List of Deaths (Persona)

This is a list of deaths that occur in the Persona series. However, although the only deaths that may appear so far is Persona 5, the deaths that occurred in the other entries could be listed here as well.
== Persona ==
== Persona 2: Innocent Sin/Eternal Punishment ==
== Persona 3 ==
Persona 3 Deaths
Character 	Cause of Death 	Killer(s) 	Date of Death
Makoto Yuki’s parents	Burned in car accident 	Themselves (Accidental)	1999
Shinjiro Aragaki 	Shot with a handgun 	Takaya Sakaki 	October 4, 2009
Makoto Yuki 	Life force drained due to usage of the Great Seal; succumbed to exhaustion	Himself (Sacrifice) 	March 5, 2010
=== Non-Canonical ===
Non-Canon Persona 3 Deaths
Character 	Cause of Death 	Killer(s) 	Date of Death 	Condition(s)
Ryoji Mochizuki	Murdered with a Persona	Makoto Yuku	December 31, 2009	Makoto agrees to Ryoji’s deal of killing him to reverse Dark Hour memories.
Makoto Yuki 	Eliminated by the Fall 	Nyx 	March 5, 2010 	Makoto agrees to Ryoji’s deal of killing him to reverse Dark Hour memories.
Yukari Takeba 	Eliminated by the Fall 	Nyx 	March 5, 2010 	Makoto agrees to Ryoji’s deal of killing him to reverse Dark Hour memories.
Junpei Iori 	Eliminated by the Fall 	Nyx 	March 5, 2010 	Makoto agrees to Ryoji’s deal of killing him to reverse Dark Hour memories.
All of Humanity	Eliminated by the Fall 	Nyx 	March 5, 2010 	Makoto agrees to Ryoji’s deal of killing him to reverse Dark Hour memories.
== Persona 4 ==
== Persona 5 ==
Persona 5 Deaths
Character 	Cause of Death 	Killer(s) 	Death Date
Wakaba Isshiki 	Mental shutdown, with physical body committing suicide via car collision 	Goro Akechi 	August 21, 2014
Numerous counts of Shido opposers	Mental shutdowns 	Goro Akechi 	2013 - 2016
Kasumi Yoshizawa 	Accidentally hit by a car and suffered head trauma while pushing Sumire Yoshizawa to safety	Herself (Accidental; Sacrifice) & Sumire Yoshizawa (Unintentionally Caused)	March - April, 2016
Unnamed Madarame pupil 	Committed suicide 	Himself & Ichiryusai Madarame (Caused) 	Unknown
Kunikazu Okumura 	Mental shutdown, with body suffering cardiac arrest 	Goro Akechi 	October 11, 2016
Cognitive Ren Amamiya 	Shot in the forehead 	Goro Akechi 	November 20, 2016
Goro Akechi (possibly) 	Shot (off screen; possibly) 	Cognitive Goro Akechi (possibly) 	November 25 (Royal)
November 30 (Animation)
Ryuji Sakamoto (revived) 	Erased from Reality by the Wishes of the Masses 	Yaldabaoth & Mass Population’s Cognitive Wishes 	December 24, 2016
Ann Takamaki (revived) 	Erased from Reality by the Wishes of the Masses 	Yaldabaoth & Mass Population’s Cognitive Wishes 	December 24, 2016
Yusuke Kitagawa (revived) 	Erased from Reality by the Wishes of the Masses 	Yaldabaoth & Mass Population’s Cognitive Wishes 	December 24, 2016
Futaba Sakura (revived) 	Erased from Reality by the Wishes of the Masses 	Yaldabaoth & Mass Population’s Cognitive Wishes 	December 24, 2016
Makoto Niijima (revived) 	Erased from Reality by the Wishes of the Masses 	Yaldabaoth & Mass Population’s Cognitive Wishes 	December 24, 2016
Haru Okumura (revived) 	Erased from Reality by the Wishes of the Masses 	Yaldabaoth & Mass Population’s Cognitive Wishes 	December 24, 2016
Morgana (revived) 	Erased from Reality by the Wishes of the Masses 	Yaldabaoth & Mass Population’s Cognitive Wishes 	December 24, 2016
Ren Amamiya (revived) 	Erased from Reality by the Wishes of the Masses 	Yaldabaoth & Mass Population’s Cognitive Wishes 	December 24, 2016
Caroline & Justine (fused) 	Sacrificed via decapitation from Dyad Guillotine to fuse Lavenza 	Ren Amamiya & Themselves (Sacrifice) 	December 24, 2016
Yaldabaoth 	Shot in the head with Sinful Shell 	Ren Amamiya, with the Satanael Persona 	December 24, 2016
Cendrillon 	Destroyed with Personas 	The Phantom Thieves 	January 9, 2017
Adam Kadmon 	Shot in the head with a Desert Eagle 	Ren Amamiya 	February 3, 2017
=== Non-Canonical ===
Non-Canon Persona 5 Deaths
Character 	Cause of Death 	Killer(s) 	Date of Death 	Condition(s)
Ren Amamiya 	Shot in the forehead	Goro Akechi 	November 20, 2016	Ren agrees to tell Sae Niijima about his associates, OR misses a deadline in the past, leading to memory falter
The Phantom Thieves	Erased from Reality 	Yaldabaoth & Mass Population Cognitive Wishes	December 24, 2016	Ren agrees to Yaldabaoth’s deal about changing the world’s cognition.
== Gallery ==
== Trivia ==
=== Overview ===
* Naoya Toudou, Tatsuya Suou, Maya Amando, Yu Narukami, Ren Amamiya, and Wonder all survive their respective stories canonically.
* Makoto Yuki and Kotone Shiomi are the only protagonists who die in their respective stories. However, Kotone’s deaths are not canon as she is an alternate character to replace Makoto in some universes.
=== Persona ===
=== Persona 2 ===
=== Persona 3 ===
* Makoto dies regardless of choice, but he either sacrifices himself via using the Great Seal to prevent Nyx from bringing the Fall, or be amongst humanity as the casualty of the Fall, along with the surviving members of S.E.E.S..
* If chosen in Persona 3 Portable, Makoto’s deaths are replaced by Kotone Shiomi.
=== Persona 4 ===
=== Persona 5 ===
* Ren’s “death” on November 20 can either be within the Metaverse as a cognitive version is killed as planned for the game, or be in reality where the real Ren is killed. If the latter happens, Ren will die for real and will be trapped in the Velvet Room for either the rest of his life or all of eternity. 
** Another scene like this plays out if Ren misses a deadline, but is simply a memory falter in the present-day. Interestingly enough, if the real Ren dies, instead of the follow-up cutscene showing Akechi planting his gun in Ren’s hand, the same scene where Ren lays on the floor dead and bleeding from his head, which is the deadline scene. This does not make sense as Ren was shot in the forehead while sitting on his chair and leaned forward onto the table where his head laid dead, not having fallen back onto the floor. The scene where he fell back upon death is in the deadline game overs.
* Interestingly, while Ren’s cognitive death is depicted as slightly bloody with blood being slowly spilled from his head as well as the splatter effect onto the table where his head fell, in the Animation, the scene is depicted to be even bloodier, with blood being shown splattering from his head where the bullet went through, and then blood being spilled from his head onto the table. The scene is also slightly rushed and Akechi says extra lines that are different.
* Ren, like previous protagonists, can die at any time in battle, but these result in game overs.
* The Phantom Thieves’ deaths on December 24th is either only temporary (always temporary for Ren, regardless of choice), or permanent for the rest of the Thieves, depending upon Ren’s choice with Yaldabaoth, with the latter imprisoning the rest of them in the Velvet Room for all eternity with nothing but sorrow, while Ren becomes a voluntary puppet for Yaldabaoth.