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• Awesome Ego: Celestia, Togami and Enoshima have a veritable godlike level of arrogance, and it may well be a big factor in them all being some of the most popular characters in the franchise.
• Broken Base:
  • There are a fair amount of people who were disappointed when it was revealed that Junko Enoshima was the mastermind. This might be partly because the JUNKOS meme became a Discredited Meme on Something Awful around the time that the Let's Play reached the last trial, and people had been arguing for and against its increasing credibility.
  • The anime of the game is slowly causing this. Some fans find the adaptation disappointing since it has scenes that look like they came directly out of the game (such as executions and trial scenes) and there is nothing new, not to mention they cut down on many character-establishing scenes, while others enjoy it and are happy that it is so faithful and occasionally add up extra scenes that enhances the existing scenes (such as Leon's breakdown and desperate attempt to escape, or Kiyotaka's utter breakdown at Mondo being guilty and not defending himself).
    • The Funimation dub takes it to a new level. Mainly by replacing the main cast (bar Bryce Papenbrook) with their voice actors. The explanation as for why is that they hold the rights of the anime before the game was a success in the west. However, because Funimation didn't shy away of hiring the original voice actors from other adaptations (Neptunia, Blazblue, Disgaea), that still makes people wonder why they didn't recast the original voice actors after the fact.
    • This, however, is explained further in the Blu-Ray commentary track. Bryce Papenbrook was available to reprise his role by chance; he was already at Funimation to record for Attack on Titan, and therefore was available for the dub. However, the scheduling conflicts and cost of travel to bring every other voice actor would have resulted in the production going over-budget, so the decision was made to recast the entire dub sans Makoto.
  • The fashion sense of the Big Bad! Some think Junko fully deserves the title of the Ultimate Fashionista, and hold her up as an example of Evil is Sexy. Others dislike her wardrobe and label her a Fashion-Victim Villain.
  • Dangan Ronpa IF, too. Some people praise it for dwelling more on the relationship between Junko and Mukuro as well as making the latter an Ascended Extra. Others accuse it of making Mukuro a Mary Sue/Creator's Pet.
  • The pink blood, especially in the anime. People who aren't familiar with the game thinks that it ruins the suspense and it's not as scary as real blood, while fans of the game accept it and see it as stylistic choice for censorship.
  • The various differences in each translation, between the Let's Play, the fan translation, and the official localization. It's nigh-impossible to find people agreeing on which is better.
• Crazy Awesome/Love to Hate: The real Junko Enoshima.
• Critical Research Failure: In Case 2, you need to play Hangman's Gambit to prove that Toko has a split personality. However, you need to input "schizo". Schizophrenia is decidedly different from Dissociative Identity Disorder, which she ACTUALLY has and which the game correctly states before the trial starts.
  • In all fairness, the term may have been used to make the puzzle more fair. As it's the second case in the game, an answer as long as "split personality" would have likely been too long, while using an acronym like DID would have been far too short. "Schizo", while technically incorrect, is still used to refer to people with split personalities fairly often. It's likely the developers knew the difference though, as the puzzle is the only time "schizo" is used, with characters saying either split personality or DID in all other instances.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Pretty much every track qualifies, as the music was done by Masafumi Takada (of No More Heroes and God Hand), but Monokuma's theme is consistently a fan favorite.
• Cry for the Devil: Celeste's four manga chapters expend a lot of effort to show the level of her insecurity about her past, such as the shot of her younger self perched on a Trauma Swing when Makoto asks what her real name is. The final scene punches this one home where she's narrating that she has to die as Celeste while she's giving her Motive Rant; it says a lot that the first thought on her mind is staying in-character instead of the fact that she's about to die.
• Draco in Leather Pants:
  • Fans tend to forget that regardless of the situation pushed by Monokuma, Celeste still is responsible for two premeditated murder- manipulating Hifumi into killing Taka, then killing him herself (unlike Leon, who killed Sayaka in response to her own attempt to kill him, and Mondo, who killed Chihiro in a fit of rage), making her one of the most depraved characters in the game, but she carries herself in such an elegant, amusing manner that even her Freak Out! is often considered a plus point instead of showing how sociopathic she is. Even aside from her actions in Chapter 3, fans also generally overlook the fact that she callously victim-blamed Chihiro for being murdered simply because he broke the unofficial nighttime rule that the group had previously agreed to.
  • There's also Genocide Jack, who's unabashed in her status as a Serial Killer. Her reason for not killing anyone in the game is solely for Pragmatic Villainy instead of Even Evil Has Standards (though that trope does come up when she discusses the mastermind's actions), making her someone you would not want to meet in an alley alone, especially if you're a hot guy. Of course, when you're under the grip of Monokuma, it's easy to get fans tone down your depravity, and fandoms being obsessed with fictional serial killers simply on the logic that being a serial killer is hot is far from new.
  • Similarly, more than one Leon fan completely excuses his murder of Sayaka. Truth is, while he's not evil, in the original VN and the anime, he could have just left her inside the bathroom that had its door jammed in, and then gone to denounce her, but he chose to kill her instead. The manga interpretation kinda helps this camp though, see Alternate Character Interpretation above. Absolute Despair Girls saved him further when he showed his genuine tender side on Kanon in spite of constantly rejecting her and cemented some of the personality traits introduced in the manga.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: If the Let's Play polls are anything to go by, Genocider Syo is very popular with fans. Sakura, too.
• Fan Nickname: The people at Something Awful like to call Yamada goon, supergoon, ultragoon, and so-forth.
  • The Masked Man has gained the nickname Monoluchador.
• Moe: In-universe, Chihiro, who has a sizable fanbase due to looking like a "small, frightened animal".
• Nightmare Fuel: Monokuma's executions, while over-the-top and cartoonish, are also incredibly brutal. And it's implied that he ate Mondo's remains.
  • The Masked Man. My God the Masked Man. Especially the fact that it practically appeared out of nowhere.
• Non Sequitur Scene: The "Monokuma Theater" segments at the end of each ordinary day. It's Monokuma giving speeches about topics that are seemingly irrelevant.
• Player Punch: If you got all of Chihiro's Free Time conversations, you'll tell him that Oowada is the strongest. Now skip to the second trial and feel like an asshole.
• Tear Jerker: The last part of the second trial. How bad is it when Ishimaru, of all people, breaks down crying?
• The Scrappy: A lot of people don't like Yamada.
  • Alas, Poor Scrappy: People still felt bad when he died though.
  • Naegi also gets some flak for being a standard ordinary protagonist.
    • Hagakure was in the same "too bland" corner, but once he became a Deadpan Snarker people warmed to him considerably.