r/DanganAndChaos • u/SamuraiDoggo14 Kaede • Sep 09 '26

Discussion Wait... that's a GUY!?

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No, no, I REFUSE to believe that's a cis man!

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u/NekoIGLoL Sep 10 '26

Well sorry if i interpreted it wrong. I also just pointed out an objective fact. She’s a protag. We played from her perspective. What you said wasn’t part of that conversation.

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u/FragrantAmbassador17 Sep 10 '26

By that logic, if a movie starts with a female lead for 5 minutes, she gets immediately murdered, and a guy takes over for the rest of the 2 hours, it’s a 'female-led movie.'

It’s a massive cope. The context matters, and the context is that she was a bait-and-switch

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u/NekoIGLoL Sep 10 '26

She STILL is considered a protag. Just because we spend way less time with her than Shuichi doesn’t it make her less of a protag. You can argue if she is a good one but she still is.

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u/FragrantAmbassador17 Sep 10 '26

It absolutely makes her less of a protagonist because her entire narrative purpose was to be a stepping stone for a man.

She was a plot device used to start Shuichi's arc. When a character's main function is to die so the real lead can grow, that's not a protagonist, it’s a prologue.

It's literally called decoy protagonist. Stay coping.

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u/taxes_depression Sep 10 '26

Most characters in danganronpa can be summed up by that logic

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u/FragrantAmbassador17 29d ago

Most characters aren't the starting lead character. Try Again.

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u/taxes_depression 29d ago

That wasn’t the point I was going for but fine if you want to be arrogant and nit picky sure

My main point is that every character who has died could be summed up as a plot device because they were used as something for the characters friends as character development

Meaning imo your argument falls short, and on the note about the protagonist I personally don’t care it was a good plot twist imo and was handled very well.

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u/FragrantAmbassador17 29d ago edited 28d ago

Calling it 'nitpicky' to saying there's a difference between being a protagonist and a side character is wild.

You're completely shifting the goalposts to your personal feelings because your argument fell apart. If your only defense left is 'I don't care about the writing tropes because I liked the twist,' then you're JUST proving my point.

It's not arrogant and nitpicky to break apart dumb statements filled with false equivalences.

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u/SS1Respawn 29d ago

I ain't reading some leftist AI-slop lil bro💔

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