History YMMV / ANewHopeDanganronpa

* HolyShitQuotient: ''Kuma-Kuma Land'' ''begins'' with [[spoiler: eighty innocent people dying in a murderous roller coaster ride. And that's just getting to the park itself.]]

** Rika Nyan Nyan[[labelnote:Explanation]] A nickname for the Ultimate Neko, Riku Ito, that originated as a joke on the Discord, which then not only became canon, but recieved fanart of said character dressed in a pink outfit, which also became canon. The name has become synonymous with Riku's creator, Birbddha as well.[[/labelnote]]

** The Ultimate Buttmonkey[[labelnote:Explanation]]One of the writers and fans of the series, Birbbdha, has become notable due to 3 of his 4 currently canon characters (Axel, Riku and Takeo) displaying Buttmonkey tendencies. It's become somewhat of a joke on the Discord that every character he makes will become a Buttmonkey. Has since died down with Birbbdha, but has grown with user Trust Me, due to much mockery regarding the lewdness of his OCs.

** Adohira Akazukin [[spoiler: actual name is Adohira Sasamori]}: While he started as a meme thanks to the doll Akazukin(and the subsequent calling him 'Dollfucker'), he has since grown in popularity thanks to his snarky and sarcastic personality that has won many fans over.

** The Ultimate Buttmonkey[[labelnote:Explanation]]One of the writers and fans of the series, Birbbdha, has become notable due to 3 of his 4 currently canon characters (Axel, Riku and Takeo) displaying Buttmonkey tendencies. It's become somewhat of a joke on the Discord that every character he makes will become a Buttmonkey.

*** [[spoiler: Sayaka Maizono, and her constant appearances. Sayaka has appeared in no less than five stories(A New Hope, Final Horizon, Isle of the Damned, Terror in the Skies, and the soon-to-begin Prisons of the Past. This has caused debate on whether or not she's being featured far too much in the series.]]

** Jacen Dawn[[labelnote:Explanation]] A hilariously bad submission for Central City of Despair. Known to be completely obsesed with Mikan[[/labelnote]]

*** [[spoiler: As is the decision to kill off Sayaka, ''again''[[labelnote:*]]though the possibility is still open to having her ghost appear again[[/labelnote]].]]

* UnexpectedCharacter: It was less than expected to suddenly cut to [[VideoGame/AbsoluteDespairGirls Komaru and Yuta]] being held hostage in chapter 67.

** what if Patrick sexed Otto?[[labelnote:Explanation]]Literally the random thoughts of someone on the discord.[[/labelnote]]

** [[spoiler: Soshun Murasame is alive and a member of Ultimate Despair (as well as the rest of the Student Council), as is Yasuke Matsuda, who was horrendously scarred by Junko instead of killed by her[[labelnote:*]]technically, the truth proves more complicated[[/labelnote]].]]

** Rika Nyan Nyan

** Jacen Dawn[[labelnote:Explanation]] Originally a troll submission for Central Cities of Despair. Known to be completely obsesed with Mikan[[/labelnote]]
** Dylan Yeetheiser[[labelnote:Explanation]]Dylan Rufheiser, the Ultimate Diplomat/Psychopath stated this phrase in a chatfic, which consisted of class 80-A and 80-B[[/labelnote]]

* ArchivePanic: The Legacy of Despair currently has 6 main series stories. With at least 3 more in development. On top of that, the first story is 113 chapters and over 740k words! Making it quite the journey to get caught up fully on the AU.

* AlasPoorScrappy: [[spoiler: Zigzagged with Tsumugi. While no one will miss her, they take no pleasure in her death. Then of course a flashback chapter reveals she was once a plain normal girl who was corrupted to Despair by Junko.]]

*** [[spoiler: As is the decision to kill off Sayaka, ''again''[[labelnote:*]]though the possibility is still open to have her ghost appear again[[/labelnote]].]]

** [[spoiler: [[KidsAreCruel Dylan Rufheiser]], the Ultimate Psychopath, arguably [[EvilerThanThou manages to take Ringo's crown]] after he reveals his true colors beneath his MaskOfSanity. He is a StrawAtheist who doesn't care about what others believe and [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead sees no value in the dead]], and is also an AxCrazy killer who sees murder as orgasmic. He [[KillTheCutie murdered Mallory in cold blood]] [[ItAmusedMe for his own amusement]] and was the one who murdered Miyaki in the first case, while framing Rene in his place and causing his execution. Once he removes his facade of innocence, Dylan deliberately antagonized the others to make them hate him, causing them to want to kill him to end the madness. Before his eventual demise, he murdered most of the animals in the ranch and fed the remaining animals the corpses of the dead students [[DesceratingTheDead which he descerated]]. If you thought the some of the other villainous students ([[ManipulativeBastard Tsumugi]], [[SerialKiller Korekiyo]], [[PsychoForHire Ringo]] and [[AGodAmI Jana]]) were bad, [[{{Sadist}} Dylan]] is undoubtedly worse than all of them combined.]]

** [[spoiler: Yukiko Fukunaga, the Ultimate Sociopath, is [[EvilerThanThou the one holding Dylan's leash]]. Acting for no reason other than to (as an ArtificialHuman with nothing from before the game) 'leave a legacy', she poisons Mikhail after directing Dylan to kill Miyaki, set Amare up to kill someone, directed Dylan to destroy the memorial to demoralize everyone (the murder was unintentional), and orchestrated the events of the fourth and fifth cases, even putting down her attack dog with a rigged trap without his knowledge. She happily reveals all of this to the others, before enacting a bonus that only gives her a 5% chance of being executed. And thru it all she seems utterly unconcerned with anything except not being caught early.]]

** [[spoiler: Yukiko crosses it without anyone knowing, and kept crossing further and further. Poisoning Mikhail while framing Rene, setting Amare up to kill, masterminding no less than four deaths across two cases, it's a toss-up really.]]

* TheUntwist: [[spoiler: In the second case of ''Final Horizon'', most people expected Nico to die, since her guessing skills are too useful. Many reviewvers also figured out that Rei was the culprit (the submitter of Nico even joked About Rei it before it happened.) However, most of them didn't expect Raef to die early on. Still, most People also figured out that Rei was the culprit]]

** [[spoiler: Yukiko Fukunaga, the Ultimate Sociopath, is [[EvilerThanThou the one holding Dylan's leash]]. Acting for no reason other than to (as an ArtificialHuman with nothing from before the game) 'leave a legacy', she poisons Mikhail after directing Dylan to kill Miyaki, set Amare up to kill someone, directed Dylan to destroy the memorial to demoralize everyone (the murder was unintentional), and orchestrated the events of the fourth and fifth cases, even putting down her attack dog with a rigged trap without his knowledge. She happily reveals all of this to the others, before enacting a bonus that only gives her a 5% chance of being executed. And thru it all she]]

** [[spoiler: Dylan crossed it by [[KillTheCutie murdering Mallory]] and apparently giving her a GlasgowGrin because "[[ForTheEvulz she was just so pretty]]", as well as tricking everyone with his MaskOfSanity. The worst thing he did was shown in Chapter 28: he murdered most of the animals in the ranch (their last major food source!) and left the surviving animals to eat the [[DescerateTheDead dead students whose corpses he'd strung up on scarecrows]]. It's implied this act was what finally provoked the rest of the survivors to decide to just outright kill him.]]
** [[spoiler: Yukiko crosses it without anyone knowing, and kept crossing further and further. ]]

** For the first motive, Teruteru Hanamura sees a hostage video involving his mother, [[spoiler:and decides to commit murder to get to her. He targets Himiko Yumeno and lures her into the Aquarium by taking her staff.]]
*** '''You'd Expect:''' [[spoiler:Teruteru to knock Himiko unconscious to minimize bloodspill, and then throw her body and the staff into the piranha tank to dispose of her easily. Since there wouldn't be any evidence pointing to him, he could've just appeared at the scene and acted as if he was just as shocked at the rest of the students. It'd be just like the second murder of VisualNovel/DanganRonpaV3 but at least Teruteru never had any loose clothing that would be the only evidence present.]]
*** '''Instead:''' [[spoiler:He decides to injure Himiko as quickly as possible, making her bleed everywhere. She is left with enough consciousness to write Teruteru's name [[CouldntFindAPen with her own blood]] before dying. After Hanamura does toss her body into the tank, he realises he has a lot of blood to clean.]]
*** '''Then:''' [[spoiler:Nekomaru Nidai shows up and finds Teruteru cleaning the blood, with a bottle of bleach and Himiko's bloodied staff in his possession.]]
*** '''You'd Expect:''' [[spoiler:Teruteru to pour the bleach at Nekomaru to distract [[LeaveNoWitnesses and potentially poison him]], then locking himself into a safe room and cleaning himself up.]]

** In ''Sea of Tranquility'', [[spoiler:Rene Musil is aware of a few clues to Miyaki and Mikhail's respective murders, like Miyaki being killed by a combat knife and Mikhail being unable to escape the Green House due to its door being chained. He ends up blurting out this information to people [[INeverSaidItWasPoison who were unaware of those factors at the time]] in the trial, not to mention how he would already garner suspicion with the fact that the Ultimate Exterminator would be an expert in pesticides.]]
*** '''You'd Expect:''' [[spoiler:Rene to explain how he knew about this information and give himself a reasonable alibi to justify his claims. There is still the possibility of him being innocent.]]
*** '''Instead:''' [[spoiler:He begins to act in ways [[NotHelpingYourCase that a true culprit would act]], such as flat-out refusing to explain himself and saying things like "I will not die in this place", "You people can't touch me" and "Don't you dare vote for me" as if he knew he was going to be executed. Then he enters a VillainousBreakdown and demands for everyone to vote for the ''"damn air head"'' or the ''"snake bitch"'' rather than himself, and everyone becomes suspicious enough to vote for him. Because of his inability to prove his alibi, Rene ends up being the first to be executed.]]

* CompleteMonster: Dr. Jibo Momota, The Ultimate Biologist. A SocialDarwinist who thinks only Ultimates deserve to live, he joined Ultimate Despair (''not'' through being brainwashed) and ended up [[spoiler: experimenting on the members of Class 80-A, without remorse. His [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate resume]] during that time includes cutting teenagers, forcing them to relive traumatic events, lecherously focusing on the girls (to the point of [[DirtyOldMan blatantly staring at Alice's body]] and implying [[SexualExtortion a certain requirement for her to leave his care]]), and sending an adult {{Sadist}} to do [[NothingIsScarier who]]-[[ColtBloodedTorture knows]]-[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil what]] to one teenager who HatesBeingTouched.]] All while espousing how morals hold people back and how he'd kill 99% of humanity for the 1% of Ultimates if he had to. [[spoiler: He's currently Masterminding a Killing Game somewhere as well.]]

** [[spoiler: [[KidsAreCruel Dylan Rufheiser]], the Ultimate Psychopath, [[EvilerThanThou manages to take Ringo's crown]] after he reveals his true colors beneath his MaskOfSanity. He is a StrawAtheist who doesn't care about what others believe and [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead sees no value in the dead]], and is also an AxCrazy killer who sees murder as orgasmic. He [[KillTheCutie murdered Mallory in cold blood]] [[ItAmusedMe for his own amusement]] and was presumably the one who murdered Miyaki and Mikhail in the first case, while framing Rene in his place and causing his execution. Once he removes his facade of innocence, Dylan deliberately antagonised the others to make them hate him, causing them to want to kill him to end the madness. Before his eventual demise, he murdered most of the animals in the ranch and fed the remaining animals the corpses of the dead students [[DesceratingTheDead which he descerated]]. If you thought the most evil students [[ManipulativeBastard Tsumugi]], [[TautologicalTemplar Korekiyo]], [[PsychoForHire Ringo]] and [[AGodAmI Jana]] were bad, [[{{Sadist}} Dylan]] is undoubtedly worse than all of them combined.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: The [[spoiler: second]] Mastermind of ''A New Hope'' [[spoiler:(Makoto Naegi after a FaceHeelTurn)]] continuing to run the Killing Game against the trapped students of [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2 Class 77-B]], [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc 78]] and [[VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3 79]] [[spoiler: (the latter of whom had nothing to do with him)]], forcing best friends to kill each other no matter how innocent they were. [[spoiler: To say nothing of when he stabbed his clone for trying to help him and attempted to bury everyone under the collapsing Hope's Peak.]]

** In ''Final Horizon'', [[spoiler:Hiyoko crossed it in Chapter 28 when she remorselessly [[YourHeadAsplode detonates Sayaka]] [[FinalDeath to kill her for the last time]] even after trying to redeem her and asking her what Kirumi would think. Hiyoko reasons that she did it because Sayaka was a "square peg in a round hole" and she had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness already fulfilled her purpose]]. There's also her torture and abuse of Jun, a ''two year old''.]]

** [[spoiler: Dylan crossed it by [[KillTheCutie murdering Mallory]] and giving her a GlasgowGrin because "[[ForTheEvulz she was just so pretty]]", as well as tricking everyone with his MaskOfSanity. The worst thing he did was shown in Chapter 28: he murdered most of the animals in the ranch (their major food source!) and left the surviving animals to eat the [[DescerateTheDead dead students whose corpses he'd strung up on scarecrows]]. It's implied this act was what finally provoked the rest of the survivors to decide to just outright kill him.]]

** [[spoiler:[[KidsAreCruel Dylan Rufheiser]], the Ultimate Psychopath, [[EvilerThanThou manages to take Ringo's crown]] after he reveals his true colors beneath his MaskOfSanity. He is a StrawAtheist who doesn't care about what others believe and [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead sees no value in the dead]], and is also an AxCrazy killer who sees murder as orgasmic. He [[KillTheCutie murdered Mallory in cold blood]] [[ItAmusedMe for his own amusement]] and was presumably the one who murdered Miyaki and Mikhail in the first case, while framing Rene in his place and causing his execution. Once he removes his facade of innocence, Dylan deliberately antagonised the others to make them hate him, causing them to want to kill him to end the madness. Before his eventual demise, he murdered most of the animals in the ranch and fed the remaining animals the corpses of the dead students [[DesceratingTheDead which he descerated]]. If you thought the most evil students [[ManipulativeBastard Tsumugi]], [[TautologicalTemplar Korekiyo]], [[PsychoForHire Ringo]] and [[AGodAmI Jana]] were bad, [[{{Sadist}} Dylan]] is undoubtedly worse than all of them combined.]]

** [[spoiler:Dylan crossed it by [[KillTheCutie murdering Mallory]] and giving her a GlasgowGrin because quote-unquote "[[ForTheEvulz she was just so pretty]]", as well as tricking everyone with his MaskOfSanity. The worst thing he did was in Chapter 28 where he murdered most of the animals in the ranch and left the surviving animals to eat the [[DescerateTheDead dead students whose corpses he descerated]].]]

* MoralEventHorizon: The [[spoiler: second]] Mastermind of ''A New Hope'' [[spoiler:(Makoto Naegi after a FaceHeelTurn)]] continuing to run the Killing Game against the trapped students of [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2 Class 77-B]], [[VisualNovel/DanganRonpa 78]] and [[VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3 79]] [[spoiler: (the latter of whom had nothing to do with him)]], forcing best friends to kill each other no matter how innocent they were. [[spoiler: To say nothing of when he stabbed his clone for trying to help him and attempted to bury everyone under the collapsing Hope's Peak.]]

** The ones running Kuma-Kuma Land [[spoiler: crossed it at the very beginning by trapping one hundred potential students on a roller coaster and ejecting them out of their seats, at random, to their deaths. They were responsible for the deaths of eighty people, and had no qualms with trying to eject [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Annabelle]], ''[[WouldHurtAChild a nine-year old child]]''!]]
** [[spoiler: Munakata]] officially crosses it somewhere between [[spoiler: killing Ryota Mitarai]] and [[spoiler: killing Ryoko in front of the rest of the survivors, while planning to subject the rest of them (and probably their hostages as well) to a firing squad]].

** [[spoiler: Hikyou being the Ultimate Loser wasn’t a total shock, since a few people had already figured it out.]]

* HolyShitQuotient: The story ''begins'' with [[spoiler: eighty innocent people dying in a murderous roller coaster ride. And that's just getting to the park itself.]]

* TheUntwist: [[spoiler: In the second case of ''Final Horizon'', most people expected Nico to die, since her guessing skills are too useful. Many reviewvers also figured out that Rei was the culprit (the submitter of Nico even joked about it before it happened. However, most of them didn't expect Raef to die early on.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: The ending of ''Sea of Tranquility'''s first trial leaves some things ''just'' ambiguous enough to question things, [[spoiler: especially regarding Mallory's Monopad: Did Misuzu genuinely not find anything on the Pad (which she never actually showed to the others), or did she see something incriminating and consciously cover it up? Though the fact that Mallory (according to Monokuma) voted for herself after insisting she was innocent and wanting the others to vote for her doesn't seem like something a guilty person with no knowledge that the votes would be declared to the group would do.]]
** [[spoiler: Then Sierra found a combat knife in one of Kakeru's drawers. The same weapon type that would've been the murder weapon.]]
*** [[spoiler: And then Mallory was murdered herself.]]

* HotterAndSexier: More romance (and subsequently love-making between characters) compared to canon. The author warns readers at the beginning of chapters that contained detailed sex scenes.
** In Chapter 88, [[spoiler: Miu and Chihiro]].
** In Chapter 89, [[spoiler: Makoto, Hina, and Mukuro]].
** In Chapter 95, [[spoiler: Hajime, Chiaki, and Mikan]].
** In Chapter 110, [[spoiler: Kaede and Shuichi]].
* {{Jossed}}: The author was quick to clarify that [[spoiler: the eighty students that died in the first chapter of ''Kuma-Kuma Land'' were ''not'' the unselected OCs that were submitted.]]

* NobodyThinksItWillWork: What are the odds that Chihiro Fujisaki, a boy so innocent, shy, and unsure of himself, that he pretends to be a girl when interacting with his schoolmates, would find the perfect companion in someone as extroverted, obnoxious, and aggressive as Miu Iruma? And yet, fans have praised the author for writing one of the sweetest and most heartwarming non-canon crossover Danganronpa pairings.

* [[WordOfGod Word of Writer]]: Pops up occasionally in the comment response sections at the end of chapters. It's been confirmed from this that [[spoiler: the killing game isn't in a [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2 virtual reality program]], nor is it a [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3 reality television show]]]].
** This is also how it's first discovered [[spoiler: Final Horizon's events take place two years after the end of New Hope]].
*** [[WordOfSaintPaul Word of OC Submitter]]: Psychochiken, the person who made the Ultimate Scientist Shuhei Kisaki in Final Horizon clarified in a comment that his preferred field was Forensics. life of the dead, the creator of the Ultimate Trickster Raef Hyazaki said their spirit animal was a fox (which the character confirms in a flashback later).
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot or WhatHappenedToTheMouse, depending on how you look at it: early on [[spoiler: Mikan is strangled to death (counting towards the amount of victims in the case), but is resuscitated in time. This established that temporary deaths like that still counted as case worthy, and set up the possibility that other victims could be saved in a similar manner. The author[[labelnote:*]]presumably not wanting to cheapen things by using that too often[[/labelnote]] then proceeded to never bring that up or use it again for the rest of the story, not even at the end as a callback or twist (not counting Kokichi being left temporarily comatose after a killing in the virtual world, as that harkened back more to Class 77-B’s state in Danganronpa2).]]