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There's actually a rather brief online meme
where netizens have noted Monokuma to be "Doraemon's Evil Clone", but the only similarities is "chubby roly-poly cartoon character based on an animal sharing a VA"
EDIT: Whoops ignore this line, I fubbed up the facts
...as much as I like that robot cat, I think that's a shoehorn that shouldn't be up there
... V oh.
Edited by RobertTYLMonokuma is a robot. Still, I think relevance to the time-travelling robot cat is rather weak.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupActually while at it, is this shoehorned as well?
- Subverted Kids' Show: The character of Monokuma, a horrible, but hilarious scheming murderer, played in the Japanese version by the voice actress for Doraemon. The famous Let's Play of the game notes that Doraemon's voice virtually is childhood in Japan, and Japanese players invariably have a huge reaction as soon as Monokuma starts speaking. Tarako, The Other Darrin from Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School onward, doesn't help with her most famous role being the title character of Chibi Maruko-chan.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc never pretended to be a kid show and this example talks about things outside of the work.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupIt's clear from the start that the games aren't meant for children, so yes thats a shoehorn (and has nothing to do with what happens in the work in-universe).
Macron's notesOne last Doraemon reference:
- Vocal Dissonance: His voice sounds like something from a cartoon, and while it sort of fits with his design, it makes his role as the antagonist much more weird and unsettling. This is further accentuated by the fact that he's voiced by Nobuyo Ōyama, the woman who voiced one of the most famous and beloved children's anime characters of all time — Doraemon. To put it into a western/American frame of reference, it would be the equivalent of being threatened by some thing that was voiced by Wayne Allwine doing his Mickey Mouse voice or by Jim Cummings invoking his Winnie-the-Pooh voice.
Yes, rewrite to
I think there's enough discussion to not count as editwarring, so I'll go remove shoehorned comparisons citing this.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupI thought adding the Corrupted Character Copy was fine, but I guess I missed the mark a bit there
Character Specific Page cleanup

At Danganronpa — Monokuma I've noticed this example. (added
by Phediuk)
Soon afterwards, IkeaHan has restored it
but as Corrupted Character Copy.
While Corrupted Character Copy would allow cross-franchise comparisons, it still doesn't address the ZCE (As Expy subtrope, it would need quite a lot of context), which I've brought up here
and Synchronicity agreed.
Would need consensus because I can't hide/remove it again. I don't know much about Doraemon to tell if there's anything besides "animal robot with same voice actor" for the comparison.
Edited by Amonimus