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* AnAesop: The second game ends with Alex deciding it's better to study than to cheat.
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* MoralMyopia: An entry in Alex's diary [[Hypocrite ironically shows his chagrin over a bunch of students cheating on an exam by spying on the Geek]], despite Alex himself using said geek to cheat (and bully) ever since they met.

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* MoralMyopia: An entry in Alex's diary [[Hypocrite [[{{Hypocrite}} ironically shows his chagrin over a bunch of students cheating on an exam by spying on the Geek]], despite Alex himself using said geek to cheat (and bully) ever since they met.
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* BribeBackfire: One students tries to bribe Mrs. Henningan. She just gets angry and threatens to shoot another student if someone else tries to pull the same stunt.

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* BribeBackfire: One students student tries to bribe Mrs. Henningan. She just gets angry and threatens to shoot another the student who attempted to bribe her if someone else tries to pull the same stunt.stunt. She might've meant "any" student, but she specifically motions to the culprit and used the "him" pronoun, [[MisplacedRetribution implying she'll shoot specifically the one who made the bribe in the first place]].



** Alex is this to Jake the geek, which explains why the latter let the former cheat off him.

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** Alex is this to Jake the geek, Geek, which explains why the latter let the former cheat off him.



* ChromaticArrangement: Blue, yellow, red and green are colors used by all the characters in the first game: Alex the protagonist is blue, Jake the geek is yellow, the teacher is red and the other students are green. The second game introduces new characters with their own unique colors and Jake is absent since he's dead, removing the color pattern for that game. The third game, which is a prequel, re-uses this pattern again, aside from the flashback taking about half of the game and the level where Alex sneaks inside the school at night.

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* ChromaticArrangement: Blue, yellow, red and green are colors used by all the characters in the first game: Alex the protagonist is blue, Jake the geek Geek is yellow, the teacher is red and the other students are green. The second game introduces new characters with their own unique colors and Jake is absent since he's dead, removing the color pattern for that game. The third game, which is a prequel, re-uses this pattern again, aside from the flashback taking about half of the game and the level where Alex sneaks inside the school at night.



* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Alex is blue (black in the night level of the third game), the students are green, Jake the geek is yellow, the teachers are red, Samuel is peach, James is orange, [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Melanie]] is {{pink|Is Feminine}}, and guards/janitors are a different shade of blue than Alex.

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Alex is blue (black in the night level of the third game), the students are green, Jake the geek Geek is yellow, the teachers are red, Samuel is peach, James is orange, [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Melanie]] is {{pink|Is Feminine}}, and guards/janitors are a different shade of blue than Alex.



* DisproportionateRetribution: Mrs. Henningan threatens to shoot a student because another tried to bribe her.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Mrs. Henningan threatens to shoot a student because another he tried to bribe her.



* HomeworkSlave: The premise of the game involves you cheating through tests with the help of somebody. In the first and third game, it is a geek that helps you (he is dead in the second). With the third game being a prequel, it is revealed you forced the geek into doing such.

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* HomeworkSlave: The premise of the game involves you cheating through tests with the help of somebody. In the first and third game, it is a geek that helps you (he is dead in the second). With the third game being a prequel, it is revealed you forced the geek Geek into doing such.



* LighterAndSofter: The third game, which is a prequel, is pretty tame compared to the first two. Some of the biggest teacher distractions in this game include a car accident outside and a student's cellphone ringing while the first game had a student commit suicide and the second game had a lab experiment blowing up on a student. Even the plot is just about Alex bullying the geek to help him, while in the first game you escape a school shooting and the second game ends with a MexicanStandoff.

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* LighterAndSofter: The third game, which is a prequel, is pretty tame compared to the first two. Some of the biggest teacher distractions in this game include a car accident outside and a student's cellphone ringing while the first game had a student commit suicide and the second game had a lab experiment blowing up on a student. Even the plot is just about Alex bullying the geek Geek to help him, while in the first game you escape a school shooting and the second game ends with a MexicanStandoff.



* MadeOfIron: Alex gets flattened by a speeding car at the end of the first game, but has fully recovered (at least physically) by the second game.

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* MadeOfIron: Alex gets flattened ran over by a speeding car at the end of the first game, but has fully recovered (at least physically) by the second game.



* MexicanStandoff: The crew all have their guns pointed at each other and Alex at the end of 2, when Alex suddenly reveals he's packing heat as well and blows Samuel's head off.
* MisplacedRetribution: When a student tries to bribe Mrs. Henningan, she threatens to shoot a different student.
* MoralMyopia: Alex is angry that a bunch of students cheat on an exam by spying on the geek, even though Alex himself always uses the geek to cheat ever since they met.

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* MexicanStandoff: The crew all have their guns pointed at each other and Alex at the end of 2, ''2'', when Alex suddenly reveals he's packing heat as well and blows Samuel's head off.
* MisplacedRetribution: When a Mrs. Henningan's death threat. While it's not entirely clear if the "him" part was directed at the student tries who bribed her (she ''was'' standing next to bribe Mrs. Henningan, him when she threatens made that threat), it could still count as an example, because it could have been interpreted as such, due to shoot a different student.
how insane the teachers in this trilogy are.
* MoralMyopia: Alex is angry that An entry in Alex's diary [[Hypocrite ironically shows his chagrin over a bunch of students cheat cheating on an exam by spying on the geek, even though Geek]], despite Alex himself always uses the using said geek to cheat (and bully) ever since they met.



* NamedInTheSequel: The geek isn't named in the first game. The third game reveals that his name is Jake.

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* NamedInTheSequel: The geek Geek isn't named in the first game. The third game reveals that his name is Jake.



* NonstandardGameOver: Go ahead. Stand next to the grenade in Level 9 of the first game, or stand in front of the school-shooter's gun as he shoots the other student in level 10. [[SchmuckBait See what happens.]]

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* NonstandardGameOver: Go ahead. Stand next to the grenade in Level 9 of the first game, or stand in front of the school-shooter's gun as he shoots the other student in level Level 10. [[SchmuckBait See what happens.]]



** When a student tries to bribe Mrs. Henningan, she threatens to shoot another student if anyone else tries to pull the same thing. It is unknown if she would have followed up on it, but it was still a death threat to a student.

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** When a student tries to bribe Mrs. Henningan, she threatens to shoot another student if anyone else tries to pull retaliates with the same thing.aforementioned threat above. It is unknown if she would have followed up on it, but it was still a death threat to a student.



* SkewedPriorities: A student just committed suicide? Nearly the entire class just died in a bomb explosion? Meh, you still gotta finish the test because your teacher doesn't give a damn! This also applies to Alex, who still tries to cheat despite what just happened, though he does at least acknowledge the horrific nature of these events in his diary entries.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: In the third game, a random student named Mark encourages Alex to use the geek to cheat during tests. Even if Mark is quickly forgotten, he actually sets up the plot of the whole series.

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* SkewedPriorities: A student just committed suicide? Nearly the entire class just died in a bomb explosion? Meh, you You still gotta finish the test because your teacher doesn't give a damn! This also applies to Alex, who still tries to cheat despite what just happened, though he does at least acknowledge the horrific nature of these events in his diary entries.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: In the third game, a random student named Mark encourages Alex to use the geek Geek to cheat during tests. Even if Mark is quickly forgotten, he actually sets up the plot of the whole series.



* VillainProtagonist: The goal of the games is to cheat tests, and in the first and third games, the protagonist bullies the geek to force him to help with that cheating.

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* VillainProtagonist: The goal of the games is to cheat tests, and in the first and third games, the protagonist bullies the geek Geek to force him to help with that cheating.



** After escaping a school shooting, Alex goes outside in a panic and barely avoids being hit by a speeding car. After a short moment of relief, another car squashes him. The sequel reveals he survived, though.

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** After escaping a school shooting, Alex goes outside in a panic and barely avoids being hit by a speeding car. After a short moment of relief, another car squashes him.runs him over. The sequel reveals he survived, though.
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* YankTheDogChain:

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* YankTheDogChain: YankTheDogsChain:

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* KarmaHoudini: Due to her small role in the plot, Mrs. Henningan does not face any repercussions for making a death threat to a student.



* LivingProp: In cases where they don't serve as mere distractions, the green students are only here to make the classroom feel less empty.



* MisplacedRetribution: When a student tries to bribe Mrs. Henningan, she threatens to shoot a different student.
* MoralMyopia: Alex is angry that a bunch of students cheat on an exam by spying on the geek, even though Alex himself always uses the geek to cheat ever since they met.



* NamedInTheSequel: The geek isn't named in the first game. The third game reveals that his name is Jake.



** Mrs. Henningan threatens to shoot a student who tried to bribe her if anyone else tried to pull the same thing. It is unknown if she would have followed up on it, but it was still a death threat to a student, no less. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Unlike Mr. Henderson, her final fate is left unknown.]]

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** When a student tries to bribe Mrs. Henningan Henningan, she threatens to shoot a another student who tried to bribe her if anyone else tried tries to pull the same thing. It is unknown if she would have followed up on it, but it was still a death threat to a student, no less. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Unlike Mr. Henderson, her final fate student.
* SchoolIsMurder: In the first game, Alex's classroom goes through a student committing suicide, a grenade attack and a school shooting, all in a week. In the second game, a teacher commits suicide and a student
is left unknown.]]shot during a MexicanStandoff.



* SmallRoleBigImpact: In the third game, a random student named Mark encourages Alex to use the geek to cheat during tests. Even if Mark is quickly forgotten, he actually sets up the plot of the whole series.



* SuckySchool: See CrapsackWorld for a description of the quality of Alex's schools.

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* SuckySchool: See CrapsackWorld for During his school days, Alex witnesses a description of suicide, a grenade attack in the quality classroom and a teacher making a death threat to a student, narrowly survives the MurderSuicide of Alex's schools. another student and ends up blackmailed because of an explosive incident in lab class he is not responsible for. It's notable that most of these horrible things are shrugged off.


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* YankTheDogChain:
** After escaping a school shooting, Alex goes outside in a panic and barely avoids being hit by a speeding car. After a short moment of relief, another car squashes him. The sequel reveals he survived, though.
** At the end of the third game, once the school year is over, Jake appears to be disappointed when Alex tells him they're going to the same high school, implying Jake thought he'd be free of Alex's bullying.

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* BribeBackfire: One of the students tries to bribe Mrs. Henningan. She just gets angry and threatens to shoot him if any other student tries to do the same thing.

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* ArtStyleDissonance: The games use a minimalist art-style and every character is represented by colored circles, but these games also contain bullying, murders and suicides.
* BigBallOfViolence: In the first game, there's a level where two students get into a fight, which is represented by a cloud of violence.
* BribeBackfire: One of the students tries to bribe Mrs. Henningan. She just gets angry and threatens to shoot him if any other another student if someone else tries to do pull the same thing.stunt.


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* CallBack: The second classroom from the second game is similar to the classroom from the first game.


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* ChromaticArrangement: Blue, yellow, red and green are colors used by all the characters in the first game: Alex the protagonist is blue, Jake the geek is yellow, the teacher is red and the other students are green. The second game introduces new characters with their own unique colors and Jake is absent since he's dead, removing the color pattern for that game. The third game, which is a prequel, re-uses this pattern again, aside from the flashback taking about half of the game and the level where Alex sneaks inside the school at night.


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* DisproportionateRetribution: Mrs. Henningan threatens to shoot a student because another tried to bribe her.


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* ExplosiveResults: While in chemistry class, a student's experiment explodes. Unlike most examples of this trope which are comedic, the student is seriously hurt by the explosion.
* GetOut:
** In a level from the first game, the teacher takes a student's exam copy and appears angry about what the student did (though we don't get to see ''what'' he did), then the teacher orders the student to leave the classroom.
** In the final level of the first game, a student arrives late and the teacher orders them to leave. Then the student pulls out a gun and shoots the teacher.

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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: Realistically, at least ''one'' of the students would alert the teacher of the player's not-so-subtle cheating, but they're all basically props unless the plot needs them to be a distraction.
** The teacher would've also easily noticed, even if the player is out of their line of sight, that they are not in their seat when they check there (which they do semi-frequently); at the least, they would've noted there being a seat with a test and no student in it.

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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: AcceptableBreaksFromReality:
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Realistically, at least ''one'' of the students would alert the teacher of the player's not-so-subtle cheating, but they're all basically props unless the plot needs them to be a distraction.
** The teacher would've also easily noticed, should notice, even if the player is out of their line of sight, that they are not in their seat when they check there (which they do semi-frequently); at the least, they would've noted there being a seat with a test and no student in it.



** Mr. Henderson from the second game is also overwhelmed with the stress of the standoff at the end of the second game, so he jumps out of a window. Samuel notes that this must be a deja vu for Alex.

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** Mr. Henderson from the second game is also overwhelmed with the stress of the standoff at the end of the second game, so he jumps out of a window. Samuel notes that this must be a deja vu for Alex.



* VillainProtagonist: The goal of the games is to cheat tests, and in the first and third games, the protagonist bullies the geek to force him to help with that cheating.

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* VillainProtagonist: The goal of the games is to cheat tests, and in the first and third games, the protagonist bullies the geek to force him to help with that cheating.cheating.
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He's a villain alright, but he's not really a "top evil guy".


* BigBad: Mr. Henderson is this in the second game. It becomes a BigBadDuumvirate when Samuel makes a deal with him and betrays Alex.
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You can't move until the teacher is shot.


* NonstandardGameOver: Go ahead. Stand next to the grenade in Level 9 of the first game, or stand in front of the school-shooter's gun as he shoots the other student/teacher in level 10. [[SchmuckBait See what happens.]]

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* NonstandardGameOver: Go ahead. Stand next to the grenade in Level 9 of the first game, or stand in front of the school-shooter's gun as he shoots the other student/teacher student in level 10. [[SchmuckBait See what happens.]]

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* TheChick: Melanie, one-third of the cheating crew and who [[OfficialCouple Alex hooks up with at the end]]. Notably, she defends him from Samuel should you try to refuse the offer to join their crew at the beginning, then distracts Mr. Henderson in a later level when Alex signals her.
* CirclingStars: The teacher from the first game gets these when knocked over by a grenade.

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* TheChick: Melanie, one-third of the cheating crew and who [[OfficialCouple Alex hooks up with at the end]]. Notably, she defends him from Samuel should you try to refuse the offer to join their crew at the beginning, then distracts Mr. Henderson in a later level when Alex signals her.
* CirclingStars: The teacher from the first game gets these circling stars when knocked over by a grenade.

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!! ''The Classroom 1-3'' contains examples of the following tropes:

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!! ''The Classroom 1-3'' Classroom's'' trilogy contains examples of the following tropes:


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* TopDownView: The games are all seen from above.
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* HomeworkSlave: The premise of the game involves you cheating through tests with the help of somebody. In the first and third game, it is a geek that helps you (he is dead in the second). With the third game being a prequel, it is revealed you forced the geek into doing such.
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* LighterAndSofter: The third game is pretty tame compared to the first two. Some of the biggest teacher distractions in this game include a car accident outside and a student's cellphone ringing while the first game had a student commit suicide and the second game had a lab experiment blowing up on a student. Even the plot is just about Alex bullying the geek to help him, while in the first game you escape a school shooting and the second game ends with a MexicanStandoff.

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* LighterAndSofter: The third game game, which is a prequel, is pretty tame compared to the first two. Some of the biggest teacher distractions in this game include a car accident outside and a student's cellphone ringing while the first game had a student commit suicide and the second game had a lab experiment blowing up on a student. Even the plot is just about Alex bullying the geek to help him, while in the first game you escape a school shooting and the second game ends with a MexicanStandoff.



* MexicanStandoff: The crew all have their guns pointed at each other and Alex at the end of 2, and it ends when Alex suddenly reveals he's packing heat too and blows Samuel's head off.

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* MexicanStandoff: The crew all have their guns pointed at each other and Alex at the end of 2, and it ends when Alex suddenly reveals he's packing heat too as well and blows Samuel's head off.



* NonstandardGameOver: Go ahead. Stand next to the grenade in level 9 of the first game, or stand in front of the school-shooter's gun as he shoots the other student/teacher in level 10. [[SchmuckBait See what happens.]]

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* NonstandardGameOver: Go ahead. Stand next to the grenade in level Level 9 of the first game, or stand in front of the school-shooter's gun as he shoots the other student/teacher in level 10. [[SchmuckBait See what happens.]]



* PinkGirlBlueBoy: In the end of the second game, Alex, who is blue, hooks up with Melanie who is pink.
* PinkIsFeminine: Melanie, the only female main character is Pink.

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* PinkGirlBlueBoy: In At the end of the second game, Alex, who is blue, hooks up with Melanie Melanie, who is pink.
* PinkIsFeminine: Melanie, the only female main character character, is Pink.pink.

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