History DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony / TropesAToD

** Sick of being abused by Kokichi, Miu Iruma eventually orchestrates a plan to kill him and escape the academy. [[YankTheDogsChain Too bad that he saw it coming, though...]]

** One of the Monokubs, Monodam, is said to have closed off his heart to others thanks to Monokid bullying him so much. Guess who the first Monokub is to die and who causes it? More specifically [[spoiler: Monodam shoves Monokid into the iron maiden used to demolish Kaede's corpse]].
** After being exposed to the AwfulTruth that's behind the killing game, Shuichi goes through a HeroicBSOD from all the psychological torment he's been through. When he snaps out of it, [[Main/ThisIsUnforgivable he directs his rage at Tsumugi, Monokuma and the audience]], and convinces the rest of the survivors to end the killing game ''and'' prevent all future killing games to come.

** After being exposed to the AwfulTruth that's behind the killing game, Shuichi goes through a HeroicBSOD from all the psychological torment he's been through. When he snaps out of it, he directs his rage at Tsumugi, Monokuma and the audience, and convinces the rest of the survivors to end the killing game ''and'' prevent all future killing games to come.

** Sick of being abused by Kokichi, Miu Iruma eventually orchestrates a plan to kill him and escape the academy. [[YankTheDogsChain Too bad that he saw it coming, though...]]

* AllTakeAndNoGive: Kokichi and Gonta's "friendship", with Kokichi being the Taker and Gonta being the Giver. Gonta is the sole person among the cast to never hate Kokichi, and Kokichi takes full advantage of his generosity and forgiveness, manipulating him into participating in his plans. While they are often seen together in Chapter 2's Daily Life segments, Gonta is notably afraid of Kokichi to the extent that he asks Kokichi's permission to converse with Shuichi (most likely fearing that Kokichi would do something rash to him if he randomly disconnected from their bond) while Kokichi never even asks if Gonta's okay with him suddenly leaving to hang out with Shuichi, verbally berates him when he wants to leave.This comes to [[FarmerAndTheViper a horrifying height]] in Chapter 4, when Gonta, after being manipulated by Kokichi into committing a murder, outed by him during the trial, and about to be executed, [[ObliviousGuiltSlinging still asks for everyone not to blame Kokichi for his actions]] and makes his classmates promise to forgive each other while Kokichi not only gleefully laughs as Gonta is executed, but makes sure that Gonta's last wish can never be fullfilled.

* DestroyTheSecurityCamera: In Chapter 5, Kokichi uses one of Miu's EMP bombs to shut down all the electronics nearby, including the nanobots filming everything that the Mastermind uses to keep tabs on everyone, to deliberately obfuscate who the culprit and victim are so not even Monokuma will know, nullifying the game. It doesn’t work.

* The first trial ends this way, though it's not revealed until much later. The BigBad, Tsumugi Shirogane, manages to successfully frame [[DecoyProtagonist Kaede]] for Rantaro's murder by bashing in his head with her own shot put ball when Kaede's Rube Goldberg device fails to kill him. Kaede is executed believing she caused Rantaro's death, [[AcquittedTooLate and only in Chapter 6 do Shuichi and company find out her innocence]]. However, Tsumugi later gets her KarmaHoudiniWarranty in the form of K1-B0 executing her.
* Similarly, the fourth chapter's culprit, Kokichi Ouma, gets away with murdering his victim due to manipulating [[NiceGuy Gonta]] into doing the actual killing (by implanting FakeMemories of the outside world being dead in the kindhearted Gonta's head, making him believe that the only way to save everyone from this truth is to win the class trial and get everyone executed). By the game rules they can't convict Kokichi for the murder without dying themselves, as the person who actually killed the victim is the only one considered the Blackened, even if everyone knows the guy was manipulated into it. To make matters worse, Kokichi actively mocks both Gonta and the rest of the class during the trial and derives sadistic glee from Gonta's execution. He never faces any comeuppance for this act either (if you don't count his "unsolvable murder" plan failing in Chapter 5 failing) due to blackmailing Kaito into killing him in order to kickstart his ThanatosGambit, while fully knowing that it would eventually get Kaito executed.

* CastingGag:
** Considering they managed to nab one of the classic voice actors that caused the 90's Japanese [=VA=] boom, Creator/HekiruShiina (as Celestia Ludenberg), for the first game, now they get another one, Creator/MegumiHayashibara (as Shuichi Saihara). We can only wonder if the next game will have the last one, Creator/MarikoKouda.
*** Creator/MegumiHayashibara and Creator/MegumiOgata voiced 2 of the 3 [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Eva Pilots]]. Time will tell if 4/V4 will have Creator/YukoMiyamura as a boy.
** Creator/KikukoInoue and Creator/AkioOtsuka, Kirumi and Ryoma respectively, are also the voices of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater The Boss and Naked Snake]]. Kirumi kills Ryoma, in an inversion to what their characters did to one another in that game.
** Creator/ErikaHarlacher voices both Kyoko Kirigiri and Kaede Akamatsu in English. Both share purple as a motif colour, and wear an orange necktie. They are also both framed for a murder they didn't commit by their respective game's mastermind, only in Kaede's case, it actually works.
** Creator/ToddHaberkorn provides the voices of both Teruteru Hanamura and Korekiyo Shinguji, covering two opposing ends of the "creepy" sort of character spectrum, Teruteru being a directly sexual sort of creeper while Korekiyo is more generally unsettling. Both are also cooked alive during their respective executions and their love for an often sickly female family member plays a part in why they committed their murders.
** Creator/DerekStephenPrince voices Takaya from ''VideoGame/Persona3''. Both Takaya and Kokichi have an antagonistic relationship with the main characters of their games despite them both not being the [[BigBad main antagonists]] of their respective games. In addition to that, Creator/WendeeLee voices Fuuka in [[VideoGame/Persona4Arena certain]] [[VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax spin-off]] [[VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth games]]. Like Miu, Fuuka is a ShrinkingViolet who is very skilled in technology. Also, while Tayaka attempts to kill the members of S.E.E.S. (aka the organization Fuuka was in) multiple times in ''VideoGame/Persona3'', Kokichi was the mastermind behind Miu's death.

* TheDogBitesBack: After being exposed to the AwfulTruth that's behind the killing game, Shuichi goes through a HeroicBSOD from all the psychological torment he's been through. When he snaps out of it, he directs his rage at Tsumugi, Monokuma and the audience, and convinces the rest of the survivors to end the killing game ''and'' prevent all future killing games to come.

* BittersweetEnding: Shuichi, Himiko, and Maki ended up escaping the killing game and they successfully ended the ''Danganronpa'' show but it came at a cost of K1-B0 sacrificing himself so they can survive, leaving them to wonder that Tsumugi was actually lying about themselves and set off to see how much of their actions affected the world.

* BraggingRightsReward: Beating the Death Road of Despair minigame in its [[PlatformHell Chapter 1's difficulty]] will grant the player the sight of the students allowed walking out of the academy and ends with Kaede trailing of a FlatWhat before it fades to white. The player then gets an exclusive Monopad theme and 100 Monocoins.

* CastOfSnowflakes: As always, the design for every character differ wildly from the other. Enforced InUniverse for the sake of the show: everyone arrives in relatively normal school uniforms, but are forcibly changed into more unique and colorful "uniforms" soon afterward.

* TheDogBitesBack: Shuichi is one dog that bites back hard to Tsumugi, Monokuma, and the audience themselves in Chapter 6, by ending Danganronpa forever. It's Justified because of how much psychological abuse and torture he was put though throughout the killing game itself. Consider yourself lucky if you're like Tsumugi who verbally abuses Shuichi during his [[HeroicBSoD Heroic BSoD]] and does NOT regain his sanity. But if he ever snaps out it, (and he somehow does) His vengeful rage is scary and you better run like hell once he shows it. He stopped at NOTHING to get his revenge against Tsumugi, and Monokuma, and the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters audience]] for the torment they put him, Shuichi, Maki, and Himiko through.