History YMMV / DanganronpaClassSwap

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: [[BigBad Chiaki Nanami]] [[spoiler:is revealed to be the mastermind who sets the entire plot into motion. As a result of being [[EmotionlessGirl unable to feel any emotion]] other than despair, Chiaki feels driven to use her talent to [[HopeCrusher share the feeling she enjoys with all of mankind]] to this end, she first manages to corrupt the members of Class 77-B into murderous psychopaths utterly devoted to her cause and uses them to help her bring chaos to the entire world, eventually plunging it into a global societal collapse. Not satisfied with the horrific apocalypse she's caused; Chiaki goes even further by tormenting her so-called friends and fellow members of Class 78 by stealing Ryota Mitarai's Anime to brainwash her classmates into forgetting their time together at Hope's Peak, then injecting Ryota with torture drugs to make him forget after realizing he is immune to his own work. She then murders headmaster Jin Kirigiri in order to usurp his position and forces her classmates into a Killing Game where they are forced to betray and murder each other, and broadcasts it live to the entire world to crush the populations morale, and even [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills her best friend]] after she manipulated them into commiting murder with the promise of sparing them, when exposed, Chiaki reveals in great detail how much she enjoys inflicting pain upon others, and, after being unable to break the will of the remaining survivors, decides she would rather kill herself [[RedemptionRejection than accept Mahiru's attempt to offer her redemption]] so she can experience the pleasure the despair of dying would bring her. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and having it uploaded into the Neo World Program so she can start another killing game even after her own death, a [[ItsAllAboutMe Narcissistic,]] {{sadist}}ic, [[TheCaligula Tyrannical]] monster who ruined the world for her own selfish desires, Chiaki well earns her title as the Ultimate Despair.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: [[BigBad Chiaki Nanami]] [[spoiler: is revealed to be the mastermind who sets the entire plot into motion. As a result of being [[EmotionlessGirl unable to feel any emotion]] other than despair, Chiaki feels driven to use her talent to [[HopeCrusher share the feeling she enjoys with all of mankind]] to this end, she first manages to corrupt the members of Class 77-B into murderous psychopaths utterly devoted to her cause and uses them to help her bring chaos to the entire world, eventually plunging it into a global societal collapse. Not satisfied with the horrific apocalypse she's caused; Chiaki goes even further by tormenting her so-called friends and fellow members of Class 78 by stealing Ryota Mitarai's Anime to brainwash her classmates into forgetting their time together at Hope's Peak, then injecting Ryota with torture drugs to make him forget after realizing he is immune to his own work. She then murders headmaster Jin Kirigiri in order to usurp his position and forces her classmates into a Killing Game where they are forced to betray and murder each other, and broadcasts it live to the entire world to crush the populations morale, and even [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills her best friend]] after she manipulated them into commiting murder with the promise of sparing them, when exposed, Chiaki reveals in great detail how much she enjoys inflicting pain upon others, and, after being unable to break the will of the remaining survivors, decides she would rather kill herself [[RedemptionRejection than accept Mahiru's attempt to offer her redemption]] so she can experience the pleasure the despair of dying would bring her. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and having it uploaded into the Neo World Program so she can start another killing game even after her own death, a [[ItsAllAboutMe Narcissistic,]] {{sadist}}ic, [[TheCaligula Tyrannical]] monster who ruined the world for her own selfish desires, Chiaki well earns her title as the Ultimate Despair.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[Spoiler:[[BigBad Chiaki Nanami]] is revealed to be the mastermind who sets the entire plot into motion. As a result of being [[EmotionlessGirl unable to feel any emotion]] other than despair, Chiaki feels driven to use her talent to [[HopeCrusher share the feeling she enjoys with all of mankind]] to this end, she first manages to corrupt the members of Class 77-B into murderous psychopaths utterly devoted to her cause and uses them to help her bring chaos to the entire world, eventually plunging it into a global societal collapse. Not satisfied with the horrific apocalypse she's caused; Chiaki goes even further by tormenting her so-called friends and fellow members of Class 78 by stealing Ryota Mitarai's Anime to brainwash her classmates into forgetting their time together at Hope's Peak, then injecting Ryota with torture drugs to make him forget after realizing he is immune to his own work. She then murders headmaster Jin Kirigiri in order to usurp his position and forces her classmates into a Killing Game where they are forced to betray and murder each other, and broadcasts it live to the entire world to crush the populations morale, and even [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills her best friend]] after she manipulated them into commiting murder with the promise of sparing them, when exposed, Chiaki reveals in great detail how much she enjoys inflicting pain upon others, and, after being unable to break the will of the remaining survivors, decides she would rather kill herself [[RedemptionRejection than accept Mahiru's attempt to offer her redemption]] so she can experience the pleasure the despair of dying would bring her. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and having it uploaded into the Neo World Program so she can start another killing game even after her own death, a [[ItsAllAboutMe Narcissistic,]] {{sadist}}ic, [[TheCaligula Tyrannical]] monster who ruined the world for her own selfish desires, Chiaki well earns her title as the Ultimate Despair]].

* CompleteMonster: [[Spoiler: [[BigBad Chiaki Nanami]] is revealed to be the mastermind who sets the entire plot into motion. As a result of being [[EmotionlessGirl unable to feel any emotion]] other than despair, Chiaki feels driven to use her talent to [[HopeCrusher share the feeling she enjoys with all of mankind]] to this end, she first manages to corrupt the members of Class 77-B into murderous psychopaths utterly devoted to her cause and uses them to help her bring chaos to the entire world, eventually plunging it into a global societal collapse. Not satisfied with the horrific apocalypse she's caused; Chiaki goes even further by tormenting her so-called friends and fellow members of Class 78 by stealing Ryota Mitarai's Anime to brainwash her classmates into forgetting their time together at Hope's Peak, then injecting Ryota with torture drugs to make him forget after realizing he is immune to his own work. She then murders headmaster Jin Kirigiri in order to usurp his position and forces her classmates into a Killing Game where they are forced to betray and murder each other, and broadcasts it live to the entire world to crush the populations morale, and even [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills her best friend]] after she manipulated them into commiting murder with the promise of sparing them, when exposed, Chiaki reveals in great detail how much she enjoys inflicting pain upon others, and, after being unable to break the will of the remaining survivors, decides she would rather kill herself [[RedemptionRejection than accept Mahiru's attempt to offer her redemption]] so she can experience the pleasure the despair of dying would bring her. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and having it uploaded into the Neo World Program so she can start another killing game even after her own death, a [[ItsAllAboutMe Narcissistic,]] {{sadist}}ic, [[TheCaligula Tyrannical]] monster who ruined the world for her own selfish desires, Chiaki well earns her title as the Ultimate Despair.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Chiaki Nanami]] is revealed to be the mastermind who sets the entire plot into motion. As a result of being [[EmotionlessGirl unable to feel any emotion]] other than despair, Chiaki feels driven to use her talent to [[HopeCrusher share the feeling she enjoys with all of mankind]] to this end, she first manages to corrupt the members of Class 77-B into murderous psychopaths utterly devoted to her cause and uses them to help her bring chaos to the entire world, eventually plunging it into a global societal collapse. Not satisfied with the horrific apocalypse she's caused; Chiaki goes even further by tormenting her so-called friends and fellow members of Class 78 by stealing Ryota Mitarai's Anime to brainwash her classmates into forgetting their time together at Hope's Peak, then injecting Ryota with torture drugs to make him forget after realizing he is immune to his own work. She then murders headmaster Jin Kirigiri in order to usurp his position and forces her classmates into a Killing Game where they are forced to betray and murder each other, and broadcasts it live to the entire world to crush the populations morale, and even [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills her best friend]] after she manipulated them into commiting murder with the promise of sparing them, when exposed, Chiaki reveals in great detail how much she enjoys inflicting pain upon others, and, after being unable to break the will of the remaining survivors, decides she would rather kill herself [[RedemptionRejection than accept Mahiru's attempt to offer her redemption]] so she can experience the pleasure the despair of dying would bring her. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and having it uploaded into the Neo World Program so she can start another killing game even after her own death, a [[ItsAllAboutMe Narcissistic,]] {{sadist}}ic, [[TheCaligula Tyrannical]] monster who ruined the world for her own selfish desires, Chiaki well earns her title as the Ultimate Despair.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Chiaki Nanami]] is revealed to be the mastermind who sets the entire plot into motion. As a result of being [[EmotionlessGirl unable to feel any emotion]] other than despair, Chiaki feels driven to use her talent to [[HopeCrusher share the feeling she enjoys with all of mankind]] to this end, she first manages to corrupt the members of Class 77-B into murderous psychopaths utterly devoted to her cause and uses them to help her bring chaos to the entire world, eventually plunging it into a global societal collapse. Not satisfied with the horrific apocalypse she's caused; Chiaki goes even further by tormenting her so-called friends and fellow members of Class 78 by stealing Ryota Mitarai's Anime to brainwash her classmates into forgetting their time together at Hope's Peak, then injecting Ryota with torture drugs to make him forget after realizing he is immune to his own work. She then murders headmaster Jin Kirigiri in order to usurp his position and forces her classmates into a Killing Game where they are forced to betray and murder each other, and broadcasts it live to the entire world to crush the populations morale, and even [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills her best friend]] after she manipulated them into commiting murder with the promise of sparing them, when exposed, Chiaki reveals in great detail how much she enjoys inflicting pain upon others, and, after being unable to bring the will of the remaining survivors, decides she would rather kill herself [[RedemptionRejection than accept Mahiru's attempt to offer her redemption]] so she can experience the pleasure the despair of dying would bring her. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and having it uploaded into the Neo World Program so she can start another killing game even after her own death, a [[ItsAllAboutMe Narcissistic,]] {{sadist}}ic, [[TheCaligula Tyrannical]] monster who ruined the world for own selfish desires, Chiaki well earns her title as the Ultimate Despair.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Chiaki Nanami]] is revealed to be the mastermind who sets the entire plot into motion. As a result of being [[EmotionlessGirl unable to feel any emotion]] other than despair, Chiaki feels driven to use her talent to [[HopeCrusher share the feeling she enjoys with all of mankind]] to this end, she first manages to corrupt the members of Class 77-B into murderous psychopaths utterly devoted to her cause and uses them to help her bring chaos to the entire world, eventually plunging it into a global societal collapse. Not satisfied with the horrific apocalypse she's caused; Chiaki goes even further by tormenting her so-called friends and fellow members of Class 78 by stealing Ryota Mitarai's Anime to brainwash her classmates into forgetting their time together at Hope's Peak, then injecting Ryota with torture drugs to make him forget after realizing he is immune to his own work. She then murders headmaster Jin Kirigiri in order to usurp his position and forces her classmates into a Killing Game where they are forced to betray and murder each other, and broadcasts it live to the entire world to crush the populations morale, and even [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness kills her best friend]] after she manipulated them into commiting murder with the promise of sparing them, when exposed, Chiaki reveals in great detail how much she enjoys inflicting pain upon others, and, after being unable to bring the will of the remaining survivors, decides she would rather kill herself [[RedemptionRejection than accept Mahiru's attempt to offer her redemption]] so she can experience the pleasure the despair of dying would bring her. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and having it uploaded into the Neo World Program so she can start another killing game even after her own death, a [[ItsAllAboutMe Narcissistic,]] {{sadist}}ic, [[TheCaligula Tyrannical]] monster who ruined the world for own selfish desires, Chiaki well earns her title as the Ultimate Despair.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Chiaki Nanami]] is revealed to be the mastermind who sets the entire plot into motion. As a result of being [[EmotionlessGirl unable to feel any emotion]] other than despair, Chiaki feels driven to use her talent to [[HopeCrusher share the feeling she enjoys with all of mankind]] to this end, she first manages to corrupt the members of Class 77-B into murderous psychopaths utterly devoted to her cause and uses them to help her bring chaos to the entire world, eventually plunging it into a global societal collapse. Not satisfied with the horrific apocalypse she's caused; Chiaki goes even further by tormenting her so-called friends and fellow members of Class 78 by stealing Ryota Mitarai's Anime to brainwash her classmates into forgetting their time together at Hope's Peak, then injecting Ryota with torture drugs to make him forget after realizing he is immune to his own work. She then murders headmaster Jin Kirigiri in order to usurp his position and forces her classmates into a Killing Game where they are forced to betray and murder each other, and broadcasts it live to the entire world to crush the populations morale, and even [[ YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness kills her best friend]] after she manipulated them into commiting murder with the promise of sparing them, when exposed, Chiaki reveals in great detail how much she enjoys inflicting pain upon others, and, after being unable to bring the will of the remaining survivors, decides she would rather kill herself [[RedemptionRejection than accept Mahiru's attempt to offer her redemption]] so she can experience the pleasure the despair of dying would bring her. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and having it uploaded into the Neo World Program so she can start another killing game even after her own death, a [[ItsAllAboutMe Narcissistic,]] {{sadist}}ic, [[TheCaligula Tyrannical]] monster who ruined the world for own selfish desires, Chiaki well earns her title as the Ultimate Despair.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: [[BigBad Chiaki Nanami]] is revealed to be the mastermind who sets the entire plot into motion. As a result of being [[EmotionlessGirl unable to feel any emotion]] other than despair, Chiaki feels driven to use her talent to [[HopeCrusher share the feeling she enjoys with all of mankind]] to this end, she first manages to corrupt the members of Class 77-B into murderous psychopaths utterly devoted to her cause and uses them to help her bring chaos to the entire world, eventually plunging it into a global societal collapse. Not satisfied with the horrific apocalypse she's caused; Chiaki goes even further by tormenting her so-called friends and fellow members of Class 78 by stealing Ryota Mitarai's Anime to brainwash her classmates into forgetting their time together at Hope's Peak, then injecting Ryota with torture drugs to make him forget after realizing he is immune to his own work. She then murders headmaster Jin Kirigiri in order to usurp his position and forces her classmates into a Killing Game where they are forced to betray and murder each other, and broadcasts it live to the entire world to crush the populations morale, and even [[ YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness kills her best friend]] after she manipulated them into commiting murder with the promise of sparing them, when exposed, Chiaki reveals in great detail how much she enjoys inflicting pain upon others, and, after being unable to bring the will of the remaining survivors, decides she would rather kill herself [[RedemptionRejection than accept Mahiru's attempt to offer her redemption]] so she can experience the pleasure the despair of dying would bring her. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and having it uploaded into the Neo World Program so she can start another killing game even after her own death, a [[ItsAllAboutMe Narcissistic,]] {{sadist}}ic, [[TheCaligula Tyrannical]] monster who ruined the world for own selfish desires, Chiaki well earns her title as the Ultimate Despair.]]]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: [[BigBad Chiaki Nanami]] is revealed to be the mastermind who sets the entire plot into motion. As a result of being [[EmotionlessGirl unable to feel any emotion]] other than despair, Chiaki feels driven to use her talent to [[HopeCrusher share the feeling she enjoys with all of mankind]] to this end, she first manages to corrupt the members of Class 77-B into murderous psychopaths utterly devoted to her cause and uses them to help her bring chaos to the entire world, eventually plunging it into a global societal collapse. Not satisfied with the horrific apocalypse she's caused; Chiaki goes even further by tormenting her so-called friends and fellow members of Class 78 by stealing Ryota Mitarai's Anime to brainwash her classmates into forgetting their time together at Hope's Peak, then injecting Ryota with torture drugs to make him forget after realizing he is immune to his own work. She then murders headmaster Jin Kirigiri in order to usurp his position and forces her classmates into a Killing Game where they are forced to betray and murder each other, and broadcasts it live to the entire world to crush the populations morale, and even [[ YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness kills her best friend]] after she manipulated them into commiting murder with the promise of sparing them, when exposed, Chiaki reveals in great detail how much she enjoys inflicting pain upon others, and, after being unable to bring the will of the remaining survivors, decides she would rather kill herself [[RedemptionRejection than accept Mahiru's attempt to offer her redemption]] so she can experience the pleasure the despair of dying would bring her. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and having it uploaded into the Neo World Program so she can start another killing game even after her own death, a [[ItsAllAboutMe Narcissistic,]] {{sadist}}ic, [[TheCaligula Tyrannical]] monster who ruined the world for own selfish desires, Chiaki well earns her title as the Ultimate Despair.]]

* BrokenBase: ''Class Swap 2'' has sparked one, due to the death order choices being... less than ideal, particularly Chapter 1's murder and [[spoiler:Sakura Ogami as the first blackened]] being... controversial to say the least.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** The first two trials of ''Class Swap - Hope's Peak Academy'' are exactly like the first two trials of another ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' AU fic, ''Fanfic/AnotherSideSportingHopefuls'' in terms of the people involved in those trials' canon fates. [[spoiler:In both of the first trials, the case's canonical victim ends up killing the TokenEvilTeammate of the survivors while the second trials of both stories have a canonical survivor kill the less sympathetic of the two Chapter 3 victims in canon]]. The difference being that ''Another Side: Sporting Hopefuls'' features the actual ''THH'' cast instead of being a RoleSwapAU.
** This is not the first DR fanfic where Peko [[spoiler:is executed by getting cut in half.]] ''Fanfic/ANewHopeDanganronpa'' did it first.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

* TheWoobie: Aoi gets it rough throughout all of ''Class Swap 2'''s Class Trials. [[spoiler:First the best friend she makes not long after arriving on Jabberwock not only turns out to be the culprit behind the first murder, but, [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim in an attempt to spare Aoi any pain from her execution]], [[ZeroApprovalGambit tries to pin the blame for the murder on her]]. Then, following the second trial, Aoi ends up getting taken hostage at knifepoint by Sayaka in an attempt to prevent Monokuma from executing her. During the third chapter, she is used by Kyoko as one of her scapegoats, and when the detective is about to be executed, [[KickTheDog she proceeds to insult Aoi, saying she shouldn't have survived so far]]. It says a lot when Aoi wants nothing to do with the group at the start of Chapter 4, as she thinks that the other students will eventually turn on her, eventually resulting in her having lost all hope of surviving the killing game and seemingly letting herself die to Monokuma's starvation motive]].

** The first two trials of ''Class Swap - Hope's Peak Academy'' are exactly like the first two trials of another ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' AU fic, ''Fanfic/AnotherSideSportingHopefuls'' in terms of the people involved in those trials' canon fates. [[spoiler:In both of the first trials, the case's canonical victim ends up killing one of the survivors while the second trials of both stories have a canonical survivor kill the less sympathetic of the two Chapter 3 victims in canon]]. The difference being that ''Another Side: Sporting Hopefuls'' features the actual ''THH'' cast instead of being a RoleSwapAU.

* HilariousInHindsight: The first two trials of ''Class Swap - Hope's Peak Academy'' are exactly like the first two trials of another ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' AU fic, ''Fanfic/AnotherSideSportingHopefuls'' in terms of the people involved in those trials' canon fates. [[spoiler:In both of the first trials, the case's canonical victim ends up killing one of the survivors while the second trials of both stories have a canonical survivor kill the less sympathetic of the two Chapter 3 victims in canon]]. The difference being that ''Another Side: Sporting Hopefuls'' features the actual ''THH'' cast instead of being a RoleSwapAU.

** As one reviewer points out, not only have the locations of the two casts been swapped, but also their respective games' themes of Trust vs Distrust and Past vs Future.
*** In the first ''Class Swap'': [[spoiler:Peko's decision not to tell Fuyuhiko the contents of her Motive Video drove a wedge of distrust between the two resulting in Fuyuhiko abandoning her to set up his DeathTrap which in turn shattered Chiaki's trust in her classmates and caused her to kill Fuyuhiko in an attempt to graduate. Kazuichi's encouragement to Sonia inadvertently caused her to prioritize her own secret and abandon her bonding attempts with her classmates with her poisoning attempt, and Akane's betrayal and attempted murder of Nekomaru shatters the bond between them as opposed to Nekomaru sacrificing himself for Akane in the canon [=SDR2=]. And finally being distrusted by half of his remaining classmates caused Teruteru to contemplate ending his own life, and worst of all, he died trying to earn their trust back]].

** As one reviewer points out, not only have the locations of the two casts been swapped, but also their respective games' themes of Trust vs Distrust and Past vs Future. In the first ''Class Swap'', [[spoiler:Peko's decision not to tell Fuyuhiko the contents of her Motive Video drove a wedge of distrust between the two resulting in Fuyuhiko abandoning her to set up his DeathTrap which in turn shattered Chiaki's trust in her classmates and caused her to kill Fuyuhiko in an attempt to graduate. Kazuichi's encouragement to Sonia inadvertently caused her to prioritize her own secret and abandon her bonding attempts with her classmates with her poisoning attempt, and Akane's betrayal and attempted murder of Nekomaru shatters the bond between them as opposed to Nekomaru sacrificing himself for Akane in the canon [=SDR2=]. And finally being distrusted by half of his remaining classmates caused Teruteru to contemplate ending his own life, and worst of all, he died trying to earn their trust back]]. As for ''Class Swap 2'', [[spoiler:Yasuhiro's words about Sakura giving in to the motive cause her to realize that it might be her chance to learn what happened to her family and boyfriend during the two years worth of memories that she's missing, so she decides to kill him in the heat of the moment. Hifumi tried to murder Genocider Syo because he had learned that she was responsible for the death of Kiyotaka's father and tried to get {{Revenge}} on his behalf. Kyoko decided to murder Mondo after regaining her memories of her time as a Remnant of Despair whereas Toko killed Genocider Syo once she saw her chance of getting away with murder because Syo, being her SerialKiller SplitPersonality, had negatively affected Toko all her life. Hina decides she no longer wants anything to do with the rest of the group because of all the things the culprits did to her at the class trials (Sakura betrayed her, Sayaka threatened her with a knife, and Kyoko outright told her she shouldn't be alive), believing that any effort to escape or get along with her classmates is hopeless because she thinks she will just end up getting emotionally hurt again]].

* WhatAnIdiot: Makoto in Chapter 1 of ''Class Swap 2'' [[spoiler:upon finding Hiro's body with a sword sticking out of it, removes the sword in an attempt to apply first aid. Not only does this cause him to fall under suspicion due to being found over the body with the murder weapon, but as Mukuro points out, removing ''anything'' sticking out from a body without professional knowledge or assistance will only make the bleeding worse]].

** How did [[spoiler:Izuru]] figure out that [[spoiler:the password for Jin Kirigiri's computer was Kyoko's full name?]]. [[spoiler:One, Kyoko was already attending Hope's Peak Academy in this continuity, so she definitely had to reveal her talent and her status as the Headmaster's daughter in order to get in, and two, Hajime had always admired Hope's Peak Academy, so it wouldn't be far-fetched for him to look up information about the students and come across the name "Kyoko Kirigiri", information that Izuru would definitely remember since he has all of Hajime's memories and is literally the Ultimate Talent]].
** As one reviewer points out, not only have the locations of the two casts been swapped, but also their respective games' themes of Trust vs Distrust and Past vs Future. In the first ''Class Swap'', [[spoiler:Peko's decision not to tell Fuyuhiko the contents of her Motive Video drove a wedge of distrust between the two resulting in Fuyuhiko abandoning her to set up his DeathTrap which in turn shattered Chiaki's trust in her classmates and caused her to kill Fuyuhiko in an attempt to graduate. Kazuichi's encouragement to Sonia inadvertently caused her to prioritize her own secret and abandon her bonding attempts with her classmates with her poisoning attempt, and Akane's betrayal and attempted murder of Nekomaru shatters the bond between them as opposed to Nekomaru sacrificing himself for Akane in the canon [=SDR2=]. And finally being distrusted by half of his remaining classmates caused Teruteru to contemplate ending his own life, and worst of all, he died trying to earn their trust back]]. As for ''Class Swap 2'', [[spoiler:Yasuhiro's words about Sakura giving in to the motive cause her to realize that it might be her chance to learn what happened to her family and boyfriend during the two years worth of memories that she's missing, so she decides to kill him in the heat of the moment. Hifumi tried to murder Genocider Syo because he had learned that she was responsible for the death of Kiyotaka's father and tried to get {{Revenge}} on his behalf. Kyoko decided to murder Mondo after regaining her memories of her time as a Remnant of Despair whereas Toko killed Genocider Syo once she saw her chance of getting away with murder because Syo, being her SerialKiller SplitPersonality, had negatively affected Toko all her life. Hina decides she no longer wants anything to do with the rest of the group because of all the things the culprits did to her at the class trials (Sakura betrayed her, Sayaka threatened her with a knife, and Kyoko outright told her she shouldn't be alive), believeing that any effort to escape or get along with her classmates is hopeless because she thinks she will just end up getting emotionally hurt again]].

** In Chapter 2 of ''Class Swap 2'' [[spoiler:Genocider Syo tells Mondo that he'd look great as one of her victims. In the very next chapter, Mondo is found dead in the same way all of Genocider Syo's victims were, but he wasn't killed by Syo, but by a Despair Disease-infected Kyoko]].

* TheWoobie: Aoi has gotten it rough in all of ''Class Swap 2'''s Class Trials so far. [[spoiler:First the best friend she makes not long after arriving on Jabberwock not only turns out to be the culprit behind the first murder, but, [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim in an attempt to spare Aoi any pain from her execution]], [[ZeroApprovalGambit tries to pin the blame for the murder on her]]. Then, following the second trial, Aoi ends up getting taken hostage at knifepoint by Sayaka in an attempt to prevent Monokuma from executing her. During the third chapter, she is used by Kyoko as one of her scapegoats, and when the detective is about to be executed, [[KickTheDog she proceeds to insult Aoi, saying she shouldn't have survived so far]]. It says a lot when Aoi wants nothing to do with the group at the start of Chapter 4, as she thinks that the other students will eventually turn on her, eventually resulting in her having lost all hope of surviving the killing game and seemingly letting herself die to Monokuma's starvation motive]].

* TheWoobie: Aoi has gotten it rough in all of ''Class Swap 2'''s Class Trials so far. [[spoiler:First the best friend she makes not long after arriving on Jabberwock not only turns out to be the culprit behind the first murder, but, [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim in an attempt to spare Aoi any pain from her execution]], [[ZeroApprovalGambit tries to pin the blame for the murder on her]]. Then, following the second trial, Aoi ends up getting taken hostage at knifepoint by Sayaka in an attempt to prevent Monokuma from executing her. During the third chapter, she is used by Kyoko as one of her scapegoats, and when the detective is about to be executed, [[KickTheDog she proceeds to insult Aoi, saying she shouldn't have survived so far]]. It says a lot when Aoi wants nothing to do with the group at the start of chapter 4, as she thinks that the other students will eventually turn on her. It end with tragedy with her death, After having lost all hopes of surviving the killing game and seemingly having let herself died]].

* TheWoobie: Aoi has gotten it rough in all of ''Class Swap 2'''s Class Trials so far. [[spoiler:First the best friend she makes not long after arriving on Jabberwock not only turns out to be the culprit behind the first murder, but, [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim in an attempt to spare Aoi any pain from her execution]], [[ZeroApprovalGambit tries to pin the blame for the murder on her]]. Then, following the second trial, Aoi ends up getting taken hostage at knifepoint by Sayaka in an attempt to prevent Monokuma from executing her. During the third chapter, she is used by Kyoko as one of her scapegoats, and when the detective is about to be executed, [[KickTheDog she proceeds to insult Aoi, saying she shouldn't have survived so far]]. It says a lot when Aoi wants nothing to do with the group at the start of chapter 4, as she thinks that the other students will eventually turn on her]].

** How did [[spoiler:Izuru]] figure out that [[spoiler:the password for Jin Kirigiri's computer was Kyoko's full name?]]. Simple, [[spoiler:One, Kyoko was already attending Hope's Peak Academy in this continuity, so she definitely had to reveal her talent and her status as the Headmaster's daughter in order to get in, and two, Hajime had always admired Hope's Peak Academy, so it wouldn't be far-fetched for him to look up information about the students and come across the name "Kyoko Kirigiri", an information that Izuru would definitely remember since he has all of Hajime's memories and is literally the Ultimate Talent]].

* FridgeBrilliance: As one reviewer points out, not only have the locations of the two casts been swapped, but also their respective games' themes of Trust vs Distrust and Past vs Future. In the first ''Class Swap'', [[spoiler:Peko's decision not to tell Fuyuhiko the contents of her Motive Video drove a wedge of distrust between the two resulting in Fuyuhiko abandoning her to set up his DeathTrap which in turn shattered Chiaki's trust in her classmates and caused her to kill Fuyuhiko in an attempt to graduate. Kazuichi's encouragement to Sonia inadvertently caused her to prioritize her own secret and abandon her bonding attempts with her classmates with her poisoning attempt, and Akane's betrayal and attempted murder of Nekomaru shatters the bond between them as opposed to Nekomaru sacrificing himself for Akane in the canon [=SDR2=]. And finally being distrusted by half of his remaining classmates caused Teruteru to contemplate ending his own life, and worst of all, he died trying to earn their trust back]]. As for ''Class Swap 2'', [[spoiler:Yasuhiro's words about Sakura giving in to the motive cause her to realize that it might be her chance to learn what happened to her family and boyfriend during the two years worth of memories that she's missing, so she decides to kill him in the heat of the moment. Hifumi tried to murder Genocider Syo because he had learned that she was responsible for the death of Kiyotaka's father and tried to get {{Revenge}} on his behalf. Kyoko decided to murder Mondo after regaining her memories of her time as a Remnant of Despair whereas Toko killed Genocider Syo once she saw her chance of getting away with murder because Syo being her SerialKiller SplitPersonality had negatively affected Toko all her life]].

* TheWoobie: Aoi has gotten it rough in all of ''Class Swap 2'''s Class Trials so far. [[spoiler:First the best friend she makes not long after arriving on Jabberwock not only turns out to be the culprit behind the first murder, but, [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim in an attempt to spare Aoi any pain from her execution]], [[ZeroApprovalGambit tries to pin the blame for the murder on her]]. Then, following the second trial, Aoi ends up getting taken hostage at knifepoint by Sayaka in an attempt to prevent Monokuma from executing her. During the third chapter, she is used by Kyoko as one of her scapegoats, and when the detective is about to be executed, [[KickTheDog she proceeds to insult Aoi, saying she shouldn't have survived so far]] It says a lot when Aoi wants nothing to do with the group at the start of chapter 4, as she thinks that the other students will eventually turn on her]].

* TheWoobie: Aoi has gotten it rough in all of ''Class Swap 2'''s Class Trials so far. [[spoiler:First the best friend she makes not long after arriving on Jabberwock not only turns out to be the culprit behind the first murder, but, [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim in an attempt to spare Aoi any pain from her execution]], [[ZeroApprovalGambit tries to pin the blame for the murder on her]]. Then, following the second trial, Aoi ends up getting taken hostage at knifepoint by Sayaka in an attempt to prevent Monokuma from executing her. During the third chapter, she is used by Kyoko as one of her scapegoats, and when the detective is about to be executed, [[KickTheDog she proceeds to insult Aoi, saying she shouldn't have survived so far]]]].