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In works about or in a school, whether due to laziness or otherwise, Class X-A or Class X-1 (X being the year) will usually meet one or more of the following criteria:
# Most/all of the main characters or other important characters will conveniently be in that same class.
# That class will be [[Wacky Homeroom|the weirdest and liveliest one/will stand out the most within the school]].
# Said class will be a [[Weirdness Magnet]] or a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]].
This is a direct result of [[The Law of Conservation of Detail]].
In Japan, classes remain constant, with all classes except for PE, science, and home ec. taking place in one room, and the teachers being the ones cycling around instead of the students. The students in the class also tend to not get split from year to year very often, sometimes even using the same room and just changing the nameplate. As such, this finds its way into [[Japanese Media]] quite often, since [[They Just Didn't Care|the writers can't find any reason in themselves to care]] about which class the students are in, since there's no real difference and they'll all move up together in the same class anyway. Rather than actually work on choosing a number for the class, they decided to stick with an A or 1. Very rarely is there any deep meaning behind why it had to be A/1.
From a writing stance, this is convenient for keeping the main cast together without having to [[Hand Wave]] anything, since the target audience is used to that system and would readily accept it. What is not readily accepted is that the class number/letter tends to always be A or 1, and therefore this trope comes into being.
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In fact, a common aversion is to place the main character in the aforementioned second class, simply to try and not look like this trope.
Has nothing to do with [[Room 101]]. Compare [[Subject 101]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Rosario
** Also lampshaded by Mizore when she wonders if it was the headmaster that made sure that everyone was placed in the same class.
* ''[[
* ''[[Baka and Test Summon The Beasts]]'' [[Inverted Trope|inverts]] this with all the main characters being in Class F and Class A being the antagonists (they are arranged by their test scores). The other four classes in between are almost entirely inconsequential and only their [[Class Representative
* ''[[To
** The sequel, ''[[To Love Ru Darkness]]'', further reveals that the class that Momo, Nana, Yami and Mea are in is also A, but for the year before the main cast of the original. Mikan is later shown to be in 6-A in middle school.
* Mami of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Both of the main protagonists of ''[[
* ''[[
* Rio of ''[[
* All of the main cast who are students in ''[[
* Class A in ''[[
* Averted by Sousuke Sagara of ''[[Full Metal Panic
* Sen Yarizui of ''[[
* Ichika and
* Eita and Masuzu of ''[[Ore
* Yoshitaka and Izumi of ''[[He Is My Master]]'' are placed in class 2-A. Their sharing a class is convenient for Yoshitaka, since it allows for him to give Izumi orders from just the next desk over. Anna is also in that class.
* The main cast members of ''[[Mysterious Girlfriend X]]'' are all in 2-A.
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* Zenkichi of ''[[Medaka Box]]'', being the [[POV Boy]], is in class 1. Shiranui is also in that class {{spoiler|until she [[Face Heel Turn|switches to class -13 later on]]}}. The [[Poster Girl]] Medaka, however is in class 13, the class set aside for abnormals.
* The main character of ''[[Lovers Alpha]]'' is in class 3-A.
* This is averted by ''[[Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki
* ''Kodomo No Jikan'', the class Aoki teachers at the start (the number goes up as he teaches them for multiple grades) is Class 3-1. Seeing as Rin, Kuro and Mimi are (of course) in this class, it automatically falls under containing most of the main characters and is most certainly the most abnormal.
** A later chapter shows how when the girls are going up a grade, Aoki keeps intentionally arranging himself to be their homeroom teacher. He even tried putting [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis|Kuro]] in a separate class, but decided otherwise in the end.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]'' has the main character in Class 5-A. Naturally, three other main characters are in there too. The only human main character who isn't in that class conveniently doesn't go to that school in the first place.
** Likewise, ''[[
* Averted in ''[[
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