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- Bad puns about the executions.
- "THIS GIRL IS ON FIREEEEE!!!" Explanation A reference to Celeste's execution, which involves her being burnt at the stake.
- Also: I'd hit that with a truck. Explanation Yet another reference to her execution: it looks like Celeste is going to be burnt alive, but then Monokuma pulls a Bait-and-Switch and rams her with a fire truck.
- Batter up, Leon.Explanation His execution is very memorable among the fandom for giving players a taste of what the series has in store. In fact, it's so memorable and talked about, it's practically a Late-Arrival Spoiler.
- I can't believe it's not butter. Explanation Mondo Owada is turned into butter in his execution, which Monokuma then eats, leading to Mondo butter becoming memetic.
- "[The heroine]'s you, Naegi-kun". Explanation Taken from this
Yonkoma comic. - Shortly after the big reveal, we get a memetic GIF◊ where Junko's head is sent spinning. People then added sounds and musical accompaniment.
- In one scene where Makoto looks horrifically at a TV screen showing the outside world◊, people pasted several different pictures on the TV screen, such as something else that is horrifying or a Take That!. Something Awful's paywall screen is a popular choice.
- Due to Makoto's status as Ultimate Hope, he is often depicted cosplaying as Madoka; sometimes, Kyoko is drawn alongside him as Homura. Sayaka Maizono sometimes joins them, as she has a matching first name and color scheme.
- "Owada pumped up and ready to party." Explanation A description of Mondo's sauna scene. Can be replaced with any other character.
- 11037 Explanation One of the clues in the first case, which particularly amused the English-language fandom, because they could tell much earlier than most of the characters that it was a misreading of a character's name written in English, albeit upside down and backwards.
- 1041 Explanation Used to refer to Sayaka, as this number flipped 180ยบ seemingly spells out the word "thot", in reference to how she tried to kill Leon and frame Makoto.
- Leon Kuwata is a weenie.
- A weenie who hates besbaw.
- Stupidstupidstupidstupid! / AHO AHO AHO AHO AHO Explanation His Freak Out in Chapter 1.
- Kiyotaka is a crybaby. Explanation Both Leon and Kiyotaka are given Butt-Monkey status due to their very negative reactions in the first two trials respectively.
- Sayaka is a snake. Explanation Sayaka tried to kill Leon and frame Makoto of the crime, but she got killed by Leon instead, leading some people to quickly label Sayaka as a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who only ever got along with Makoto in order to take advantage of him. This part of the fandom was quick to associate her so-called nature with the symbolism snakes are given in mythology and religion.
- Bringing up that Sayaka was killed in Chapter 1 because the developers got sick of her. Explanation Another part of the fandom tends to bring up that Sayaka was the first to die because she was the first female character that was designed, which caused the developers to get sick of her by the time they designed everyone else due to having to use her designs for reference. The same also applies to Leon regarding the male characters.
- Sakura Oogami is a pretty princess. Explanation Due to her overall kind nature, Sakura is often seen as the most adorable of all the girls.
- The culprit is Hagakure! Explanation Often on the Something Awful LP thread, it was guessed that Yasuhiro would be the killer in one of the cases. He never was, ultimately.
- Yasuhiro's hamburger. Explanation This scene◊ that was definitely out of place, which was from Yasuhiro telling the surviving classmates of an alien encounter that happened in the past. Some people even ship Yasuhiro with his hamburger.
- Anime Peter Griffin. Explanation It is a universally accepted fact among the series' Western fanbase that anyone not familiar with the franchise will refer to Hifumi as "Anime Peter Griffin", without exception or any prompting from anyone else, thanks to both of them being fat guys with brown hair, glasses, white dress shirts and very similar faces.
- My... Name... is... CELESTIA LUDENBERG GODDAMMIT!Explanation From the English dub of the game. During the third trial Celeste, full of anger may we add, says this after keeping insisting that "Celestia Ludenberg" is her real name when she is told by her classmates to reveal her true name (Taeko Yasuhiro). This was not helped by the fact that the in-game text displays it upside down. It soon became a joke among the community to say that Celeste's full name is "Celestia Ludenberg Goddammit".
- DONUTS Explanation Aoi Asahina is infamous for having donuts as her favorite food, leading to many claiming she has an obsession with them.
- Kyoko Kirigiri loves touching corpses. Explanation While Makoto expresses hesitation in examining victim's bodies during the game, Kyoko has no such hesitation and examines the corpses without flinching. More especifically, this refers to how in chapter 2 it is heavily implied that she found out that Chihiro was a boy by feeling his genitals while examining his corpse, and in chapter 3 when she outright tells Makoto that she found a note after searching through a dead Hifumi's underpants. This lead to people joking that Kyoko has a fetish for dead bodies
- Bacon Hands Explanation Used to refer to Kyoko and coined by 4chan's /a/ board. It alludes to her injured hands, which she burned in her early days as a detective.
- Ramenhead Kyoko, the Ramen Fairy, or Makoto's ramen fetish. Explanation After the 5th trial ends with Makoto taking the fall Kyoko goes looking for him in the dumpster and when she finds Makoto she has a cup of ramen on her head.
- "[X] IS NOT WELCOME IN A SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT!!" Explanation Kiyotaka's overly exaggerated catchphrase from Danganronpa Abridged Thing.
- "NO RUNNING IN THE HALLWAYS!!" Explanation Kiyotaka tells this to Mondo in one occasion, naturally the fandom was quick to run with it. This saw a resurgence in the Future Arc of Danganronpa 3, as Makoto's forbidden action is "running in the hallways".
- Kiyotaka is heterophobic. Explanation During the first trial, when Hina explains that she spent the night with Sakura in the latter's bedroom, Kiyotaka, believing Sakura to be male at the time, states that it is unwholesome for a boy and a girl to spend the night together. Later on in chapter 2, Taka spends the night with Mondo in a sauna as part of an endurance contest, and they both come out as best friends the next day. Many fans joke about Kiyotaka being heterophobic given that apparently a boy and a girl spending the night together is wrong, but two boys doing the same thing is not.
- "Corn Hair." Explanation Often used in reference to Mondo's hair style, which many fans speculate to look like a corn cob "HEY! THIS IS A BAGUETTE, YOU SONOFABIIITCH!!".
- Togami's legs. Explanation One of Byakuya's most recognizible physical traits are how his long his legs are, causing some fans to see them as abnormally long.
- Mukuro Ikusaba. The sixteenth student, lying hidden somewhere in this school. The one they call the Ultimate Despair. Watch out for her. Explanation Kyoko's warning to Makoto regarding the sixteenth student at the end of Chapter 4 was played again immediately during the beginning of Chapter 5 and throughout many other moments in said chapter, prompting fans to make fun of the game's attempt to hammer in the reveal on them. This meme had a resurgence in Danganronpa 3, with the survivor count not matching the number of people in the game, jokingly causing fans to suspect Mukuro again. Turns out, it was because Kyoko was still alive.
- Yasuhiro Hagakure is the Ultimate Protagonist. Explanation Fans have given Yasuhiro this title on account of how he's been able to survive the DR1 Killing Game along with the DR3 Killing Game despite his Cloud Cuckoolander personality and doing nothing of note. Some fans even refer to his dreadlocks as 'ahoges' which would explain his Plot Armor invulnerability.
- The dick only makes it better! Explanation A reaction image of Chihiro Fujisaki with the bottom section applied with the said out-of-context caption in jumbled words. This response is often ironically (non-ironic depending on the fans' mindset) pointed out that it should be better if there's a bulge under the female's skirt.
Kiyotaka: MEMES ARE NOT WELCOME IN A SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT!
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