168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Danganronpa is a series defined by its colorful cast of characters, intense debates, and most of all, its gruesomꦰe kills. Each game most follows the same format: a group of teenagers are isolated together, and the only way for somebody to escape is to murder a friend and avoid being deemed "the blackened" in a ꦬclass trial.
If the murderer is caught, they're then subjected to their punishment – sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's cruel, sometimes it's somewhere in between, but they're always memorable. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc first introduced us to these executions, so here is every execution in the first Danganronpa game, ranked.
Of course, this article contains massive spoilers for Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
7 Blast Off!: Jin Kirigiri's Execution
The first execution we see in the game isn't given any context until near the end. A man is strapped into a makeshift rocket and fired into space before it unceremoniously crashes back to the ground. As the rocket opens, we see Monokuma giggling away to himself as the bones and remains of the man inside tumble out.
None of the main characters see this execution, only we as players do. But its importance is discovered much later on when Kyoko finds a box full of bones – the same bones seen falling out of the rocket. It's revealed that the man was Jin Kirigiri, the principal of Hope's Peak Academy and Kyoko's estranged father.
The thing is, we never actually meet Jin – that doesn't happen until the prequel anime Danganronpa 3: Farewell to Hope's Peak High. He's killed in the game's introduction, with no context or any reason to care about him. His death is used to set the tone for the game and help settle us into its weird cardboard cutout aesthetic. It lacks any of the emotional impact of the other executions that, despite being arguably more important to the game's events than most others, makes it one of the more forgettable executions.
6 The Ultimate Punishment: Junko Enoshima's Execution
The final death of the game is the Mastermind herself, Junko Enoshima. Long thought of as dead, it's revealed that the Junko we saw die at the start of the game was her twin sister, Mukuro Ikusaba. Pulling the strings from the very beginning, Junko wanted nothing more than to spread despair across the entire world.
Finally beaten in a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:class trial by Makoto and the other survivors, Junko embraces the despair of losing and willingly goes to her death. The problem is, her death isn't very exciting…
Junko's punishment is simply all the other executions combined. With a smile on her face the whole time, she's pummeled with baseballs, spun in the Cage of Death, set on fire, beaten up by a bulldozer, and sent into space before she's finished off by being crushed by a giant, metal slab. While we get the grizzly visuals of her blood splattered across the room, rehashing executions we've already seen felt like a letdown for the main baddie of the game.
The final executions in the Danganronpa series are always letdowns, but Junko is the antagonist of the Danganronpa series.ꦑ Having a more cathartic end to her would have been nice.
5 The Cage Of Death: Mondo Owada's Execution
Content Warning: this entry contains discussion of racial slurs, racist imagery, and transphobic plot points.
Mondo's death is one of the biggest memes to come out of Trigger Happy Havoc. If you're at all aware of Danganronpa, you've likely heard the phrase "Mondo Butter", and it's all thanks to the Cage of Death.
After a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:lengthy trial that almost points towards the wrong person, Mondo is finally identified as the killer of Chihiro Fujisaki. As the Ultimate Biker Gang Leader, it's no surprise that his execution involves motorbikes. In a fake circus complete with tiger cardboard cutouts and a big-top, Mondo is strapped to a bike and fired into a spherical cage. As the bike gets faster and faster, Mondo is eventually liquified and turned into the fandom-famous "Mondo Butter". A post-execution scene shows Monokuma using the butter on some pancakes, implying that a robot bear eats Mondo's remains.
The execution itself isn't much. Somebody spinning around until they die is pretty tame for Danganronpa, especially when it's punishment for one of the most brutal murders in the game that is considered one of the most problematic chapters in the entire series. The whole chapter's laced with transphobia, with the big reveal being murder victim Chihiro is "actually a boy" who presents as a girl to hide his weakness and insecurity. Though Danganronpa isn't scared to go into heavy topics like child abuse and sexual harassment, this chapter was a sudden tonal shift from the stuff we'd seen before or since, and sticks out as the series' lowest point.
It wouldn't be right to talk about The Cage of Death and not talk about the controversial inspiration behind it being the 1899 children's book The Story of Little Black Sambo. In the book, an Indian boy is chased by four tigers. To escape, he leads them around a tree so many times and so quickly that eventually they melt and turn into butter, which is then collected and Sambo's mother uses them to make pancakes.
The book has a very complicated history. Despite being an early example of perceived positive representation of people of color, its accompanying illustrations were quickly seen as racist caricatures, to the point where the main character's name soon became a slur used against Black people. As the says, "In various editions of the book, Sambo is depicted as having very dark skin that is juxtaposed against the whites of his eyes and teeth, a broad nose, and a wide smile. While set in India and about an Indian protagonist, the illustrations matched what African-Americans such as Langston Hughes recognized immediately to be the "pickaninny."
The story is massively popular in Japan, where it hasn't picked up the same racist connotations it has elsewhere. Not to mention, the story itself generally isn't considered problematic outside of its title and illustrations – it's even been reprinted, with a 2004 version publishing it as The Boy and the Tigers with the main character renamed to Rajani. But did Danganronpa really need to reference a story internationally mired in racist imagery as the big climax to an already problematic chapter?
4 Excavator Destroyer: Alter Ego's Execution
Before dying at the hands of Mondo, Chihiro had created an AI, Alter Ego. Hidden from Monokuma, Alter Ego helped the remaining students in their investigations and became a powerful ally🥃 in the fight against the Mastermind.
However, Monokuma discovers Alter Ego in chapter four. Chapter four was noteworthy as victim Sakura Ogamai's death wasn't a murder, it was a suicide. With no culprit to punish, Monokuma decided to re-level the playing field and 'execute' the computer Alter Ego was running off of instead.
Helpless to fight back, Alter Ego was crushed to 'death' by the relentless assault of a bulldozer's claw. Reduced to scrap electronics, all hope of escape seemed to die with it.
Though visually boring, this execution marks a turning point for the game. Alter Ego's death was meant to drive the survivors into despair, but it brought them closer together and inadvertently brought the killing game to a close. After Alter Ego's execution, there are no more murders in the game, and any accusations made against other students in future class trials become much more reluctant. Most notably, with Sakura and Alter Ego gone, the game finally has its final, surviving cast members: Makoto, Hyoko, Byakuya, Hina, Hiro, and Toko.
3 After School Lesson: Makoto Naegi's Execution
By the game's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:fifth chapter, the remaining students are beginning to trust each other more and more. That's why the twist that the player character Makoto is found to be the killer of the mysterious Mukuro Ikusaba, whose body is found in an indoor garden, is so shocking.
Tied to a school desk and placed on a conveyor belt, Makoto is led backwards down an extended classroom. Unable to turn around and see what is behind him, the sound of a violent pounding noise gets louder and louder. Makoto inches closer and closer to the large metal crusher and does a fantastic job at retaining his composure until the last few feet. His face red with terror, the crusher suspended above him… doesn't fall.
Of course, Makoto was never the actual killer. Stepping in to save the day is the surprise return of Alter Ego, the AI that had assisted the students ever since the death of its creator Chihiro in chapter two, before meeting its own end in chapter 𝓀four. Stopping the crusher, Makoto is dumped off the end of the conveyor belt and falls into the rubbish shute below.
The hard rock music, the relentless march towards the crusher, Makoto only showing his nerves at the last possible second, all of it makes for one of the most intense sequences in the game. This being one of the only executions set in a school environment is also important. Makoto got into Hope's Peak through luck, not through skill like everybody else. Sucked into a school that then became his entire life, marching down a classroom to his crushing death feels thematically apt.
What makes it even better is that there are actually two potential victims of it, depending on how you progress through the game. All the evidence points to your ally Kyoko being the culprit throughout the trial. Makoto doesn't believe it, but you as a player are unsure after so many betrayals throughout the game. Then you're presented with a choice: go along with her plan and take the fall for Kyoko, hoping she has a way to take down the Mastermind and end the killing game, or save yourself and successfully sway the trial into executing her instead.
Kyoko's version of this execution is the same as Makoto's, except Alter Ego doesn't step in. The sequence ends with a bone-crunching squelch and Kyoko is killed, along with any way of beating the Mastermind. While this isn't the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:canonical execution, and the game reverts to an earlier save soon after, it does highlight how violent it could have been had Makoto not been sav﷽ed at 🍨the last second.
2 The 1,000 Blows: Leon Kuwata's Execution
Leon is the first person Makoto and friends see receive the classic Monokuma punishment, and it's still by far the most haunting, violent execution in the entire game.
Having been found guilty of killing Sayaka Maizono in self-defense, a huge collar fires out of the wall and grabs Leon around his neck. Surrounded by the disgusted looks of his peers, he begs them for their help before he's dragged through a corridor and bound to a metal pole.
With his classmates gathered, Monokuma appears with a baseball pitching machine pushed into overdrive. As one thousand baseballs pummel his body from every angle, bits of blood and flesh fly off of Leon. After one final barrage to the face, it's over.
The actual cause of death isn't the memorable thing about Leon's execution, it's the role his classmates play in it. At this point in the game, two people had already died (Sayaka and 'Junko'/Mukuro), but nobody had seen the outcome of a class trial. Nobody really understood what "punishment" meant, nor had they realized how far Monokuma was willing to go in his sick game. Leon's death sets the stakes for the rest of the game.
The first scene of Leon being surrounded on all sides by the disapproving glares of his friends is one of the grimmest and most haunting things in the whole of Trigger Happy Havoc. Even as he's strapped up to the pole, there's nothing but hatred in their eyes. It isn't until he's already dead that it begins to sink in with the rest of the cast the situation they're in and how high the stakes really are. It's important to point out that this is the only execution where they act like this – while they may be disgusted or angry at every other execution, they never play the role of an uncaring bystander again.
1 The Burning of the Versailles Witch: Celestia Ludenberg's Execution
One of the game's longest and most complicated cases came in its third chapter. For the first time in the series, two students are murdered: Kioytaka Ishimaru and Hifumi Yamada, both bludgeoned to death. While the culprit seems to be Yasuhiro Hagakure, Makoto and the rest of the class work out at the last second that the real culprit is a name they've never heard before: Taeko Yasuhiro, also known as the Ultimate Gambler Celestia Ludenberg.
Celestia was the game's resident goth and had pretensions of winning enough money through her gambling to buy a European castle and live like a princess. Her end was fitting, then, as she was tied to a stake and burned alive… until Monokuma comes to save the day in a massive fire engine and plows straight into her, killing her instantly.
This execution is simultaneously fantastic and cruel because it completely subverts Celestia's character. For someone like Celestia, whose entire aesthetic is inspired by Victorian and European Aristocratic fashion, being burned at the stake while classical music played would have been exactly what she wanted. She even smiles as the flames enveloped her. Instead, Monokuma denies her a romanticized death she can be happy with, and instead just hits her with a car – one of the most common non-medical causes of death in the world.
Throughout the chapter, Celestia has her entire identity ripped away from her. Her old, boring name revealed, her fake accent dropped, her calm and composed demeanor broken by the pressure of the trial, and now even her death doesn't match the careful aesthetic she's built up. No character in the whole game has their sense of self deconstructed as completely as Celestia, making it a harrowing high-point for the game's executions.
