Battle of the Ultimates/Tropes

Tropes associated with Battle of the Ultimates.

* A Million Is a Statistic: The only deaths that show up in the summary are those where the Ultimates die. Some events have Chris McLean turn up dead, but he's fine and well come next event.
* Accidental Murder: When two Ultimates get into an epic final battle, there is a chance that bystanders can get caught in the crossfire and killed as a result. During the Fangan invasion, the event was expanded such that up to seven bystanders can get caught in the crossfire.
* Almost Kiss: There are cases where two Ultimates are about to kiss, when something happens that kills one or both Ultimates.
* Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: One possible "death" scenario has an Ultimate do this rather than actually dying.
* Ax-Crazy: When an Ultimate goes genocide and racks up a high body count in a single round, this trope applies.
* Babies Ever After: Hajime Hinata and Nagito Komaeda had sextuplets the night after their wedding, with Gonta Gokuhara, Gundham Tanaka, and Ibuki Mioda there to party on.
* Badass Normal: Hajime Hinata, Makoto Naegi, and Nagito Komaeda.
* Badass Pacifist: Korekiyo Shinguji in Round 3, Celestia Ludenburg in Round 23, Angie Yonaga in Round 208, and Rantaro Amami in Round 324.
* Big Red Button: An Ultimate can die from pressing the big red button.
* Black Dude Dies First: Whenever Akane Owari, Angie Yonaga, or Aoi Asahina is the one to get dead last.
* Body Count Competition: There's a kill tally that's keeping track of all the Ultimates' kills throughout the series. Starting from Round 200, the Fangan characters get their separate kill tally.
* Chained to a Railway: A death scenario has the trolley problem, where three Ultimates are tied to one track, and a second track has only one Ultimate tied to it.
* Cheaters Never Prosper: An Ultimate can get VAC banned for various reasons.
* Cruel and Unusual Death: It may be rare for an Ultimate to *not* die in this fashion.
* Cuteness Overload: One of the custom events involves an Ultimate dying of heart failure because they find another Ultimate too adorable.
	+ An inversion of the event also appears, which has an Ultimate who's so ugly that three other Ultimates just die. The End.
	+ Another custom event has an Ultimate coming across adorable fanart of themselves and dying from their own cuteness. There is also an inversion where an Ultimate comes across cursed fanart of themselves and dies from the sheer cringe of it.
* Demonic Possession: In one of the custom events, an Ultimate possesses another Ultimate's body and uses it to kill a third Ultimate.
* Despair Event Horizon: In Round 139, Kokichi Oma sees Shuichi Saihara die in front of him, and becomes so despair-ridden he succumbs to his bad health the next death.
* Die Laughing: Several events have Ultimates literally dying from laughter.
* Disproportionate Retribution: Sometimes, Ultimates retaliate harshly to petty things done to them by others by killing them.
* Driven to Suicide: Sometimes, it's all too much for an Ultimate, which results in them taking their own life.
* Early Installment Weirdness: The main BT Productions code gets constantly adjusted as new rounds come out. Also, the early rounds were rife with Ultimate Imposter kills, and he was bound to be the first Ultimate to get 100 overall kills until BT Productions activated a retcon penalty on him.
* Epic Fail: Any Ultimate who dies in the bloodbath by stepping off their podium too soon counts as this.
* Everyone is Bi: Ultimates can kill each other for love, and the target of affection does not depend on gender.
* Fatal Method Acting: One death event has six Ultimates reenacting a Shakespearean tragedy, where one of the actors becomes the sole survivor. The only difference between the TV Tropes and BT Productions version? In BT Productions, the survivor does not kill everyone else.
* Gambit Pileup: Alliances are made and broken with alarming frequency.
* Hoist by His Own Petard: Quite a lot of Ultimates die because of their own antics.
* I'm a Humanitarian: Occasionally, one Ultimate might kill and eat another in a primal craze.
* I Surrender, Suckers: An Ultimate can trick another into sparing them to catch the other off-guard.
* Karmic Death: Sometimes, a death is noted by BT Productions to be karmic retribution.
* Killed Offscreen: Some events don't show how an Ultimate died, but only the aftermath. Some are from natural causes, while others imply that another Ultimate killed them. This is taken to the extreme in Round 153, where only the placements were given.
* Leeroy Jenkins: One custom event has an Ultimate screaming their name loudly as they charge at five other Ultimates, getting themselves killed.
* Lethal Chef: One custom event has an Ultimate try using a flamethrower to cook, with another Ultimate getting too close and being burnt up as a result.
* Mad Bomber: Any Ultimate that amasses a large number of kills using explosives could be considered one of these.
* Mercy Kill: Ultimates will often ask for this to be their fate. Most of the time, the other Ultimate doesn't go through with it. But sometimes, the other Ultimate will reluctantly agree to do it.
* Mister Seahorse: There was one event where Byakuya Togami, Kokichi Oma, and Shuichi Saihara partied upon seeing Korekiyo Shinguji and Makoto Naegi having a baby. Then, Hajime Hinata and Nagito Komaeda had sextuplets the night after their wedding.
* Murder by Mistake: An Ultimate can shoot an arrow or a poisonous blowdart at a second Ultimate, only to miss and kill a third Ultimate instead.
* Nosebleed: In Round 63, Shuichi Saihara sees Korekiyo Shinguji and ends up dying of blood loss from the resulting nosebleed.
* One-Hit Polykill: There's an event where one Ultimate kills two or three others with a single bullet.
* One Steve Limit: During the Fangan invasion, there are two characters named "Akane" and two characters named "Hajime". So BT Productions manipulated the nicknames so they can be told apart. "Taira" refers to Akane Taira of Danganronpa Another, while "Hajime M" refers to Hajime Makunouchi of Super Danganronpa Another 2. Otherwise, if "Hajime" has no additional letters in the nickname, this refers to Hajime Hinata. During the birthday bash rounds, this issue was avoided entirely by using text only, forcing the events to refer to the characters by their full names.
* Retcon: The retcon penalty that was activated on Ultimate Imposter. Every time Imposter killed 2 or more Ultimates in a single round, the events would be adjusted so the next Ultimate to die gets credited with those kills instead of him.
* Stuff Blowing Up: One of the more dramatic ways for Ultimates to die involves this, often with multiple Ultimates dying at once. It's also not unknown for Ultimates to accidentally blow themselves up while trying to arm a landmine, and at least one Ultimate has managed to blow themselves up in the bloodbath by stepping off of their podium too early.
* Super Drowning Skills: Anyone who falls into a frozen lake. There's also a death where an Ultimate tries to take a bath in a river, only to die instantly.
* The Bad Guy Wins: When Junko Enoshima or Tsumugi Shirogane wins a round.
* The Graduate Homage Shot: Shuichi Saihara objected to Chihiro Fujisaki and Kokichi Oma's wedding by calling out for Kokichi.
* The Password Is Always Swordfish: When Toko Fukawa asks Celestia Ludenburg for her WiFi password, Celeste answers that it is swordfish.
* There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Up to five Ultimates can take down one. An unrelated event has an Ultimate killing another this way, just to spite a third Ultimate.
* They Killed Kenny Again: The 47 Ultimates that died in a particular round come back the next round as if nothing happened.
* Too Dumb to Live: Some Ultimates die from their own stupidity, such as when one presses a Big Red Button out of curiosity, causing the machine to explode on them.
* Trademark Favorite Food: There's a potential event where an Ultimate transforms another Ultimate into their favorite food and eats it. Also, an Ultimate can exploit this by feeding another with food so delicious that they shoot straight up into the forcefield. It's almost always implied that the food in question is the victim's favorite.
* Under the Mistletoe: Gonta Gokuhara and Sonia Nevermind awkwardly kissed under a mistletoe. There are also several incidents where one Ultimate refused to kiss the other Ultimate under a mistletoe by killing them.
* Ungrateful Bastard: There are times when Ultimates are kind to others, only for the recipients to repay them by killing them.
* Walk on Water: Sometimes, an Ultimate will try to walk on water, only to drown. Also, there's a variant where an Ultimate will try to walk on lava, only to burn to death.
* Wedding Day: In one highlight, Aoi Asahina married Mukuro Ikusaba. In another, Hajime Hinata and Nagito Komaeda had their lovely wedding.
* Wedding Enhanced Fertility: The night after Hajime Hinata and Nagito Komaeda's wedding, they had sextuplets (and Gonta Gokuhara, Gundham Tanaka, and Ibuki Mioda were there to party).