Roleplay / Dangan Roleplay Nickelodeon VS Cartoon Network

"So let's be buddies. We can be sad about people we love dying together."

-Sokka

Tropes from the third gimmick round of Dangan Roleplay.

This round provides examples of:

• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Sokka. After being faked out by the hostage motive, he slowly gives up hope of ever seeing Suki again, and he starts to fall for Marinette. She starts to feel the same too, but it's a bit different for her, Adrien being dead and all.
• Accidental Truth: Sokka posits that Noatak is Amon just to get at Tarrlok, whom he believes betrayed them by lying about his past. Actually, he's right.
• All for Nothing: Monobear takes great pleasure in showing the teams that the third motive was a fake after people were already dying for it.
• And You Thought It Was a Game: Muriel thinks at first that this is all a staged mystery party.
• Apocalyptic Log: The adoption videos, which show how the original Foster's Home residents started to disappear.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: A Gender Flip where Steven is the heart, Sokka is the brains, and Vegeta is the one who solves everything by punching it.
• Big "NO!": Aelita when the second culprit confesses.
• Big "SHUT UP!": Wirt to Daffy when the latter is trying to make excuses for killing Panda.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: Jorgen, Katz, and Zalost, respectively — though only one of them is truly evil, the other two an Obstructive Bureaucrat and a reformed villain who were nonetheless forced to serve Katz.
• Bile Fascination: Used In-Universe when Sokka and Tarrlok decide to watch an inaccurate historical drama.
• Blackmail: There's a secrets motive, and this time, some of the characters' secrets actually are exposed.
• Blackmail Backfire: The secrets motive, to a point. While someone still dies, the culprit wasn't moved to act by the motive, and in fact, he publicly announces his own secret. The one who is motivated by the blackmail, Tarrlok, moves past the pit of despair he falls into and strikes out not against another orphan but against Monobear.
• Bloodstained Letter: Aelita's journal, though the blood is just from when she got cut on the bathroom tile.
• Brick Joke: The first challenge forces the orphans to play Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), and Vegeta is more and more frustrated with the game the longer it goes on. He tries to get better, but the next day, the CN team's arcade cabinet gets destroyed in a flood. Much later, after the teams merge, Vegeta is seen trying to play the Nick side's copy of the game.
• Canon Welding: Some of the Nick characters recognize the Crimson Chin and Reptar, Show Within a Show characters from other Nick series.
• Cassette Craze: Justified with the tapes, since they were set up to record interviews and only by chance ended up recording an Apocalyptic Log.
• Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs: Reptar Cereal, one of the many Reptar licensed snack foods in the pantries.
• Chunky Salsa Rule: Used and named when Tarrlok's body is found. Monobear mocks it by giving everyone salsa at breakfast the next day, too.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Team Nick has orange and white Electronic Student Handbooks. Team CN's are black and white. The same goes for their sides of the dividing wall.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: Minor or warning infractions will often result in sliming, much like Disney Ronpa's glitter-dumping, or in individual silly punishments like in Smash. For an example of the latter, Ren gets all his expletives (or even near-expletives) censored for a week after he smuggles himself through Mailbox.
• Cool, but Stupid: Many of the challenges are designed to be both epic and silly, especially the Pokémon one.
• Couldn't Find a Pen: The first victim tried to write his killer's name in blood. He made it to one letter, which got turned into an emoticon with minimal tampering.
• Crossword Puzzle: One is a clue in the first case.
• Curse Cut Short: Vegeta whenever he's around Muriel, who's determined to censor him.
• Death by Secret Identity: Jinafire dies the same week that she finds out that Zoey is an alien, leaving the latter safe for a while.
• Denied Food as Punishment: Team Nick faced this possibility if they were to lose the first challenge. However, they won and got their own kitchen.
• Destructive Savior: Perhaps calling back to Tarrlok's Heroic Sacrifice, the rescue party busts through the wall in an RV.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Nearly everyone at the first culprit's confession.
• Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: In the first week, a few contestants discuss what might happen if someone gives into the bear's game. Someone killing Ren because he'd threatened to off the whole house is mentioned as a distinct possibility, and Ren himself doesn't help when he never explains what he does and convinces Kel that he's setting death traps.
• Dramatic Shattering: The snowglobe in the second execution.
• Drowning My Sorrows: After Tarrlok's argument with Sokka and subsequent breakdown at the secrets motive, he goes to get wasted in the nightclub.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: The team merger is precipitated by Tarrlok baiting Monobear into blowing him up with a chunk of the dividing wall.
• Failed Dramatic Exit: When Adrien's dead, Plagg thinks he can just leave the orphans and go through the wall to get out. He collides with the wall.
• Fantastic Racism: A fairly common misunderstanding or even outright conscious act in Monobear's Home. Panda is suspected at every turn of being connected to Monobear because he's a bear and even killed for it, Jinafire notes that the others use "monster" as an insult regularly, Zoey is offended by alien-fetish romance novels, and a number of the human students have to reevaluate that mindless aliens and monsters from their own worlds are not the same as their fellow captives. It leads to some friction within the group.
• Fastball Special: Jorgen hurls Ladybug through the air in the last fight.
• Fat and Skinny: The protagonists, Steven and Sokka.
• Fate Worse than Death: The thought process behind condemning Katz to eternal imprisonment in the Spirit World in a form he despises.
• Fed to the Beast: The dead students and Rolf, though the latter actually survived and became the Spider Swarm's new king.
• Foreshadowing: Wow, the mastermind really seems to have it out for Ren, huh? No Dogs Allowed.
  • Adrien's time of death is listed as 1:13. 1 comes after 12, and the Monster High universe has a 13-hour clock and 13 as an Arc Number.
• Friendly Target: Sokka is called "the Dave of NvC" because his friends just keep getting murdered.
• Friendly War: The Nick and CN teams bear one another no ill will, and the setup means they can only kill their own teammates, not their opponents.
• Groin Attack: Ren resorts to this when he has to fight Vegeta in the fourth challenge. It goes poorly for him.
• Head Desk: Vlad gets extremely frustrated during the fourth trial and repeatedly bangs his head on his podium.
• Homemade Sweater from Hell: Muriel knits these for everyone as soon as the sewing room opens up.
• Human Mail: When the Nick team meets Mailbox, Ren stuffs himself inside to see the other team. Monobear promptly bans this practice.
• Hurricane of Puns: Any time Jinafire and Cat Noir are in the same room. Even the murder log.
• I Have Your Wife: Twice. One is a hostage motive, which is later exposed as a fake. The second time, Monobear holds TOM, Face, and Mailbox captive and demands that the united orphans solve the mysteries of the orphanage.
• "I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: The remaining survivors versus the corrupted Lapis. They nearly reach her, but she's still about to kill Steven when Ladybug has to shatter her gem.
• I'll Kill You!: The first culprit has people jumping at them right away, one even threatening this from past the impenetrable glass the Nick team is trapped behind.
• Incessant Music Madness: The second part of the three-curses motive is an all-day playback of the same annoying song.
• I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: Monobear heavily frowns upon the Loophole Abuse the Nick team used in the fourth challenge, but as he can't punish them for it, he takes it out on Face.
• Kill It with Fire: After being tempted by the voice from the Aku painting, Ren almost sets the house on fire.
• Know Your Vines: Squidward doesn't and he accidentally sends Lapis a poisonous "bouquet."
• Last-Second Word Swap: At the first afterparty, Vlad calls Sokka "D-- dear boy."
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: For all represented canons, particularly Courage the Cowardly Dog and, due to the presence of a The Legend of Korra character, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• Late to the Punchline: Vegeta takes every Punny Name in his canon for granted... until Sokka actually points one out when he talks about it.
• Lost My Appetite: Sokka and Tarrlok after the first challenge, even though they'd been starved for days. It even put Sokka off of meat!
• Man Hug: Jade and Vegeta hug awkwardly before the former's execution. Vegeta doesn't really seem to know what he's doing.
• Man-Made House Flood: Kel accidentally starts doing this when he tries to prevent Ren from burning the house down.
• Marry Them All: After Adrien revives and Sokka gains hope of seeing Suki again after all, the awkward conversations that ensue lead to the second Teenage Polyblob.
• Mercy Kill: Lapis attempts it on Jade so she won't have to be executed. She's stopped, however.
• Mundane Luxury: Team Nick's kitchen, after a few days of eating nothing but slime and machine prizes.
• My Grandma Can Do Better Than You: When trying to get Wirt to fight in the fourth challenge, Zoey says a dog could hit harder.
• Noodle Incident: Before coming with the rescue party to save the player characters, Rick evidently ran afoul of Ford Pines.
• Nose Nuggets: Big foam ones in the third challenge, out of a giant fake nose.
• Obvious Rule Patch: Once Ren actually mails himself to the other team, Monobear makes a rule against it.
• Orphanage of Fear: The setting is a corrupted version of Foster's Home.
• Orphanage of Love: What the Home is supposed to be (and was, before the mastermind took over).
• Orphan's Ordeal: The captives are called "orphans" instead of "students" (but still have Super High School Level titles) and are trapped in an Orphanage of Fear.
• Pass the Popcorn: Plagg isn't exactly sympathetic at the secrets motive.
• Pinky Swear: At the fifth trial when they're about to vote, between Sokka, Steven, and (with a lot of convincing) Vegeta.
• Please Wake Up: Ren attempts this at the second body discovery, slapping the body's face and yelling at the victim to "stop being dead."
• Punished for Sympathy: TOM for stunning Jade before her execution (never mind that it was to stop her from rushing Monobear).
• Put Off Their Food: Sokka and Tarrlok after the disturbing first challenge, which involves having to sit through depictions of force-feeding and pseudo-cannibalism.
• Redemption Equals Death: Deliberately invoked after Tarrlok's breakdown and the fourth trial. He decides to do something to help the others instead of try to keep himself safe for once in his life, and he lures Monobear into killing him right where he can blow up part of the wall too.
• Revenge Before Reason: No fewer than three people jump to this in the first trial and have to be held back.
• Running Gag: Muriel hitting Vegeta to chide him for cursing. In the final log, Vegeta hits Rick with a frying pan in the exact same manner, knocking him out, and says, "Language."
• Saved by Canon: From Tarrlok's point of view, Sokka must survive the events of the round to preserve the timeline. Zig-zagged. Sokka is just as vulnerable to the RNG as anyone else, but he coincidentally makes survivor pool anyway.
• Say My Name: "TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" at his Heroic Sacrifice.
• The Scream: Nearly everyone when they find what used to be Tarrlok's body all over the waiting room.
• Skyward Scream: Steven when he finds Panda dead.
• Sneaking Snacks: The first killer relied on knowing that his victim would raid the cupboards in the night.
• Something Only They Would Say: Monobear orders TOM to say something to prove he's not a fake when the coaches are held hostage.
• So Proud of You: In the epilogue, TOM tells Steven this and Madame Foster tells it to the coaches.
• Stunned Silence: Wirt when he walks in to find Aelita and Beatrice messily dead in the casino.
• Tap on the Head: Played straight whenever Muriel hits Vegeta with a frying pan, but two characters actually do die from blunt force trauma to the head.
• Teeth Flying: When Vegeta beats him up at the fourth team challenge, Ren loses a tooth.
• Telepathic Sprinklers: Justified in the Case 5 execution ending. Face is remotely controlling the sprinklers, so they're not all going off on their own.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Vegeta's "SNEAK ATTACK, BITCH!" when the final trial comes to blows.
• Tiger Versus Dragon: Not quite, but the closest thing to make an allusion with, when Cat Noir ends up fighting Jinafire for the case two murder.
• Torture Always Works: Monobear's way of life, even when he could get results another way.
• Torture Cellar: The CN team finds one in week 3, apparently used on their own coach. The Nick team finds theirs a week later.
• Trap Door: Case 5 reveals that every podium has one inside, ready to drop the orphans into an open furnace. TOM and Face rebel in time to save them from a mass execution, though.
• Two Lines, No Waiting: Investigation logs. There's a section for the team that actually lost a member to investigate the death, and the other team gets a setting investigation.
• Versus Title: Because it's the first round to be based on teams.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: This round has a truly detestable sadist of a mastermind, but balances it out with the coaches, who were Forced into Evil and are actually pretty likeable.
• Wham Episode: The end of the peace week. The characters wake up with a wall between the teams and are assigned coaches and team challenges, and the players finally learn why the title has "versus" in it.
• Wrong-Name Outburst: At the first afterparty, Vlad very nearly does this, stopping himself in time.
• Your Mom: In the fourth challenge, Zoey has Wirt pretend to be offended by a comment like this so he can tackle her.