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Watching your classmates be brutally executed by a cartoon bear as punishment for their ♒recently-committed murders is a staple in the series. Not only are the people behind the killing games out to induce despair in their participants, but the devs behind the games are also hoping to instill it in you, t♍oo.
And throughout the series, they’ve done a fantastic job of doing so. The characters are always designed with unique personalities, and picking a f🤪avorite is one of the first things anyone does in a new Danganronpa game. We follow them through the story, befriend them along the way, and cross our fingers that our faves make it through. But not everyone does. Monokuma’s rules are clear — a murder begets a trial, and if the culprit is found out by their peers, they’re sentenced to die as well,🎉 in an always-ridiculous, cinematic farewell.
This article contains spoilers for the end of D🍎anganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.
6 Korekiyo Shing♏uji - Cultural Mel༺ting Pot
Korekiyo was a really fascinating character, but he could be a little off-putting, even before we found out about his, *ahem*, family. Regardless of how we felt about him while he was alive, his execution was definitely ꦇa 🍸spectacle to behold.
The Cultural Melting Pot calls to his Ultimate talent in Anthropology. It begins with him tied up and spun to dizziness by the Monokubs before he’s cut free and dropped into an enormous cauldron. The Monokubs feed the flames below to get the water in the pot boiling, cooking the odd boy down to stew. The execution becomes even stranger when his spirit is freed and released to his sister's, before the reunion is disrupted by Monokuma (and his sister) throwing salt on him, making his spirit vanish once again.
5 Tsumugi Shirogane - Ultimate 🐟Annihilation
While she may have been a rather unassuming character throughout the game, you find out in the last chapter that not only was Tsumugi the mastermind behind the killing game, but she also claims to be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a part of Team Danganronpa, the reality show team putting together the Danganronpa seasons throughout the years. And like the previous mastermind, her time comes to an end in the game. But while hers is meant to be the biggest death, it didn't feel the most impactful to everyone.
After Shuichi and the measly remaining group of classmates expose the truth and break the game for good, K1-B0 flies around destroying the school grounds with lasers (and, in the end, with his body via self-destruction). Tsumugi begins the cutscene still in her Junko cosplay, smiling wide and waving cartoonishly just like the original, before we see a quick cut to her back as Tsumugi again, notedly less excited for what's coming. Monokuma stands beside her waving at the camera as well, and the pair are crushed by the rubble as the compound comes crashing down.
4 🔜 Kirumi Tojo - Thread Of Agony 🎃
We learn that the Prime Minister of Japan insisted that Kirumi, who we'd only known as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Ultimate Maid to this point, use her skills to save the country, essentially making her acting PM. The classmates are shocked, and after failed attempts to get one of them to take the fall for her so she can continue to lead🍃 Japan, Kirumi triܫes to flee from her execution.
As she’s cornered by people, a long vine descends from the ceiling, which Kirumi chooses to climb, slicing her hands to shreds on the vine's large thorns in the process. Partway up, there’s a series of spinning and moving blades through which she must crawl, and she does, but not without injury. Finally, broken and battered, she reaches the skylight above just as the vine is about to rip, assuming she made it. As it snaps, she realizes the skylight was just a drawing, and that she was doomed from the start, falling to her death after all that effort to survive.
3 Gonta Gokuhara - Wild West Insecticide 🍃 ౠ
Miu rewrote the Neo World Program to try to murder Kokichi. And if you were killed in the game, you were killed for real, as we found out when we came out of the virtual world after trouble in paradise to discover Miu dead instead, clasping at her throat. Kokichi pulled the strings to have her killed, but he wasn’t the one who'd pulled the unbreakable toilet paper around her neck — that was Gonta, who had mixed up the wires in his VR headset (he was raised in the woods; give him a break). This left Gonta without memory of Kokichi's manipulation, or what he'd done to Miu because of it.
But regardless, he had killed someone, so execution awaited. As the Ultimate Entomologist, his execution comes by way of bugs. First, Monokuma shoots hundreds of robot wasps at him and his virtual world🃏 avatar, stinging him repeatedly all over his body. This pains but doesn’t kill him, until Monophanie’s baby is born off to the side. It’s an enormous wasp that kills both her and Monotaro before flying over toward Gonta and stabbing him through the stomach. As if that weren’t enough, Monokuma puts an end to the insect swarm with a flamethrower, torching Gonta as well.
2 ♔ Kaito Momota - Blast Off! Second Ignition (Kind Of)
Although Kaito Momota, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Luminary of the Stars (his name feels incomplete without the second part) did have an in-game execution after killing Kokichi, Monokuma’s elaborate plot isn’t what actually ended his life. We learned in Chapter 3 that he’s got some kind of mysterious illness that makes him cough up an increasingly alarming amount of blꦬood, and he’s aware that it’s going to kill him.
After the trial, Kaito is found guilty, since he went along with the attempt to end the killing game and save his friends, knowing that he was on borrowed time. His execution begins much like Jin Kirigiri’s from the first game, being sent to space in a rocket that crashes back to Earth. However, Kaito’s illness takes his life while he’s on the rocket, and he dies while the ship is still in space, smiling because it’s not Monokuma's rules that actually killed him.
1 ꦛ Kaede Akamatsu - Der Flohwalzer
This execution was shocking for a number of reasons, chiefly of which was that Kaede is the player character in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the first chapter of the game. By the time she's executed, you've already played as her for several hours and settled into her shoes for the long haul before getting to the trial, hitting a snag in it, and realizing that it "was her" who killed Rantaro. She was trying to kill the mastermind and end the killing game before it could even really begin, but wound up "killing" Rantaro on accident.
As the Ultimate Pianist, her execution takes place on a grand piano, covered in roses and spikes. Monokuma is the conductor for the “performance,” which sees Kaede strung up by her neck and having her body yanked on strings controlled by the Monokubs to play the notes for the song. She’s dangling at the end of the piece, already p🐭resumably dead, but the thorny cover on the piano closes, squishing her in the spikes for good measure.
And to make things worse, you find out at the end of the game that Kaede was innocent. Tsumugi killed Rantaro and changed the crime scene around before everyone arrived to make Kaede think she'd killed him with the shotput ball. This way, the killing game could continue, which means that not only did Kaede's death hurt to watch, it also meant that it was all for nothing. Ah, that sweet, sweet Despair...