YMMV / Trustfell

• Audience Awareness Advantage: Actually one of the things that's played with. The basics everybody knows but the characters wouldn't ("you're in a murder game," "you're all from different worlds," "there are going to be incentives/investigations/executions"...) tend to be explained earlier than was normal at the time; for example, the rules are posted in all the rooms, including the terms of how to win the game, before the mastermind even speaks to the captives.
• Awesome Music: Often linked from characters' canons.
• Catharsis Factor: All that corpse mistreatment of the mastermind in the end of round one had to be a little of this OOC. It was definitely In-Universe Catharsis, too.
• Cry for the Devil: So many culprits will make you pity them.

• Game-Breaker: Sukuyo's chicken plan in Round 1 would have been this had it worked, not only because it was intended to bring the dead back into the living world but because it very nearly included a Crossover Punchline to the very series the ending revealed they were actually in!
• Genre Turning Point: We have this game to thank for practically every murdergame with a stealth crossover setting and/or mastermind; the mass-ex subgenre prior to this point had basically just been Dangan Roleplay, which stuck to established settings and characters (the only time it went outside of the Danganronpa universe for either prior to Trustfell used a previous round's character, who had returned for the round in question, and his home). DRRP itself ended up doing surprise crossover masterminds in its later gimmick rounds (from the pool of applicable characters for both, given they were gimmicks), and nowadays, most murdergames, in both the mass-ex and scapegoat subgenres, use surprise crossover masterminds and/or settings.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Early in Round 2, while Kamui and Zagi are gossiping about the other Survivors, Kamui says Yosuke has no spine to speak of. At almost the exact same point in Round 6, Jericho kills Yosuke by blowing up his vertebrae from the inside.
  • In the first round, there's an offhand mention when the Conductor clarifies the rules, saying that a heart attack wouldn't count as a murder unless a fellow captive somehow caused it. In the second round, this actually happens when Misa regains her Death Note.
  • In Round 2, the dead at first don't want to be obvious about haunting the living in case the Kingmaker uses them as hostages for a motive. The first answer arc, Round 4, does use a threat against the dead as a motive.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Once the Conductor's identity was revealed, Bakugou having discussed with him how losing his power to cause explosions felt became this.
  Kimblee: "I can understand that sort of feeling, I think."
  • The backstory of Round 2 involves Hans Westergaard being directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of nearly a whole round's worth of people. Later that same year, in It's Curtains, another murdergame in a separate continuity, the same character undergoes a redemption arc and makes the survivor pool.
  • Round 3 is loaded with this. From the very beginning, many of the characters were lamenting for a bar. Well, they got one...
• Magic Franchise Word: "Accountability" and "take responsibility" are starting to become these.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Bad Outfits.^Explanation  The rounds tend to give characters alternate outfits to wear, and they tend to be... less than desirable.
  • Hot or Not.^Explanation  A pretty common theme throughout the rounds is characters speculating on how hot their fellow murdergame participants are.
  • Chicken Riot.^Explanation  Round One petitioned to bring chickens into the building. This succeeded.
  • The McDonald's Petition.^Explanation  One of Rick's petitions that wound up being Hilarious in Hindsight later on, as the Conductor didn't even know what the restaurant was.
  • Benedict Cumberbatch and/or Donald Trump as the mastermind.^Explanation Ashley thought the Conductor looked like the former, and Rick insisted on calling him the latter.
  • Dio's screaming head.^Explanation  Dio did not take his execution very lightly, to say the least.
  • Losing your knife privileges.^Explanation  Dio kept the entire knife drawer in his pants, which he brought with him to his execution. Suffice to say, a new rule was added post-haste that took everyone’s steak knife privileges away after the fact. Received a Call-Back in Round 5 when Rin took things into her own hands after too many people stole knives for protection.
  • [X] people are dead/died for a shitty pun.^Explanation  Starting with Conductor (as explained below), it's a decently common utterance to utter this at all of the shenanigans going on in-game.
  • Harry Potter ships.^Explanation  Deadland got into some... interesting discussions during the final trial, to say the least. Or at least Ashley and Asuka did.
  • Conductor. ^{Round One Spoilers}  During the final investigation log, the survivors found a book/journal explaining the true meaning of the mastermind's title.
  • Everything about Round 1's Mastermind Trial.^Explanation  From talking about cutting off the mastermind's hands, to said mastermind proceeding to smash the mercy button, and Susan stabbing said mastermind in the face with a flaming sword, the final trial was very memorable and came out with a lot of running OOC jokes.
  • [X Series] CONFIRMED.^Explanation  Starting with Round 1, many of the mastermind reveals have also come with the reveal of just what world the survivors currently reside in.
  • The Norman Bates Clause.^Explanation The murdergame community has since taken this name from a Round 2 case and applied it to any case dealing with characters who murder while under the effects of a Split Personality (or anything similar, such as possession).
  • Sigrun's harem.^{Round 2 spoilers} Due to the fact that she was the only woman left standing in her round, it was joked that Sigrun was a Harem Seeker.
  • Therapy Pokemon.^Explanation  Pokemon characters tend to let their Pokemon be used as therapy pets for their fellow murdergame alumni.
  • Tamagarcher.^{Round Two Spoilers}  Non-canon, but a fanfiction where Archer was loaded into Misa's Tamagotchi instead of getting erased from the system became a joke to the point of confusing non-players who thought it was canon.
  • Muk for protag.^Explanation Since Round 3 didn't have a proper hero (though Katniss is often cited as the Decoy Protagonist, it's more of an ensemble story) and was a big part of murdergame players' conscious move away from "protag culture" and archetype-assigning, jokes were made that Archie's Muk, an NPC pet, was "the protag we deserve."
  • Juri goes to Otakon.^Explanation  Due to the way Otakon fell on a weekend while Round 3 was happening, the mods gave the players one weekend without a case. "Juri went to Otakon to get merch of his favorite Competitors" was the common (joked) theory of why no one murdered that weekend.
  • Are you wearing shoes?/Kidneys.^Explanation  During the second investigation of Round 4, the mods asked one of the investigators if they were wearing shoes. The common speculation was that the person was about to step on a kidney. Became an Ascended Meme in Round 6.
  • We need Jesus.^{Implied Round 4 Spoilers}  A common utterance at the rather interesting cases in the round. When the mastermind was revealed, a common alternative was "Needing Jesus got us into this mess."
  • Round 4's Mastermind.^{Spoilers for R4's Mastermind Identity}  Kirei Kotomine had already become a meme within the Dangan Roleplay community, but despite being aggressively himself, he had never been a mastermind. Turns out it'd take a whole different universe for that.
• Moral Event Horizon: Did Asuka cross it by shooting Ashley in the face to escape both the school and the fact that she might have friends? The question is explored both in-story by the characters and in OOC discussion. In the end, Ashley and the others start to open up to her again, cementing that she did not.
• Nausea Fuel: All of Round 6, Case 3, from the Gorn-filled crime scene to a severed arm being taken into the courtroom and especially all the gross bodily functions in the culprit reveal, culminating in gut bacteria that gained their own sentience mutating their host into a Parasite Zombie!
• Once Original, Now Common: Trustfell was very influential on its genre, and thus many plot twists that were truly shocking at the time are more common or even expected now. Some examples include masterminds being existing fictional characters, the twist on the hostage motive that implies or states that the hostages are or will be put into their own murdergame, and the concept of a surprise Round Zero.
• Signature Scene: The Flaming Sword incident in the first round's finale. It's even referenced in an item description for the same sword in the second round, not to mention wherever anyone brings up Susan.
• Too Cool to Live: At least one person will cry this over almost every character death.

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