first relationship ended this way.

%%* {{Blackmail}}: The Week 3 incentive is a secrets motive.

* BloodFromTheMouth: One of the Case 6 victims coughed up blood before dying.

%%* BodyHorror: Silver's ghost story talks about the Special-verse version of Lavender Tower, so of course there's some of this in the ghosts.

** Gold pulls a Tabby. By which we mean brings improvised explosives into the pit to try and take the shadow monster down with him.
** Noir asks why Kimbley doesn't remember being in her round.
** In the finale, Viktor watches the living decide to spare Kirei and mentions that he hopes it doesn't turn out [[TheFarmerAndTheViper the way Round 1 did]].
%%* {{Catgirl}}: Elda is dared to dress up as one.

* CreepyDoll: Chiyuki tells a ghost story about these. She also technically is one.
* CryIntoChest: Elda to Lusamine when they've let their guard down around one another.

* DealWithTheDevil: Angra Mainyu, possessing Hilda, offers to sacrifice the survivor pool to bring back the dead. They argue their way past it.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Killia made one in the past and failed. Hanyuu's promise to keep Vanille safe doesn't fare much better.

* DrivenToSuicide: Hanyuu is close to it after the Week 7 incentive, which terrifies Elda when she figures it out.

* EmoTeen: Watanuki half-jokingly suggests that the Wordsmith is really one of these and the kidnapping is his cry for attention. Guzma later imagines Noir as this, and even later, Killia gets jokes about it and Killidia even more so.
%%* EmptyShell: The Wordsmith describes his son, whom he put into a game and used for his own ends, as this.

%%* EyeScream: Gangrel's ghost story is rather gory and mentions this.

* FlowerMotifs: The seventh case uses floriography to show that the victim was killed by a close friend. Floriography comes up again later when the Wordsmith leaves out white hydrangeas for "gratitude for understanding."

* FoodSlap: When Kira confesses that he's a SerialKiller and murdered Chiyuki, Gold flings the contents of a bottle at Kira to mess up his suit.

* FrameUp: Kira frames Kimbley for the murder he commits, both of them being fond of explosions.

* HeroicBSOD: Remembering that she's not the real Maxwell and that he just created her to be TheBait sends Milla into a depressed state for a week. Thankfully, she bounces back after getting her next memory. Later, Estelle falls into one after Mikazuki kills Orihime to save Killia and the other dead, leaving her alone.
* HeroicSafeMode: While it's hard to call anything Kimbley does heroic, he goes on automatic and focuses only on messing around in the chem lab after one of his two closest people kills the other and frames him for it.
%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Gold describes himself and Silver as this.

* HurricaneOfPuns: When Alani tells Gangrel she usually has the power to control water, the two of them start making ocean puns. Later, Lusamine and Gangrel do the same with hand puns after Kira's executed and they call a truce. ''Much'' later, Guzma and Silver do one about eggs.

%%* IncompatibleOrientation: Gold hints that he's fallen for Vanille.
%%* INeedAFreakingDrink: Varric at the second retaliation.
* INeverGotAnyLetters: Watanuki fears that the Wordsmith might start to intercept the dead's mail.
* InfernalRetaliation: Gold seems to think that he's dealing with Pride. He goes into the pit to be executed and sets the shadow on fire. Sadly, [[NoSell that doesn't work, and Gold is killed by the shadow while it's in flames.]]

* ItHasBeenAnHonour: Waiting for the outcome of the living Apprentices' attempts to reason with the Wordsmith in the final trial, Varric tells everyone that "whatever happens, it's been nice knowing you."

* IWasJustPassingThrough: The normally unfriendly Wordsmith refuses to say he was trying to save or protect Hanyuu by tipping Elda off to a possible suicide attempt. He says he doesn't care that much, but would like it if she won.
%%* KubrickStare: Bruce confronts the first culprit with this and threatens torture.
* LibationForTheDead: Some afterparties make use of this. Alani's home has a similar tradition with "mourning tea," which she makes in her own victim's honour.

* LivingShadow: One carries out the executions again, but this is ''not'' the same as Round 1's and shrugs off that one's weaknesses.

* MassOhCrap: At the Week 7 incentive, when the Wordsmith reveals that he knew all along that the dead were still around and he's threatening them all to get another murder out of the living.
* MatchmakerCrush: Inverted. While Gold hints at one point that he likes Vanille, he realizes the [[IncompatibleOrientation problem with that]] when he asks her who she likes, and then tells her crush Alani about Vanille's feelings to get them to talk once he's dead and can thus speak to Alani.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Averted, mostly. In the second trial, Alani kills to try and sacrifice the 28 other Apprentices for the billions of people doomed in her home universe. Most of the characters take this ''very'' seriously, even if it is a faceless mass of too many strangers compared to a small amount of people they know.

* MistakenFromBehind: Watanuki first sees Chiyuki from the back and thinks she's his boss, Yuuko. Kyrie also confuses Hilda for Chiyuki and vice versa the first time she sees either in deadland.

%%* MurderTropes
%%** '''Executions:''' CastingAShadow, EatenAlive
%%** '''Victim 1:''' ChokeHolds
%%** '''Victim 2:''' DarknessEqualsDeath, NoHoldsBarredBeatdown
%%** '''Retaliation 1:''' HumanPincushion
%%** '''Victim 3:''' LiterallyShatteredLives
%%** '''Retaliation 2:''' InTheBack, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
%%** '''Retaliation 3-A/3-B:''' OneHitKill
%%** '''Victim 4:''' TapOnTheHead, KillItWithFire
%%** '''Victim 5-A:''' StaircaseTumble
%%** '''Victim 5-B:''' InstrumentOfMurder
%%** '''Victim 6-A:''' TamperingWithFoodAndDrink
%%** '''Victim 6-B:''' OffWithHisHead
%%** '''Victim 7:''' DuelToTheDeath
%%* TheNeedsOfTheMany: The second culprit's motive, and also the seventh's, which the Wordsmith calls practical.

* NoSell: This shadow proves handily at the third retaliation and fourth execution that, unlike the one from Round 1, it's not WeakenedByTheLight, explosions, or fire.

** '''Round 2:''' Kimbley and Silver appear. Odd inconsistencies start to show up in the setting, such as nothing being weathered or worn down, as if a ResetButton were pushed. The chalkboard contacts the deadland NPC, who mentions Round 2 backstory characters.
** '''Round 3:''' Executions are all carried out the same way, and are not what they initially appear to be. Something has happened so that the dead seem to be no more dead than the living, just separated from them.
* NothingPersonal: The first three culprits chose their victims without having any particular grudge. Kyrie targeted Adelina because her name was first on the profiles, Alani went after Christo because it would be easy to kill a stranger as opposed to a friend, and Kira had wanted to murder Lusamine, but Chiyuki was more convenient and he was running out of time.

* OfficialCouple: Mikazuki confesses his feelings for Killia and Estelle likes both of them, Hanyuu and Elda become an item, Lusamine and Gangrel fall for one another after hating each other for weeks, and Watanuki and Orihime get together too, with Silver/Gold ShipTease on top of it. Finally, Alani and Vanille get together when they're both dead.

** A number of Apprentices voice this when Mercy dies and they're left without their coroner.

* OneLastSmoke: Like in Round 1's finale, most of the dead are on Team Kill even as the living are converted one by one to Team Spare. Some of them greet what they see as inevitable doom by breaking out the alcohol.

* PhoneCallFromTheDead: The dead start to send letters to the living mid-way through the game.

%%* PoolScene: Chronos U has a pool, so there are a lot of these.

* PretenderDiss: Lusamine says the Wordsmith can't call himself a researcher if his experiment yielding unity instead of mistrust just makes him try to break them further instead of accept the result.
%%* PunchAWall: Killia at the first incentive.
* RasputinianDeath: Kimbley, though he kind of deserved it. Tossed into a pool to drown, broken ribs, set on fire, hit in the head -- it's enough that it was difficult to determine which part killed him.

%%* RetGone: The Week 2 incentive offers to do this to a successful culprit's enemy back in their world.

%%* RedOniBlueOni: Killia and Christo. Watanuki, naturally, calls them that by name.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Kimbley's room, full of formulae, rambling, and [[TrashOfTheTitans an epic mess]] along with a plot to kill them all. It's described as this in as many words.

** When calling Killidia an emo edgelord, Guzma compares him to the main character of ''Fanfic/MyImmortal.''

* SpotTheImposter: Kyrie impersonates Addie when writing a letter to put a more trusted name to her theories.
* SoHappyTogether: We knew something awful was bound to happen when Kimbley offered to listen to Kira and started to make people ship it, if only because [[UnholyMatrimony just look at them]]. Indeed, it's immediately followed by Kira's betrayal.

** The Roman numeral for 5 is, of course, V. Varric and Viktor are the victims in Case 5.

* TakeAThirdOption: In the end, Angra Mainyu as Hilda offers to either leave the dead as they are or sacrifice the living for them. The survivor pool remembers the life gummies, though, and revives their friends with those instead.

* ThisIsUnforgivable: The Wordsmith passes this judgement upon ''himself'' and his own "flawed existence."

* TimeTravel: The round appears to be one big time travel experiment using resources from [[GreaterScopeVillain the virtual murdergame corporation behind Round 2. Even the dead speculate that dying just sent them to some other time, though it's not clear if that's the case.]]
* TogetherInDeath: Mikazuki and Killia. Estelle is heartbroken that they left her behind and starts to think they really just only wanted each other.

* TwoDunIt: Silver and Gold killed Kimbley together, but it turns out that Gold hit the killing blow and thus is the only one credited and the only one executed.
%%* UptightLovesWild: Lusamine/Gangrel, not that either admits it for some time.

* WallMaster: The shadow creature can escape the pit and CeilingCling to drop down on an unsuspecting victim.

* WhamEpisode: After treating the shadow like Round 1's did ''not'' work and it no-sells Pride's weaknesses, treating the chalkboard like Round 2's whiteboard ''does'' work. Furthermore, the deadland NPC knew the dead from the exercise Hilda ran, and the dead quickly send letters talking about TimeTravel experiments.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Thinking back on her own victims, Noir tells Gold that his name is at least better than "[[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Natural." Poor N becomes the benchmark for silly names from that point on.]]

* WoundedGazelleGambit: In the first case, Kyrie lures Adelina out by making a tomato juice "blood" mess and pretending to be wounded, then kills her.
* WrongNameOutburst: When Hanyuu is distressed about Alani killing Christo to try and save her people, she accidentally calls her "Ouka."

%%* YouAreNotAlone: Phi tells Alani this as the latter is about to be executed.

-->"Your sorrow, desperation, joy, determination...all of it has been a magnificent thing to behold as you fought to reach this point in time."
-->-The Wordsmith ([[spoiler:Kotomine Kirei]])

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Happens twice, when the receiving character is about to be executed: [[spoiler:Mikazuki to Killia, Lusamine to Gangrel.]]
* BadFuture: [[spoiler:A good way through the game, a theory comes up that either the dead or everyone is in one. This is later disproven, though.]]

* BetterAsFriends: Angela says her first relationship ended this way.

* {{Blackmail}}: The Week 3 incentive is a secrets motive.

* BodyHorror: Silver's ghost story talks about the Special-verse version of Lavender Tower, so of course there's some of this in the ghosts.

* CallBack: Viktor reads the same [[BlandNameProduct fourth-wall-friendly]] versions of the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books that Asuka and Ashley read and discussed in Round 1. Wonder what he ships?
** Gold pulls a Tabby. By which we mean [[spoiler:brings improvised explosives into the pit to try and take the shadow monster down with him]].
** Noir [[spoiler:asks why Kimbley doesn't remember being in her round]].
** In the finale, Viktor watches [[spoiler:the living decide to spare Kirei]] and mentions that he hopes it doesn't turn out [[TheFarmerAndTheViper the way Round 1 did]].
* {{Catgirl}}: Elda is dared to dress up as one.

* ConfusingMultipleNegatives: Faced with an ominously dark room at the second body discovery log, Nick says he doesn't ''not'' think someone's dead in there...

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Angra Mainyu, possessing Hilda, offers to sacrifice the survivor pool to bring back the dead. They argue their way past it.]]
* DeclarationOfProtection: Killia made one in the past and failed. [[spoiler:Hanyuu's promise to keep Vanille safe]] doesn't fare much better.
* DisposingOfABody: When Kira is dressing a self-inflicted stab wound, Kimbley thinks he's killed someone and promptly offers to help him hide the body. This is actually Kimbley's idea of flirting...

* DramaticIrony: "Rippin' souls out of bodies?" Gold asks. "Who ever heard of someone bein' able to do ''that?''" Well, everyone who read Round 3, for starters. [[spoiler:While all of the soul removal in R3 was actually illusionary, Round 1 still proves that the story Gold is questioning is true.]]
* DramaticUnmask: PlayedForLaughs in the intro log, where Elda tries to prove that Christo is a human with fake horns and prosthetic ear tips. [[spoiler:The PointyEars are real, but the horns pop off, and Christo is [[OhCrap horrified]].]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Hanyuu is close to it after the Week 7 incentive, which terrifies Elda when she figures it out.]]

* EmoTeen: Watanuki half-jokingly suggests that the Wordsmith is really one of these and the kidnapping is his cry for attention. Guzma later imagines Noir as this, and even later, Killia gets jokes about it [[spoiler:and Killidia even more so]].
* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:The Wordsmith describes his son, whom he put into a game and used for his own ends, as this.]]

* EyeScream: Gangrel's ghost story is rather gory and mentions this.

* FlowerMotifs: The seventh case uses floriography to show that the victim was killed by a close friend. Floriography comes up again later when [[spoiler:the Wordsmith]] leaves out white hydrangeas for "gratitude for understanding."

* FoodSlap: When [[spoiler:Kira confesses that he's a SerialKiller and murdered Chiyuki]], Gold flings the contents of a bottle at Kira to mess up his suit.

* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Kira frames Kimbley for the murder he commits, both of them being fond of explosions.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Orihime, holding flowers and apparently accepting her fate.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Remembering that [[spoiler:she's not the real Maxwell and that he just created her to be TheBait]] sends Milla into a depressed state for a week. Thankfully, she bounces back after getting her next memory. Later, Estelle falls into one after [[spoiler:Mikazuki kills Orihime to save Killia and the other dead, leaving her alone.]]
* HeroicSafeMode: While it's hard to call anything Kimbley does heroic, he goes on automatic and focuses only on messing around in the chem lab after [[spoiler:one of his two closest people kills the other and frames him for it]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Gold describes himself and Silver as this.

* HurricaneOfPuns: When Alani tells Gangrel she usually has the power to control water, the two of them start making ocean puns. Later, Lusamine and Gangrel do the same [[spoiler:with hand puns after Kira's executed]] and they call a truce. ''Much'' later, Guzma and Silver do one about eggs.

* IncompatibleOrientation: Gold hints that he's fallen for Vanille.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Varric at the second retaliation.
* INeverGotAnyLetters: Watanuki fears that [[spoiler:the Wordsmith might start to intercept the dead's mail]].
* InfernalRetaliation: [[spoiler:Gold seems to think that he's dealing with Pride. He goes into the pit to be executed and sets the shadow on fire. Sadly, [[NoSell that doesn't work]], and Gold is killed by the shadow while it's in flames.]]

* ItHasBeenAnHonour: [[spoiler:Waiting for the outcome of the living Apprentices' attempts to reason with the Wordsmith in the final trial, Varric tells everyone that "whatever happens, it's been nice knowing you."]]

* IWasJustPassingThrough: The normally unfriendly Wordsmith refuses to say he was trying to save or protect [[spoiler:Hanyuu by tipping Elda off to a possible suicide attempt]]. He says he doesn't care that much, but would like it if she won.
* KubrickStare: Bruce confronts the first culprit with this and threatens torture.
* LibationForTheDead: Some afterparties make use of this. Alani's home has a similar tradition with "mourning tea," [[spoiler:which she makes in her own victim's honour.]]

* MarshmallowHell: When Guzma's doing an impression of Lusamine, he mimes her doing this to a Pokémon.
* MassOhCrap: At the Week 7 incentive, when the Wordsmith reveals that [[spoiler:he knew all along that the dead were still around and he's threatening them all to get another murder out of the living.]]
* MatchmakerCrush: Inverted. While Gold hints at one point that he likes Vanille, he realizes the [[IncompatibleOrientation problem with that]] when he asks her who she likes, and then tells her crush Alani about Vanille's feelings to get them to talk [[spoiler:once he's dead and can thus speak to Alani]].
* MeaningfulName: Mid-game, it's discovered that [[spoiler:''Chronos'' University may have dealt with experiments in TimeTravel.]]

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Averted, mostly. In the second trial, [[spoiler:Alani kills to try and sacrifice the 28 other Apprentices for the billions of people doomed in her home universe]]. Most of the characters take this ''very'' seriously, even if it is a faceless mass of too many strangers compared to a small amount of people they know.

* MistakenFromBehind: Watanuki first sees Chiyuki from the back and thinks she's his boss, Yuuko. [[spoiler:Kyrie also confuses Hilda for Chiyuki and vice versa the first time she sees either in deadland.]]

* MurderTropes
** '''Executions:''' CastingAShadow, EatenAlive
** '''Victim 1:''' ChokeHolds
** '''Victim 2:''' DarknessEqualsDeath, NoHoldsBarredBeatdown
** '''Retaliation 1:''' HumanPincushion
** '''Victim 3:''' LiterallyShatteredLives
** '''Retaliation 2:''' InTheBack, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
** '''Retaliation 3-A/3-B:''' OneHitKill
** '''Victim 4:''' TapOnTheHead, KillItWithFire
** '''Victim 5-A:''' StaircaseTumble
** '''Victim 5-B:''' InstrumentOfMurder
** '''Victim 6-A:''' TamperingWithFoodAndDrink
** '''Victim 6-B:''' OffWithHisHead
** '''Victim 7:''' DuelToTheDeath
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: The second culprit's motive, and also the seventh's, which the Wordsmith calls practical.

** '''Round 1:''' A shadow monster is employed to do the mastermind's dirty work, though it seems not to be the same one. [[spoiler:An AlternateSelf of the first round's mastermind]] is in the cast list.
** '''Round 2:''' Kimbley and Silver appear. Odd inconsistencies start to show up in the setting, such as nothing being weathered or worn down, as if a ResetButton were pushed. [[spoiler:The chalkboard contacts the deadland NPC, who mentions Round 2 backstory characters.]]
** '''Round 3:''' Executions are all carried out the same way, and are not what they initially appear to be. [[spoiler:Something has happened so that the dead seem to be no more dead than the living, just separated from them.]]
* NothingPersonal: The first three culprits chose their victims without having any particular grudge. [[spoiler:Kyrie targeted Adelina because her name was first on the profiles, Alani went after Christo because it would be easy to kill a stranger as opposed to a friend, and Kira had wanted to murder Lusamine, but Chiyuki was more convenient and he was running out of time.]]

* OfficialCouple: Mikazuki confesses his feelings for Killia and Estelle likes both of them, Hanyuu and Elda become an item, Lusamine and Gangrel fall for one another after hating each other for weeks, and Watanuki and Orihime get together too, with Silver/Gold ShipTease on top of it. Finally, [[spoiler:Alani and Vanille get together when they're both dead.]]
* OhCrap: Kira tries to suppress his emotions, but has this reaction in week one when Watanuki theorizes that the game is a test for them, later when he discovers a key item from his canon is in the prize machine (before he realizes that it's a fake; it's a CameoProp from the common drops), and again at the secrets motive.
** A number of Apprentices voice this when [[spoiler:Mercy dies and they're left without their coroner.]]

* OneLastSmoke: Like in Round 1's finale, [[spoiler:most of the dead are on Team Kill even as the living are converted one by one to Team Spare]]. Some of them greet what they see as inevitable doom by breaking out the alcohol.

* PassThePopcorn: [[spoiler:When the dead spectate the final trial, some of them start calmly drinking tea.]]
* PhoneCallFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The dead start to send letters to the living mid-way through the game.]]

* PoisonIsCorrosive: Gold calls Kageshirou "a Poison-type" when he's trying to compare it to a Pokémon, and as Estelle discovers, trying to pet it makes it eat away at her glove.
* PoolScene: Chronos U has a pool, so there are a lot of these.
* PrecisionFStrike: Alani when [[spoiler:Chiyuki tells her how her canon's reincarnation-or-Void system differs from Alani's religion's "everyone reincarnates" view.]]

* PunchAWall: Killia at the first incentive.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Kimbley, though he kind of deserved it]]. Tossed into a pool to drown, broken ribs, set on fire, hit in the head -- it's enough that it was difficult to determine which part killed him.

* RetGone: The Week 2 incentive offers to do this to a successful culprit's enemy back in their world.

* RedOniBlueOni: Killia and Christo. Watanuki, naturally, calls them that by name.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Kimbley's room, full of formulae, rambling, and [[TrashOfTheTitans an epic mess]] along with [[spoiler:a plot to kill them all]]. It's described as this in as many words.

* ShoutOut: In ''Roleplay/DanganRoleplayRoundThree'', "cheating on your taxes" became a euphemism for entrapment with questions that [[XanatosGambit get you an answer no matter what]], a useful skill to have in a trial. Nick's BigSecret in the secrets motive is ''literally'' that he's been cheating on his taxes. Likely coincidental as that's an actual plot point in his canon, but still amusing.
** When calling [[spoiler:Killidia]] an emo edgelord, Guzma compares him to the main character of ''Fanfic/MyImmortal.''

* SpotTheImposter: [[spoiler:Kyrie impersonates Addie when writing a letter to put a more trusted name to her theories.]]
* SoHappyTogether: We knew something awful was bound to happen when Kimbley offered to listen to Kira and started to make people ship it, if only because [[UnholyMatrimony just look at them]]. [[spoiler:Indeed, it's immediately followed by Kira's betrayal.]]

* StealthPun: Case 2 involves tea brewed in a beaker in the chem lab. [[spoiler:Chemis-tea.]]
** The Roman numeral for 5 is, of course, V. [[spoiler:Varric and Viktor are the victims in Case 5.]]
* StuffBlowingUp: [[spoiler:Judy and Nick try to blow open an escape route and are killed for it.]] This is also Kimbley's and Kira's shared hobby and nerfed [[HavingABlast power]].
* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:In the end, Angra Mainyu as Hilda offers to either leave the dead as they are or sacrifice the living for them. The survivor pool remembers the life gummies, though, and revives their friends with those instead.]]

* ThisIsUnforgivable: The Wordsmith passes this judgement upon ''himself'' [[spoiler:and his own "flawed existence."]]

* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:The round appears to be one big time travel experiment using resources from [[GreaterScopeVillain the virtual murdergame corporation]] behind Round 2. Even the dead speculate that dying just sent them to some other time, though it's not clear if that's the case.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Mikazuki and Killia. Estelle is heartbroken that they left her behind and starts to think they really just only wanted each other.]]

* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:Alani's flower. She gives it to Vanille before dying, and Vanille keeps it for most of the game. The flower goes to Hanyuu when Vanille dies.]]

* TwoDunIt: [[spoiler:Silver and Gold killed Kimbley together, but it turns out that Gold hit the killing blow and thus is the only one credited and the only one executed.]]
* UptightLovesWild: Lusamine/Gangrel, not that either admits it for some time.

* WhamEpisode: After treating the shadow like Round 1's did ''not'' work and it no-sells [[spoiler:Pride]]'s weaknesses, [[spoiler:treating the chalkboard like Round 2's whiteboard ''does'' work. Furthermore, the deadland NPC knew the dead from the exercise Hilda ran, and the dead quickly send letters talking about TimeTravel experiments.]]
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: [[spoiler:Thinking back on her own victims, Noir tells Gold that his name is at least better than "[[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Natural]]." Poor N becomes the benchmark for silly names from that point on.]]

* WoundedGazelleGambit: In the first case, [[spoiler:Kyrie lures Adelina out by making a tomato juice "blood" mess and pretending to be wounded, then kills her]].
* WrongNameOutburst: When Hanyuu is distressed about Alani [[spoiler:killing Christo to try and save her people]], she accidentally calls her "Ouka."

* YouAreNotAlone: Phi tells Alani this [[spoiler:as the latter is about to be executed]].
* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: No one wants to explain to Chiyuki what the intended purpose of extremely realistic, anatomically correct life-size dolls tends to be.

* BrokenStreak: [[spoiler:Neither mod character is killed in the first case]], a first for the ''Trustfell'' universe. As well, [[spoiler:the vampire in the cast makes survivor pool instead of being a culprit, and the mastermind is played by a third party.]]

* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: No one wants to explain to Chiyuki what the intended purpose of extremely realistic, anatomically correct life-size dolls tends to be.

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-->"Knowing without understanding is pointless."
-->[[spoiler:Angra Mainyu/Avenger/Kageshirou (possessing Noir/Hilda)]]

* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: No one wants to explain to Chiyuki what the intended purpose of extremely realistic, anatomically correct life-size dolls tends to be.

* BadFuture: [[spoiler:A good way through the game, a theory comes up that either the dead or everyone is in one.]] It remains to be seen, but is currently lumped in with the crack theories.

* BrokenStreak: [[spoiler:Neither mod character is killed in the first case]], a first for the ''Trustfell'' universe.

* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Averted in case four, where one of the running theories was badly done CPR breaking the victim's ribs.

* EatTheEvidence: Variation. Gold has to be warned not to lick evidence when he's about to do just that to figure out what it is.

* FacialCompositeFailure: While not a regain, Gold spends an entire day in Week 3 drawing wanted posters of Silver, gleefully putting them up.

* FlowerMotifs: The seventh case uses floriography to show that the victim was killed by a close friend.

* MistakenFromBehind: Watanuki first sees Chiyuki from the back and thinks she's his boss, Yuuko.

* OfficialCouple: Mikazuki confesses his feelings for Killia and Estelle likes both of them, Hanyuu and Elda become an item, Lusamine and Gangrel fall for one another after hating each other for weeks, and Watanuki and Orihime get together too, with Silver/Gold ShipTease on top of it.

* WhamEpisode: After treating the shadow like Round 1's did ''not'' work and it no-sells [[spoiler:Pride]]'s weaknesses, [[spoiler:treating the chalkboard like Round 2's whiteboard ''does'' work. Furthermore, the deadland NPC knew the dead from the exercise Hilda ran, and the dead quickly send letters talking about TimeTravel.]]

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: A few characters say this when Chiyuki says that her secret is that she's not a good person. A ''bunch'' of people later say it to Watanuki after he says he's not good enough for Orihime.

* BadFuture: [[spoiler:A good way through the game, the dead reveal that deadland appears to actually be one of these.]]

* PhoneCallFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The dead start to send letters to the living, saying they're stuck in a BadFuture.]]

* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:The round appears to be one big time travel experiment using resources from [[GreaterScopeVillain the virtual murdergame corporation]] behind Round 2. Even the dead speculate that dying just sent them to a BadFuture.]]

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Mikazuki gives one to Killia]] as the latter is about to be executed.

* DeclarationOfProtection: Killia made one in the past and failed.

* HeroicBSOD: Remembering that [[spoiler:she's not the real Maxwell and that he just created her to be TheBait]] sends Milla into a depressed state for a week. Thankfully, she bounces back after getting her next memory.

* HurricaneOfPuns: When Alani tells Gangrel she usually has the power to control water, the two of them start making ocean puns. Later, Lusamine and Gangrel do the same [[spoiler:with hand puns after Kira's executed]] and they call a truce.

* LuredIntoATrap: So far, a trend is building of characters going to investigate something that's set up to allow someone to kill them.

* NothingPersonal: The first three culprits have chosen their victims without having any particular grudge. [[spoiler:Kyrie targeted Adelina because her name was first on the profiles, Alani went after Christo because it would be easy to kill a stranger as opposed to a friend, and Kira had wanted to murder Lusamine, but Chiyuki was more convenient and he was running out of time.]]

* EmoTeen: Watanuki half-jokingly suggests that the Wordsmith is really one of these and the kidnapping is his cry for attention. Guzma later imagines Noir as this.

* MistakenForRomance: Watanuki thinks Silver and Gold are together.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: A few characters say this when Chiyuki says that her secret is that she's not a good person.

* TwoDunIt: [[spoiler:Silver presents Kimbley's death as this, but it turns out that Gold hit the killing blow and thus is the only one credited.]]

* EmoTeen: Watanuki half-jokingly suggests that the Wordsmith is really one of these and the kidnapping is his cry for attention.

** '''Round 1:''' A shadow monster is employed to do the mastermind's dirty work, though it seems not to be the same one. An AlternateSelf of [[spoiler:the first round's mastermind]] is in the cast list.
** '''Round 2:''' Kimbley and Silver appear. Odd inconsistencies start to show up in the setting, such as nothing being weathered or worn down, as if a ResetButton were pushed.
** '''Round 3:''' Executions are all carried out the same way, and are not what they initially appear to be.

** '''Retaliation 3/4:''' OneHitKill

* NostalgiaLevel: The entire round is a return to the murdergame genre's school setting. The hardwood decor also calls back to the aesthetic of the first round, which was also set in a school. Even the executions are carried out by a shadow monster, though it's unclear if it's the same one from Round 1 given that the series' chronology bounces around.

* SayMyName: A few characters at the second retaliation call out the victim's name, particularly [[NotSoStoic Lusamine]], who'd gone to meer her only to find her dead.