Dysfunction Junction: Besides some exceptions, most of the students are in some way damaged or have led a difficult life.Surely no one will take Monokuma up on his offer of graduation! Dwindling Party: Fifteen students in a school where the only way out is through murder.Ditzy Genius: There are so many oddballs within the class that it becomes easy to forget that every one of them earned their title for a reason.Dispense with the Pleasantries: Several students (Byakuya especially) do this whenever Monokuma delivers a meaningless anecdote in the middle of a serious dialogue or exposition.The Cynic: Byakuya and Toko, two of the most negative people in the group who seem to reflect the world's apparent level of cynicism both survive to see the story to its hopeful conclusion.Commonality Connection: The manga reveals that this is what led to Mondo and Kiyotaka's friendship, where they start out with a lot of negative assumptions about the other but come to admire each other's determination in the face of life's many hardships.Mukuro Ikusaba - Gray (in the animation).Makoto Naegi - Black (no introduction screen, but that's the background when we first see him) Orange (in the animation).As each student introduces himself/herself, there's a different colored background behind each of them. Color-Coded Characters: Minor example.Clear Their Name: Happens to Toko, Byakuya, Yasuhiro, Toko and Yasuhiro again, and Kyoko.Character Development: Many tend to lose personality traits the longer they survive.Cast of Snowflakes: A very intentional thing.This trope, however, doesn't apply to the surviving students at all, since they are main or major characters in Side:Future. Maizono is the only one of them who has a speaking role. The murdered and executed students all appear briefly in Naegi's hallucination in Side:Future, except Enoshima and Ikusaba.Among the cameo characters, only Naegi and Maizono have speaking roles. All of them appear briefly in the final episode of Side:Despair, with only Enoshima and Ikusaba being recurring and major characters during the second half of the show.To say that the sheer depth of his kindness catches her off-guard would be an understatement. She's mistrustful by nature and keeps her emotions to herself while Makoto wears them on his sleeve, and is incredibly trusting. Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Makoto and Kyoko are a Gender Flipped version.This divergence in motivations gives Mondo an insecure, aggressive personality while Kiyotaka ends up with a driven but overbearing personality. Meanwhile, Daiya Owada died through a gutsy act proving the lengths he'd go to protect his little brother on the night that Mondo was supposed to surpass him, and now Mondo spends his days simply trying to live up to his brother's memory without a specific end-goal (since the bar was raised to a point Mondo can't possibly reach). The main difference is that Toranosuke Ishimaru died with a legacy of corruption and debt upon his family, setting a bar that Kiyotaka can potentially overcome through force of will (which he's chosen to focus of his life around). Both have personalities defined by surpassing someone: for Mondo it's his brother and for Kiyotaka it's his grandfather. Birds of a Feather: Mondo and Kiyotaka, oddly.Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Some deviate from this, but for the most part everyone looks exactly like what they are.It gets rather blatant when photos of everyone around two years ago are shown and yet none of them have appeared to age. Artistic Age: All the students bar Yasuhiro are supposed to all be around the same age, but certainly don't look that.Top Row: Aoi Asahina Middle Row: Yasuhiro Hagakure, Junko Enoshima, Mukuro Ikusaba, Celestia Ludenberg, Sakura Ogami, Leon Kuwata, Mondo Owada, Chihiro Fujisaki, Hifumi Yamada, Kiyotaka Ishimaru, and Byakuya Togami Bottom Row: Toko Fukawa, Sayaka Maizono, Makoto Naegi, and Kyoko Kirigiri
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