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1Despairland is a tumblr/Skype roleplay based on the game ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''. It features a group of super high school level talented high school students trapped in a Monobear-themed amusement park and told that they're to either live their entire lives there or escape by killing another student and getting away with it.
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3The sequel, Super Dangan Despairland 2, takes place in the same park, an unspecified amount of time after the first game. It is still in progress.
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6!!Despairland contains examples of:
7* {{A House Divided}}
8* {{All Your Powers Combined}}: As akin to the original game, the mastermind, [[spoiler:Aiko Fujioka]] had an execution that was all previous combined, plus her own.
9* {{Amusement Park Of Doom}}
10* [[spoiler:{{After The End}}]]
11* {{Alas Poor Villain}}: Two out of the three murders were out of ''self-defense''. Ouch.
12%%* {{Anyone Can Die}}
13* {{Big Bad}}: Monobear and the person behind them, [[spoiler: Aiko Fujioka.]]
14* {{Big Brother Is Watching}}: Monobear has cameras set up everywhere. [[spoiler: Except in the mastermind's personal room.]]
15* {{Bittersweet Ending}}: On one hand, the mastermind died and the students finally got an escape switch to leave the park. On the other hand, over three fourths of them died.
16* {{Body of the Week}}: Literally, with body discoveries each Wednesday followed by trials every Saturday.
17* {{Chekhovs Gun}}: [[spoiler: Aiko Fujioka, the mastermind, wore a hoodie with the initials "AI," her father's company. This company would then come up later, during the mastermind investigation.]]
18* {{Clear My Name}}: Pretty much every trial where somebody is framed.
19* {{Collective Identity}}: SHSL Despair, [[spoiler: which everyone ended up being a part of.]]
20* {{Cruel and Unusual Death}}: Executions.
21%%* {{Deadly Game}}
22%%** {{Involuntary Battle to the Death}}
23%%** {{Win Your Freedom}}
24* {{Death By Irony}}: The executions were all tailored to the killers' talents.
25* {{Dwindling Party}}: The game started with 16 students. It ended with [[spoiler:four.]]
26* {{Everyone Went to School Together}}
27* {{Fission Mailed}}: Upon voting for the wrong culprit, time is reset until the students get it right.
28* {{Foreshadowing}}: The embroiderer on [[spoiler: Aiko's jacket,]] of course.
29* {{I Have Your Wife}}: The first motive, like in the game the roleplay was based on. Everyone received [=DVDs=] of their loved ones, except Kengo whose loved ones are already dead.
30* {{Jerkass Has A Point}}: Gian might be an asshole, but he also pieced together most of the mastermind trial.
31* {{Laser Guided Amnesia}}: Of course.
32* {{Meaningful Name}}: The mastermind, [[spoiler: Aiko Fujioka's, first name is translated to "Child of grief" rather than the normal "child of love".]]
33* {{Noodle Incident}}: Sumire skips over a large chunk of what made her become a patissier.
34-->'''Sumire:''' Mother, Father, and Ichiro all assured me that my chocolates were delicious, as well, so I sent them.
35-->'''Sumire:''' ………….
36-->'''Sumire:''' ''And then I went to France!''
37%%* {{Role Playing Game}}
38* {{Screw the Rules I Have Money}}: Sumire, of course, being the rich girl she is. [[spoiler: Of course, she didn't at the time, because most of her money was spent buying the park.]]
39* {{Ship Tease}}: Between Sumire and Kengo
40* {{Shout Out}}: To the original Dangan Ronpa game in the Lost and Found room
41* {{Two Dun It}} [[spoiler: More like everyone done it, since they were all SHSL Despair being punnished by their own game.]]
42* {{Undignified Death}}: The executions are not pretty.
43* [[spoiler:{{Tomato in the Mirror}}]]: [[spoiler:Everyone was part of SHSL Despair prior to the memory wipe. The mastermind trapped them in the park as punishment.]]
44* {{Warmup Boss}}: The first trial wasn't too difficult considering the killer's name was literally written at the scene.
45* {{Wham Episode}}: The mastermind trial, of course.
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48!!Despairland 2 contains examples of:
49* {{Amusement Park Of Doom}}: Again, of course
50* {{Deadly Game}}
51** {{Involuntary Battle to the Death}}
52** {{Win Your Freedom}}
53* {{Mind Screw}}: Five of the characters are returning from previously in the continuity. Four of them are supposed to be dead. [[spoiler:With the reveal that Sumire is not actually Sumire, that makes four out of four characters supposed to be dead.]]
54* {{Mutually Assured Destruction}}: [[spoiler:Tsukiko]] and [[spoiler:Darren]] enter an agreement like this prior to the first trial. [[spoiler:They're forced to reveal each other to prove the true murderer.]]
55%%* {{Role Playing Game}}

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