WARNING: This page contains unmarked spoilers for the game.
Is Oma drinking Panta today?
- Basically everything related to Kokichi Oma has become a meme since the reveal of his talent, especially his Panta.
- "Hey, do robots have dicks?" Explanation A question Kokichi asks Keebo during the demo and prologue.
- Komaeda Discourse 2.0 Explanation With Kokichi's status as a Base-Breaking Character and his similarities to Nagito in the second game (who was also a Base-Breaking Character in his game), many people referred to any discussion about their opinions of Kokichi as "Komaeda Discourse 2.0".
- "Neeheehee!"/"Nishishi!" Explanation Kokichi's distinct laugh has gone memetic.
- Is Oma [X] today? Explanation Many
blogs on Tumblr had something among the lines of posting a post everyday stating if Kokichi was a certain charactertistic that day. - Kokichi is a grandmother. Explanation Due to the English translation having Kokichi's last name's spelling changed from "Ouma" to "Oma" (which means "grandmother" in Dutch/German), many fans went on to state that Kokichi is a grandmother.
- "But that's Kayayday's lie, isn't it?" Explanation During the Scrum Debate of the first trial, Kokichi states "But that's Kaede's lie, isn't it?" and he pronounces Kaede's name in a rather unusual way. It doesn't help that everyone else in the dub uses the same pronounciation. Because of this line, "Kayayday" became a Fan Nickname for Kaede
- In general, a bunch of fans falsely theorized Bryce Papenbrook was voicing Kokichi after that one line, resulting in a lot of memetic content.
- #Kokichi2020 Explanation References a bunch of posts online wanting Kokichi to run for the presidency of Russia that went viral during April of 2020. As incredible as it may sound, this even made its own way to the Russian media.
- The face Kaito is seen making during the class trial trailer immediately went memetic for being even more hilarious than Kazuichi's.
- Even the game mechanics have gotten their own:
- The most obvious is the new ability to throw objects around when looking for monocoins, so you don't need to worry about what you've already checked. A common gag is to have Kaede presented as a one woman wrecking crew in her pursuit of money much to the concern of her friends; interestingly, Shuichi being presented this way is a lot rarer.
- Jokes have made about the "Psyche Taxi" mechanic in this game which is similar to the Logic Dive mechanic in Danganronpa 2, but the main character is now driving a car and picking up hookers instead of riding a snowboard.
- It took a very short amount of time for fans to start mocking this game's iteration of the Hangman's Gambit, one of the series' most despised mini-games, for now making the letters invisible.
- Literally any time Tenko calls Shuichi or any other male student a degenerate male, and the face she makes while doing so.
- "The protagonist spot, Kaede."Explanation On imageboards, it's popular to portray Keebo as bitter and antagonistic towards Kaede for "stealing" the position of protagonist from him in earlier promos, with Kaede responding equally as antagonistically. It was eventually combined with a separate meme involving Ted Cruz being angry at Donald Trump for "stealing" his delegates during the 2016 election season. Hilarious in Hindsight since Kaede is not the real protagonist, and Keebo himself got the last triumph over the Mastermind and Team Danganronpa.
- Who is Kaito Momota? Never heard of him.Explanation After notable DR translators decided to divide up the duty of translating every character's Free Time Events, they mistakenly left Kaito off the list. It then became a running gag to pretend Kaito didn't exist.
- Datamine thing. Explanation About a week before the game was released in Japan, it was uncovered that large parts of the game, including all of the sprites and a good number of heavily spoilery assets, were hidden in the demo. Cue the phrase being thrown around whenever someone wanted the demo datamined.
- Among the datamined things, this sprite of Miu◊ has gone memetic. You have exactly three guesses as of why. (Warning: NSFW) Giving up? It's because of the spiked dildo.
- Towards the release of the game in Japan, many, many jokes were made over a variety of fake leaks. Come the actual game release, even more jokes were created after numerous people attempted to put some conflicting spoilers out, to the point where many fans have zero idea what is actually true.
- Magical Girl Kaede Explanation This cutscene at the beginning of the game shows Kaede going through something that looks like a Magical Girl transformation while changing into her "Ultimate" clothes.
- [X] is a crossdresser. Explanation Towards the release of the game, a lot of false spoilers started showing up stating certain characters are crossdressers. It started with Kirumi, then Shuichi, then finally mutated into Korekiyo being his sister in disguise. As it turns out, none of these three characters are crossdressers. Became an Ascended Meme in the manga anthology, where the story "Killing Time" revolves around Keebo trying to disprove Kokichi's assertion that Shuichi is a girl.
- Kaede hanging out with Ibuki.Explanation Since both Kaede and Ibuki's deaths invole asphyxiation with a rope and then having their lifeless bodies hanging from said ropes, a lot of hanging jokes about the two of them have been made. Some people even thrown in Sayori from Doki Doki Literature Club!, whose death also involves a rope.
- Tenko Tenko Ten! Explanation When it was revealed that Tenko's voice actress was the same as Nico Yazawa's, many Love Live! fans began making jokes involving the "Nico Nico Nii".
- DO NOT FUCK THE ROBOT. Explanation Some fans have taken to an... interesting approach to Keebo, leading others to often shout this in protest. The fact that Kokichi asks whether robots have dicks doesn't help. It also doesn't help that Miu ended up having an interesting relationship with the robot himself.
- RIP Keebo's Ahoge Explanation During Kaito's execution, a rock came and broke Keebo's ahoge, causing many people to state that.
- With this image showing Rantaro painting Kaede's nails with Shirogane looking at them with a grumpy face along with how Shirogane killed Rantaro and let Kaede get executed for it, many jokes have been about Shirogane not shipping Rantaro and Kaede.
- Keebo died for our sins! Explanation How the fandom felt when Keebo sacrificed himself to end the Danganronpa TV show.
- Welcome to the club, Shuuichi. Explanation A layover from the DR3 meme about the protagonists all belonging to a "Dead Girlfriend Squad"; some people have joked about how Shuuichi only became a "real" protagonist after his Love Interest died, sometimes with images of him crying right alongside Makoto, Kyosuke and Izuru.
- The NDRV3 opening goes with everything Explanation People have discovered that the opening for the game visually matches up with a lot of songs. here are a few examples. There's even a half-hour version.
- The Megumi Squad Explanation Most of the characters in the game were voiced by their seiyuus started with the name of "Megumi" such as Megumi Ogata, and Megumi Hayashibara.
- Don't trust the fashion industry Explanation With the Big Bad of the HPA Saga being the Ultimate Fashionista and the Big Bad of this game being the Ultimate Cosplayer, many people joke about how the fashion industry are the bad guys in the franchise and you shouldn't trust them.
- Soon Explanation With many western fans impatiently waiting for the English release and NISA stated that the game will be released "soon", the word "soon" became a meme.
- "KOOOOOOOOOOOOODAAAAAAAAAAKAAAAAAAAAA!" Explanation The Danganronpa Fandom's version of the Big "NO!" or the One-Woman Wail when they got trolled by the series Trolling Creator.
- Meat On The Bone, Meat Off The Bone Explanation Parodying DR2's first Panic Talk Action with Ryoma's manner of death in Chapter 2
- KILL THE MASTER MIND Explanation The Final Strike in the first chapter's Argument Armament comes in four parts that are all distinct words, much like "meat on the bone" from the previous game, so there's a few permutations that might sound correct. Unlike its predecessor, this Final Strike is a bit easier to intuit, but it hasn't stopped a few slip-ups.
- The Holy Trinity Explanation The chain started when fans saw the sprites of Sakura Ogami, Nekomaru Nidai, and Gonta Gokuhara being similar from their respective games. The second one was with Genocide Jack, Peko Pekoyama (wearing the Sparkling Justice mask), and Maki Harukawa (with a dagger). It then soon followed with other characters.
- (Object related to the character's talent) Out, people Explanation A method of condolence, this happens whenever they witnessed the character killed or being executed. Examples were: "Pianos Out" for Kaede, "Rackets Out" for Ryoma, "Brooms Out" for Kirumi, "Paint brushes Out" for Angie and "Pantas Out" for Kokichi.
- DO NOT THROW THE ROBOT! Explanation A sequel to DO NOT FUCK THE ROBOT. A reaction to the fans in Chapter 2 when Keebo was being thrown as a battering ram to break the aquarium and retrieve Ryoma's skeletal remains, fans of him questioned on when the bullying towards Keebo would stop.
- (Character's Name) Protection Squad Explanation In-Universe twice. The first one was when Kaede was about to be executed, Kaito, Tenko, and Gonta tried to stop Monokuma from executing her and fans thought of them as the Kaede Protection Squad. The second one was when Angie formed the cult containing Tsumugi, Tenko, Himiko, and Keebo being formed as the Angie Protection Squad. Outside of the game, fans would form a squad of their favorite characters as they hoped that they will survive the game. The most prominent squad was the Gonta Protection Squad, and the Keebo Protection Squad.
- FICTION Explanation Once Tsumugi is outed as the mastermind the word fiction is constantly thrown around and used to justify all of her actions. The fandom had plenty of fun spinning this several different ways.
- Hope! Despair! Hope! Despair! / KIBOU DA! ZETSUBOU DA! Explanation When Keebo becomes the final PTA Boss, the Danganronpa audience's comments will eventually turn into a repetitive mess of these two terms.
- With the amount of Ho Yay shipping in the fandom along with the LGBT Fanbase, there was many sprite videos where the cast sang Gay or European?.
- Weeby Newz is Kaede Explanation After a famous YouTuber who posts videos about Danganronpa named Weeby Newz went out on a long hiatus without note, many people ended joking that she was Kaede and she was away from YouTube participating in this killing game. The meme became stronger after she did a face reveal, showing that she actually looks like Kaede and she also happens to be a huge fan of Kaede.
- The Famitsu Poster Explanation When the Famitsu article showed a poster of Danganronpa V3, fans have started to make a meme out of it. Such as Shuichi being placed on different pictures because of his pose.
- K one B zero Explanation In the English translation, Keebo spells out his name this way when introducing himself. There are some who preferred the Japanese spelling, some preferred the English spelling, and some decided to make a meme out of it.
- Following the reveal in Chapter 3, everything regarding Korekiyo - dubbed 'Salt' (塩) by the Japan fandom, 'Tulpaman' by certain Western imageboards, and 'The Folklore Cunt' by segments of the Western fandom thanks to Vidya's Abridged Series - has become a meme. Common jokes include salt, the concept of tulpas, sister complexes, and the idea of giving '100 friends' to people.
- Gonta telling truth/Caveman Gonta Explanation Gonta going from merely being a Third-Person Person in Japanese to using full-on Hulk Speak in the English localization became a meme right away. It didn't help that his voice actor joined in on the jokes as well.
- A new killing game with begin again.Explanation A particularly egregious typo from the original launch of the English version; it was patched quickly, but because it wasn't caught (it was part of the opening cutscene) was utterly ridiculous to many, and players who didn't get it patched got to see this typo again during chapter six as one hell of a mood killer.
- Korekiyo's love of Seesaws. Explanation Comes from the Chapter 3 Hangman's Gambit and how Korekiyo would've been able to pull off a perfect murder had he not used the "seesaw effect" to kill Tenko. The difficulty some players had with identifying that term as the needed phrase, and how silly it sounds, didn't help.
- Atua, Angie's cult deity, being used in place of "God" in phrases or as an all purpose answer much like Angie does in game.
- Generally speaking, when at least two fans have a disagreement on certain things, it is common for somebody to state to try to solve things via a "Scrum Debate".
- Comparing Rantaro Amami to an avocado is common due to his light green hair. In regards to his death, there's also jokes about how the avocado got turned into guacamole.
- Shuichi Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing. Explanation With Shuichi and his gang not voting at the final class trial to end the killing game once and for all, jokes have been made that Shuichi did nothing. Also applies to the stretch of the trial in which you get a Nonstop Debate, Hangman's Gambit, Psyche-Taxi, and multiple-choice question, all of which have to be passed by doing nothing rather than playing.
- Still Got a Ways to Go.Explanation Ryoma Hoshi's catchphrase caught on pretty quick with the English-speaking fans, noting any character who failed to achieve a goal, particularly the killers, "Still had a ways to go."
- Humanity is beautiful Explanation This line has started to get thrown around in the fanbase, usually whenever something related to Korekiyo (the person who said this) comes up.
- "Damn normies! Go backflip onto a landmine and explode!" Explanation Tsumugi's sudden fit of jealous rage is often joked about, especially because the people she's quoting this to are the ones she ends up killing.
- Clair de Lune. Explanation To many DR fans, Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy will be forever synonymous with Kaede, her death, and to a lesser extent the point at which it plays in Chapter 6. Expect Viewers in Mourning whenever it comes up.
- This guy should have died instead of Kaede.Explanation A line in the last Argument Armament, uttered by a fan of the Danganronpa TV show, ends up sometimes being echoed by real life fans who like Kaede more than Shuichi.
- This image of Kaede as a baby has gone memetic, due to many people finding the panel depicting her as a baby either creepy or Narmy, and there are numerous◊ parodies◊ of◊ the◊ image◊ using other characters or simply photoshopping◊ her face◊ onto them◊.
Kokichi: But that's the maymay's lie, isn't it?
