Doki Doki Literature Club! (Darth Wiki)

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Oh God. (From left to right: ųꝣųz̕āôËírÓŋi, Yuri, Natsuki, Monika)
"There's a little devil inside all of us."

Beneath their manufactured perception - their artificial reality - is a writhing, twisted mess of dread. Loathing. Judgement. Elitism. Self-doubt. All thrashing to escape the feeble hold of their host, seeping through every little crevice they can find. Into their willpower, starving them of all motivation and desire. Into their stomach, forcing them to drown their guilt in comfort food. Or into a newly-opened gash in their skin, hidden only by the sleeves of a cute new shirt.
Such a deplorable, tangled mass is already present in every single one of them.
That's why I choose not to blame myself for their actions.

All I did was untie the knot.
fucking monikammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

The Festival

MC: Jeez... You don't know the full story at all, so...
Monika: Don't worry. I probably know a lot more than you think.

  • (MC felt "a chill down [his] spine after hearing that.")
  • Madness Mantra: Sayori's final poem has "Get Out Of My Head" repeated many, many, many times.

Act 2

  • Arc Words: "Can you hear me?"
  • Brutal Honesty: When Natuki or Yuri talk, sometimes the text gets glitched with black/white text in script, and they say what they really mean about something (that's usually hidden in their mind). And what they think is either very nasty or disturbing.
  • Dissonant Serenity: Natsuki reacts to Yuri's corpse by screaming, vomitting and running away, while Monika reacts simply by laughing and saying "Well, that's a shame."
  • Driven to Suicide: During her love confession to MC, Yuri, overflowing with emotion, stabs herself with a kitchen knife and drops dead. The player's choice to either accept or decline her confession doesn't change a thing.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • Regarding Yuri and Natsuki's confrontation:

Monika: I'm sure Natsuki will forget all about it by tomorrow. Completely.

  • After the second outburst between Yuri and Natsuki, Yuri says that she wasn't mentally sound at that time and that she regrets her words.
  • Monika mentions writing a song that isn't done yet.
  • Monika: (to MC) Sometimes it feels like you and I are the only real people here. You know what I mean?
  • During Yuri's "déjà vu" scene:

Yuri: I just want to stay here. Just the two of us. We can stay here until the club ends. And then we'll have the clubroom all to ourselves. Nobody to interfere with our reading time. (Yuri shows her crazy eyes) Nobody to make me feel like stabbing myself in the throat. (Yuri's eyes go back to normal) Ahaha... That was a joke! Just a joke.

  • Yuri: (with a crazed expression) You're too nice, [name]. I've never met anyone as nice as you. I could die... N-Not really, but-!
  • If MC writes three poem that Yuri likes, Monika, when chosen for the poem sharing session, will simply say: "Don't say I didn't warn you, [name]."
  • The day before the weekend, Yuri obsessively describes how she feels when around MC, then says:

"But if it feels so good... Then why does it feel more and more like something horrible is going to happen?"

  • Leave the Camera Running: Played for drama. After Yuri kills herself, her corpse stays on the classroom floor, her dialogue box filled with corrupted text, and there is seemingly no end to the dialogue. Clicking the Skip button shows that MC stays inside the classroom for the entire weekend, day to night, her corpse and her blood fading.
  • Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: One of the special poems is not actually a poem, but a drawing of a hanged Sayori rendered in a childish way. hxppy_thxughts.png is derived from that image.
  • Slasher Smile: Yuri shows hers whenever her obsessive emotions take over.
  • A Worldwide Punomenon: The usual disclaimer text has a chance to be changed to "This game is not suitable for children / or those who are easily dismembered."

Act 3

  • Call Back: Monika ends her tip about saying the right words for criticism with "...Well, I guess that would be Monika's Debate Tip of the Day!"
  • Contemplate Our Navels: Monika, now alone with you, speaks her mind about various topics, from horror, to college, to her own friends.
  • Esoteric Happy Ending: Monika is very happy to achieve her own ending, even though it meant breaking the entire game.
  • Hip Hop: Discussed by Monika as one of her topics, who used to hate it, but grew more appreciative of the genre.
  • In-Universe: Defied. In Act 3, Monika rejects any pretense of talking about the circumstances between her and MC and talks directly to you.
  • Jump Scare: If you stream Monika's final scene, she'll notice and talk to the audience of a Let's Play. She will then want to show a trick. The camera zooms on her face... Just Kidding, it was nothing after- and then she hits you with a jump scare.
  • No Fourth Wall: Act 3 basically has no story. Monika admits that the script is broken beyond recognition at this point.
  • Redemption Equals Death: Struct by guilt over the horrible things she did to get closer to the player, Monika restarts the game, restoring every girl except herself.
  • Ret-Gone: Discussed by Monika, about Sayori:

"Gosh, it's been a while since you've heard that name now, hasn't it? Yeah...it's because she doesn't exist anymore. Nobody does. I deleted all their files."

  • There Are No Therapists: Defied by Monika, who brings up mental illness and the stigma of getting help as a topic. She suggest to the player to consult a professional if they need it.
  • Tsundere: Discussed by Monika as one of her topics. She brings up Natsuki as an obvious example, and Deconstructs the Freudian Excuses of her personality (as a defense mechanism, her home situation).
  • Yandere: Discussed by Monika as one of her topics in Act 3. She brings up Yuri as an example of the trope.
  • You Monster!: When deleting Monika's character file in Act 3, her voice will react in outrage at your action. After a while, she will say she still loves you, and will react to her actions with My God, What Have I Done?.

Act 4

  • Bittersweet Ending: (Good Ending) Sayori thanks MC for joining her club, saying she already knew he would join, then obliterates the fourth wall (revealing her Medium Awareness) by thanking him for caring about all the girls in the game (by saving and loading to go through all the CGs). She then, with sadness, states the game is finished and thanks the player for playing. Fade to Black.
  • Call Back: The game ends with a voiced message from Monika, who plays the song she was talking about in Act 2.
  • Cruel Twist Ending / Downer Ending: (Bad Ending) Sayori thanks MC for joining her club, but then says she already knew he would join. She then thanks him for getting rid of Monika, and says she khows everything. Taken by adoration for MC, Sayori warps to Monika's glitched classroom, taking her place, wanting to say with MC f.o.r.e.v.e.r. Suddenly, Monika hijacks the game, deletes Sayori, laments the game's cruel fate, and makes the whole thing crash.
  • Developers' Foresight: If you add back a backup of Monika's character file at the start of Act 4, a message will appear: "Please stop playing with my heart. I don't want to come back." Monika's file then deletes itself.
  • Game Breaking Bug: After the end credits, Monika or Dan Salvato's final message is displayed. Then, an error mesage appears, telling the player to reinstall the game, and the game crashes. Rebooting the game does the same thing.
    • Deleting the "firstrun" file fixes the error.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: When Sayori displays Medium Awareness and an obsession for MC, what remains of Monika, realizing that the Literature Club will always corrupt innocent minds, hijacks the game and deletes everything in it, including herself.
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