History TearJerker / DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc

* Everything about Mukuro, starting with the fact that she followed Junko thinking that she understood her and having the hopes or receiving a "I love you, sister", only to be betrayed by her and killed in the game. She also has to deal with the fact that her first and only friends will be killed by each other and that no one will remember her. To add salt to the wound, considering the events of ''Danganronpa IF'' and ''Danganronpa Zero'', being treated as someone dangerous by the students. There were also implications that she developed a crush on Makoto, who was the kindest to her.

[[folder:''Danganronpa IF'']]

* It may be a source of {{Squick}} for some people, but Hifumi's reason for [[CargoShip falling in love with Alter Ego]] could be seen as this--he started communicating with them about his doujin writing hobby and other interests and, whereas most people ([[MommasBoy besides his mother]]) would've just ignored or been annoyed with him, Alter Ego responded with interest and even a desire to learn more. When Hifumi is told that this is merely because Alter Ego's a learning AI and thus is programmed to seek information, Hifumi ''doesn't even care'' and still wants to be with "her" because [[FriendlessBackground no one else has ever paid him this much attention before]]. It kind of implies that underneath that nerdy and mildly creepy exterior is an extremely lonely boy.

** Third, the game then tries to make you think this was the best move. You get a happy photograph of a more grown-up Makoto, Byakuya, Yasuhiro, and Aoi, with a photo of a dead Toko suggesting that Toko has somehow died in the interim. Makoto's narration suggested they lived in eternal peace and bliss inside the schools, with no murders taking place. Why is that a tear jerker, you ask? Because for one thing, while there aren't any more murders, they're all living in a gilded cage, wasting their potential and dreams. For another thing, Aoi is holding ''babies'' -- which, since Toko's dead for some unexplained reason, means Aoi is the only one who could've given birth to them -- unless one of them ''is'' Toko's either fell victim to DeathByChildbirth or died soon afterwards. ([[AlternativeeCharacterInterpretation Though it could also mean]] that Aoi's got a "reverse harem" of sorts with Makoto, Byakuya and Yasuhiro, thus at least trying to make the best out of her situation. '''Hopefully'''.)

** A particularly heartbreaking point in his brokenness is when you find him in a room with a huge machine. When Makoto muses about what it is, Monokuma shows up and declares that it's a time machine. Kiyotaka rouses himself out of his funk to ''beg'' Monokuma to use it so the consequences of the last chapter could be undone, and Monokuma laughs and reveals that he was only lying and that it's really an air purifier. He leaves Kiyotaka [[UpToEleven even more broken]] than before, and Makoto comments on how awful Monokuma really is.

** Aoi's desperate pleading for Hifumi to wake up, followed by her crying for him to tell them who killed him. Despite his...unique personality, she still cared about him.

-->'''Hina:''' I'm so sorry, Kuwata-kun.

** In the former's case, she was humiliated by a boy who was set up on a date with her as a 'punishment' from his friends. Toko eventually uses her skills to write a semi autobiographical novel, which Makoto describes as 'harrowing' and gives no further detail.

** Similarly to Seto Kaiba of ''Franchise/YuGiOh'', he went through a harsh upbringing to get where he is, and subsequently sacrificed a great number of things.

!!Chapter 3:
* Aoi at the start of the chapter, crying into the night and unable to sleep. It's such a private moment seeing her convincing herself to weather the nightmare she's found herself in, lest she do something she'll regret. This is perhaps the only scene of this nature in the whole game, and it makes one wonder how many of the other students cried to themselves in the safety of their own soundproof rooms. Their tremendous confidence as Ultimates makes it easy to forget that they're just teenagers.

* Makoto nearly going into a HeroicBSOD after the first murder. Perfectly understandable, given that [[DecoyProtagonist Sayaka]] was killed in his shower, and almost everyone's pulling TheCorpseStopsHere on him. To say nothing of the fact that they became relatively close in such a short amount of time up to that point.
** Makoto struggling to not cry or throw up when he sees Sayaka's body again during the investigation.
** And it only gets worse when it comes out during the trial that she was setting him up.
** Let's not forget when Kyoko speculates that, while Sayaka ''did'' set him up, she may have had second thoughts about it and ''that'' is why she left her DyingClue.
** There's another one after the first murder, surprisingly going with Heartwarming. Kyoko told him to move on if he wants to survive. Makoto refused, he'll survive while not moving on the deaths of both Sayaka and Leon. Yes, despite what Sayaka did, despite condemning Leon to an undignified death, Makoto is still horrified at what happened to them and will keep them in his heart as friends.
** Finally, there's Makoto's depressed state at the very beginning of Chapter 2, following the events of the first trial. He responds to ''everything'' with a sad "..." before going into the shower room and seeing that Sayaka's body isn't there anymore.

* In Chapter 3:
** Aoi at the start of the chapter, crying into the night and unable to sleep. It's such a private moment seeing her convincing herself to weather the nightmare she's found herself in, lest she do something she'll regret. This is perhaps the only scene of this nature in the whole game, and it makes one wonder how many of the other students cried to themselves in the safety of their own soundproof rooms. Their tremendous confidence as Ultimates makes it easy to forget that they're just teenagers.
** When the students are reminded that ThisIsReality as Aoi's tears [[SwissArmyTears seem to revive Hifumi]]... only for him to breathe his last moments afterward. AlasPoorScrappy, indeed. What's more, the blow to the head jolted his brain enough to restore some of his memories of their previous time at the school... and one of them, apparently, was Celeste's real name, which probably means she once trusted him enough to let him know it.
*** What's worse, it's implied that since his memories were restored even slightly that he remembered who the rest of the class ''[[TrueCompanions were]]'' to him and gave them his DyingClue [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone to atone for planning to sacrifice the people he held most dear.]]
*** Aoi's desperate pleading for Hifumi to wake up, followed by her crying for him to tell them who killed him. Despite his...unique personality, she still cared about him.
* Chapter 4 has the reveal that Sakura committed suicide. Aoi tries to take the blame and goes into a MotiveRant about how the other students drove Sakura to that point, so a guilty verdict would mean that the "real" culprits are punished - and Aoi can die with her. It's heartbreaking.

* In Chapter 5:
** The bad ending is a Tear Jerker for multiple reasons.
*** First of all, you get the bad ending just by doing what you've been doing this whole time: revealing a lie, this time by Kyoko, and pointing it out in court. A WrongGenreSavvy player could easily choose "Reveal the lie", so having it turn out to be the wrong choice is a nasty shock.
*** Second, the execution itself is a tear jerker: poor Kyoko is slowly moved on a conveyor belt to be crushed to death by a huge block. But before the crushing happens, you first see Kyoko's shoulders heaving slightly and her face turn blue with fear: [[BreakTheHaughty Kyoko's stoicism has finally been broken, just before she dies]].
*** Third, the game then tries to make you think this was the best move. You get a happy photograph of a more grown-up Makoto, Byakuya, Yasuhiro, and Aoi, with a photo of a dead Toko suggesting that Toko has somehow died in the interim. Makoto's narration suggested they lived in eternal peace and bliss inside the schools, with no murders taking place. Why is that a tear jerker, you ask? Because for one thing, while there aren't any more murders, they're all living in a gilded cage, wasting their potential and dreams. For another thing, Aoi is holding ''babies'' -- which, since Toko's dead for some unexplained reason, means Aoi is the only one who could've given birth to them -- unless one of them ''is'' Toko's either fell victim to DeathByChildbirth or died soon afterwards. ([[AlternativeeCharacterInterpretation Though it could also mean]] that Aoi's got a "reverse harem" of sorts with Makoto, Byakuya and Yasuhiro, thus at least trying to make the best out of her situation. '''Hopefully'''.)
** After Makoto is about to be executed after the fifth trial, Kyoko says she doesn't expect him to forgive her and knows [[ItsAllMyFault it's her fault]]. The mastermind had set up this entire situation just to kill her and in order to beat them, no matter how much she didn't want to, she felt she had no choice but to sacrifice the guy who'd been her closest ally. The guy who'd trusted her and even called her a friend. Who knows how badly the guilt would've affected her if Makoto hadn't been saved.
*** There's also something sad about Makoto's demeanor during the "After School Lesson" execution--it plays out identically to the above mentioned Bad Ending, but unlike Kyoko, Makoto ''rapidly'' starts to lose his composure; as much as he tries to keep himself calm, and mostly succeeds, you can tell from his expressions and body language that he is ''terrified'', especially when he's nearly under the crusher and screws his eyes shut tight, sweating bullets and bracing for the end. [[BigDamnHeroes Thank god Alter Ego shows up to save him.]]

* Everything about Mukuro Ikusaba, starting with the fact that she followed Junko thinking that she understood her and having the hopes or receiving a "I love you, sister", only to be betrayed by her and killed in the game. She also has to deal with the fact that her first and only friends will be killed by each other and that no one will remember her. To add salt to the wound, considering the events of ''Danganronpa IF'' and ''Danganronpa Zero'', being treated as someone dangerous by the students. There were also implications that she developed a crush on Makoto, who was the kindest to her.
** Mukuro's last words when she's impaled by the Spears of Gungnir are "H-Huh? This wasn't...supposed to... Why...me...?" with a BrokenSmile on her face. After TheReveal, [[EtTuBrute the level of pure betrayal Mukuro must've felt]] hits ''very'' hard.

* Completing all of Sakura's free time events reveals that the person she could never defeat is her boyfriend, who ceded the title of strongest person to her when he became terminally ill. The last time she saw him, doctors had given him only six months to live, and while he was fighting, between two years actually having passed and the Worst, Most Despair-Inducing Incident in the World taking place, there's a high chance that he's dead by the time she commits suicide.
** According to ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'', he ''isn't''... which means there's a good chance he witnessed her death on the broadcast.
*** The good news is, there's also a good chance he didn't witness her death as it happened, since it's heavily implied that the Captives were kept ignorant as to the Mutual Killing Game. What brings it back around to tearjerker territory is the fact that he therefore may well have spent all that time believing Sakura to be alive somewhere, and considering what he would have had to manage to survive to the end of Absolute Despair Girls, only to find he's actually outlived her...
* Some of the other free times, particularly Toko and Mukuro Ikusaba disguised as Junko. In the former's case, she was humiliated by a boy who was set up on a date with her as a 'punishment' from his friends, and in the latter's case, she spends a lot of time slipping out of character and revealing her interest in Makoto. Toko eventually uses her skills to write a semi autobiographical novel, which Makoto describes as 'harrowing' and gives no further detail. Same goes for Byakuya's free time events - similar to Seto Kaiba of Yu-Gi-Oh!, he went through a harsh upbringing to get where he is, and subsequently sacrificed a great number of things.
** One of the best dialogue options for Byakuya in School Mode is reminiscing about being a kid buying things from capsule machines like the one in the school store. He demands that Makoto show him how it works.

** Also, Kiyotaka, after finally befriending Mondo, is so utterly convinced that you're accusing the wrong person that the Bullet Time Talk segment of the trial isn't against Mondo, but against ''him''.

'''''Main installments:''''' ''TearJerker/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' | ''TearJerker/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' | ''TearJerker/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'' | ''TearJerker/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''\\

** Also, Kiyotaka, after finally befriending Mondo, is so utterly convinced that you're accusing the wrong person that the Machine Gun Talk segment of the trial isn't against Mondo, but against ''him''.

** What's more, as the number of living characters gets smaller, the portion of the school you can explore gets bigger. In the beginning of the game the dorm and first floor are filled with students, and in the last chapters you need to walk through empty hall after empty hall until you finally come across someone else.

* In Chapter 3, when the students are reminded that ThisIsReality as Aoi's tears [[SwissArmyTears seem to revive Hifumi]]... only for him to breathe his last moments afterward. AlasPoorScrappy, indeed. What's more, the blow to the head jolted his brain enough to restore some of his memories of their previous time at the school... and one of them, apparently, was Celeste's real name, which probably means she once trusted him enough to let him know it.
** What's worse, it's implied that since his memories were restored even slightly that he remembered who the rest of the class ''[[TrueCompanions were]]'' to him and gave them his DyingClue [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone to atone for planning to sacrifice the people he held most dear.]]
** Aoi's desperate pleading for Hifumi to wake up, followed by her crying for him to tell them who killed him. Despite his...unique personality, she still cared about him.
* The DwindlingParty gets driven home in so many ways. The elevator ride sequences, for instance, and the memorial pictures set up on each stand...
** What's more, as the number of living characters gets smaller, the portion of the school you can explore gets bigger. In the beginning of the game the dorm and first floor are filled with students, and in the last chapters you need to walk through empty hall after empty hall until you finally come across someone else.

** According to ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'', he ''isn't''....which means there's a good chance he witnessed her death on the broadcast.
*** The good news is, there's also a good chance he didn't witness her death as it happened since it's heavily implied that the Captives were kept ignorant as to the Mutual Killing Game. What brings it back around to tearjerker territory is the fact that he therefore may well have spent all that time believing Sakura to be alive somewhere, and considering what he would have had to manage to survive to the end of Absolute Despair Girls, only to find he's actually outlived her...

* Chapter 5's bad ending. It's a Tear Jerker for multiple reasons, too. First of all, you get the bad ending just by doing what you've been doing this whole time: revealing a lie, this time by Kyoko, and pointing it out in court. A WrongGenreSavvy player could easily choose "Reveal the lie", so having it turn out to be the wrong choice is a nasty shock. Second, the execution itself is a tear jerker: poor Kyoko is slowly moved on a conveyor belt to be crushed to death by a huge block. But before the crushing happens, you first see Kyoko's shoulders heaving slightly and her face turn blue with fear: [[BreakTheHaughty Kyoko's stoicism has finally been broken, just before she dies.]] Third, the game then tries to make you think this was the best move. You get a happy photograph of a more grown-up Makoto, Byakuya, Yasuhiro, and Aoi, with a photo of a dead Toko suggesting that Toko has somehow died in the interim. Makoto's narration suggested they lived in eternal peace and bliss inside the schools, with no murders taking place. Why is that a tear jerker, you ask? Because for one thing, while there aren't any more murders, they're all living in a gilded cage, wasting their potential and dreams. For another thing, Aoi is holding ''babies'' -- which, since Toko's dead for some unexplained reason, means Aoi is the only one who could've given birth to them -- unless one of them ''is'' Toko's either fell victim to DeathByChildbirth or died soon afterwards. (Though it could [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation also mean that Aoi's got a "reverse harem" of sorts with Makoto, Byakuya and Yasuhiro, thus at least trying to make the best out of her situation.]] '''Hopefully'''.)

** All the worse by how close they all seemed to be. Just based on Junko's intel, the secrets this group was willing to share with one another include Toko's SplitPersonality, Chihiro's [[UnsettlingGenderReveal gender]], Mondo's [[MyGreatestFailure dead brother]], Celeste's [[BecomingTheMask real name]], Kyoko's [[ScarsAreForever burn scars]] and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Makoto's bed-wetting problem]]. Even more telling is the mysterious photographs, and the extraordinary contrast of personalities seen within. First we have [[ShrinkingViolet Chihiro]] laughing along and horsing around with Leon, when the Chihiro we've come to know would've more likely been terrified in such a situation. Meanwhile Mondo, who we usually see crafting an aura of aggressiveness instead has a goofy grin plastered across his face as he plays right along with them. In the second photo we see the servile ButtMonkey Hifumi instead having the guts to mess with Celestia in some way involving his signature Princess Piggles camera, while she's sporting a very girlish blush instead of the venomous rage we would expect from her upon suffering some kind of indignity. Meanwhile Sayaka is in the background laughing as if this is normal for them. One can only imagine how hard it must have hit the six survivors to [[ExpositionBeam have regained their memories]] in [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair the second game]]: to truly realize the enormity of the relationships they've all lost.
*** The timeline as established in ''Danganronpa 3'' only makes it worse. Those pictures all come from their first year as students at Hope's Peak, and they spent another full year locked in after the Tragedy began. They spent a year bonding even more, including with Junko and Mukuro.

** Mukuro's last words when she's impaled by the Spears of Gungnir are "H-Huh? This wasn't...supposed to... Why...me...?" with a BrokenSmile on her face. After TheReveal, the level of pure betrayal Mukuro must've felt hits ''very'' hard.
* Aoi at the start of chapter 3, crying into the night and unable to sleep. It's such a private moment seeing her convincing herself to weather the nightmare she's found herself in, lest she do something she'll regret. This is perhaps the only scene of this nature in the whole game, and it makes one wonder how many of the other students cried to themselves in the safety of their own soundproof rooms. Their tremendous confidence as Ultimates makes it easy to forget that they're just teenagers.
* If Celestia and Yamada were once close enough that she was willing to tell him her real name, his final moments become that much more tragic. Yamada, who remembers that the outside world is a hellscape, remembers agreeing to Headmaster Kirigiri's conditions and remembers the safe haven being hijacked by Despair is now being asked for his killer's name. Because she's chosen the path of despair in her fatal ignorance, Celestia now has to be sacrificed to preserve what hope is left, because the alternative is sending her out into a world where her money can't be spent, her castle will never be built, and all she'll have to show for it is a the blood of 8 people on her hands. In a way his choice to use her real name just highlights that in spite of what she did, he still remembers her as Taeko his friend over Celestia his killer.
** That adds a bit of FridgeHorror to this; Yamada's head injury was what got him to remember. That implies that extreme pain is enough to end the memory wipes right away...meaning that many of the executed could be living their last moments realizing they had just killed their dear friends and being forced to be killed in gruesome fashions.
* After Makoto is about to be executed after the fifth trial, Kyoko says she doesn't expect him to forgive her and knows [[ItsAllMyFault it's her fault]]. The mastermind had set up this entire situation just to kill her and in order to beat them, no matter how much she didn't want to, she felt she had no choice but to sacrifice the guy who'd been her closest ally. The guy who'd trusted her and even called her a friend. Who knows how badly the guilt would've affected her if Makoto hadn't been saved.
* There's something sad about Makoto's demeanor during the After School Lesson execution--it plays out identically to the above mentioned Bad Ending, but unlike Kyoko, Makoto ''rapidly'' starts to lose his composure; as much as he tries to keep himself calm, and mostly succeeds, you can tell from his expressions and body language that he is ''terrified'', especially when he's nearly under the crusher and screws his eyes shut tight, sweating bullets and bracing for the end. [[BigDamnHeroes Thank god Alter Ego shows up to save him.]]

* Just as Chihiro and Mondo's [[BenevolentAI posthumous]] [[FusionDance attempts]] to help their classmates are awesome and heartwarming moments, the deaths of Alter Ego and Kiyondo are tear jerkers. In a way, it feels like we end up watching Chihiro and Mondo die ''twice''. Though fortunately, Alter Ego turns out to be NotQuiteDead.

[[folder:Otjer]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5LCtGs-ZsI "What if Danganronpa Victims were able to react to their killer's execution?"]], which is exactly what it says on the tin--each victim reacting to their killer's execution and understandably not being happy about it.
** Sayaka reacts to the 1,000 Blows about as well as you'd expect--namely, by looking utterly horrified as Leon is bludgeoned to death in front of her. At the end, all she can ask is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone "Why was I so reckless?"]]
** Chihiro has already forgiven Mondo by the time he witnesses the Cage of Death and as he watches Mondo spinning, he pleads with him to survive for everyone. When he sees the empty motorcycle, he looks utterly ''devastated'' and can only choke out a FlatWhat when he sees the [[{{Squick}} Mondo Butter]].
** Kiyotaka and Hifumi are both initially relieved at the Burning of the Versailles Witch, Hifumi angrily declaring that Celeste is getting what she deserves and how he hopes she "burns in the fires of Hell". [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He swiftly comes to regret that wording]] and both he and Kiyotaka are stunned into horrified silence when Monokuma rams into Celeste with the fire truck instead--showing that no matter how angry they are at her, they don't believe she deserved that.
** Sakura tries to remain stoic during Excavator Destroyer, but she can barely contain her rage when Alter Ego is hit with the first blow, lamenting the fact that she can't protect them. She then tries to take comfort in the fact that none of her friends are being executed, but even then, she goes back into rage mode, cursing Monokuma and his despair.
** Mukuro reacts to After School Lesson with anger that Junko is mocking Makoto just before trying to crush him, and is thus relieved when Alter Ego saves him...albeit also concerned at the fact that he's sent falling. Next, however, she is understandably upset at Junko when the Ultimate Punishment occurs--first angrily demanding that her sister stop, then losing steam and just pleading for her to stop and finally resigning herself to the realization that Junko's obsession with despair [[BeyondRedemption puts her past any chance of redemption]].
-->'''Mukuro:''' So...there might be no hope for you...

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