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Class Trial 31
Imprisoned in the Funhouse and forced to go on a Juice Diet, a large group of survivors are horrified when Sakura Ogami is found dead at the base of the stairs. Elsewhere, non-participants find themselves in a rather creepy elementary school
Tropes for the Thirty-First Class Trial
- Arc Welding: The Reserve Course Students find themselves in Heavenly Host, with the students who die in the Trial joining their cast as ghosts.
- Born Unlucky: Mukuro manages to lose Russian Roulette after playing it at the lowest possible difficulty.
- Butt-Monkey: Kazuichi is subjected to the bad end of Nagito's luck, being forced to fix a machine that Nagito broke with his life on the line.
- Cast Herd: The trial featured a larger cast than normal to account for the possibility of mid-trial deaths in the Final Dead Room, with most of the superfluous characters joining a game of Football/Soccer while the murder was taking place. Plus the Reserve Course thread featured several other characters on a concurrent adventure.
- Cruel Twist Ending: Hina's Execution consists of an escape room. She retries it twice and survives in the third attempt, only to realize that she really did die earlier and that she has become a ghost.
- Developing Doomed Characters: Sakura participates in a Pre-Trial thread that fleshes out the Fun House Setting.
- Easily Forgiven: Akane, Toko, and Celeste.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Although Byakuya did manipulate Toko into attempting to commit murder in hopes of being able to vote her up for execution, he is still absolutely disgusted to learn that Nagito found the wounded Sakura and choked her to the brink of death.
- Gambit Pile Up: Akane, Toko, and Celeste all made attempts on Sakura's life as well.
- Genre Shift: In the middle of the trial, players who are not directly involved with the crime were offered a chance to play through an escape room in Final Dead Room and earn additional evidence with a game of Russian Roulette.
- In addition, the Reserve Course students spend the trial hanging out in Heavenly Host and dealing with the occasional scare.
- Karma Houdini: The attempted murderers get off scot-free due to Hina's act of mercy. Byakuya and Nagito also face little more than public condemnation for ordering Toko to commit murder and strangling Sakura respectively.
- Kick the Dog: Nagito shocks the cast by admitting that he found Sakura on the verge of death and strangled her while she was still alive simply to throw off the cause of death.
- Kill Steal: Celeste attempts this after discovering Toko's intent to commit murder, stalking her to see who she poisoned and taking an opportunity to kill that same victim.
- Mercy Kill: After finding Sakura mortally wounded, Hina chose to ease her friend's pain by killing her.
- Mistaken for Murderer: Akane, Toko, and Celeste all believe themselves to be the killer at first, having each made an attempt on Sakura's life.
- Neck Snap: Sakura
- Piranha Problem: Subverted. During her execution, Aoi Asahina is placed in a flooding room threatened by piranhas. The piranhas turn out to be docile
- Rasputinian Death: Sakura is struck with a mace, poisoned, pushed down a flight of stairs, strangled, and ultimately killed with a neck snap.
- Russian Roulette: Several students play a game of one after completing the Final Dead Room. Fuyuhiko, Mechamaru, and Mukuro are unlucky enough to lose.
- Sympathetic Murderer: Hina ultimately only murdered her best friend as a mercy and spend the trial seeking revenge against the people responsible for putting her friend in such a sorry state. After she ends up as a ghost at Heavenly Host, even the players who died trying to expose her are sympathetic to her.
- Together in Death: Hina and Sakura find peace together after reuniting at Heavenly Host.
Class Trial 32
In the midst of a party meant to calm nerves after Monokuma supplies the students with weapons, Chiaki and Leon drop dead. Also, the cast finds themselves Swapping Bodies while they wait for the trial to start in a series of Pre-Trial threads.
Tropes for the Thirty-Second Class Trial
- Amnesiac Resonance: Despite forgetting the events of the Pre Trial, Byakuya still finds himself with an impulse to offer Mikan advice.
- Butt-Monkey: Byakuya spends the entire Pre-Trial stuck in Hiyoko's body, being teased for his newfound cuteness.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Komaru is unaware of how many sides are on an octagon.
- Cynical Mentor: Byakuya becomes one to Mikan when she ends up in his body and keeps it going even after she swaps with somebody else.
- Designated Villain: An In-Universe example. Makoto and Chihiro are deemed to be the Blackeneds because they handled the drinks that Byakuya poisoned. Frustratingly enough, Monokuma uses different contradicting technicalities to label them as killers.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: The cast spends the Pre-Trial swapping bodies, with the exception of Byakuya who spends the entire time trapped in Hiyoko's body to his chagrin.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: The events of the Pre-Trial are forgotten for the duration of the trial, although their memories are restored in the end.
- Noble Demon: When Byakuya realizes that he is not the blackened based on a technicality and that two innocent players will have to be executed instead of him, he is outraged.
- Odd Friendship: Byakuya starts mentoring Mikan to become more assertive and less assertive when she ends up in his body, causing them to bond throughout the Pre-Trial..
- Pet the Dog: Despite being an attempted Murderer, Byakuya's attempts to make Mikan better herself prove genuine.
Class Trial 33
Monokuma begins locking a dorm room every day and forcing the students to share until Sakura Ogami is murdered.
Tropes for the Thirty-Third Class Trial
- Be as Unhelpful as Possible: Monomi flees when asked for her whereabouts on the night of the murder and, when she finally resurfaces, she only gives answers in exchange for solving Children's puzzles.
- Black-and-White Insanity: Kiyotaka murders Sakura to avoid having to end up with a roommate, considering it immoral to share a room with another student.
- Idiot Hero: Hagakure acts even more foolish than usual, failing to understand basic children's puzzles and becoming convinced that the killer is Blake Denc, the drummer of a band called "The Pine Legs"
- I Will Find You: Sonia sends the Reserve Course on a manhunt to track Monomi
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Monomi becomes one for Sonia after it becomes clear that she knows something and is trying to hide it, with Sonia spearheading the efforts to track the fleeing bunny and make her spill her secrets.
- Stylistic Suck: Nagito attempts to draw a lovely painting of Hajime
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Class Trial 34
Prom Night comes for the Students of Hope's Peak Academy, only to result in the deaths of Peko and Byakuya.
Tropes for the Thirty-Fourth Class Trial
- Asshole Victim: Byakuya turns out to have been plotting a murder.
- Evil Duo: The culprits turn out to be Celeste and Hifumi, working together.
- Killing in Self-Defense: Hifumi's murder of Byakuya, although he loses inherent sympathy in this trope by proceeding to partner up with Celeste for a murder.
- Master of Disguise: After the original Gundham player dropped out of the trial to be replaced with a new participant, he is suddenly revealed to be Leon instead.
- Never Suicide: Peko's murder is staged as a suicide, caused by a secret motive of Monokuma's where everybody would be set free after a single trial had taken place.
- The Tell: Each murder imitates one of two plays that were shown at Prom, with each play having only been shown once to different groups of people. Once it becomes clear that there were two killers cooperating, the culprits are narrowed down by the fact that it must be a pair who didn't see the same show.
- Unwitting Pawn: Surprisingly, Celeste turns out to be one, as Hifumi decided not to let her know that he'd learned about how all the non-blackened students would be set free from the killing game after the trial when he asked her to help him escape.
Class Trial 35
After coming out of hiding, the Ultimate Despair, Junko Enoshima, is found dead along with Makoto Naegi, the Ultimate Hope.
Tropes for the Thirty-Fifth Class Trial
- Faking the Dead: Junko turns out to have been alive, with Mukuro being the one who actually died.
- Frame-Up: After it starts becoming clear that Mondo is one of the few other viable suspects, Kazuichi falsely lets it slip that he saw Mondo sneak down from the floor where the murder weapon was located.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Makoto and Mukuro are found impaled on the same spear.
- Lethally Stupid: Kyoko wonders if the group was trying to get somebody killed when Nagito reveals that he's the one who was entrusted with the key to the Trash Room Incinerator.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Mondo reacts to Kazuichi's blatant attempt to frame him with some rather colorful insults.
- Swiss-Cheese Security: The students decide to secure the weapons in the school by putting them all in a pile inside the cafeteria. This proves ineffective.
- Byakuya also orders the class to participate in a lockdown and confine themselves in their room, leaving Peko as a guard. Nearly half of the cast decides to successfully sneak out and explore the school instead.
- Twin Switch: Mukuro and Junko
Class Trial 36
The Ulitmate Talents of the students of Hope's Peak Academy are swapped around, leading to the deaths of Byakuya and Mukuro
Tropes for the Thirty-Sixth Class Trial
- Asshole Victim: Byakayua becomes one yet again as he is killed trying to commit murder again.
- Brain Bleach: Ultimate Traditional Dancer Hifumi Yamada.
- Role Swap Plot
Class Trial 37
Forced to sleep outside of her dorm after losing a raffle of Monokuma's, Chiaki Nanami is murdered in the night.
Tropes for the Thirty-Seventh Class Trial
- Face Death with Dignity: Sakura
- Indentured Servitude: Nagito is enthusiastically subjected to this by Celeste as punishment for breaking a bottle of her nail polish
- The Mole: Sakura kills Chiaki while acting as a traitor for Monokuma.
- Taking the Heat: Hina attempts this to protect Sakura to no success.
Class Trial 38
Makoto and Hajime find themselves alone on Jabberwock Island with all the girls of Hope's Peak Academy and Nagito. Until Mikan and Mukuro are found murdered.
Tropes for the Thirty-Eighth Class Trial
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Kyoko is suddenly murdered without warning in the middle of an intermission, bringing the death toll to three.
- Faking the Dead: Mukuro turns out to be the true culprit, disguising herself as Sonia. Somehow.
- Improbably Female Cast: By design, the trial features the entire female cast from the first game.
- Kill and Replace: Mukuro to Sonia
- Master of Disguise: Mukuro, apparently.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: While the trial was designed as a Waifu Trial where Hajime and Makoto would be stranded with the female members of their cast, Nagito was added to be one of the Waifus in the otherwise almost entirely female cast.
- Spot the Imposter: Mukuro's disguise falls apart when Mahiru questions her about the contents of a Photo that only Sonia and Hajime saw.
Class Trial 39
A sickly Hajime Hinata is murdered in the Third Island Hospital.
Tropes for the Thirty-Ninth Class Trial
- And Your Little Dog, Too!: Monokuma takes the Students' pets as hostages.
- The Killer in Me: Genocide Jack turns out to be the killer, with Toko having acted as an accomplice after the fact when she realized what her other self had done.
Class Trial 40
An arcade game known as Twilight Syndrome Murder Case is placed on Jabberwock Island. Whatever mysteries it holds somehow lead to the deaths of Fuyuhiko and Peko.
Tropes for the Fortieth Class Trial
- Bluffing the Murderer: Fuyuhiko sends out letters to all of Peko's potential killers to hint that he knows they did it and meet him in the theatre. Nekomaru ends up taking the bait.
- Dark Secret: After playing Twilight Syndrome Murder Case, Nekomaru learned that the Kuzuryuu Clan murdered an old friend of his.
- Thanatos Gambit: Fuyuhiko kills himself as part of a plan to avenge the murdered Peko.
- You Killed My Father: Nekomaru's unnamed childhood friend was killed by the Kuzuryuu's, driving him to seek revenge.
